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Welcome to this week's edition of The Payload. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy.

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 (or Saturday this week). So you can savor it over your weekend.

Or scroll down to your favorite section.
My opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros.

This week we had to evacuate the shit hole known as Florida due to Hurricane Milton. Consequently, we had limited work time and this will be a truncated version.

In fact it's so truncated it's just a link to our communiqué.

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Fighting for Democracy (sponsored by Battalion)


Here we feature several items from each section of Battalion's weekly "Defending Democracy" report.

Get all the news from the front of democracy's battle against autocracy via its latest "Defending Democracy" post. And please follow Battalion via RSS or on the Fediverse at @battalion@battalion.mobileatom.net. Or even Bluesky if that floats your boat.

Please visit our Support Ukraine page to 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


The Kyiv Independent reports:
Russian state media faced 'unprecedented' cyberattack on Putin's birthday

Ars Technica reports:
Elon Musk’s X loses battle over federal request for Trump’s DMs

The c^nt also backed down 100% in his fight with Brazil. As with Durov in France, these fascist bullies are not so tough when you smack them in the fucking mouth.

The Evil Empire Strikes Back

The Guardian reports:
How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war

The Verge reports:
FEMA adds misinformation to its list of disasters to clean up

Cybersecurity/Privacy

Surveillance Self Defeat reports:
Seven Steps To Digital Security

The Register reports:

How should CISOs respond to the rise of GenAI?

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The Fediverse

The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 87

Ben Werdmuller looks at:
The Two Fediverses

Bix Dot opines:
You Can’t Own The Social Web

Other Federated Social Media

The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in the ATmosphere – Oct 24 week 2

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