The twenty-sixth annual High Confidence Software and Systems (HCSS) Conference will be held May 11-13, 2026, at the Historic Inns of Annapolis in Annapolis, Maryland. We solicit proposals to present talks at the conference. If you are interested in offering a talk—or nominating someone else to be invited to do so—please upload an abstract of one page or less for your proposed talk or a one paragraph description of your nominee’s proposed talk by January 19, 2026.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Vanderbilt University invite your students to participate in the Mission Autonomy Hackathon, an immersive five-day event advancing innovation in autonomous systems. The hackathon will be held October 6–10, 2025, with sessions at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.

The National Security Agency (NSA) has awarded the 12th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition to “Decoding Trust: Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT Models.” The winning paper, authored by 19 researchers including Professors Dawn Song (UC Berkeley), Bo Li (UIUC), and Sanmi Koyejo (Stanford), proposes a groundbreaking evaluation framework for assessing the trustworthiness of large language models (LLMs) such as GPTs.

The National Security Agency has published their 2023 Cybersecurity Year in Review!

In an effort to be more transparent, the National Security Agency publishes an annual year in review sharing information regarding cybersecurity efforts that better equipped U.S. defenses against high priority cyber threats. NSA’s efforts to help secure the nation’s most sensitive systems also help your cybersecurity because NSA cascades these solutions through public guidance and engages with key technology providers to help them bolster the security of their products and services.

Agentic AI browsers like OpenAI’s Atlas have launched to significant excitement. They automate web tasks, letting users accomplish goals by simply stating what they want, from compiling competitor briefs to filling forms or scheduling meetings. But this shift brings a new reality: agentic browsers dramatically expand the enterprise attack surface. As the web moves from something we browse to something that acts on our behalf, and often with elevated privileges, these tools introduce a fundamental change in trust, risk, and security.

21st International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, Submission Deadline: January 05, 2026. The event will be of hybrid nature, in the sense that, online presentations of accepted papers will be possible for those authors that are unable to travel to the venue.