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1 month agoChrome 146 Update Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities
The first vulnerability, CVE-2026-4673, is a heap buffer overflow issue in WebAudio that earned the reporting researcher a $7,000 bug bounty reward. Google has yet to determine the bounty amount for CVE-2026-4677, another bug reported by the same researcher.
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fromInfoQ
2 months agoExpanding Swift from Apps to Services
As a high-level description, Swift is an ahead-of-time compiled, memory-safe, multi-paradigm programming language. Swift uses reference counting for memory management instead of garbage collection, and has recently added support for limited lifetime analysis. Finally, Swift leans heavily on types with value semantics by leveraging copy-on-write. This enables powerful local reasoning, as value types are either mutable or shared, but not both.
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3 months agoRust Contributor Explores AI-Assisted Compiler Development with New Rue Language
Rue is a systems programming language removing Rust's borrow checker by using inout ownership transfers to provide memory safety without garbage collection while improving developer ergonomics.
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fromThe JetBrains Blog
5 months agoRust vs. Python: Finding the right balance between speed and simplicity | The RustRover Blog
Choose Python for rapid development, accessibility, and data science; choose Rust for high-performance, safe, concurrent systems and long-term reliability.
fromTheregister
5 months agoFamed software engineer DJB tries Fil-C... likes what he sees
Famed mathematician, cryptographer and coder Daniel J. Bernstein has tried out the new type-safe C/C++ compiler, and he's given it a favorable report. The modestly titled Notes by djb on using Fil-C doesn't sound like much, and indeed, the introduction is similarly modest: I'm impressed with the level of compatibility of the new memory-safe C/C++ compiler Fil-C (filcc, fil++). Many libraries and applications that I've tried work under Fil-C without changes, and the exceptions haven't been hard to get working.
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fromComputerworld
7 months agoWhat is Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement, and why does it matter?
MIE uses secure typed memory allocators, Enhanced Memory Tagging Extension in synchronous mode, and Tag Confidentiality Enforcement to prevent memory exploitation across Apple devices.
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fromTechCrunch
7 months agoApple's latest iPhone security feature just made life more difficult for spyware makers | TechCrunch
Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) on iPhone 17 and iPhone Air mitigates memory corruption bugs, significantly increasing difficulty and cost for spyware and exploit developers.
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