Phani Vadrevu

The interface of the CodeA11y extension is displayed along with its features: (1) Accessibility-by-default Code Suggestions, (2) Relevant Error Identification and (3) Code Completion Reminders.

Excited to share our #CHI2025 preprint:
CodeA11y: Making AI Coding Assistants Useful for Accessible Web Development
arxiv.org/abs/2502.10884
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🎉Microsoft Research New England is hiring a predoctoral research assistant to work with @nancybaym.bsky.social, Tarleton Gillespie, and @marylgray.bsky.social on issues related to the dynamics of technology and society. 🎉

socialmediacollective.org/2025/01/22/s...

Yes, fully agreed! I always felt like highlighting new “actionable insights” is the core aspect of security measurement work

There's also 1700 sites among the top 1M still using DKIM Keys < 1024 bits, apparently.
dmarcchecker.app/articles/cra...

The 4th edition of WoRMA is officially scheduled for June 30th, co-located with IEEE EuroS&P in magnificent Venice in Italy!

Website and CfP: worma.gitlab.io/2025/

Deadline: February 20th, 2025

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🌠 Did you know, Gmail makes it easy to spawn infinite unique variants of your email address?

Let’s say your email is zhangwei@gmail.com. When signing up for Netflix, you can specify your email as "zhangwei+netflix@gmail.com".

You’ll still receive all emails sent to that address!

Want to connect with the brightest minds shaping the future of network and computer security? The NDSS Symposium (Feb 24-28) in sunny San Diego is THE place to be! We're talking 5 tracks, 220+ cutting-edge OPEN ACCESS papers, and world-class workshops. https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ 1/

Has a PM been assigned? You can always reach out to them and ask about your status if you have not done yet after submission. My status has been "pending" since August.

Passkey technology is elegant, but it’s most definitely not usable security Just in time for holiday tech-support sessions, here’s what to know about passkeys.

And today, I stumble on this article 🙂 arstechnica.com/security/202...

Congratulations to this year's first #ACSAC2024 distinguished paper award winners: Maximilian Westers, Andreas Mayer, Louis Jannett 👏👏👏 Don't miss their talk "Single Sign-On Privacy: We Still Know What You Did Last Summer" today in the "Passwords and Authentication" session!

Congratulations to the recipients of #ACSAC2024's Distinguished Reviewer Awards: Aurore Fass, Filipo Sharevski, Konrad Rieck, Pietro Frigo, Eduard Marin, Srdjan Matic 👏👏👏

I've never addressed panel critique on an NSF proposal resubmission before (partially because I've never resubmitted an NSF proposal). What are the pros & cons of doing this? Does addressing previous panel concerns actually help?

University Assistant Prae-Doc (all genders) TU-ID: 192 | 2024 | 48 | 243843

I have an opening for several Ph.D. positions at TU Wien. Topics of interest include formal methods for security (e.g., for crypto protocols and machine learning analysis), web security, and blockchains. Apply online at https://buff.ly/4fVSmBI by 19/12/2024

📢 📢 Come join our vibrant interdisciplinary group of about 40 scholars at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy working to understand and improve the relationship between technology and society. We are looking at all levels: 🧵

Happy to share the following paper on watermarking with an amazing set of co-authors. The paper led by Xuandong Zhao deals with several questions related to watermarking. Feedback welcome, and please reshare.

arxiv.org/html/2411.18...

snapshot of my profile, showing my handle as @jeffreybigham.com

my username on bsky is now @jeffreybigham.com -- it's pretty easy to do if you have your own domain, just go to Settings->Account->Handle … you do need to be able to change your DNS settings to verify, but pretty easy

Contact data with highlighted bluesky icon

If you'd like to include a #Bluesky icon in some text of your Web page (see example), here's a little HTML/SVG snippet for you that does right that: gist.github.com/andreas-zell...

Apple iOS mail does not punycode domain names. Note the lookalike character in "amazon".com. Why is punycoding standard in browsers but not email clients? Can we make it so?

Interesting! I wonder if there is any rationale at all or if this was a simple oversight. As a downside, I can see all actual IDN domain users getting frustrated by the e-mail recievers spooking out whenever they the sender's e-mail address in PunyCode.

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