Rob Pike, co‑creator of UTF‑8, the Blit terminal, Plan 9, and the Go programming language, has been honored with the 2026 USENIX Lifetime Achievement (Flame) Award, recognizing his foundational work across operating systems, languages, user interfaces, tools, and text representation that spans four decades of computing.
The upcoming USENIX Security 2025 live session in Seattle will showcase three cutting‑edge papers: X.509DoS exposing denial‑of‑service flaws in cryptographic libraries via malformed certificates, GraphAce delivering communication‑efficient two‑party secure graph analysis, and RollingEvidence leveraging rolling‑shutter effects for proactive video forensics.
The USENIX‑selected paper on Tencent’s TGW cloud gateway reveals how a modular, multi‑layer architecture achieves up to 2.9‑fold throughput gains, seconds‑level elastic scaling, loss‑less hot migration, and sub‑second fault recovery, offering a blueprint for resilient large‑scale cloud networking.
