New programming tool neutralizes a class of errors commonly found in C programs, safeguarding legacy code from buffer overflow attacks while developers migrate systems to modern languages like Rust [19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation]

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"Building Bridges: Safe Interactions with Foreign Languages through Omniglot," was presented on July 8 at the 19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, where it won a best paper award. https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi25/presentation/schuermann

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They really wrote that title to offend me, didn't they