Bringing Rust to the Pixel Baseband Posted by Jiacheng Lu, Software Engineer, Google Pixel Team Google is continuously advancing the security of Pixel devices. We have been f...

The culmination of multi-year effort, very excited for this.

#rust #memorysafety

security.googleblog.com/2026/04/brin...

Bringing Rust to the Pixel Baseband Posted by Jiacheng Lu, Software Engineer, Google Pixel Team Google is continuously advancing the security of Pixel devices. We have been f...

2 years ago I did a PoC to run #rust 🦀 in the #pixel modem

Today it shipped in millions of devices!

They grow up to fast! 🥲

security.googleblog.com/2026/04/brin...

#rust #security #smartphone #baseband

Will People Trust Voting by Phone? Alaska Is Going to Find Out.

The NYT just published an article largely hyping internet voting in Alaska.

I do not agree, and argue that the article has significant problems. Let’s look at a few of them 🧵

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Future Architecture Technologies - POE2 and vMTE This blog post introduces two future technologies, Permission Overlay Extension version 2 (POE2) and Virtual Tagging Extension (vMTE).

POE2: community.arm.com/arm-communit...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Hackceler8 2025 YouTube video by Hackceler8

Hackceler8 live stream will start on 2025-10-04 21:15 UTC / 14:15 PST

Schedule (PST)
14:15 - Live stream start
14:30 - Semifinals #1
16:30 - Semifinals #2
18:30 - Finals

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1W...

Today, my research group @ Georgia Tech released a paper on vulnerabilities in Tile --- the second largest device finding network after Apple's AirTags.

You can read about it in Wired, reporting by @kimzetter.bsky.social!
www.wired.com/story/tile-t...

GUIFuzz++ is the first general-purpose fuzzer for desktop GUI software! Fuzzing by translating AFL++ random input into user interaction with GUIs, leading to the discovery of 23 new bugs!

Paper: futures.cs.utah.edu/papers/25ASE.pdf
Source: github.com/FuturesLab/GUIFuzzPlusPlus

Go test some GUIs!

Some good news:

Yesterday, FDA granted accelerated approval for elamipretide, the drug my niece relies on for treatment of her rare disease.

This was the result of tireless advocacy by patients, caregivers, and allies.

THANK YOU to everyone who shared Hope’s story. I truly believe it helped.

Great write up on this from @lhn.bsky.social here! www.wired.com/story/apple-...

Oh look, the iOS vulnerability is yet another weird subcase of image decompression, who could possibly have predicted.

Introducing Rusted Firmware-A (RF-A) - A Rust-Based reimagination of Trusted Firmware-A Why Rusted Firmware-A?

Very excited to see this

www.trustedfirmware.org/blog/rf-a-blog

#rust #memory-safety

@blackhoodie.bsky.social will be at @sec-t.bsky.social on September 10th with a training on Linux Malware Reverse Engineering, for women by women! We have very few seats left 😁 blackhoodie.re/SecT2025/

At USENIX Security? Then check out:

Studying the Use of CVEs in Academia, won distinguished paper award www.usenix.org/conference/u...

Discovering and Exploiting Vulnerable Tunnelling Hosts, won most innovative research Pwnie @ DEFCON www.usenix.org/conference/u...

Big thanks to all co-authors!!

Google's 'Big Sleep' Just Became the First-Ever AI to Prevent a Cyberattack Google's Big Sleep is just a year old, and for the first time it as able to detect and help close a vulnerability at risk of being exploited.

Quote of the day: "Nicely done. It doesn’t undo all the (often rightly deserved) bad press that AI agents have received lately, but good news is good news."

www.vice.com/en/article/g...

#BigSleep #VulnResearch

I rarely post personal things. But I need to talk about my 4-year-old niece, Hope.

She has a rare disease. A drug called elamipretide has helped her survive.

But the FDA recently denied its approval.

Now, her health hangs in the balance.

Please share her story & urge the FDA to reconsider. 🧵

Yes!

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It has been genuinely moving — moved me to tears, actually — to see so much support for our work at @lawfaremedia.org.

Since yesterday, 3 additional donors have agreed to match contributions up to 5K each — thank you @judgeluttig.bsky.social for helping us get there! givebutter.com/journalism/a...

This is wonderful, but they are still far short of their goal. Please share and donate if you can. We need Lawfare more than ever.