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Today's topics:

Cigarette-lighter hardware fault attacks - A researcher demonstrated electromagnetic fault injection with a simple piezo lighter, flipping DDR bits and chaining it into Linux root—raising real-world hardware security questions.

EU-first switch for online tools - One blogger is moving email, hosting, DNS, and code hosting to EU-based providers for stronger GDPR-style protections, showing how geopolitics is reshaping personal infrastructure choices.

POSSE and owning your content - IndieWeb’s POSSE approach—publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere—keeps canonical URLs and long-term ownership while still leveraging networks like Mastodon or Medium.

Ad-bloated web and RSS - A critique of an RSS article buried under overlays and heavy ads highlights why RSS remains a bandwidth-saving, distraction-free way to follow news.

GitHub outages and contingency planning - GitHub reliability issues—including Actions and notification delays—underscore that even core dev platforms have downtime, so teams should design CI/CD with failure modes in mind.

Property-based testing for UIs - Bombadil is an open-source, experimental property-based testing tool for web UIs, aiming to find surprising edge-case bugs beyond scripted test suites.

RollerCoaster Tycoon performance design - A deep look at RollerCoaster Tycoon argues its speed came from design-for-performance choices, where constraints shaped gameplay behaviors as much as low-level code did.

GM EV1 restoration returns - GM is backing an enthusiast-led effort to restore a rare, nearly-lost 1996 EV1, turning a historical footnote into a drivable artifact ahead of its 30th anniversary.

-Blogger Moves Key Online Services to EU Providers for Privacy and Resilience
-IndieWeb Guide Details POSSE: Publish on Your Site First, Then Syndicate Elsewhere
-GitHub hit by repeated service issues, raising concerns about uptime
-Blogger Calls Out PC Gamer RSS Article for Popups and Massive Ad-Driven Downloads
-GM Joins Effort to Restore One of the Few Surviving, Drivable EV1s
-Tin Can targets parents seeking a landline-style alternative to kids’ smartphones
-Antithesis open-sources Bombadil for property-based testing of web UIs
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