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How Runtime Hardening Enforces AI, Cloud Native Security It’s time for a new foundation: security embedded in the runtime itself, where execution can be constrained, not just observed.

It’s time for a new foundation: security embedded in the runtime itself, where execution can be constrained, not just observed.

By @alex.zenla.io, thanks to @edera.dev

I am not a language purist but I don't think I can trust security software that is only written in shell script.

Ivy, Edera's pink cartoon axolotl, wearing a hoodie that reads "F*ck Luck" hangs out next to a yellow voting box with the CyberScoop logo, a vote for Edera goes into the box.

Edera is making secure computing simple, scalable, and real.
Two @cyberscoop.bsky.social 50 nominations—one for the tech, one for the visionary behind it.
Cast your vote for Edera Protect and @alex.zenla.io :
cyberscoop.com/cyberscoop50...

With a heavy heart, I have to remind everyone that Kubernetes v1.30 Uwubernetes is now EOL. If you are still running on v1.30, please upgrade your clusters uwu 👉👈😔

Ivy, the pink cartoon axolotl, wearing a Fuck Luck hoodie and glasses, hovers next to a voting box with the Cyberscoop 50 Awards imagery, against a teal background.

There's still time to vote:
@alex.zenla.io, Edera co-founder and CTO was also nominated for a @cyberscoop.bsky.social 50 award as "Most Inspiring Up and Comer"
AND
Edera Protect was nominated for "Innovation of the Year"
Voting closes July 25th. cyberscoop.com/cyberscoop50...

Rust or Bust: Edera's Rewrite of the Xen Control Plane | Edera Blog Discover why Edera rewrote the Xen control plane in Rust—and how memory safety gives us a real security edge in container and GPU infrastructure.

Edera's virtualization stack relies on the Xen hypervisor for securing and isolating container-based workloads. On top of that is a vital control plane, orchestrating guest lifecycles, resources, and networking.
@alex.zenla.io explains why we wrote the the Xen control plane in Rust.

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Ivy, Edera's pink cartoon axolotl, holding a trans pride flag and a basic LGBTQ pride flag.

It may be July now, but we just want to say that regardless of the month, LGBTQ+ people have always been here and will always be here, no matter what various entities might try to say to the contrary!

Except with Edera :)

It's 2025 and containers are still not a security boundary.

This was a major pain in the ass. I put a number of hours into this, and the main issue ended up being the open source decoder used in the decompilation doesn't seem to support Smacker's latest codec version very well (v4).

I have done cursed things with Lego Island... by putting Bad Apple in as an intro screen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyzO...

GitHub - isledecomp/isle-portable: A portable version of LEGO Island (1997) A portable version of LEGO Island (1997). Contribute to isledecomp/isle-portable development by creating an account on GitHub.

I am currently doing cursed things with github.com/isledecomp/i...

securebuild: another 0 CVE image service

inspecting the bash image in their portal

wolfi is the basis of this one too

dj khaled going another one

a story in 4 parts…

This is a very nuanced issue, but I strongly disagree with the conclusion that there is only one sane option in this moment. It's okay to stay here and advocate for trans people even if it's more unsafe than ever. It will only get worse the fewer of us there are.

This is not to endorse one conclusion or the other or shame anyone. It's simply how I feel. There are countless trans people who cannot leave this country through any means, or have reasons why they want to stay. I'm not abandoning my family and friends.

I support the trans folks who are leaving the US for their own safety. I have the resources and the support network to do so if I wanted to. However I personally feel that the trans folks who stay deserve support and love, and I would not feel comfortable abandoning those people. I'm here to fight.

Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.

This Historian Has Seen the Future of Trans Health Care Jules Gill-Peterson doesn’t want to fight for trans joy. She wants to fight for what trans people really need: resources, hormones, and surgery. Her latest arena? The US Supreme Court.

Jules Gill-Peterson isn’t mincing words: Forget euphemisms like “gender euphoria.”

“We need hormones, sex changes, and surgeries.”

Not affirmation—access.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Via Sam Stein on twitter

I was one of the people who actually liked it when MacBook Pros had 4 Thunderbolt ports... I wish they hadn't split out the 4th one.

Update on this: Swift Package Manager is working against me a lot here. Swift on Windows is not baked enough for this task :/

the world. the world hurt me.

Tonight I am installing Visual Studio on Windows 11 inside Parallels on macOS Tahoe Developer Beta on a 13" M2 MacBook Air... so that I can try to get SDL3Swift to work on Windows :P

macOS 15.5 vs macOS 26, key adds / removals macOS 15.5 vs macOS 26, key adds / removals. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

I wrote some scripts to compare macOS 15.5 vs 26 in key filesystem changes, here is the output: gist.github.com/azenla/dd09b...

Looks at /Applications, /System/Library/CoreServices{,/Applications}, /System/Library/{Frameworks,PrivateFrameworks}, /usr/libexec and /bin, /usr/bin (both no changes)

I missed that watchOS 26 is now built for arm64 instead of arm64_32 on Series 9/Ultra 2 and later. This means that officially, all public Apple platforms are arm64. No more weird exceptions.

I'm so glad you are part of Edera ❤️

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

“How am I doing? Oh I’m doing great! Same as always haha lol tee hee” I reply with a chipper bubbly voice as I plan for contingencies up to and including martial law, asset seizure, deportation, …

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