"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens
CVE-2026-45584, a memory safety vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Defender caused by code written in C++, forced site reliability workers to urgently patch systems. The article satirically notes that C++ is the only language where such vulnerabilities regularly occur, with 90% of memory safety flaws over 50 years attributed to it, while users of the language express helplessness.