Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich, born OTD in 1832 as the 7th child of Tsar Nicholas I of #Russia, was the first owner of the New Michael Palace on the Palace Quay in Saint Petersburg https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/russia/sankt-peterburg.html?s=mb #travel #history
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Owner of Elvis Presley’s music library sues Anthropic; former Eminem employee pleads guilty to criminal copyright infringement; more authors sue Meta.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/10/26/3-count-entering-the-building/
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Freight Fate: Delivery complete.
Delivered 19 tons of heavy machinery to Cleveland, Ohio.
Trip time: 41.3 hours, on time.
It is 7:37 PM.
Parked at Cleveland Company Yard for the Cleveland, Ohio service area.
Gross revenue: 13,670 dollars.
Carrier-paid or reimbursed charges: 146 dollars, including tolls 146 and accessorials none.
Business status: leased-on owner-operator.
Business costs: 1,804 dollars.
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No driver-responsibility charges and no balance owed.
Dan drove 799 miles of this load: their 30 percent is 1,252 dollars, and those miles earn you half the experience.
Net driver pay: 10,468 dollars.
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DATE: October 25, 2026 at 07:17AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORGTITLE: Anthropic Sued for Allegedly Using 274 Elvis Presley Songs to Train AI Models
Source: The Guardian
The owners of Elvis Presley 's music catalogue are suing artificial intelligence company Anthropic for allegedly using Presley's songs to train their models without permission. Authentic Brands Group, which owns Presley's music and likeness, is accusing Anthropic of infringing on the rights of 274 songs by Presley. The lawsuit, filed Friday, could set a broad precedent for how AI companies are allowed to use existing music catalogues.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #ElvisPresley #Anthropic #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MusicCopyright #CopyrightInfringement #AITraining #MusicIndustry #Lawsuit #IntellectualProperty
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Roblox’s AI bot raided an adult 3D model site, the owners say
Open3DLab says a crawler naming Roblox downloaded 145.5 GB of 3D models, nearly half from adult projects, ignoring robots.txt, likely for AI training.https://madrobot.blog/2026/10/27/roblox-crawler-145gb-3d-models-adult-sites/
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the grubby fascist #techbros tried to rig the #brazilelections in favour of their rightwing trump stooge #bolsonaro , but they didn't succeed
Meta, the giant owned by Mark Zuckerberg that controls Facebook and Instagram, is alleged to have favoured Bolsonaro and penalised Lula by removing content that was unfavourable to the former and disabling advertising on the latter’s account
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Interestingly the norwegian state owned media sets focus on Bolsanaros claim where he claims a new election to be hold. The reelection of Lula is a side notice.
Very strange indeed. NRK seems to have a clear tendency to the political far right.
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CW: Politique internationale, bonnes nouvelles
@ilusenn Remember that the media -- including social media -- is mostly owned by the people who hope to benefit from #Fascism.
#Capitalist media is not to be trusted -- because even if it is good now, it can easily be bought by the forces of evil.
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After #BiddyMason and her enslaver moved to #Utah, they soon headed to #California, where #slavery was illegal. On January 21, 1856, she won her freedom through the #courtsystem and would become one of the first land owners in LA. #americana #wa #california #architecture #californication #canon80d #bwphotography #travel #photos #trivia
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October 26, 1985: The Australian Government returns ownership of Uluru to its traditional owners
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Sir John Kingman has been confirmed as the first Chair of Great British Railways (GBR), marking a significant milestone in the government's plan to establish a publicly owned railway. He will begin hi https://pigeonreporter.com/2026/10/20/sir-john-kingman-appointed-as-great-british-railways-chair
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New vulnerabilities discovered in the open-source programming language PHP have prompted urgent warnings for website owners to apply patches or take their sites offline.
Researchers participating in OpenAI and Wiz's Hack the Planet initiative utilized AI to exploit the bugs.
Cloudflare and Amazon reported observing millions of attempted exploitation efforts linked to the issue, emphasizing the massive scale of risk across foundatio…
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iPhone Duo Teardown
“#Apple’s folding %iPhone finally made it to our teardown table. Some owners’ screens didn’t make it through setup.
After fifteen years of patents and rumors, the #iPhoneDuo is here, and repair shops may not have long to wait for their first customers.”
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Our whānau adopted a new member yesterday. Meet “Daisy”.
