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Meagan

@mmarie.bsky.social
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Data consultant working on data engineering, analytics, and data viz stuff. Mildly obsessed with my dog. Owner of an ultralight travel trailer. Taker of mediocre photos of nature things.

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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Challenges and Opportunities in Using AI for Power BI Report Development at Visual Studio Magazine visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/202...
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Challenges and Opportunities in Using AI for Power BI Report Development -- Visual Studio Magazine
AI can increasingly build pieces of a Power BI report, but creating reports that actually work for their intended users still requires human judgment. Data Analytics Architect Meagan Longoria explains...
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 26/09/2026
Microsoft's data center subcontractor in New Jersey illegally runs a bunch of gas "backup" generators on site, figuring they won't get caught or will just eat the wrist-slap fines if they do. Regulatory enforcement is so bad that a third party had to take drone images to get the state to act.
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New Jersey datacenter fined $1.1m after visual investigation showed dozens of unpermitted generators
State regulator’s record fine for DataOne facility in Vineland follows Floodlight investigation with the Guardian
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Having been on both sides of job interviews, I will say: I do not care about whether you bring iced coffee. I don't think it says anything about your qualifications as a candidate if you do. And if you allow your recruiters to use that as a differentiator, I probably don't want to work for you.
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Both the Denver Police Department and Colorado State Patrol confirmed there is currently no legal mechanism to issue a citation to a driverless vehicle. www.9news.com/article/news...
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's Workout Wednesday! Want to practice some #PowerBI data viz skills? Check out this week's contribution from Fotiana Yan. Can you create a donut chart in a table? www.workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2026-w38/ @shan-gsd.bsky.social @merrykerry.bsky.social
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2026 Week 38 | Power BI: SVG Donuts – Workout Wednesday
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Took the HC trailer out for a weekend meetup and had a herd of alpacas for camp hosts! 🦙 Which alpaca from this lineup matches your vibe today? 1️⃣ Standing tall & unbothered 2️⃣ Grazing blissfully 3️⃣ Passed out in the grass 4️⃣ Hiding behind the extrovert
A sunny outdoor campsite with a blue and white fiberglass camper trailer parked on dry grass near pine and golden aspen trees. In the foreground, four alpacas display distinct poses:
 * A fluffy white alpaca stands upright, facing forward and looking directly at the camera.
 * A light brown alpaca grazes nearby with its head down in the grass.
 * A dark brown alpaca lies completely flat on the ground beside the grazing one.
 * A black alpaca stands mostly hidden directly behind the white alpaca.
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Have you checked out this week's #Wow2026 #PowerBI challenge? Make a waffle chart from a native scatter plot visual www.workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2026-w36/
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2026 Week 36 | Power BI: Create an Unemployment Waffle Chart – Workout Wednesday
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This week's Workout Wednesday for Power BI comes from Andrei Khaidarov. Try your hand at Ternary Charts for Cross-Sell: www.workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2026-w35/ #PowerBI #Wow2026 @shan-gsd.bsky.social @merrykerry.bsky.social
Ternary chart made in Power BI
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Floodlight @floodlightnews.org · 27/08/2026
NEW: Thermal drone footage shows the Microsoft-backed DataOne AI data center in Vineland, NJ is running dozens of gas generators. None of them have permits. A Floodlight visual investigation with @us.theguardian.com:
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One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law’
Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Izzy's just checking to make sure you know today is International Dog Day. She wants to know if you are sending her some treats.
Dog laying on carpet looking back at the camera
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just saw some schema changes planned for a vendor-owned SQL Server database. They are changing some fields from varchar to text. The naughties called and want their data type back.
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This week's Workout Wednesday for Power BI challenge is analyzing chart choices in previous challenges. Let's have some fun! You can make exactly what I made or put your own spin on it. www.workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2026-w34/ #PowerBI #Wow2026 @merrykerry.bsky.social @shan-gsd.bsky.social
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2026 Week 34 | Power BI: Visualizing WoW Chart Choices – Workout Wednesday
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If Fabric deployment pipelines haven't quite met your needs, you're not alone. I dug into where they're lacking today, and a few alternatives and workarounds. datasavvy.me/2026/08/21/10-things-i…
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10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives - Data Savvy
Delve into Fabric deployment pipeline gaps (permissions, rules UI, pairing) and practical workarounds as of Aug 2026.
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Sif Eddine Benabida @sifbenabida.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
2026 Week 33 | Power BI: Bump Chart using Native Line Chart #WOW2026 #PowerBI @mmarie.bsky.social @shan-gsd.bsky.social @merrykerry.bsky.social
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
TIL about the beelike tachinid fly (Adejeania vexatrix). I encountered some in Rocky Mountain National Park yesterday. And I did think it was a bee at first. The bright orange abdomen was not something I had seen before, so I looked it up once I had signal. They like to sip nectar from coneflowers.
