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Rust 1.86 Released With Trait Upcasting, Deprecates i586-PC-Windows-MSVC

([Programming] 6 Hours Ago Rust 1.86)


Rust 1.86 is now available today as the latest version of this popular programming language.

Rust 1.86 introduces support for trait upcasting as a long-awaited feature to upcast trait objects. For traits that have a supertrait you can now coerce a reference from said trait object to a reference to a trait object of the supertrait. Rust 1.86 also adds suppot for HashMaps and slices to support indexing multiple elements mutably, safe functions can now be marked with the #[target_feature] attribute, and other alterations.

Rust 1.86 has also deprecated the i586-pc-windows-msvc target and will be removed in Rust 1.87. The i586-pc-windows-msvc doesn't require SSE2 support like with the more common i686-pc-windows-msvc target. But since Windows 10 is the minimum OS version for Rust and that itself requires SSE2, the Rust developers are removing the i586 tier-two target and just leaving the superior i686 target.

More details on the Rust 1.86 changes via [1]Rust-Lang.org .



[1] https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/04/03/Rust-1.86.0.html


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Operation Desert Slash

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- High officials in the US military are planning on putting
the 'Slashdot Effect' to use against Iraq. Pentagon computer experts think
that the Slashdot Effect could topple key Net-connected Iraqi computer
systems. Such a Denial of Service attack could prove instrumental when the
US invades.

One Pentagon official said, "If I had a million dollars for every server that
crashed as a result of being linked on Slashdot, I'd be richer than Bill
Gates. The Slashdot Effect is a very powerful weapon that the US military
wants to tap into."

Rob Malda has been contacted by top military brass. According to anonymous
sources, Malda will play a key part in the so-called "Operation Desert
Slash". Supposedly Malda will post several Slashdot articles with links to
critical Iraqi websites right when the US invasion is set to begin.
Meanwhile, Pentagon operatives will begin a series of Denial of Service
attacks on other key Iraqi computer systems. One source notes, "Since many
Iraqi systems rely on Microsoft software, this task should be relatively
simple."