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Issue Highlights

🌐 Ubitium introduces Universal Processing Arrays
👨‍⚖️ Git Developers Debating Rust Mandate
🔐 Rustaceans Targeted in Phishing Scam
✉️ Proton Mail Adopts Rust
🍎 Apple’s Memory Safety Announcement
🧑‍💻 ST Introduces Rust Drivers
🧠 RustGPT is a Rust-based LLM
🦀 Rust 1.90 is Out
🛠️ uFerris Updates
🔮 Styx is a Rust-based QEMU Alternative
⚒️ uFerris Updates (visible to email subscribers only)
 

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News & Article Roundup

A curation of embedded Rust-related news, articles, and posts

Embedded Rust News 📰

• ST Introduces Rust Drivers ⭐️

• Embedded Rust GUI: A simple reusable UI toolkit

• Styx Emulator: a QEMU-Adjacent Emulation Framework in Rust ⭐️

Rust News 🗞️🦀

• Announcing Rust 1.90.0 ⭐️

• crates.io phishing campaign ⭐️

• crates.io: Malicious crates faster_log and async_println ⭐️

• Built for speed and the future: Introducing Proton Mail’s brand new mobile apps ⭐️

• Variadic Generics Micro Survey

• Leadership Council September 2025 Representative Selections

• Rust Foundation Signs Joint Statement on Open Source Infrastructure Stewardship

• Rust Foundation Member Announcement: Fledgio, QRT, Code Construct, Tor Project

• Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings

• Git 3.0 May Make Rust Mandatory as Developers Discuss Transition ⭐️

• The first release from The Rust Project Content Team

• RustConf 2025: Rust’s Evolution to Secure Software Powerhouse

• "Rustmaker" Merged For LibreOffice 26.2 Development As Latest Rust Integration

• RustGPT: A pure-Rust transformer LLM built from scratch ⭐️

• Asciinema CLI 3.0 rewritten in Rust

• Malicious Rust packages on Crates.io steal crypto wallet keys ⭐️

• With Rust, Cloudflare is Trying to Tackle the Industry’s Inference Bottleneck

• Google continues to invest $350k in Rust

General Embedded News/Trends 📈

• Will SiFive’s New RISC-V IP Drive Adoption in Edge AI and Generative AI?

• Infineon and Thistle Technologies Bolster Edge AI Security with Hardware-Based Protection for Models and Data

• LIFT Taps an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense to Turn a Model Rocket Into a Short-Lived Weather Satellite

• Ubitium's Universal Processor: A Solution to the Complexity Crisis in Embedded Systems ⭐️

• Arduino Announces a Faster, Simpler Wi-Fi Provisioning Flow for Its Cloud Platform

• Apple Announces ‘Memory Integrity Enforcement’ ⭐️

• Renesas Launches RA8T2 MCUs

• Renesas Announceds RA0L1 low-cost MCUs

Comparisons with other Languages 🔍️

• Welcome to the World of Embedded Systems with Python

• Web Developer Travis McCracken on Rust Macros That Save Me Time

• Comparing transitive dependency version resolution in Rust and Java

• Web Developer Travis McCracken on Async Queues in Rust vs Python

• The problem with Rust and open source rewrites

• Why Zig Feels More Practical Than Rust for Real-World CLI Tools

• Writing Our Own Structure: Tries in Haskell & Rust

• Why I Still Reach for C for Certain Projects

• Why some agentic AI developers are moving code from Python to Rust

• RustGPT: Open-Source Pure-Rust LLM Challenges Python Dominance

• defer and errdefer in Rust

Hardware 🛠️

• TI C2000 F28E12x low-cost real-time MCUs

• LattePanda IOTA SBC

• LattePanda IOTA SBC outperforms Raspberry Pi 5

• Raspberry Pi 5 M.2 HAT+ Compact Board

• New BeagleBone Green Eco

• Raspberry Pi keyboard-PC upgrade

• Raspberry Pi 500+ launched with serious power and RGB keyboard

• Olimex RP2350-PICO2-BB48

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Educational Resources

A curation of embedded & Rust educational resources and tutorials

Tutorials & Walkthroughs 📫

• Embedded async debugging and inspect-embassy

• The State Machine

• Crash Course in Bevy and Rust for the Impatient Programmer: Chapter 1

• Reducing binary size of (Rust) programs with debuginfo

• Rust + Flutter: How to Build Fast, Safe, Cross-Platform Mobile Apps

• Using Rust to run powerful AI models for Camera Trap processing

Insights, Tools, & Case Studies 📑

• SDV Software Safety: Ensuring Reliability in Software-Defined Vehicles

• Rust: Who, What and Why for ESA SW PA Workshop

• Rust 1.90 Overview

• A PSX/DOS style 3D game written in Rust

• Best AI Coding Tools for Rust Projects: IDEs vs Terminals

• EdgeBERT: I Built My Own Neural Network Inference Engine in Rust

• Guard Your Rust Code with Tests

• A dumb introduction to z3

• The Symbiosis Of Rust And Arm: A Conversation With David Wood

• Enhancing Type Safety in MPI with Rust

• Tsink – Embedded time-series database for Rust

• MuJoCo-rs - a high-level Rust wrapper around MuJoCo

• How to save $327.6 million using Rust

• sudo vs sudo-rs: What You Need to Know About the Rust Takeover of Classic Sudo Command

