Microarchitecture Security Conference (uASC) The annual uASC conference serves as a premier forum for advancing our understanding of the security of microarchitectures. Each year, uASC brings together international experts from academia and indu...

Missed our conference this year?

No problem! All uASC'26 paper presentations and talks are available on Youtube. 🥳

www.youtube.com/@uasc-conf

I just registered for uasc.cc -- uASC (the Microarchitecture Security Conference) is on February 3rd, in Leuven, Belgium.

**Registration is free but mandatory!**

I would be happy to see all of you there :)

Especially from the Cologne and Ruhr area, it's just a train ride to Leuven -> join us!

WOOT '26 Call for Papers The 20th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '26) will take place at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, MD, USA, on August 10–11, 2026. The USENIX WOOT Conference aims ...

Only 4 days to the WOOT 2026 Cycle 1 submission deadline!

Check the CFP for details:
www.usenix.org/conference/w...

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...

Congrats!

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

WOOT '25 Grant Opportunities

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 🤩

Weiße Schrift auf rosa Hintergrund: "Millionenförderung für unsere Exzellenzcluster!"

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

Defend the Internet Archive. Protect the Wayback Machine. Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit. Sign our open letter on change.org

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...

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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