#rust
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The Linux Kernel Bids Farewell to Binder in C: Rust Wins
The Linux 7.4 kernel is set to remove the old C implementation of Binder. The Rust version will become the sole option for inter-process communication on Android.
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Rust Developers Warned of Targeted Attacks on Their Accounts and Devices
The Rust security working group and the Crates.io team have reported an ongoing campaign against key project contributors and owners of popular crates. The goal: to spread malicious code across the language's ecosystem.
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GitHub rewrote the Copilot engine in Rust — using Copilot itself
GitHub Copilot's agentic runtime has been fully ported from TypeScript to 800,000 lines of production Rust. Most of the code was written by AI agents, and the process was steered by what amounts to a single developer.
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Ubuntu 26.10 Completes the Switch to Rust-Based coreutils
In the “Stonking Stingray” release, the last holdouts — cp, mv and rm — move to the memory-safe versions. Nothing changes for users; the gain is purely in security.
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How One Clippy Lint Was Sped Up 3,133×
A developer on the Rust linter Clippy explains how a seemingly harmless macro check was eating up a quarter of the tool's runtime — and how it was radically sped up.
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Mold Linker Being Rewritten in Rust, Aiming to Become Linux's Standard Linker
Mold's author, Rui Ueyama, is preparing a version 3.0 written in Rust and wants the fast linker to replace GNU ld in Linux distributions.
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Rust Gains Tier-1 Language Status at Microsoft
The Rust Foundation has announced that Microsoft has officially recognized the Rust language as a tier-1 language.
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Typst 0.15: the Rust-based typesetting system keeps gaining momentum
A new version of Typst — the computer typesetting system often touted as a possible LaTeX replacement — has been released. The 0.15 release brings support for variable fonts, MathML and multiple bibliographies.
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Linux 7.3 Will Disable RandStruct by Default for the Sake of Rust Support
In the Linux 7.3 kernel, the RandStruct protection feature is now turned off by default whenever Rust support is available. The developers made a compromise for the sake of complete build coverage.
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Polars 2.0: streaming engine by default and the promised “boring” upgrade
The Polars developers have released the first release candidate of version 2.0. The headline change is the switch to a streaming engine by default, which promises a manyfold boost in performance.
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COSMIC Epoch 1.7: Network Folders in the File Manager Finally Work Fast
System76 has released another update to its Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment. The headline improvement is a fix for a long-standing problem with the slow browsing of remote file systems over SFTP.
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Firefox 157 Will Enable JPEG-XL Support by Default
Mozilla has officially unveiled its plan to bring the JPEG-XL format to the browser: in version 157, decoding will work on all platforms without any additional configuration.
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A Choker with a Screen: How a Hacker Built Glowing Jewelry for DEF CON
An introverted engineer built a glowing choker with an AMOLED display for his first DEF CON — to give people around him a reason to strike up a conversation. Along the way, he hung an unprotected lithium battery around his neck.
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MartyPC: A Cross-Platform Emulator of Early PCs in Rust
The MartyPC project recreates the architecture of the first personal computers and is available, among other options, right in the browser.
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Redox OS Moves to the EEVDF Scheduler: 2.6× Throughput Gain
Written from scratch in Rust, the Redox OS operating system has swapped out its task scheduler, gaining a multifold speedup and a radically fairer distribution of resources.
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Rust 1.98.0: algebraic floating-point operations and fast number formatting
The Rust team has released version 1.98.0. Among the new features are “algebraic” methods for floating-point numbers in the spirit of -ffast-math, buffered formatting of integers, and a stabilized guarantee regarding ManuallyDrop.
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A Rust Supply-Chain Attack: the Poisoned arrayref 0.3.10 and the proc-macro1 Typosquat
A compromised maintainer account and a fake copy of a well-known author's crate turned a routine cargo update into the silent execution of malicious code whenever a project was built.
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Woxi: An Open-Source Implementation of the Wolfram Language in Rust
The Woxi project offers an interpreter for the Wolfram Language written in Rust, with a range of interfaces — from a browser-based sandbox to a Jupyter kernel and a notebook editor.
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NVIDIA's Rust-Based Nova Driver Gains New Capabilities in Linux 7.3
Ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window, developers have prepared a batch of changes for the Rust-based DRM drivers — including Nova, the future replacement for Nouveau on NVIDIA graphics cards.
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CachyOS Gets an August 2026 Update and Readies a Server Edition
The CachyOS distribution has released another update to its images. Alongside desktop improvements, the team continues work on a future server edition.
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