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  • The Register: Microsoft crafts Rust hypervisor to power Azure workloads

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/17/microsoft_preps_rust_hypervisor_for/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft crafts Rust hypervisor to power Azure workloads Feedly Summary: OpenVMM touts stronger security, but not ready for prime time just yet Microsoft earlier this month published code for a new hypervisor, or virtual machine monitor (VMM), written in Rust.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has…

  • The Register: Google’s memory safety plan includes rehab for unsafe languages

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/google_legacy_code/ Source: The Register Title: Google’s memory safety plan includes rehab for unsafe languages Feedly Summary: Large C and C++ codebases will be around for the ‘foreseeable future’ Google has revealed that its approach to making programming code more memory safe involves both the adoption of memory safe languages and making unsafe languages…

  • Hacker News: Safer with Google: Advancing Memory Safety

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    Source URL: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/10/safer-with-google-advancing-memory.html Source: Hacker News Title: Safer with Google: Advancing Memory Safety Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses Google’s strategic commitment to enhancing memory safety in software, revealing a two-pronged approach that includes increasing the adoption of memory-safe languages and improving the risk management of existing memory-unsafe languages.…

  • Google Online Security Blog: Safer with Google: Advancing Memory Safety

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    Source URL: http://security.googleblog.com/2024/10/safer-with-google-advancing-memory.html Source: Google Online Security Blog Title: Safer with Google: Advancing Memory Safety Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The content discusses Google’s strategic commitment to enhancing memory safety in software development. It highlights the significance of memory safety vulnerabilities, current trends, and Google’s two-pronged approach to integrating memory-safe languages while…

  • Google Online Security Blog: Evaluating Mitigations & Vulnerabilities in Chrome

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    Source URL: http://security.googleblog.com/2024/10/evaluating-mitigations-vulnerabilities.html Source: Google Online Security Blog Title: Evaluating Mitigations & Vulnerabilities in Chrome Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides an in-depth analysis of the security strategies employed by the Chrome Security Team, highlighting their proactive investments in making web browsing safer. It details the various classes of security…

  • The Register: Google’s Rust belts bugs out of Android, helps kill off substantial unsafe code

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/25/google_rust_safe_code_android/ Source: The Register Title: Google’s Rust belts bugs out of Android, helps kill off substantial unsafe code Feedly Summary: Memory safety flaws used to represent 76% of ‘droid security holes. Now they account for 24% Google’s effort to prioritize memory-safe software development over the past six years has substantially reduced the number…

  • The Register: The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/16/safe_c_plusplus/ Source: The Register Title: The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint Feedly Summary: You pipsqueaks want memory safety? We’ll show you memory safety! We’ll borrow that borrow checker After two years of being beaten with the memory-safety stick, the C++ community has published a proposal to help developers write…

  • Hacker News: Why Oxide Chose Illumos

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    Source URL: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0026 Source: Hacker News Title: Why Oxide Chose Illumos Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses modern programming environments focusing on Rust’s memory safety while delving into the importance of sandboxing and process isolation in security-critical applications. It also highlights the need for robust inter-process communication (IPC) mechanisms…

  • Slashdot: Two Android Engineers Explain How They Extended Rust In Android’s Firmware

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/09/08/0455238/two-android-engineers-explain-how-they-extended-rust-in-androids-firmware?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Two Android Engineers Explain How They Extended Rust In Android’s Firmware Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google is enhancing the security of its Android Virtualization Framework by rewriting firmware using the Rust programming language, which is known for its memory safety features. The move aims to…

  • Hacker News: Google says replacing C/C++ in firmware with Rust is easy

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/06/google_rust_c_code_language/ Source: Hacker News Title: Google says replacing C/C++ in firmware with Rust is easy Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google is pushing for the adoption of the Rust programming language in firmware development, particularly in its Android Virtualization Framework. The transition from C and C++ to Rust is…