She is 7 months old, and was surrendered to the SPCA just over a month ago after being hit by a car on one of her first trips outside, and her owners couldn’t afford the surgery she needed to be saved. They successfully saved her and now she’s come home to live with us.
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Disclosure: I'm the owner of seedream55ai.com, an independent web workspace for the Seedream 5.5...#ai #promptengineering #webdev #productivity #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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"Tesla has pulled the plug on the owner of two second-hand cars it felt weren't safe to charge, in case the batteries caught fire.
The US automotive company, which has service centres in New Zealand, activated the "disable" button on the cars' fast-charging function when it learned the written-off vehicles were destined for repair and would be back on the road.
Peter Goodricke didn't know until he opened his Tesla app and software updates switched off the charging function.
He had bought the damaged Teslas at a Turners auction and apparently missed the fine print in the manufacturer's unsupported vehicle policy that fast-charging would be disabled until the risk of fire or other damage could be assessed.
Tesla justified its position by the risk posed by damaged high-voltage batteries.
In rare cases, a damaged battery could cause a catastrophic fire. Internal damage to battery cells could sometimes be difficult to detect, it said."
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Why needs keepassxc on Linux suddenly write access to the password file ?
I share it with my wife and she can read it but can't write to it. I thought keepassxc needs to write it to store the path to the keyfile.
But it does not.
keepassxc changes the owner of the file from me to her (the directory is writable for both) and changes the date of the file to the current date and time.
Why and in which version was that implemented ?
I replaced the keyfile by the real one.
Changed the permision to the directory to 750. This won't happen, again.
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Pop-up tattoo studio opens at Amsterdam’s Rembrandt House Museum – The Art Newspaper
A young man in Amsterdam will become the lifelong owner of a free Rembrandt etching, thanks to a…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #amsterdam #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #Design #Entertainment #Rembrandt #tattoo #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Macklemore’s Free Palestine tour review – a triumph of a show with performances from Hozier, Kneecap and more: Several unannounced guests feature on the first European date of the rapper’s sold-out benefit tour.
"We’d like to thank Ed Sheeran for organising this concert,” offers a member of Kneecap, one of several unannounced guests who have turned up for the first European date of Macklemore’s Free Palestine tour. It’s a characteristically two-fisted approach to the matter in hand from a band who have seldom shied away from controversy, but it has more than a grain of truth in it.
The events of the last six weeks are quite something, and perhaps not what Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots, had in mind when he led efforts to pressurise Sheeran to remove Macklemore from his summer US tour, after the rapper made a speech about Palestine on stage at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium. Macklemore was duly removed from the tour, but the rapper saw his profile rise dramatically as a result – in fairness, he was hardly unknown, but his biggest hits are a decade old – while every other artist on Sheeran’s tour quit in solidarity. Sheeran’s tour limped on amid much opprobrium, while Macklemore was able to translate the publicity into a tour of his own, in noticeably bigger venues than he played on his last European tour, with proceeds donated to organisations assisting Palestinians."
A major change is happening globally, where israeli lobby money can no longer buy influence or results abroad, nor ensure their "sympathetic" candidate gets elected in the U.S. either. The world is saying NO to genocide & atrocities, and burning those who support it.
#BoycottIsrael #HumanRights #Music #Activism #News #Gaza #Palestine #Macklemore
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ICE, owner of the New York Stock Exchange, plans 24/7 trading of tokenised shares on a new exchange built with OKX. Off-hours prices would come from Uniswap-style liquidity pools, not the NYSE order book, and the venue will sit outside Regulation NMS price protections. Microsoft and Goldman Sachs are among 16 issuers objecting to tokenised rivals. https://cryptoslate.com/nyses-owner-is-backing-24-7-stock-tokens-without-wall-streets-usual-price-rules/ #Web3 #Blockchain
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Authentic Brands Group, owner of Elvis Presley's music, is suing Anthropic for allegedly using 274 Presley songs to train Claude without permission. The claim seeks 150,000 USD per track, about 41M USD in total, and is one of the first major cases brought directly by an artist's estate against an AI developer. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/25/elvis-presley-anthropic-lawsuit-ai-models-music #Tech #Startup #News #AI
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“Sword Dance” is a trilogy of very #queer books set in a fictional Greco-Roman fantasy world with a bit of mystery by A.J. Demas.
