The Programmer's Fulcrum: 18 October, 2025
Here we feature the latest Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion "Destroying Autocracy" Post along with their featured articles.
Symfony Station Communiqué - Stardate: ✦ 17 October 2025 ✦
Get the latest from the Symfony Universe and PHP development communities.
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Symfony writes:
Twenty years of code, collaboration, and community. Twenty years of ideas that became innovations — and of people who turned open source into something deeply human.
From a PHP framework to a global project powering millions of applications, Symfony’s journey has always been about more than technology. It’s about people — contributors, maintainers, speakers, companies, and countless developers who believed in building something greater together.
Celebrating 20 Years of Symfony
Destroying Autocracy – October 16, 2025
Welcome to this week's "Destroying Autocracy". It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it.
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EuroNews writes:
Artificial intelligence is a matter of design – not destiny.
That’s the message from 10 philanthropic foundations aiming to loosen the grip that the technology’s moneyed developers, fueled by an investing frenzy, hold over its evolution.
Launched Tuesday under the name Humanity AI, the coalition is committing $500 million (€427 million) across the next five years to place human interests at the forefront of the technology’s rapid integration into daily life.
“The future belongs to those who actively create it, and that shan’t be a few leaders in Silicon Valley. It’s all of us,” Mozilla Foundation Executive Director Nabiha Syed said in an emailed statement.
Philanthropists to invest €427 million to curbs tech giants’ influence on new AI
Let’s hope they are successful.
