Rust Hits Kernel; AAIF Foundation Launches

Summary

The Linux ecosystem is solidifying its future by integrating modern safety features and establishing governance for emerging AI technologies.

Rust Support Confirmed The Linux kernel officially endorsed Rust as a non-experimental language for core development, marking a major security shift 7.
AI Governance Founded Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI launched the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation to guide open agent frameworks 3.
CVE Management Milestone The kernel.org community has managed all Linux kernel CVEs for nearly two full years as the designated CNA 2.
Web Security Marks Decade Let’s Encrypt celebrated 10 years since its first public certificate issuance, securing global web traffic 5.
2 Years - Time the kernel.org community has managed all Linux kernel CVEs 2.
10 Years - Anniversary celebrated by Let’s Encrypt for public certificate issuance 5.
Go/Vulkan - The primary technologies utilized by the new Kaiju game engine 1.

Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental [7].
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Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI launched the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) [3].
— Article [3]
Let’s Encrypt celebrated ten years since its first publicly-trusted certificate issuance [5].
— Article [5]
Debugging Qt WebAssembly applications can be achieved by configuring builds using the -g argument [4].
— Article [4]
Dependable C documents a specific subset of the C language to aid portability [6].
— Article [6]

The continuation of Jack Crenshaw's 'Let's Build a Compiler' series demonstrates long-term interest in foundational compiler education [9].

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