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Rachel Sprague @rachelsprague.com · 26/09/2026
Why are we talking about iced coffees and interviews -- what'd I miss?
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#infosec
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/09/2026
Amazon Web Services didn’t design its data centers to withstand war, and now the company admits it can’t recover what’s been lost. www.wired.com/story/custom...
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Customer Data Permanently Lost in Iran Strikes on Amazon Data Centers
Amazon Web Services didn’t design its data centers to withstand war, and now the company admits it can’t recover what’s been lost.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 17/09/2026
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Hackers reveal how Flock cameras really track cars and people
One hacked camera captured 1.6 million images and could detect people as well as cars.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 10/09/2026
ID verification giant IDScan confirms data breach with more than 150 million driver’s licenses stolen
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ID verification giant IDScan confirms data breach with more than 150 million driver’s licenses stolen
The ID checking company said the data breach included people's full names and driver's licenses and other government-issued identity documents.
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Rachel Sprague @rachelsprague.com · 09/09/2026
Slack alerts got me twitching
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 09/09/2026
Hackers working for Chinese intelligence are increasingly targeting American AI research and using AI in their operations, Google says.
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Chinese hackers are running AI on stolen networks to avoid detection, Google says
One China-linked group targets academic, medical and military AI research, the report says.
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Rachel Sprague @rachelsprague.com · 01/09/2026
👀 Not sure when my weekly limit reset? I was at like 60% yesterday
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Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Do you remember running multiple browsers, and VMs with different versions of Windows, each with multiple Windows web browsers so you could test and fix your HTML for cross-browser compatibility? No? Get the hell off my lawn.
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Samuel @samuel.fm · 31/08/2026
pioneering new approaches to fixing bugs
it's super stupid. can we just buy that new person a new phone instead?
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
⚠️TRADE OFFER⚠️ you receive: one (1) meeting cancellation i receive: one (1) nap
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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 28/08/2026
Not driving while not coding was not exactly how I imagined the future.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 26/08/2026
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New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name
Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead...
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Rachel Sprague @rachelsprague.com · 17/08/2026
Who broke Github www.githubstatus.com
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Rachel Sprague @rachelsprague.com · 13/08/2026
I started KeepScore to keep up with the WPBL. I wanted a simple way to follow a game when I can’t watch it. Follow tonight’s game @7:30 ET/4:30 PT —>
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Rachel Sprague @rachelsprague.com · 13/08/2026
😳
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Rachel Sprague @rachelsprague.com · 11/08/2026
Two weeks into building @hiringradar.rachelsprague.com Numbers from the pipeline: 12,828 jobs → 107,961 observations → 645 matched → 92 published ~5 in 100 jobs are a fit. Under 1 in 7 of those get shown. Not a bug - that's the point. rachelsprague.com/blog/2026/08/10/hiringradar-by-the-numbers/
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Rachel Sprague @rachelsprague.com · 31/07/2026
Why am I just now discovering worktrees 😍
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HiringRadar @hiringradarjobs.com · 31/07/2026
✨ Data Analyst solace 📍 United States • Data analyst • dbt • Snowflake 🔗 View job: hiringradar.rachelsprague.com/jobs/…
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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 28/07/2026
before agentic coding: *writes code* *doesn't release* *gets busy, reviews a month later* what the fuck who wrote this over-complicated shit after agentic coding: *has robot write code* *doesn't release* *gets busy, reviews a month later* what the fuck who wrote this over-complicated shit
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Rachel Sprague @rachelsprague.com · 21/07/2026
Claude gaslighting me rn …
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Rachel Sprague @rachelsprague.com · 21/07/2026
Whaaatt GitHub lets you do a split view? When did this happen
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Rachel Sprague @rachelsprague.com · 21/07/2026
Five tech giants are hiding $1.65tn in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron
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Big Tech is hiding $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet AI debt
A Nikkei study found Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Oracle carry $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet debt for AI, more than they report. It is all legal.
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Rachel Sprague @rachelsprague.com · 21/07/2026
Probably
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 21/07/2026
A hacker took names, phone numbers, and physical addresses of millions of customers who used AI music generator Suno.
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AI music generator Suno breach affects 55M users, per Have I Been Pwned | TechCrunch
A hacker took names, phone numbers, and physical addresses of millions of customers who used AI music generator Suno.
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NPR @npr.org · 18/07/2026
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. n.pr/4f9OdMn
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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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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 18/07/2026
‘My Soul Left My Body’: Amazon Accidentally Bills Users Billions of Times What They Owe gizmodo.com/my-soul-left-my-body-am…
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‘My Soul Left My Body’: Amazon Accidentally Bills Users Billions of Times What They Owe
If your AWS bill was $200 last month, and this month it's $1,499,659,180,107, that's probably an error.
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Rachel Sprague @rachelsprague.com · 14/07/2026
Range anxiety but for Claude tokens
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