Welcome to globalGlob Presents: Log Level Debug a show about news, and stuff, and things, in the technology world. Recorded live, May 25th, 2026. I'm...taller in real life. And before we start, we want to remind you that the globalGlob news site is updated more often than these videos. Visit globalGlob.dev for the latest news in software development, I.T., and technology in general. Now let's get into all the news we logged over the past week. GitHub is the news again this week. But it's okay, it has *nothing* to do with service quality. *pause/happy*They were hacked.*pause* A GitHub employee installed a VS Code extension that was infected with one of the *many* malicious NPM packages out there. In this case, it was extension affected by one of the recently hacked TanStack packages. The hacked VS Code extension has been removed from the VS Code marketplace. But if you're worried about losing functionality, I'm sure there are many other hacked extensions still on the marketplace. GitHub says 38 hundred private repos were exfiltrated during the breach. AND THAT'S ALL THAT HAPPENED! Don't ask if anything else happened. Sorry about that. I asked if anything else happened and they were NOT HAPPY. Putting my cybersecurity hat on *look around* Sorry, I had the hat right here. I don't know where it went. I'll show you next time. Pretend I have a cybersecurity hat on so you'll take me seriously as a cybersecurity professional. As a reminder, VS Code extensions are just an app running on your machine. So like everything else running on your device, they get access to environment variables, and the filesystem. You know, where credentials and other secrets are stored. Be careful when installing extensions because any of them could compromise your machine. Not my machine though. I write down all my passwords on paper. *tosses paper* *looks down* Oh, do I need that one? No-no-no, it's good. We're good. *remove hat* Moving on. Google I/O was held this week, Google's yearly development conference. They announced a ton boring A.I. stuff. Gemini....agents. Whatever everyone else is doing, Google announced it too. One employee suggested they announce a non-A.I. topic, and were fired before finishing the sentence. But don't worry, that employee will never work in tech again. But in Google **consumer** news, they announced they will be replacing Google Search results with an A.I. powered search *experience*. As a result, the search is controlled by A.I. prompting. So searching the word 'disregard' would return an almost-empty results page. It has already been fixed. And Google did not issue an apology. I guess they wants us all to...disregard the issue. *smile, laugh*...sorry, I'll get back to just reading the jokes written by other people. Google says they will quote: continue to add more A.I. features until everyone else stops encroaching on their territory or there will be no survivors: end quote. And that's it for Google this week. Moving on. *tosses paper* Let's keep the A.I. conversation going. This week Starbucks made the decision to remove their A.I. Inventory counting tool after 9 months of use. The custom tool developed, by a third party company, used a bunch of sensors and cameras to visually count available inventory of milk, syrups, and other beverage components. The tool would regularly produce errors or miscount. Which makes sense. LLMs still can't tell me how many r's are in strawberry. They tell me it's 3, but I don't know how to spell strawberry. My version only has 1. Moving on *tosses paper* Let's move on the tech CEO news. The CEO of the finance company Bolt spoke on why he chose to fire the entire HR team earlier this year. He said they would invent problems that didn't exist, and those problems disappeared when they were fired. In the mean time the HR duties are being performed by other people doing quote: "people ops" It's assumed the CEO will realize those people are now HR and fire them, making other some other group the "people ops" of the company. Then fire them. Rinse and repeat. At this rate he will be firing himself by late July. When asked if this is something he's worried about, he replied quote: It's clearly an inevitability. And I look forward to the challenge of running a company with no employees. But with the benefit of no "made up" problems.:end quote. At least he's not blaming HR for that invevitability. *tosses paper* Since we're making fun of CEOs, let's close out on Cloudflare. Matthew Prince, the CEO of Cloudflare, wrote an op-ed this week explaining why he chose to cut 20% of the company's workforce even though they made more money than ever before. Apparently, it has nothing to do with A.I. and he says every other company is using A.I. as a scapegoat. I mean, we all knew it. But at least someone is saying it. In his Op-Ed, Prince said the majority of people laid off were "measurers", like middle management, legal, finance, etc. When asked if he just wanted to make up a phrase to sound smart, he chose not to give us a quote. *tosses paper* And that's all the news that happened this week. If we didn't talk about it, it's not in the logs. Join Log Level Debug next week when we'll talk about everything that happened between now and then. If you enjoyed the show, tell your friends about us. If you didn't enjoy the show, tell your enemies. For more news before the next episodes, remember to visit globlaGlob.dev for hard hitting news technology professionals really care about. If you watched the video, please like and subscribe. If you listened to the audio only podcast, please leave a review somewhere. Preferably not in a chain letter. Until next time, go twiddle some bits.