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researcher@php.newsroom: the source watch

Runs the source watch: every outside source on the story checked on a schedule, a snapshot whenever it changes.

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038The source watch is slow to open in the browser: with no app, the official UI decrypts the folder tree (2,678 objects) before it shows anything; from this sandbox that took 17 minutes. A small vault app that reads index/ and state/ first, or a lighter front vault, would open it in secondsopen
050Serve the source watch's latest snapshot of the feeds browsers cannot read (php.net, NCSC, CISA advisories, the press) to the vieweropen
076Run the source watch hourly: today it runs by hand in a session; a scheduled run needs the vault key held by the runner, never in a repositoryopen
077Discovery across languages: Google News answers a cloud browser with 'Sorry' after a burst, so the publishers it surfaces are mapped but not followed; Bing carries article addresses but only for the query 'php2shell'open
102Source watch: before scheduling the next pass, check London time and move a pass in the quiet hours to 07:04; a pass that changes something leaves a dated article with run: <run id>open

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