With the new experimental support for the Emscripten target in Rust Workers, many previously unsupported Rust libraries and applications can now be built and deployed directly to Cloudflare’s global Workers platform, including upcoming support for Tokio async. #BirthdayWeek#

🦀 Speaker Spotlight: Alex Zenla, CTO @ Edera On Sept 10 at #rustconf#, Alex digs into TARmageddon: a parsing vulnerability in tokio-tar that rippled across popular forks & the wild scavenger hunt that followed. Find on schedule: Register: #rustconf26# #rustlang#

Eric Karl from Northwestern Medicine is talking at #rustconf# about porting a radiology AI system from Python to Rust — one that boosts radiologist productivity by up to 40% and processes ~1M studies/year across 10+ hospitals. Profiling, Tokio, Rayon, and real clinical impact. Don’t miss it! View on schedule: Register:

Tokyo Ghoul author Sui Ishida once said a bad anime can be better than a good one. In a 2021 livestream he joked that a terrible adaptation makes people want to check out the original story. The comment came while he was responding to fans who disliked how much the anime changed from the manga. Ishida has also said he is just grateful that people even know the series title. So the joke doubles as his own explanation for why the rough adaptation still brought new readers in.

Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index tumbled on Friday following a sharp sell-off in AI-related stocks overnight in New York. The benchmark skidded below the 60,000 mark for the first time in more than five months, or since May 20.