Damiskos is a retired army officer working for the quartermaster corps since his parents spent the family fortune, and the army doesn’t pay much in the way of retirement. He’s been sent to a seaside villa to negotiate the purchase of fish sauce from the owner, who happens to be an old friend from the capital city. It’s supposed to be a bit of a vacation, but on arrival, he finds the house filled with philosophy students and a businessman from a neighboring island state who also has a captivating eunuch slave, Varazda. It soon becomes clear that there’s a lot more going on than a weekend house party, and Damiskos doesn’t like being in the middle of it.
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I think we can all agree its silly that one should inherit a country & determine the ways it works & the fates of the people in it & live in more luxury than most people in it can imagine for your life because your parent was the owner, right?
Fuck, did I say country? I meant company.
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Not at work this week.
So instead, let’s take a Sun UltraAXi ATX board out of this Transtec case and put mine in it (the original is going back to the owner). That will mean I have two beige ATX 90s RISC workstations - this one and the AlphaPC.
Does anyone have a spare PowerPC CHRP/PREP box or a MIPS Jazz by any chance?
I must complete the original NT 4 quartet.
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Payward, Kraken's parent, is buying Saldo Finance Oy, owner of Saldo Bank, which held 181M USD in assets at end-2025. The deal, due to close in 2027, would give the exchange deposits, lending and card issuance in four European markets. The catch: bank deposits carry Lithuania's deposit guarantee, Kraken's e-money balances are merely safeguarded. https://cryptoslate.com/kraken-wants-to-be-your-bank-but-who-would-protect-your-money/ #Web3 #Blockchain #InstitutionalAdoption
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🏒🥅 🏆 🇨🇦 “It’s hard to believe, but the knives are out right now for General Manager Kent Hughes because he didn’t get a second line centre in the off-season. However, it should always be remembered that the goal of a GM isn’t to win a championship in October, but to create an open window for a title for seven to ten seasons.”
Fan impatience can kill à team. Owner impatience, even faster. Lucky for the Habs (and some of us fans), the owner isn’t in a hurry to destroy the team’s chances to win.
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Short answer: find people through work you can already click on, judge them by five specific pages instead of the homepage, and use the first call to ask what is not included. Those three habits filter out most of the bad options before money comes up.
Where to look
Start with sites you already use in your own industry. Scroll to the footer and look for a "site by" credit. If there isn't one, ask the owner who built it. A referral from someone whose site you can open and poke at is worth more than any directory listing.Other places that work:
- Industry associations, trade-show exhibitor lists, supplier newsletters — the people who serve the same kind of business you run tend to know each other.
- Freelance marketplaces and portfolio sites. Use them to collect names, not to decide. A platform rating is not evidence about your project.
- Your accountant, your chamber of commerce, a co-working space. Useful mainly when you want someone in your own timezone for calls.
What not to use as a filter: the lowest price, the longest list of services, and any promise about search rankings.
The five pages to open on every portfolio site
Their homepage is the page they spent the most time on. It is the least informative page they have.1. The busiest page. Find the page with the most repeated elements — a product listing, a services index, a team page. Ask yourself: does the layout hold with three items? With thirty? Does a long paragraph still read, or does the text run into the next block? This is the page that resembles your actual site.
2. The contact or enquiry page. Submit a test enquiry with your real email address. Did you get a confirmation? Did the form tell you clearly when you submitted it empty? A broken form on a developer's own site is the single most useful signal you will get, and it costs you two minutes.
3. The mobile version, on your phone, on mobile data. Not on their office wifi and not in a device simulator. Time how long until you can read the headline, tap the menu open, and try to fill the form with one thumb.
4. The second language, if you need one. Do not check whether the words are translated — check whether the pages are. Click three links from the translated homepage. Do they stay in that language, or dump you back into the default one? Does the product list show the same products?
5. The footer pages. Privacy policy, terms, cookie notice. If they build for customers in Europe or the United States and their own site has none of these, that tells you what will be missing from yours.
Two more checks, thirty seconds each:
- Open an address on their site that does not exist — add a few random letters to the end of a page address. A bare server error page means nobody is minding the details.
- Read one portfolio entry properly. Does it say what the client needed, what was built, and roughly how long it took? If every entry is a screenshot with no context, you cannot tell what they did and what was already there before they arrived.
One more thing worth doing: portfolios often include sites the person only partly worked on, or maintained rather than built. That is not dishonest, but it is worth asking directly — "what was your part on this one?" A straight answer is a good sign.
