#memorysafety

For a decade, 'rewrite it in Rust' was a joke, because rewrites took years. In 2026, Ladybird, Bun, Meta's React Compiler and GitHub's Copilot runtime were all ported to Rust with AI agents in weeks, and a solo developer cloned Photoshop. Cheap rewrites explain the timing. The choice of Rust comes down to who reads the code: when agents write faster than anyone can review, the language whose compiler checks the most wins. How far that has spread, from browsers and kernels to creative tools, and where Rust still isn't winning.

Four high-severity Node.js fixes from 21 October 2026: a Brotli decoder out-of-bounds write and three hostname-verification bugs, plus what the end-of-life branches mean for your dependency graph.

Rust vs C++ comes down to when lifetimes get checked. A moved pointer that segfaults in C++ and a dangling reference that Rust refuses to compile, sid

Proving You Patched: Evidence and Audit Trail for CVE-2026-39919 Regulated organisations...

Comprehensive guide for C++ developers transitioning to Rust. Learn memory safety concepts, ownership principles, and practical migration strategies for modern systems programming.

Introduction In the world of vibecoded programs and games, a seismic shift is underway....

French supermarket fridges were forced into defrost. CERT-FR names Danfoss, Copeland and Dixell equipment and explains why a factory reset can be insufficient.

Use-after-free gets filed under 'C is dangerous', which is the wrong lesson and hides the real one. The bug is not the free. It is a reference that outlived the thing it pointed to, and nothing enforced that the two lifetimes had to match.

Introduction to Memory Safety Memory safety is the cornerstone of reliable software,...

CVE-2026-49841 in FreeSWITCH mod_verto: a fixed 2 MiB buffer, a client-controlled Content-Length, and what operators can do before patching.

Why a 7.0 use-after-free in a mounted-filesystem client still depends on how you treat your storage tier.

Four libxml2 Flaws, One Release: Why 2.15.4 Matters Beyond the Library Itself A...