Linus Torvalds has explained why he's so "fed up with" Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and other such vendors due to their "buggy hardware".
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Microsoft has been working on integrating Rust into Windows for a while. A senior exec David Weston recently confirmed that Rust-based code will soon be booting inside Windows kernel.
The Internet Security Research Group has begun a project to rewrite httpd components in Rust to address memory safety issues that currently affect httpd. A new TLS module will be made first.