Things are back to normal around the Podcast studio, and this week you’ll hear the dulcet tones of Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos. I n Hackaday news, we still have a Frikkin’ Lasers Challenge ...

Writing my own virtualized loader is something I’ve been wanting to do since I first read Microsoft’s deep dive on FinFisher’s multi-layered VM obfuscation back in 2018. FinFisher didn’t just use one ...

A North Korean APT has crafted malicious software packages to appeal to AI coding agents, while ‘slopsquatting’ shows the security risks of hallucinated dependencies. Attackers too are looking to cash ...

Programmers learning Rust struggle to understand own ership types, Rust’s core mechanism for ensuring memory safety without garbage collection. This paper describes our process of systematically ...

Odonata is designed by Andy Watkins, with Mark Raistrick assisting with designs and discussion. Bugs in the Rust code will certainly be mine though - Andy ;-) My lockdown hobby was writing a chess ...

Looking at programming languages, it seems that for a long time, safety or reliability was considered an afterthought, usually covered later in tools such as testing and static analysis, rather than ...

When Rust 1.0 was released ten years ago, it was accompanied by a promise: the compiler should still be able to translate any code written with version 1.0 decades later with current Rust versions.

Have you ever wondered if there’s a way to break free from the dominance of proprietary computing architectures like x86 and ARM? For decades, these platforms have dictated the rules of the game, ...

Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years ...