Welcome to globalGlob Presents: Log Level Debug a show about news, and stuff, and things, in the technology world. Recorded live, July 6th, 2026. And I'm...back. Finally. Sorry about the 2 weeks off. And we're making some changes. Not throwing papers anymore...cleaning them up was a hassle. Gonna have less artwork on the console. That's a lot of work to setup... Kept the tie. I like the robots. Still, working on the lighting....it'll be fine... Before we start, we want to remind you to 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. Just *this* past week. Nothing from those missing 2 weeks. You probably got all your tech news from Bluesky. Just pretend we said it. And we'll start with some actual software development news for once. The CNCF has graduated the OpenTelemetry project, moving it to its highest level of maturity. The new level also means the project is recommended for enterprise use. So get ready to see the phrase "OTel" plastered on a bunch of over-engineered architecture diagrams. Probably just replacing the word "Logs" like they're the same thing. *whisper* They're not. They're both very different things. Anyway, everyone who hasn't been using OpenTelemetry is now out of excuses. You can't say it's too expensive, or your environment doesn't support it, or it's the "Devil's Logs". I don't have the link, but I swear I saw a page on the CNCF site saying the graduation means it's no longer the Devil's Logs. Seriously...OTel is good. Use it. Moving on. In PenTesting news, Flipper Devices says the Flipper Zero hacking device will continue to receive firmware updates, but with a much smaller team. The Flipper Zero is a small device, that runs on embedded firmware. Earlier this year, Flipper Devices announced the Flipper One device. A custom device with a Linux core, so it can run anything Linux can. They are moving their development efforts behind that upcoming device, and dropping...letting, the community continue development efforts for the Flipper Zero. So, if you *can* buy a Flipper Zero, go for it. *hold up device*.  They make amazing paper weights when you realize you have no idea what to do with it. *look at it* *blow on it* Sorry, mine has a lot of dust. Moving on. Microsoft has created the "Microsoft Frontier Company", a new business to help its customers use more A.I. AND use A.I....better? They are spending $2.5 Billion on the new business to embed 6,000 Microsoft employees into its customers businesses. And if their customers don't want an embedded engineer, Microsoft *will* release the blackmail material. I wish Microsoft the best. Things must be great financially if they're spending 2 and a half billion. Good for them. Oh...oh no. Uh, I spoke to soon. Layoff season is back at Microsoft and they announced today that they are laying off 4,800 people. Which means Microsoft is still way behind their biggest cloud competitor, *again*, after Amazon laid off 16,000 people this past January. *think* So I guess that's a good thing. From us at global glob, we offer our condolences to everyone laid off at Microsoft, and wish good luck to those remaining. But also...you can leave your abuser. It's okay. There's a lot of other companies out there. Moving on. In gaming news this week, Sony announced the PlayStation will no longer be manufactured to use physical game disks starting January 2028. I know its controversial, but I have to agree with Sony. If you run a game directly from a disk, you can't install a 200 gig day-one update that fixes a quarter of the known bugs. Companies can't just ship a working product. That's not the world we live in. And don't get me started on character skins. You aren't storing your Olivia Rodrigo Fortnite skin on the disk. Like when you stream to Olivia Rodrigo's music on Tidal. Or watch her music videos on YouTube. So the moral of all this is that disks are bad. Sony says games released before January 2028 will still be available on disk. So if you want, you can buy a disk at GameStop. Like a weirdo. Or from Target, like a crazy person. Or from Walmart, like a last minute shopper. Or from Best Buy, like a maniac. Or from Amazon, like a criminal. Moving on. Since we're talking about Sony getting rid of disks, lets do the same for Microsoft. The boring side of the Xbox company is working on a program to convert physical disks to digital licenses. The actual disk is tied to your account, so there are edge cases with sharing the disk with a friend, or selling it. Leave it to Microsoft to make something so simple, so unnecessarily complicated. Be on the lookout for that program. In the future, or never. Moving on. The Facebook company, sometimes called Meta, is adding rate limits to its smart glasses. The company will be limiting users to 3 hours a month. *look away* That can't be right. You mean 3 hours a day right?...No?! A month....Okay. *at camera* Like I said, 3 hours a month. The company will let you pay $20 to get 15 hours of use during the month. That's only a dollar an hour, if you count it wrong. The rate limiting also applies to some on-device features that don't need anything server-side. Continuing Facebook's tradition of not caring if you like their changes or not. Moving on. Hey, we haven't talked about A.I. yet! That's, that's gotta be a record for us. *confused* I guess the Microsoft Frontier Company doesn't count. 404 Media is reporting that some companies are now throttling how much A.I. their employees use because it's so damn expensive. One company has been spending over $15 million a month. And we at global glob are pretty sure we spoke to someone at very same company. Every company 404 Media spoke with is implementing ways to reduce their A.I. usage. And they'll probably succeed...until the Microsoft Frontier Company embeds an engineer inside the business. 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. And if you didn't, tell your enemies. For more news before the next episode, remember to visit globalGlob.dev for hard hitting news technology professionals really care about. If you watched the video, please like and subscribe. And if you listened to the audio only podcast, please leave a review, somewhere. Preferably not hidden in a fortune cookie. Until next time, go twiddle some bits.