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November 17th, 2025 at 6:02 AM

Rust Adoption Drives Android Memory Safety Bugs Below 20% for First Time

Google has disclosed that the company's continued adoption of the Rust programming language in Android has resulted in the number of memory safety vulnerabilities falling below 20% of total vulnerabilities for the first time. "We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android’s C and C++ code. But the biggest surprise was

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