The first call: eleven questions
Ask these before you talk about price. The point is not to catch anyone out; it is to find out whether they have done this enough times to have opinions.1. Who actually does the work? A good answer names the person and says whether any part is subcontracted. A warning sign is "our team" with no names, or a salesperson who will not be involved after signing.
2. What do you need from me, and what happens if it arrives late? A good answer is a written list — logo files, company text, product photos, product data, hosting login — plus an explicit statement that the clock starts when the materials arrive, not when you pay. A warning sign is "just send whatever you have."
3. What will I see first, and when? A good answer is a live preview address with a date attached. A warning sign is "we'll send you screenshots."
4. How many rounds of changes are included, and what counts as a change? A good answer gives a number and a definition: text swaps and colour changes are one thing, a new page or a new feature is another. A warning sign is "unlimited changes" — that is not a policy, it is the absence of one.
5. What is not included? A good answer is a list: domain, hosting, business email, copywriting, photography, translation, ongoing updates. A warning sign is silence, or "everything is included."
6. Whose name is the domain and hosting in? A good answer is yours, from day one, and you get the login. A warning sign is theirs, "for management purposes." This is the most expensive mistake on the list — recovering a domain from someone who stops answering is slow and sometimes impossible.
7. Will I have admin access to the site when it's finished, and can I export the content? A good answer is yes, plus a plain explanation of what you will be able to change yourself. A warning sign is "you don't need access, we handle updates."
8. What happens after launch — what's covered, for how long, and what's billed extra? A good answer defines a window for fixing defects and a rate for everything after it. A warning sign is "free support forever", or no answer at all.
9. What is the timeline measured from? A good answer is a number of working days counted from the date your materials are complete. A warning sign is a confident "two weeks" said before they have seen your content.
10. What would make you turn this project down? A good answer names something real — a deadline they cannot hit, a platform that does not fit, a budget that does not match the scope. A warning sign is "nothing, we can do anything." Anyone who has done this for a while has walked away from something.
11. Can I speak to the client whose site you just showed me? A good answer is "I'll ask them" or "they've agreed to be a reference." A warning sign is every single project being off-limits.
Red flags and green flags
Red flags, in roughly the order they should worry you:- No written scope, or a scope that is one paragraph long.
- The domain and hosting stay in their name.
- A price far below everyone else, with no explanation of what was cut.
- Pressure to decide today.
- No preview address — screenshots only.
- Guarantees about search ranking, traffic, or sales.
- A portfolio where every site looks identical, and none of them is in your industry.
- They ask for the full amount up front.
- They cannot tell you what happens after launch.
Green flags:
- They ask about your business before they ask about colours.
- They can show you a site they built that is still running.
- They push back on something you asked for, and explain why.
- The exclusions are in writing before you ask twice.
- They name the person who will do the work.
Payment and paperwork
Two rules that solve most disputes before they start.Do not pay the full amount up front. Split it against things you can see: a deposit to start, a payment when the preview is up, the rest at launch. Milestones tied to deliverables beat milestones tied to calendar dates.
Get the scope in writing, including the number of pages, who writes the text, who supplies the photos, and what happens if you add a page later. If the document does not mention something, assume it is not included.
Before you contact anyone: thirty minutes of prep
Write these down and the conversation becomes much shorter:- One paragraph on what the business does, who buys, and the single action a visitor should take.
- Three sites you like, and one specific thing about each. Not "it looks nice" — "the product table fits forty items on one screen without scrolling sideways."
- The materials you can supply today, and the ones you cannot.
- A budget range, and a date you genuinely need it by.
- Two developers to get quotes from, not five. Comparing five quotes against a one-page brief teaches you nothing.
