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903 Rust Will Save Linux From AI, Says Greg Kroah-Hartman

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 05/27/2026 17:00 EDT

Rust Will Save Linux From AI, Says Greg Kroah-Hartman

Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says Rust can help Linux deal with a flood of AI-discovered security bugs (namely Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, and Fragnesia) by preventing common C mistakes around memory, locking, error handling, and untrusted data at build time rather than during human review. It's "not a silver bullet" and does not mean rewriting the whole kernel, but he said new drivers and subsystems will increasingly use Rust as Linux evolves forward. ZDNet reports: Kroah-Hartman illustrate

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