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USENIX? Lmao. Nothing of note happens there. Hilariously enough, nothing significant happens at BH or DEFCON either. There are other, much smaller conferences for the actual interesting, and novel things.

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Any exemplars that come to mind?

I wouldn't be surprised as other posters have opined (and likely accurately) that industry/hacker groups have progressed past academia.