Stefano Smith

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[Stefano Smith @stefano__smith]

@startupoppa yeah and he was playing storybook brawl (which he later bought for FTX) when agreeing to sponsor the met gala.

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@chamath I'd love to see the stats on how many people can actually finish a book nowadays, let alone a series

[Stefano Smith @stefano__smith]

7/ That's why we invested up to £5m in SCI Semiconductor, last month. The ONLY company bringing CHERI-based silicon to market.

Also a founding member of the CHERI alliance, SCI is spearheading the long overdue shift to memory-safe hardware.

[Stefano Smith @stefano__smith]

The PHP2Shell incident is realistically more of a hardware than a software problem, and what’s crazier is the tech to stop it exists, but no one really knows about it.

The sooner the world gets serious about CHERI, the fewer PHP2Shell-style events we’ll see.

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

Over the past two months, we have been leading a coalition to mitigate one of the most severe bugs in open source software found in recent memory, php2shell, found as part of our Patch the Planet initiative. https://t.co/rBsz7lrlwo

[Stefano Smith @stefano__smith]

6/ Patching doesn’t solve the problem in the long run.

Speeding up CHERI implementation and development is one of the most crucial moves in security. Particularly as we move to an AI first world.

Every second without hardware-first safety is just another opportunity for zero-days like this one to be exposed.

[Stefano Smith @stefano__smith]

@imjustnewatai everything’s been hacked at this point

[Stefano Smith @stefano__smith]

gitlab just jumping on the wagon at this point

[The Hacker News @TheHackersNews]

🚨 CRITICAL: GitLab flaw (CVSS 10.0) affects 12 years of releases.

CVE-2026-110264 could allow unauthenticated remote code execution on self-managed servers.

Read - https://t.co/frrfCwYlgp

[Stefano Smith @stefano__smith]

@SebJohnsonUK @kirbyman01 fund needs named and shamed

[Stefano Smith @stefano__smith]

@trapsticles @NSACyber true although the bugs that dropped today go back to when they were still on php - could've been a historic hack

[Stefano Smith @stefano__smith]

@tamarawinter @patrickc back to back october with built to grow and now nomad letters

[Stefano Smith @stefano__smith]

im high conviction that we'll look back on 2026 as an ai fever dream

[Stefano Smith @stefano__smith]

@andrewchen Massively prioritise US and allied manufacturing. Provide incentives to onshore as much as possible to cut reliance on Chinese components

[Stefano Smith @stefano__smith]

@brivael this does not help the euro doomer vs rose-tinted american convo

[Stefano Smith @stefano__smith]

@Valentin_thomy how’s the tech scene out there? I imagine it’s cheap to live but is there a decent density of talent?

[Stefano Smith @stefano__smith]

this is what compound interest actually looks like

[Negligible Capital @negligible_cap]

Don’t buy the semis dip for yourself

Do it for the kids man

[Stefano Smith @stefano__smith]

@the_varunrana performative founders always end up getting exposed