Author here, I would like to set the record straight.
We do not claim to have an attack on SSDs. The journalist seems to have misunderstood and not read the paper. The attack demonstrated is not on an FPGA or SSD.
The main point this paper makes and demonstrates is that if you can cause corruption of a full block (i.e., completely garble contents of a chosen block), then you can elevate privileges (with some assumptions, like using ext3). Note that this result does not depend on whether you are using an SSD, a disk, or any other storage for your filesystem.