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generated with qwen3.8 locally: Satirical infographic showing modern digital infrastructure as a precarious tower of software. At the top, a wobbly stack of blocks labeled Windows, AWS, v8, PHP, and Java—captioned "All modern digital infrastructure"—bends and catches fire at its midsection, propped up by a Cloudflare shield marked "Emergency," a leaning "AI" panel, and a column labeled "Unpaid open-source developers" resting on "A Linux Foundation" and "DNS." An Angry Birds character flies at the tower from the right, aimed at a "PHP (PHP2Shell RCE)" label, beside a red-and-gold Chinese "喜报" (congratulatory bulletin) banner listing sixteen 2026 CVE identifiers. Below the software layer, hardware tiers narrow like an inverted pyramid: a device platform row (Framework, Apple, Lenovo, Dell, HP) over Intel, AMD, and Nvidia chips; a "Taiwan" tier with Intel, TSMC, GlobalFoundries, and Samsung; a chip-equipment tier with ASML, KLA, Advantest, Tokyo Electron, Lam Research, Besi, Applied Materials, ASE, and Amkor; and an EDA/IP tier with Synopsys, Siemens, Ansys, ARM, and Cadence. The whole structure rests on a U.S. $100 bill and a photo of a naval warship fleet. A target symbol sits at right.