• The pirate-based logic of Rust shared references

• Plectrum: Lookup Tables to Rust Enums

• Building a Query-Based Incremental Compilation Engine in Rust

General Embedded 📟️

• Run Tiny Language Model (GenAI) on ESP32

• Live Streaming to Amazon IVS on an ESP32 Microcontroller with Embedded Sensor Metadata

• Building Custom ESP32 Walkie-Talkies with the DMR858M: A Hands-On Guide

• Building a DIY GPU with Arduino

• Electronics, Vol. 14, Pages 3626: Resource Allocation Techniques in Aerial-Assisted Vehicular Edge Computing: A Review of Recent Progress

• Composite human activity recognition

• AirTag-like tracker with this Raspberry Pi

• Timing Attacks and Their Remedies — an in-depth guide

• Heart Rate Measurement via WiFi

• Offline ESP32 Voice Assistant: Gemini AI & I2S Audio

• AWS IoT Core Starter with Esp32, MQTT, Rust & Terraform

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Noteworthy Mentions

Useful resources worth mentioning

Noteworthy Course 🧑‍🏫

🏫 Rust for System Programmers

Noteworthy Book 📚️

📕 Async Rust

Noteworthy Newsletter 📰

📰 tl;dr sec - Keep up with Cybersecurity in 7 min/week

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Updates, Events, & Announcements

Updates & announcements from the community

Notable Device and/or Framework Crate Updates 🚨

• espup v0.16.0

• stm32-hal2 v2.1.6

• stm32f4xx-hal v0.23.0

• os-terminal v0.6.11

• espflash v4.1.0

• py32-hal v0.4.0

Upcoming Events & Deadlines 🎭

• EuroRust - October 9-10, 2025, Paris, France

• Espressif DevCon 2025 - November 5-6, 2025

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Jobs & Adoption

Keeping track of companies involved with embedded Rust

The Embedded Rust Adoption Tracker 🧭

The number of entities that believe in a future involving Rust in embedded is continuously growing. Any new additions will be mentioned here. Meanwhile, click here to access the full list of entities known to adopt/use embedded Rust.

Jobs Postings 🏭

Contrary to common belief, many embedded job posts nowadays prefer some knowledge of Rust. Additionally, there is a good amount that requires Rust. The list captures some of the interesting opportunities out there but is not comprehensive by any means. Listings that appear in the newsletter will remain as long as they’re posted/open online.

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Europe-Based Jobs 🌍️

• 🦀 Middle/Senior Rust Developer with C experience (IoT) - Sigma Software, Mutliple Locations, Europe

• 🦀 Software Development Engineer - Embedded Development - Amazon, London, Cambridge, UK

• 🦀 Firmware Engineer - IoT Biodiversity Sensors - Hula, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 Embedded Rust (Medical) - Freelance, Munich, Germany

• 🦀 Rust Developer/Promoter - Collabora, Remote

• 🦀 Rust Engineering Lead - Linux and Open Source - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

North America-Based Jobs 🌎️

• 🦀 (New) Rust Software Developer - Ford, Hybrid, Palo Alto, CA

• 🦀 (New) Senior Embedded Developer (Hardware in the Loop) - Geotab, Oakville, ON

• 🦀 (New) Software Engineer II - Embedded Cybersecurity - Collins Aerospace, Cedar Rapids, IA

• 🦀 Staff Software Engineer - OTA - Rivian-VW - Palo Alto, CA, Vancouver, Toronto, Canada

• 🦀 Software Engineer, Platform - Impulse, San Fransisco, CA

• 🦀 Embedded Firmware Engineer, Embedded Firmware Developer, and Embedded Rust/C++ Firmware Developer - Chemelex, Edmonton, Canada

• 🦀 Principal Embedded Systems Engineer – Avionics / GNC - Orb Aerospace, Lowell, MI

• 🦀 Embedded Systems Software Consultant (Rust / RTOS) - Seamgen, Remote

• 🦀 Firmware Engineer - Mach Industries, Huntington Beach, CA

• 🦀 Sr. Embedded Firmware Engineer (Rust and C) - Nanobiosym, Cambridge, MA

• 🦀 Rust Software Engineer - K2Space, Los Angeles, CA

• 🦀 Embedded Software Engineer (Bare Metal), Intelligence Systems - Anduril, Reston, VA

• 🦀 Rust Engineering Lead - Linux and Open Source - Canonical, Global, Hybrid

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