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In 2025, a global conversation emerged about memory, power and who controls the historical record. As governments deleted web pages, platforms broke links, and public data quietly (and not so quietly) disappeared, journalists around the world turned to the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine to understand what was being lost, what could still be saved, and why preservation matters more than ever. From investigations in The New Yorker and The New York Times to video features from the BBC and CNN, these stories capture how the fight to preserve the web became one of the defining information battles of the year.
Full list: https://archive.org/about/news-stories/search?mentions-search=2025 (1,700+ for 2025)
Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of the decade.
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Thank you to everyone who joined Advent of Code 2025 in Rust! It was inspiring to see many Rustaceans solving algorithmic puzzles, and celebrating the holiday coding season with the community.
Before the Advent began, Vitaly Bragilevsky published a blog post on how to use AI in Advent of Code challenge responsibly and effectively. This year’s AoC featured 12 puzzles, and from December 1–12, we celebrated by posting daily RustRover features in our RustRover Advent Calendar – a small gift for the community and a way to highlight tools that make your Rust experience even better.
We invited you to take on the AoC puzzles using Rust, join our leaderboards, and compete for top scores and random prizes. Now, it’s time to congratulate our 10 winners who stood out among all participants.
Let’s give a big round of applause to the top five Rust developers who dominated the combined leaderboards with impressive results out of 71 participants:
Additionally, here are five participants were randomly selected as prize winners:
We reached out to the winners who had social media contact information listed on their GitHub profiles. If you didn’t include contact details, please reach out to rustrover-support@jetbrains.com, and we’ll be happy to send you your prize. Congratulations to all our winners and to everyone who took part!
The Advent of Code puzzles are available year-round, so get ready for the next AoC by exploring resources to strengthen your Rust skills:
A huge thank-you to Eric Wastl and the Advent of Code team for creating such an inspiring tradition. Let’s keep learning, building, and having fun with Rust and see you next year for another round of AoC!