USENIX WOOT Conference 2026: two submission deadlines this year!

- Cycle 1: December 12, 2025 *only one month away* !
- Cycle 2: March 3, 2026

WOOT still has a SoK track and an "Up-and-coming track" (~Industry), CFP for details:
www.usenix.org/conference/w...

More interposer fun, this time with DDR5 memory. Breaking TDX, SGX, SEV and even Nvidia TEEs. Checkout our work at TEE.fail, and get a personally-signed Intel attestation report at
@tee.fail.

You have less than two weeks left to submit your paper for the final submission cycle at uASC 2026!

📅 Submission Deadline: November 4, 2025
👉 www.uasc.cc

#microarchitecture #security #conference #uasc26

📢 CFP for DIMVA 2026 is out! First deadline: 03 December 2025.
Daniele Cono D'Elia and I look forward to your submissions!
dimva.org/dimva2026/

If you would like to serve on the PC, do not forget to fill in the (self-) nomination form, lnkd.in/dRQ48dH7

RTs appreciated! 🙌

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

A university and an academic publisher walk into a bar.

The publisher orders a pint, sells it back to the university, asks the barman to pay the bill.

To S&P PhDs currently in the US and interested in a PostDoc in @tuwien.at: We are looking for nominations for a fully funded PostDoc for 4 years in #Vienna. The deadline is tight (August 6), but I'd be happy to support candidates or forward them to other profs! stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/en/fellowshi...

Congratulations Dr. @giner.cc! It was great to have you in our team and I am proud of you that you have completed this journey with an excellent PhD thesis. Your works will have lasting impact on the community and I wish you the best for your next endeavors!

Only one month left to submit your paper for the first submission cycle at uASC 2026!

📅 Submission Deadline: July 15, 2025
👉 uasc.cc

#microarchitecture #security #conference #uasc26

Want to go to WOOT and learn about the latest hardware & software attacks? Registrations are now open!

If you can't afford traveling ✈️ to Seattle on your own and need financial support for a ticket, apply for a grant until July 7: www.usenix.org/conference/w...

Going to the USENIX Security Symposium? Don't forget to also register for WOOT, the papers we selected are amazing 🤩

Millionenförderung für unsere Exzellenzcluster! 🎉 Wir gratulieren den Forschenden der Cluster CASA und @solvationsci.bsky.social zu ihrem verdienten Erfolg.

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Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

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Bradley Morgan, Gal Horowitz, Sioli O'Connell, Stephan van Schaik, Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup, Daniel Genkin, Olaf Maennel, Paul Montague, Eyal Ronen, Yuval Yarom
Slice+Slice Baby: Generating Last-Level Cache Eviction Sets in the Blink of an Eye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11208