The 15th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '21) will take place as a virtual event on July 14–16, 2021. OSDI brings together professionals from academic and ...

USENIX celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2025. We celebrate decades of innovations, experiments, and gatherings of the advanced computing system community. And in the spirit of our ever-evolving ...

Recent text-to-image diffusion models such as MidJourney and Stable Diffusion threaten to displace many in the professional artist community. In particular, models can learn to mimic the artistic ...

USENIX celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2025. We celebrate decades of innovations, experiments, and gatherings of the advanced computing system community. And in the spirit of our ever-evolving ...

Amazon DynamoDB is a NoSQL cloud database service that provides consistent performance at any scale. Hundreds of thousands of customers rely on DynamoDB for its fundamental properties: consistent ...

Compiler-based memory safety enforcement for unsafe C/C++ code has historically suffered from prohibitively high overhead. Despite regular advances in compiler optimization and increasing hardware ...

Serverless computing often utilizes the warm container technique to improve response times. However, this method, which allows the reuse of function containers across different function requests of ...

Modern web browsers support rich extension ecosystems that provide users with customized and flexible browsing experiences. Unfortunately, the flexibility of extensions also introduces the potential ...

While DNS is often exploited by reflective DoS attacks, it can also be weaponized as a powerful amplifier to overload itself, as evidenced by a stream of recently discovered application-layer ...

The USENIX Association is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization, dedicated to supporting the advanced computing systems communities and furthering the reach of innovative research. We are known for ...

Upgradeable smart contracts (USCs) have become a key trend in smart contract development, bringing flexibility to otherwise immutable code. However, they also introduce security concerns. On the one ...

One of the cornerstones in censorship circumvention is fully encrypted protocols, which encrypt every byte of the payload in an attempt to “look like nothing”. In early November 2021, the Great ...