Symfony Station Communiqué — 14 June 2024: a look at Symfony, Drupal, PHP, Cybersec, and Fediverse News.

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Welcome to this week's Symfony Station communiqué. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can't be free without safety and privacy.

There's good content in all of our categories, so please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you. This is why we publish on Fridays. So you can savor it over your weekend.

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Once again, thanks go out to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for sharing our communiqué in their Week of Symfony.

My opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans.

Symfony

As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.

Highlight -> "This week, Symfony 5.4.40, 6.4.8, 7.0.8 and 7.1.1 maintenance versions were released. In addition, we organized the SymfonyOnline June 2024 conference and merged the first features of Symfony 7.2, to be released at the end of November 2024."

A Week of Symfony #910 (3-9 June 2024)

They also have:

SymfonyCon Vienna 2024 : Book your transportation with special rates

SymfonyOnline June 2024: Virtual celebration of innovation and community

SymfonyCasts returns:

This week in SymfonyCasts

PHP

This Week

Vincent Schmalbach takes:

A look at modern PHP

Wesley Gonçalves fala sobre:

PHP sem nada de Xampp e com muito Xdebug no Windows

Shahoriar Fahim shows us:

Why Leveraging PHP Built-in Functions Can Enhance Your Application's Performance

Fernando Castillo says the:

Factory Pattern can encapsulate complexity in PHP

Italo Baeza Cabrera examines:

Making Podman, DevPod, and PHPStorm play nice

Grant Horwood has:

NGINX: doing ip geolocation right in NGINX

Peter Fox looks at:

PHP: Mocking Closures and performing assertions

Noé Costa shares:

Native Binaries with PHP

DDEV details a:

MariaDB Dump (mysqldump) Breaking Change

It's Imiro is:

Mastering PHP Generators

Previous Weeks

Liip has a retrospective:

Verona unveiled: A journey beyond the code at PHPDay

More Programming

The Open Source Initiative is:

Exploring openness in AI: Insights from the Columbia Convening

Free Code Camp shows us:

How to Create Notice Blocks in Markdown

Very cool.

Gravatar is:

Introducing Profiles-as-a-Service and our new REST API

Andrew Zuo opines:

Maybe WebAssembly Isn’t That Stupid Of An Idea After All

CSS Tricks explores:

CSS Container Queries

Go Make Things asks:

What is "the grain of the web?"

IT Next has its:

Top 10 GitHub Copilot Features

Fighting for Democracy

Please visit our Support Ukraine pageto learn how you can help
kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually, like ending apartheid in South Africa).

The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports:

A 'Very Painful' Book Boom: As Russia Wages War On Their Culture, Ukrainians Turn To Reading

The Kyiv Post reports:

US and Poland to Help Ukraine Counter Russian Disinformation

HUR Hackers Score Cyber-Hit on Russian Airports, Cause Flight Delays

The Register reports:

Payoff from AI projects is 'dismal', biz leaders complain

Let's hope they are penny stocks soon.

Cory Doctorow opines:

The CFPB is genuinely making America better, and they're going HARD

And he is right.

The Register reports:

Japan forces Apple and Google to allow third-party app stores and payments

The Hacker News reports:

Google Takes Down Influence Campaigns Tied to China, Indonesia, and Russia

404 Media reports:

Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest 'Art Theft'

Te he he.

The International Business Times reports:

Trump Media Shares Plummet Amid Criticism From Barry Diller; Trump's Net Worth Takes A Hit

Teen Vogue reports:

How to Stop Deepfake Porn Using AI

The Evil Empire Strikes Back

The Guardian reports on:

‘Sanctions hole’: how secretive routes supply Russia with western tech and consumer goods

MIT Technology Review reports:

Propagandists are using AI too—and companies need to be open about it

The Hacker News has:

Chinese Actor SecShow Conducts Massive DNS Probing on Global Scale

China-Backed Hackers Exploit Fortinet Flaw, Infecting 20,000 Systems Globally

Reuters reports:

NewsBreak: Most downloaded US news app has Chinese roots and 'writes fiction' using AI

Check First reports:

Operation Overload: how pro-Russian actors flood newsrooms with fake content and seek to divert their efforts

The Next Web reports:

Hackers linked to Hamas tied to cyberespionage via Android spyware in Palestine

The New York Times reports:

It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop.

Hollywood Reporter reports:

Big Tech Launches Campaign to Defend AI Use

Pro Publica reports:

Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says

404 Media reports:

Microsoft QA Contractors Say They Were Laid Off for Attempting to Unionize

Cybersecurity/Privacy

And:

Hacker Accesses Internal ‘Tile’ Tool That Provides Location Data to Cops

Bleeping Computer reports:

Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered

Security Affairs reports:

PHP addressed critical RCE flaw potentially impacting millions of servers

JetBrains reports:

Updates for security issue affecting IntelliJ-based IDEs 2023.1+ and JetBrains GitHub Plugin

Fediverse

Augment shares:

Human-Generated Content #2

Privacy Laws reports:

Navigating User Privacy in the Decentralized Social Web

We Distribute reports:

Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts

Stefan Bohacek shows us:

How to be a good fediverse citizen

Other Federated Social Media

The Fediverse Report has:

Last Month in Bluesky – May 2024

CTAs (aka show us some free love)

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