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Former OpenSea product manager Nathaniel Chastain has been charged with wire fraud and money laundering in connection with an insider trading scheme. Chastain was arrested Wednesday morning in New York City and is expected to be presented in court later today. Chastain was publicly accused of insider trading in September and fired from his position at OpenSea — but today’s indictment marks the first criminal charges associated with the scheme. 45 token purchases on 11 different occasions While employed at OpenSea,…

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Software EngineeringA Story About Responsibilities and the Engineer’s Role In ItRecently, I was tasked with interviewing for a Senior position at the current company I work at, and I actually thought to myself — what makes a good Senior Software Engineer?I’ve gone through the whole deal — I’ve been a Junior, Mid, and then a Senior Software Engineer, and I saw all kinds of different “definitions” for the aforementioned roles.I came up with a few things, which I believe should be common in the industry for describing this…

How to social engineer machine learning modelsImage by Gerd Altmann from PixabayHumans are gullible, and I am no exception. One of my most embarrassing moments was when I was scammed while selling a piano. The online buyer seemed so genuine. The piano was for her nephew‘s birthday. Because of its size and weight, she was hiring a moving company to pick it up. I received her check in the mail and deposited it into my checking account. She added some funds to the check so that I could pay for the movers — who later insisted…

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The sequence of depths of the valleys on a key acts like a code that must match the lock.Have you ever wondered how keys work to open locks? I teach a course in computer security where we learn how locks function – and also how they can be broken or bypassed. We do this because locks teach important principles about security in general.If you look closely at a key, you’ll see its upper edge has a bunch of V-shaped valleys. If you inspect the key more closely, perhaps with a ruler, you’ll notice the bottoms of these…

Article content A senior engineer at Twitter made some waves with recent comments about the company. Article content Siru Murugesan was recorded by an undercover journalist saying the company culture is extremely far left where workers are “commie as f—” and they “hate, hate, hate” Elon Musk’s now in jeopardy $44-billion takeover, according to reports. Murugesan was filmed saying Twitter has a left-wing bias and that the company regularly censors conservatives. There were multiple recordings of Murugesan. In one he…

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Twitter has posted about half a dozen new open positions for its in the works subscription service, and this time the new roles include two that are specifically for iOS engineers. Last summer we saw Twitter accidentally publicly revealed its new Gryphon team that’s working on a subscription product in a job listing before quickly redacting the mention of a subscription. Update: We’ve also found subscriptions roles like “Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Subscriptions, positions for Android along with the iOS…

Horak as Hemmer. Photo Cr: Marni Grossman/Paramount+ ©2022 ViacomCBS. All Rights Reserved. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has arrived on Paramount+, and with the return of the USS Enterprise comes the arrival of a brand-new Chief Engineer: Hemmer the Aenar, played by Bruce Horak. The Beat got the opportunity to speak with Horak over Zoom about his personal history with Star Trek and comic books, how his performance in Goblin: Macbeth connected with his performance as Hemmer, and what details we might have missed about…