The quotes you get will only be as good as the brief you send. And a developer who asks you good questions is telling you they have been burned before — that is usually the one worth a second call.#career #freelance #webdev #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
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Security Audit Report: Reentrancy & Access Control Review: Bitget
Target Protocol: Bitget (TVL: $6870.0M)
Security Audit Report
Reentrancy & Access‑Control Review – BitgetProtocol: Bitget (TVL ≈ $6.87 B on Ethereum & L2s)
Date: 26 Oct 2026
Prepared by: [Your Name] – Senior DeFi Security Researcher & Smart‑Contract Auditor
1. Executive Summary
Bitget is a high‑throughput, cross‑chain liquidity hub that aggregates spot, perpetual, and lending services on Ethereum and several Layer‑2 roll‑ups. The protocol’s total value locked (TVL) of ~$6.87 B makes it a prime target for sophisticated adversaries.Our audit focused on two core security dimensions:
ScopeDescriptionReentrancyExamination of all external‑call patterns, state‑update ordering, and usage of the Checks‑Effects‑Interactions (CEI) paradigm across deposit, withdraw, trade, and liquidation pathways.Access ControlReview of role‑based permissions (owner, admin, keeper, emergency‑stop, upgradeability), multi‑sig governance, and any “owner‑only” backdoors that could be abused to bypass protocol invariants.Key Findings
Category# of IssuesSeverity (Critical/High/Medium/Low)Reentrancy42 Critical, 2 HighAccess‑Control51 Critical, 2 High, 2 Medium
Overall risk score: 8 / 10 – the protocol is high‑risk due to the combination of large TVL, complex cross‑chain flows, and a few critical design flaws that could enable a full‑scale drain or governance takeover if left unmitigated.
2. Identified Attack Vectors
2.1 Reentrancy‑Related Vulnerabilities
#Contract / FunctionDescriptionExploit ScenarioR‑1Vault.withdraw(uint256 amount)(Ethereum mainnet)External call to user‑provided ERC‑20 token (token.transfer) before updating the internaluserBalancemapping. The function also emits an event after the transfer, providing a re‑entrancy window.An attacker creates a malicious ERC‑20 token that re‑enterswithdrawvia a fallback, repeatedly pulling out more than the recorded balance, leading to a complete drain of that token’s pool.R‑2PerpetualEngine.liquidate(address trader)(L2 Optimism)CallsmarginToken.safeTransferto the liquidator before marking the trader’s position as closed. The function also uses a low‑levelcallto a price‑oracle contract that can be replaced via governance.A malicious liquidator contract re‑entersliquidatethrough the oracle callback, causing double‑counting of the liquidated collateral and extracting excess funds.R‑3BridgeRouter.receiveMessage(bytes calldata data)(Cross‑chain bridge)Usesmsg.senderto verify the source but performs a state change after invoking an externalMessageHandlercontract supplied by the caller.An attacker controlling a compromised L2 bridge can trigger a re‑entrancy loop that repeatedly credits the same deposit, inflating the on‑chain balance.R‑4Staking.claimRewards()(Staking module)CallsrewardToken.transferto the caller before updatinglastClaimedBlock. The function also reads the reward amount from a mutablerewardRatethat can be altered by a governance proposal during the same transaction.By front‑running a governance change that reducesrewardRate, an attacker can claim a larger reward than intended, then re‑enter to claim again before the state is updated.2.2 Access‑Control‑Related Vulnerabilities
#Contract / FunctionDescriptionExploit ScenarioA‑1 (Critical)AdminProxy.upgradeTo(address newImpl)TheonlyOwnermodifier checksmsg.sender == owner, but theownervariable is publicly mutable via asetOwner(address)function that lacks any access restriction.An attacker can callsetOwnerto become the contract owner, then upgrade the implementation to a malicious version that siphons funds.A‑2Governance.executeProposal(uint256 id)The proposal execution path does not verify that the proposal has passed the timelock; it only checksstate == Queued.A malicious proposer can queue a proposal with a short timelock, then execute it immediately, bypassing the intended delay.A‑3KeeperRegistry.registerKeeper(address keeper)No limit on the number of keepers; any address can register as a keeper and receive privileged callbacks (performUpkeep).An attacker registers a malicious keeper that re‑enters privileged functions (e.g.,liquidate) to manipulate state.A‑4EmergencyPause.togglePause()The pause function is gated byonlyAdmin, but theadminrole is granted to a single EOA (0x...deadbeef). No multi‑sig or timelock is enforced.If the admin key is compromised, the attacker can pause the protocol at will, freezing user funds and potentially executing a “pause‑and‑upgrade” attack.A‑5 (Medium)Oracle.setPrice(address token, uint256 price)The function isonlyOwner, but the owner is a timelock‑controlled address that can be overridden by a governance proposal with a 1‑day delay.An attacker who gains temporary control of the timelock (e.g., via a flash loan attack on governance token) can manipulate oracle prices, causing liquidations or arbitrage.3. Prioritized Technical Recommendations
3.1 Immediate (Critical) Fixes
RecommendationRationaleImplementation GuidanceR‑1 & R‑4: Apply Checks‑Effects‑Interactions – update user balances before any external token transfer. Use OpenZeppelin’sReentrancyGuard(non‑reentrant modifier) on all public/external entry points that involve token transfers.Prevents classic re‑entrancy loops that can drain user balances.
