Information Transit Got the Wrong Man The mechanized tradition of peer review and the absurdity of bureaucratic conference review.

I wrote about the ICML LLM witch hunt and why it's paradigmatic of the absurd bureaucratic scaling of peer review.

Photo of Prague with the castle on the hill, taken by Wikimedia user Tilman2007 and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). Three eBPF bees are added on top, flying over the castle.

The call for papers for the eBPF'26 workshop is open: ebpf.github.io/2026/cfp.html. This year, the workshop will be hosted by the SOSP conference, the top academic conference in OS research! The deadline for submissions is June 19th, in just over 4 months.

Couldn't attend NINeS on the 10th? We have now posted a recorded version of our livestream from the 10th at https://nines-conference.org/livestream Also available, at https://nines-conference.org/pods are recordings of the happenings in the Boston and New York pods.

I had a great time watching @nines-conference.org presentations and talks with colleagues at Polimi and had a great and insight full discussion. I'm thankful both to great friends and NINeS organizing committee

We are live on Vimeo! Join us at vimeo.com/event/571950...

NINeS 2026 is tomorrow! We have just posted (at nines-conference.org/attend) details on how to join the livestream, which starts at 1am UTC, and will let you experience what is going on at several pods and also hear our keynotes. We hope you join us.

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February 10th, and thus the inaugural edition of NINeS is just around the corner. You can participate from anywhere in the world, at times that are convenient to you. See https://nines-conference.org/attend for information on how you can participate. We hope to see you on Feb 10th!

You can now read the papers that were accepted at NINeS. Find them at https://nines-conference.org/accepted

NINeS is in a few weeks (February 10). If you are at (or near) Hong Kong, London, New York or Boston, consider going to a pod. See https://nines-conference.org/pods for details!

Because it is missing bananas?

Contribute a recorded talk to NINeS! We are soliciting per-recorded videos that are up to 15-minutes long. Find details about topics at nines-conference.org/cft. We are excited to see what you come up with!

went back and grabbed the full video of her intro. absolutely incredible

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Since I can’t get it out of my head, I wrote up my thoughts on @kevinbaker.bsky.social's critique of AI-automated science and the logical end of processes that can't self-correct.

abstract of "Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in LLMs"

first arXiv paper about why magic spells rhyme

https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/ is a really interesting read: it is cool to see what went wrong beyond the meme of "it is always DNS". (Also, it is always a race condition too.)

There are only 8 days to October, and the NINeS deadline! Submit your finest ideas.

The papers and slides from the SIGCOMM'25 #eBPF workshop are all online now! pchaigno.github.io/ebpf/2025/09...

Thanks to everyone who participated and presented in this third edition!

We are getting close to the NINeS deadline. October 1 is only two-weeks away, and we are very excited to read your submissions. See our website (https://nines-conference.org to learn more about the conference's philosophy.

Interesting (and scary) to see a blog post (thenewstack.io/research-ebpf-not-always... about a new paper (led by @fshahinfar1.bsky.social, along with @gianniantichi.bsky.social and Sebastiano) explainging that the new shiny technology is not a panacea.

SIGCOMM'25: Student Research Competition YouTube video by ACM SIGCOMM

Last Thursday I had an awesome opportunity to share my work about eBPF CPU cache efficiency on the ACM student competition stage along six other awesome presentations. I would like to thank the organizers and people who attended session and listened to the talks.
youtu.be/HltirZfpfy8?...

We are getting closer to the NINeS deadline (October 1).

Watch Scott talk about why you should submit your work to NINeS!

Not sure you need NLP for that, several languages (Rust, Zig, Python, OCaml, and others) have doc tests which surely suffice.

This week, we hear @natefoster.bsky.social's response to Why Nines? A cat is involved in producing the video, but like many good producers does not appear in the video.

Watch @gianniantichi.bsky.social (and Ludo) answer the question Why NINeS?

NINeS has such a cool mission statement!

📢 We are excited to announce NINeS, a new online conference dedicated to bold, foundational ideas in networked systems! Submissions due Oct 1; event on Feb 10. Join us! nines-conference.org #NINeS

📢 We are excited to announce NINeS, a new online conference dedicated to bold, foundational ideas in networked systems! Submissions due Oct 1; event on Feb 10. Join us! nines-conference.org #NINeS

Logo of SIGCOMM 2025 with eBPF bees flying around the letters.

📢 Call for Papers 📢
The CFP for the 2025 eBPF workshop is out!

📅 Deadline: May 8th
🔗 More info: conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2025...

Don't miss the chance to share your work with the eBPF 🐝community!

Hello from Bellairs in Barbados | Anil Madhavapeddy | WhiteWind blog Hello from Bellairs! This is a test post to try out the Whitewind blogging infrastructure for the Bellairs Quest.

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