A 55-year-old software developer faces up to 10 years in prison after being convicted for deploying malicious code that sabotaged his former employer’s network, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses.

Davis Lu was convicted by a jury for …

“TrapC, a fork of the C language, is being developed as a potential solution for memory safety issues that have hindered the C and C++ languages,” reports InfoWorld.
But also being developed is a compiler named trapc “intended to be implemented as a c…

Memory safety bugs are “eroding trust in technology and costing billions,” argues a new post on Google’s security blog — adding that “traditional approaches, like code auditing, fuzzing, and exploit mitigations — while helpful — haven…

When developers boast “I could write that in a weekend,” they’re missing the painful reality that haunts software maintainers for years. In a candid blog post, Construct developer Ashley explains why maintaining large software projects is a burden most…

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Linux’s second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman has also been a big proponent of Rust kernel code. He’s crafted another Linux kernel mailing list post [Wednesdsay] outlining the benefits of R…

This year’s “State of Rust” survey was completed by 7,310 Rust developers. DevClass note some key findings:

When asked about their biggest worries for Rust’s future, 45.5 percent cited “not enough usage in the tech industry,” up from 42.5 percent last…

Linus Torvalds responded Thursday to kernel developer Christoph Hellwig, who had claimed Torvalds merged Rust code into the kernel even over his objections as the original C code’s maintainer. Highlights from Torvalds’ response:

The fact is, the pull…

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With Linux 6.8 the kernel’s Rust code was brought up to Rust 1.75 while new patches posted this weekend port the code over to Rust 1.76 and then the upcoming Rust 1.77…

With Rust 1.77 they have no…