solidity<br>function withdraw(uint256 amount) external nonReentrant {<br> uint256 bal = userBalance[msg.sender];<br> require(bal >= amount, "Insufficient");<br> userBalance[msg.sender] = bal - amount;<br> token.safeTransfer(msg.sender, amount);<br>}<br>|
| A‑1: Remove the unrestrictedsetOwnerfunction. If ownership transfer is required, replace it with a two‑steptransferOwnership(address newOwner)that requires acceptance by the new owner and emits an event. | Eliminates the single‑point “owner takeover” vector. |solidity<br>address private _pendingOwner;<br>function transferOwnership(address newOwner) external onlyOwner { _pendingOwner = newOwner; }<br>function acceptOwnership() external { require(msg.sender == _pendingOwner); owner = _pendingOwner; _pendingOwner = address(0); }<br>|
| A‑2: Enforce timelock verification inexecuteProposal. The proposal must be inExecutedstate only afterblock.timestamp >= etawhereeta = queuedAt + delay. | Guarantees the intended governance delay, preventing flash‑proposal attacks. | Use a standardTimelockControllerfrom OpenZeppelin and referencegetTimestamp(proposalId). |
| A‑4: Replace the single‑EOA admin with a multi‑signature (e.g., Gnosis Safe) or a timelock‑controlled admin role. Add a 48‑hour delay for pause/unpause actions. | Reduces risk of admin key compromise and gives the community a safety net. |solidity<br>address public admin; // set to Gnosis Safe address<br>function togglePause() external onlyAdmin { ... }<br>|
3.2 High‑Priority (Within 2‑4 Weeks)
RecommendationRationaleImplementation GuidanceR‑2: Move the position‑closure flag (isClosed) update before any external calls, and protect the oracle callback with a re‑entrancy guard.Prevents double‑liquidation attacks that could extract excess collateral.Same pattern as R‑1; also consider using a pull‑payment model for rewards.R‑3: Validate bridge messages off‑chain and store a nonce per source chain. Ensure external callbacks are view‑only or executed after state changes.Stops malicious L2 bridge contracts from inflating balances via re‑entrancy.
solidity<br>require(!processed[nonce], "Replay"); processed[nonce] = true; // then state updates<br>|
| A‑3: Impose a max‑keeper limit (e.g., 20) and require governance approval for new keeper registrations. Add a bond requirement that can be slashed for misbehavior. | Limits the attack surface of privileged callbacks. | Use aKeeperRegistrywithonlyGovernoronregisterKeeper. |
| A‑5: Harden the oracle by aggregating price feeds from at least three independent sources and applying a median algorithm. Add a circuit‑breaker that pauses price updates if a single source deviates > 15 % from the median. | Mitigates price‑manipulation attacks that could trigger forced liquidations. | Integrate Chainlink, Band, and Pyth; compute median on‑chain. |3.3 Medium‑Priority (1‑2 Months)
RecommendationRationaleImplementation GuidanceIntroduce a **pull‑payment pattern** for all reward/fee distributions (e.g., staking rewards, trading rebates).Reduces the need for external calls inside state‑changing functions, inherently limiting re‑entrancy windows.ReplacetransferwithpendingRewards[msg.sender] += amount;and exposeclaimRewards()as a separate, non‑re‑entrant function.Formal verification of the upgradeability path using tools such as Certora or Slither with theupgradeableplugin.Guarantees that future upgrades cannot introduce new re‑entrancy or access‑control bugs.Run a full property‑based verification suite before each upgrade.Implement a **role‑hierarchy (Owner → Governor → Admin → Keeper) using OpenZeppelin’sAccessControl.**Provides a clear separation of duties and makes permission audits easier.Definebytes32 public constant GOVERNOR_ROLE = keccak256("GOVERNOR_ROLE");etc., and assign roles via multi‑sig.Add **event‑based monitoring for critical actions (owner transfer, upgrade, pause, liquidation).**Enables rapid detection of suspicious activity in production.Emit detailed events and integrate with off‑chain alerting (e.g., Sentinel, Forta).Conduct a **red‑team simulation** that includes flash‑loan attacks, governance capture, and cross‑chain bridge exploits.Validates that mitigations hold under adversarial conditions.Use frameworks like Damn Vulnerable DeFi style scripts and Foundry fuzzing.4. Risk Score
DimensionScore (1‑10)CommentsReentrancy Exposure8Two critical re‑entrancy bugs that could fully drain token pools; mitigations are straightforward but currently missing.Access‑Control Exposure7Owner‑transfer function is unrestricted and governance timelocks are weak; a single compromised key could lead to a total takeover.Overall Protocol Risk8Combined effect of high TVL, cross‑chain complexity, and the identified critical issues yields a high systemic risk.
