Distinguished principal software engineer. I love #cybersecurity, #Linux, #BSD, #KaliLinux, #RetroComputing, #RetroCoding, #RISC_OS, #AmigaOS, #AtariST & #8bit
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You can see this and more at the forthcoming RISC OS London Show. Remember Merlin is way more than just a RISC OS modern redesing and reimplementation in #Rust. Merlin is about a memory safe, reusable, portable and extremely fast new customisable kernel.
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One of my favorite features in #RISCOSMerlin, the kernel recovers from when legacy modules fail to initialise. Proper protected calls implementation that give Merlin an impressive level of robusteness even during the delicate phase of system startup.
tinyurl.com/risc-os-merlin
ALT An example of how Merlin's Secure Calls work and recover when a Kernel Module fails to initialise. This allows merlin to survive pretty bad issues durign both system start up or modules loading. There is more about RISC OS Merlin security and resiliance here: https://paolozaino.wordpress.com/portfolio/merlin-a-modern-memory-safe-kernel-and-platform/
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🚀 The CROWler v2.2.5 is here!
⚡ Faster Time Series, better DB resilience, PostgreSQL 17 testing & API fixes.
Open-source framework for discovery, intelligence, AI agents & automation.
github.com/pzaino/thecrowler
#OpenSource #OSINT #AI
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We’re in Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so here’s a basic question: what is cybersecurity, actually?
My answer: the possibility to define rules and constraints, and the capability to enforce them.
Why it matters:
paolozaino.wordpress.com/202…
#Cybersecurity #InfoSec #securitynews
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AI will impact economy in devastating ways if it continues the way it is right now, and young generations will have the burdain of having to solve issues caused by foolish older generations, that challenge will be huge
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Actually the problem with students is far more complex my friend. It's about costs to get a degree that they will never recover from AI making every job paid less and everywhere. Is about them not even having a change to achieve things, because companies will celebrate shotcuts
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Dear students, you are still our future. Do not surrender. Learning is not just a path to a job; it is about understanding the world, ourselves, and your field. People who offload everything to AI risk intellectual atrophy. Don't give up on your life!
futurism.com/future-society/…
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I wrote something about what I think is a much more realistic AI cybersecurity problem than the usual “AI will hack everything” narrative:
And yes, this can already be exploited today.
paolozaino.wordpress.com/202…
#AI #CyberSecurity #SoftwareSupplyChain #AISecurity #AppSec #LLM
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> and people don't like you opening their network closet...
LOL lucky you, here in the UK we are lucky if the pictures of the house are actually correct! 😂 - but I have never seen a house with a network closet here...
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getting #RISCOSMerlin to be able to boot on #UEFI is being a lot of fun and a great opportunity to learn in more details UEFI on AArch64 vs my old knowledge of UEFI on Intel/AMD. The fun part if always the learning.
#Rust #Kernel #SystemsDevelopment
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Paolo Fabio Zaino - ☮️ 🌍 💻 🎸 🎮 ☕️ 🍩 🍕😈🐧☣︎ retweeted
Nice work to Alban Read on this QEMU fork to run #RISC_OS 5.30 on A72 Rpi4 and sources available here (for mac, linux and all platfroms where QEMU builds): github.com/albanread/RISCOSQ…
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Paolo Fabio Zaino - ☮️ 🌍 💻 🎸 🎮 ☕️ 🍩 🍕😈🐧☣︎ retweeted
Font Directory Pro 3.24 for RISC OS out now - can now be installed on any local read/write filing system, plus a clutch of minor bug fixes.
£45 (inc VAT) or get 25% off by trading in an old copy shop.elesar.co.uk/index.php?…
ALT Example WYSIWYG font selector
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📣 New #theCROWler deployment support repo!
Deploy CROWler almost anywhere with integrations for enterprise orchestration and automation tools, plus AI skills for agent-driven deployments.
github.com/pzaino/thecrowler…
#ai #automation #devops #nomad #kubernetes #terraform #docker
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📣 #theCROWler 2.10 is out!
This release brings expanded autoscaling, many improvements, and bug fixes, moving CROWler another step toward becoming an advanced defence development platform.
github.com/pzaino/thecrowler
#ai #cybersecurity
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CROWler 2.0 has landed 🚀
Redesigned Information Seeds, rebuilt email/newsletter discovery, more powerful AI and non-AI Agents, OpenAPI custom plugins, scalable events, better analytics, faster performance and lower memory use.
github.com/pzaino/thecrowler
#TheCROWler #OSINT
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#RISC_OS folks: New #MerlinProject YouTube video update with 3D Graphics API and RISC OS Merlin booting via #GRUB on #x86 and #KVM! More details and link to the video here:
riscosopen.org/forum/forums/…
#riscos #OpenSource #Kernel #OperatingSystem #Acorn
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Paolo Fabio Zaino - ☮️ 🌍 💻 🎸 🎮 ☕️ 🍩 🍕😈🐧☣︎ retweeted
Got this prototype beast from @Mirko_DIY on my workbench and it's going brilliantly, with CM4 and especially CM5.
I'm looking forward to this project getting some more love and development after the designer's well earned summer break!
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Some people asked about performance, so here is a video of #RISC_OS #Merlin booting (instantly) and running a graphics demo in #QEMU, Merlin is using its own software framebuffer in this demo, not yet GPU acceleration:
piped.video/watch?v=d9jehsEA…
#riscos #kernel #OperatignSystem
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