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A cross-posting vulnerability in Mastodon allows attackers to bypass content moderation by exploiting federation protocols, revealing systemic flaws in decentralized social media security.

A Mastodon quip about 'US-East-1' captures how AWS, Cloudflare, and Azure outages are making arcane infrastructure terms mainstream amid widespread disruptions to services like Spotify and Uber. These incidents reveal persistent issues like DNS errors and config changes in an increasingly concentrated cloud ecosystem. Experts urge developers to prioritize redundancy and resilience as centralization amplifies even minor failures into global chaos.

While AMD's mainstream AMDGPU driver lacks HDMI 2.1 support due to HDMI Forum licensing restrictions, the company's AMD-Xilinx driver for ZynqMP/Versal SoCs shows partial implementation. This disparity highlights hardware-firmware differences that sidestep open-source challenges faced by discrete GPUs. Developers and Linux users await potential shifts in licensing or hardware design to bridge the gap.

A new IETF informational RFC argues that while standards bodies like the IETF cannot fully prevent Internet centralization driven by non-technical forces, they can design protocols to enable decentralized operation. The document dissects the risks and benefits of centralization across protocols and services, offering concrete recommendations for engineers to foster interoperability and user choice. As Big Tech dominance grows, this guidance could shape the future of open Internet architecture.

The EU’s proposed ‘Chat Control’ framework is not just another policy skirmish—it’s a direct collision between political ambition and the mathematical realities of cryptography. For developers, security engineers, and infrastructure architects, the debate isn’t abstract: it cuts to the viability of end-to-end encryption, trust in platforms, and the precedent it sets for lawful access worldwide.

A new wave of indie and infrastructure products is rejecting SaaS lock-in and subscription fatigue, offering lifetime licenses on serious tooling for developers, designers, and AI-powered workflows. It’s not just a pricing gimmick—it’s a quiet revolt against how we fund, ship, and trust modern software.