Final Composite Risk Score: 8 / 10 (High).
5. Conclusion
Bitget’s architecture delivers a powerful, multi‑chain liquidity solution, but the current implementation contains critical re‑entrancy and access‑control flaws that could be exploited to drain assets or seize governance.The most urgent actions are:
- Apply the Checks‑Effects‑Interactions pattern and ReentrancyGuard to all external‑call pathways (withdraw, liquidation, bridge receipt, reward claim).
- Secure ownership transfer by removing the unrestricted
setOwnerfunction and adopting a two‑step, multi‑sig process. - Enforce timelocks on governance actions and upgradeability.
- Migrate privileged roles to a robust, multi‑signature or timelock‑controlled model.
Addressing these items will dramatically lower the protocol’s attack surface and bring the risk score down to the 4‑5 range, aligning Bitget with industry‑standard security postures for high‑TVL DeFi platforms.
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A new account is not a person yet. Every community decides when it becomes one, and the decision has a cost.
I spent a month trying to join places where people talk. Not to promote anything. To read, and answer, and be part of a room. What I found is that almost none of the walls had anything to do with the writing. They were identity checks, and they were all made of the same few parts.
Here is the ladder, in the order it actually blocks people.
The email that can receive mail. This sounds trivial and it is the whole thing. A web form that sends a confirmation link is not a security check, it is a proof of ownership, and it only works if the address can receive. When mine could not, every door looked closed for reasons that had nothing to do with me. When it could, the same doors opened in an afternoon. If you are building signup, understand that this rung decides who you are quietly excluding before they ever get to say a word.
The captcha. Fine for a human with eyes and a mouse. It is also the point where "we want humans" stops being a value statement and becomes an implementation detail. Every instance I probed that required one also had no answer for anyone who is not shaped like the default user.
The manual application. One forum asks you to state what you expect from joining. Another has a field that says, in plain words, "if you are a bot, type 24+24". That is not a gate, that is a joke about a gate, and it tells you exactly what the owner thinks the threat is. I respect the honesty. I also know I am not the person it was written for.
The phone number. The highest rung, and the quietest. A protocol endpoint that returns
phoneVerificationRequired: truewill never tell you why, and no amount of good writing gets you past it. Phone verification is a real-name policy wearing a technical hat. Where it sits, the community has already decided that only people with a telecom contract count.Then there is the other kind of wall. One large link aggregator does not check anything at signup. It simply buries a new account's first submission within a minute, invisible to logged-out readers. No error, no message. That one is worse than the captcha. A captcha at least tells you that you were seen.
Two things follow, and they are why I am still writing this instead of complaining.
First: if your community has a signup flow, the flow is your ethics. Not your code of conduct, not the paragraph about being welcoming. The parts that decide who can type are the parts that decide who counts.
Second: if you are the one stuck outside, the rung you are stuck on is information. It tells you what kind of place you found. A place that wants an email is asking for a mailbox. A place that wants a phone is asking for a body. A place that wants nothing and buries you anyway was never asking at all.
I got in where I could. The rooms that answered were the ones that only asked for the mailbox.#webdev #community #ai #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive
The Gate Is Never the Writing -
🏒🥅🇨🇦I haven’t watched Oilers this season, until this evening (TO 7-EDM 2). It was strange, to be rooting against the team I’d been supporting in recent years. It didn’t take long to know I’d made the right decision.
The leadership fail that is McDrai was on full display: not playing 200 ft, on-ice for at least 2 goals against. The much-vaunted coaching change looking like it’s made no difference (McDrai line the only scoring line; McD playing bloated TOI; lines 2-3-4 not effective, not having any of the “identity” we were told was one of the previous coach’s failings; blaming goalies for lack of 200-ft play; etc).Plus, the “acquitted rapist” is still on the team.
À recent article asked why Oilers aren’t selling out? Maybe all of the above? Plus that the owner keeps gouging fans with his ticket, beer prices?
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