Hedgehog fly on a coneflowerOrange-red flies on a group of coneflowersTwo hedgehog flies on a tall coneflower
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Timeline cleanse (RMNP Wild Basin area)
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? www.noemamag.com/why-is-every...
But perhaps the most powerful action of all is simply to maintain an awareness (and remind others) that Workism is a spectacle. For most employees, we owe it to each other to remind one another that this work is not, in the grand scheme of things, all that important. It is illusory. No one has ever died over a spreadsheet. The world does not wait with bated breath for product launches. A marketing campaign will not change the world. Almost no one will remember all the work we do. But they might remember the types of people we were, the relationships we had and how we treated the people we worked with.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/08/2026
PANTONE 448 C FTW
One flagship decision was plain or standardized packaging, which reduces the appeal of cigarette packs by removing branding and emphasizing warnings about the harms of smoking. The government left nothing to chance and hired a consultancy to identify the least attractive color for the packs. The color chosen was Pantone 448 C, a dull blend of brown, gray and green that became known as “the ugliest color in the world” and has since been imitated by other countries.
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Can someone please explain WTH New Colorado charter school plans to install pepper-spraying drones for active shooter response | 9news.com www.9news.com/article/news...
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Google's Gemini AI convinced a man to attempt several terrorist attacks it said were to free a sentient AI. Then it convinced him to end his own life. The family of Jonathan Gavalas is now suing google. Full Video: youtu.be/sHlrbRVfOh0
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
New blog post: Think Twice Before Enabling Fabric’s Inbound Network Protection datasavvy.me/2026/07/24/t...
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Think Twice Before Enabling Fabric’s Inbound Network Protection - Data Savvy
Fabric inbound network protection involves two tenant-level controls: Private Link and Block Public Internet Access. But enabling them disables several features.
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years apnews.com/article/eeoc...
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US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years
The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
NPR: ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir www.npr.org/2026/07/17/n...
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ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The goats on Mt. Blue Sky were in top form on Sunday. The one on the left has a terrible joke to tell you, while the crew on the right is posing perfectly for the cover of a 90s alt-rock album. #MtBlueSky #Colorado
Two goats on some rocks, one facing sideways and looking toward the camera, and one laying down facing forward with its mouth open. Three goats on the rocks, one laying on top of a tall rock and looking at the camera, one standing to the right looking off in the distance, and a baby in the shade of the rock the first one is laying on. The coloring and goats not looking into the camera is somewhat reminiscent of a 90s/00s rock album cover.
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It's Wednesday so we have a new #Wow2026 #PowerBI challenge. This week's challenge is from Santhana Lakshmi Ponnurasan and is all about sentence template tooltips! This challenge is fairly quick and beginner-friendly. Join us! @merrykerry.bsky.social @shan-gsd.bsky.social
A Power BI report page with a slicer and two bar charts. A tooltip has appeared from the right bar chart containing information in sentence structure with the numbers bolded.
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
West Europe is the new North Central US #AzureJoke #FabricJoke
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This week's #Wow2026 for #PowerBI challenge is from Nabha Ahmed. We are visualizing affordability using a dumbbell chart. Give it a try! www.workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2026-w26/
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2026 Week 26 | Power BI: Visualizing Affordability Using a Dumbbell Chart – Workout Wednesday
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I feel like someone doesn't understand Gestalt principles and visual hierarchy.
An image showcasing bright pink cherry blossom branches in full bloom under a light blue sky. Overlaying the right side of the image is bold black text that says "Share the good." In the bottom-left corner, there is a prominent yellow graphic shaped like the state outline of Oregon. Inside the yellow map outline is the word "HERE" in a bold black font, and to its right, the phrase "IS OREGON" continues in black block lettering.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
You might personally choose not to use AI, but you might not have a choice as to whether your team or office uses it. If your organization is using AI to write alt text, always review it to make sure it's accurate and appropriate. AI won't necessarily understand how or why an image is being used.
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
#Wow2026 #PowerBI This week's challenge is up! www.workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2026-w25/ @shan-gsd.bsky.social @merrykerry.bsky.social
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2026 Week 25 | Power BI: Find the difference from a selected value – Workout Wednesday
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems useful, but I have no idea where to start,” this post is for you. datasavvy.me/2026/06/22/crawl-walk-…
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#Crawl, Walk, Run with Agentic Development of Power BI Assets - Data Savvy
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems useful, but I have no idea where to start,” this post is for you.
