September 20, 2024 at 08:03AM Startup Edera raised $5M in seed funding led by 645 Ventures and Eniac Ventures, with additional support from FPV Ventures, Generationship, Precursor Ventures, Rosecliff Ventures, and angel investors. The Seattle-based company provides secure isolation solutions for Kubernetes and AI workloads, aiming to prevent known and unknown vulnerabilities while expanding its … Read more
August 3, 2024 at 06:08AM DARPA is pushing TRACTOR, a program to automatically convert legacy C code to Rust for improved memory safety. Tech giants support the move away from C/C++ due to memory safety bugs. While some argue for maintaining C/C++ standards, DARPA is focused on automating the transition to Rust for increased security. … Read more
February 5, 2024 at 06:06PM Google donated $1 million to the Rust Foundation to improve interoperability between Rust and C++. The investment aims to expand Rust’s adoption, given its ability to prevent vulnerabilities. This supports the pressure on software developers to consider Rust and other memory-safe languages. The grant will specifically address the challenge of … Read more