Daily Tech News 7 August 2025

• Ron Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab, a group monitoring the intrusion of government surveillance into the private internet, has woken up confused from a fifteen-year coma and ready to fight. (Tech Crunch)

  Ahead of his talk, Deibert told TechCrunch that he plans to speak about what he describes as a "descent into a kind of fusion of tech and fascism," and the role that the Big Tech platforms are playing, and "propelling forward a really frightening type of collective insecurity that isn't typically addressed by this crowd, this community, as a cybersecurity problem."

  You mean like banning the country's oldest newspaper from all social networks over a factually accurate article?

  
  No?

  "I think that there comes a point at which you have to recognize that the landscape is changing around you, and the security problems you set out for yourselves are maybe trivial in light of the broader context and the insecurities that are being propelled forward in the absence of proper checks and balances and oversight, which are deteriorating," said Deibert.

  What?

  Deibert, who this year published his new book

  Oh. So that's what this is about.

• In the future all food will be cooked in a microwave and if you can't deal with that then you need to get out of the kitchen. (Colin Cornaby)
  
  Yeah, developers are not welcoming yesterday's comments by the GitHub CEO.
  
  I like this summation over at Reddit:

  As someone who's been using AI for work it's been great though. Before I would look up documentation and figure out how stuff works and it would take me some time. Now I can ask Claude first, get the wrong answer, then have to find the documentation to get it to work correctly. It's been great.

  AI assistants are great if you already know the answer.
  
  
  
• One of Google's corporate Salesforce instances got hack. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Using known social engineering techniques.
  
  
  
• Atlassian has redesigned project management tool Trello for the modern audience. (The Register)
  
  I've used Trello. It was awful. It's kind of impressive that everyone agrees that the new version is infinitely worse.

  "People are comparing this to the worst software updates in history," the post says. "One user said, 'This is the worst UI update I've ever seen, including Windows 8.' If you're being measured against Windows 8, that should say something."

  Ouch.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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