Rust certainly appears in at least one version of the paper; they even call it “RUST” through most of it.
If you ctrl-f "rust" in this PDF, there are zero hits.
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p27...
This is the one that had a ton of discussion over the last few days.
The one you linked from the /. article is much, much shorter, and has only Bjarne as the author, unlike the other, which has co-authors.
I never liked these crummy /. mini-writeups that may or may not be accurate.
https://twitter.com/m_ou_se/status/1615736570400890883?s=20&...