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»Over 67,000 Fake npm Packages Flood Registry in Worm-Like Spam Attack:
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a large-scale spam campaign that has flooded the npm registry with thousands of fake packages since early 2024 as part of a likely financially motivated effort.«
How do you check if the JavaScript libraries and their libraries on which they are based are now safe?!??
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Over 46,000 Fake npm Packages Flood Registry in Worm-Like Spam Attack
A mysterious npm worm published 46K fake packages in a two-year spam campaign, exposing major security gaps.

I did not get to bike to work today due to having to bring a server to work, along with two packages, and rain. I'll get some rain pants this week so at least the rain will be less of an issue. (I was ready to move the server and packages via bike but the addition of rain made me decide not to.)

Impact of tariffs and ending De Minimis has a lot of direct but also indirect impact. Like people no longer able to safely buy anything from abroad.
UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Maybe a good opportunity to illustrate the purpose of one of the more uncommon packages in #ThingUmbrella: The https://thi.ng/hex package provides hexadecimal formatters for a variety of word sizes (4-64 bits) and also a…

UPS Is Destroying Packages Stuck in Trump's Tariff Chaos
https://gizmodo.com/ups-is-destroying-packages-stuck-in-trumps-tariff-chaos-2000671038

A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not) https://github.com/Pakillo/template by @…

GitHub - Pakillo/template: A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not)
A template for data analysis projects structured as R packages (or not) - Pakillo/template

UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems (Kayla Steinberg/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/ups-delay-customs-tariffs-packages-destroyed-rcna236607
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p38#a251010p38

pkg upgrade does not upgrade; more recent packages are not installed.
#FreeBSD #documentation

YouTube TV plans to launch over 10 genre-specific, cheaper YouTube TV Plans in early 2026, including a Sports Plan featuring ESPN Unlimited and Fox Sports 1 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/youtube-tv-plans-ge…

YouTube TV Plans Launching in 2026 With 10+ Genre-Specific Packages
In early 2026, YouTube plans to launch YouTube TV Plans, over 10 genre-specific packages including a sports tier with ESPN, FS1 and NBC Sports Network.

Using fonts in R graphics can be tricky at times. {showtext} aims to make it easier: #rstats