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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.
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 Thursdays. So you can savor it over your weekend.
Or scroll down to your favorite section.
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.
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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
SymfonyCasts returns:
This week in SymfonyCasts

Featured Item
Lubna Altungi shares:

Integrating Dataverse into Symfony App: A Quick Guide

This week
Supul Kalhara shows us:
How to Integrate PayHere Payment Gateway with Symfony PHP Framework
AskHandle shows us:
How to Customize Serialization Groups in Symfony API Platform
This is probably AI generated.
Tomas Votruba demonstrates:
2 Tricks to get your Symfony configs lines to minimum

eCommerce

Sylius provides:
A comprehensive update of everything juicy in the recent minor 1.13 release!
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CMSs

TYPO3 has:
Translating TYPO3's backend interface using Crowdin
Recap of the Best Practices Team Remote Code Sprint on 7 May 2024
Dries Buyaert shares:
Major version upgrades in Drupal: tools and workflow
Wim Leers updates us on Experience Builder:
XB week 4: annotated data model test
The Drop Times has:
Why 1xINTERNET Rushed to Support the Starshot Initiative: Insights from Baddý Sonja
Drupal Starshot Initiative Sets Strategic Milestones in Product Definition
ImageX Media demonstrates:
Easy Third-Party Integration in Drupal Forms: Dynamically Pulling Data From Other Sources
Golems explores:
2024 Trends: What's New for Drupal
Previous Next examines:
Filtering and sorting search results by date range with OpenSearch
Richard Allen looks at:
Setting up for Drupal's Functional JavaScript tests
HashCodeBang explores:
Drupal 10: Testing Migration Process Plugins
Drupalize Me announces:
New Tutorial Organization and Navigation Roll-Out
Planatir has an employee success story:
From Finance to Palantir
Fantastic. And this is not the Palantir owned by so-called human Peter Thiel.

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

Previous Weeks

Liip has a retrospective:
Verona unveiled: A journey beyond the code at PHPDay
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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 page to learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually).

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 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
Hollywood Reporter reports:
Big Tech Launches Campaign to Defend AI Use
Reuters reports:
NewsBreak: Most downloaded US news app has Chinese roots and 'writes fiction' using AI
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
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The 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

Other federated social media

The Fediverse Report has:
Last Month in Bluesky – May 2024

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