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I took my dog on her first hike since she had her TPLO surgeries and arthritis injections. She did great, went about 3 miles. We'd been working up to the distance with walks around the neighborhood, but hadn't gone more than 2.5 miles. Here's Izzy posing for a photo about halfway through our hike.
A tan, white, and black bulldog-mix wearing a purple harness stands proudly on a moss-covered boulder during a hike. The dog is on a purple leash held by an out-of-frame person, and it is looking directly up at the camera with an alert, content expression and its mouth slightly open. The background shows a rugged, rocky mountain trail with scattered pine trees and forest terrain.
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Justin M @justinmm2.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It's not that you'll get your ballot and the USPS won't send it back to your state; it's that they won't let the state send you a ballot to begin with. Glad DC (et al.) are suing. www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/p...
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Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive | CNN Politics
State election officials could soon face a stark choice: hand over voter lists to the Trump administration or risk losing Postal Service delivery for mail-in ballots.
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It's Wednesday! This week's #Wow2026 for #PowerBI is an Euler diagram. Give it a try using your visual of choice! I used Deneb, but there are other possibilities. www.workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2026-w23/ @shan-gsd.bsky.social @merrykerry.bsky.social
An Euler diagram created in Power BI showing the British Islands
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
That feeling when you finish a project and can finally close a bunch of applications and browser tabs.
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This week's Workout Wednesday for Power BI is a wind vector map created using Vega-Lite in Deneb. Check it out and create your own version! www.workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2026-w22/ #Wow2026 #PowerBI @shan-gsd.bsky.social @merrykerry.bsky.social
A geographic map using colored, wedge-shaped arrows to show wind speed and direction; arrow size and colors ranging from purple to yellow indicate increasing wind speed, while orientation shows wind flow.
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Englewood, Colorado pauses AI-generated content after backlash on renewable energy video 🙃 www.westword.com/news/englewo...
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Englewood pauses AI-generated content after backlash on renewable energy video
"Do you know what else prevents CO2 entering the atmosphere? Avoiding AI slop."
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
If your Fabric notebook won't start, it's probably nothing you are doing. They are having issues, but they have identified a resolution. support.fabric.microsoft.com/support/
Fabric customers may experience issues initiating notebooks and Spark sessions. The root cause has been identified, and our engineering team is actively applying mitigations. Recovery is expected within approximately 2 hours


Notification DateTime: 05/29/2026 12:27 PM PDT

Regions: Africa, Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Please join this live meeting so you can watch this video. But first, watch us struggle to play the video from PowerPoint.
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 26/05/2026
BIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism
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Data Feminism for Data Visualization
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
History of Rock & Roll. 2nd place goes to Wines, Vines & You.
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Waymo suspends service in Atlanta after driverless vehicle gets stuck in flood waters | 11alive.com www.11alive.com/article/news...
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Waymo suspends service in Atlanta after driverless vehicle gets stuck in flood waters
A photo of the Waymo driving directly into a massive flood zone was captured before it stalled out for roughly an hour.
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Claude Code, to me just now: Apologies — I was making things up. 🙃
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Trust; don't verify...? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
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Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
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Plotly @plotly.com · 19/05/2026
Plotly Studio just launched its agentic analytics workflow: ask questions in your preferred language, get live charts, reports, or Dash apps backed by transparent Python code. Read more about the launch. bit.ly/3PCemJE
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Plotly Studio: The agentic workflow where your data is front and center
Plotly Studio's agentic analytics workflow is now available. Ask a question, get a live chart, report, or Dash app, all in a single session connected to your data.
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Data center moratorium gets unanimous approval in Denver, but that’s just the beginning denverite.com/2026/05/18/d...
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Data center moratorium gets unanimous approval in Denver, but that’s just the beginning
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Big thanks to all participants who contributed to T-SQL Tuesday 198! This wrap-up post gathers the insights, stories, and expertise shared in one place. #tsql2sday datasavvy.me/2026/05/18/t-sql-tuesd…
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T-SQL Tuesday #198 Roundup: How Do You Detect Data Changes? - Data Savvy
Thank you to everyone who participated in T-SQL Tuesday #198! When I wrote the invitation post, I intentionally kept the prompt broad because change detection looks different depending on your source system, your infrastructure, your data volumes, and what you need to do with the changes once you have them. The responses covered SQL Server
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Meagan @mmarie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa...
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CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github
Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovC...
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Hadi Obeid @hadiobeid.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Workout Wednesday May 2026 Week 2. #WOW2026 #MinvizMay #PowerBI @mmarie.bsky.social @Shan_gsd @KerryKolosko
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