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Bringing Rust to the Pixel Baseband

Google hardens Pixel 10's baseband with Rust DNS parser, mitigating entire classes of memory-safety vulnerabilities in critical cellular firmware.

Saturday, April 11, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: LobstersBY sys://pipeline

Google is integrating a Rust-based DNS parser into Pixel 10's modem firmware to eliminate memory-safety vulnerabilities. The cellular modem is a critical attack surface with tens of megabytes of complex code; Rust implementation using the hickory-proto library mitigates an entire class of vulnerabilities while demonstrating industry adoption of memory-safe languages in embedded systems.

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