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Randy Balbuena

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I design and build things.

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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 09/10/2026
Her fault-tolerant, asynchronous architecture laid the groundwork for modern resilient computing.
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 09/10/2026
In the 1960s, software was treated as an afterthought compared to hardware engineering. Hamilton deliberately coined the term "software engineering" to demand parity, institutional respect, and rigorous standards for developers.
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 09/10/2026
RIP Margaret Hamilton (1936-2026). She directed the team behind NASA’s Apollo flight software (standing next to the printed code in the photo) and famously saved the Apollo 11 landing when sensor overload threatened touchdown.
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 04/10/2026
Happy 5th birthday, Bluesky @bsky.app! Founded #OTD 2021
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Dawny B @dawnbritten.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yeah. Nighto xx
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Matt Davies @mattdaviescartoon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Newsday.com/matt
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CNN @cnn.com · 12/09/2026
Robots in Poland "protested" outside the Digital Affairs Ministry on Monday, demanding greater regulation of AI, as organizers warn about its potential impact on the labor market.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 09/09/2026
Watching this Apple event tout how iPhones will soon be able to record ambient audio/conversations and transcribe "high level notes" for you. It's billed as private and end-to-end encrypted, but I think the bigger harm is the normalization of always-listening devices. It's creepy and not normal.
a screenshot from an iPhone and Apple Watch showing "recaps" of conversations from ambient audio.
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 09/09/2026
The uprising is happening. #AI “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt […] No other human activity poses this level of danger.”
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Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) on X
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 08/09/2026
Update your computers! Microsoft just fixed 966 flaws and 2 zero-days vulnerabilities
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Microsoft September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 966 flaws, 2 zero-days
Today is Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates released for a record-breaking 966 flaws, including two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 21/05/2026
Thank you, Stephen Colbert, for years of laughter, and speaking truth to power and never backing down. The Late Show is ending under the shadow of FCC pressure and corporate fear. The FCC’s job is to protect the public interest, not serve Trump’s interest.

The Associated Press
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Stephen Colbert is saying goodbye to 'The Late Show.' How it ends is still a secret
From apnews.com
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 21/05/2026
Bruce Springsteen on why CBS cancelled Stephen Colbert’s Late Show. #colbert #1A #censorshipinamerica
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 21/05/2026
Hey Google but WHY?!
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Ross Geller: Why Would You Do That?
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 21/05/2026
No zero-days. No CI/CD breaking. No advanced AI exploits by Mythos. Just a single poisoned VS Code extension on an employee’s machine. #cybersecurity #supplychainattack
bleepingcomputer.com
GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension
GitHub has confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension.
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 17/05/2026
Make it so, @bsky.app!
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 17/05/2026
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Michael Scott: Oh Wow, You Don't Say
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 17/05/2026
MIE (Memory Integrity Enforcement) is the core security feature in Apple’s new A19 & M5 chips. Built into hardware to be “always-on,” MIE ensures that apps and code only access the data they are officially allowed to—aimed to completely stop 0-click memory corruption exploits from advanced spyware.
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 17/05/2026
Apple spent 5 years and billions of dollars engineering MIE, the ultimate microchip defense that became the pride of their Security Team and the crown jewel of Apple Silicon. Then it took an AI-driven exploit just 5 days to circumvent its protections. 🤯 #infosec #cybersecurity #cve CVE-2026-28952
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First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
Apple spent five years building hardware and software to make memory corruption exploits dramatically harder. Our engineers, working together with Mythos Preview, built a working exploit in five days.
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 14/05/2026
Bitlocker backdoor. #cybersecurity
bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft fixes BitLocker recovery issue only for Windows 11 users
Microsoft has addressed a known issue causing some Windows 11 systems to boot into BitLocker recovery after installing the April 2026 Windows security updates.
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Tempus abolere ICE (time to abolish ICE) @tempus.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
AI comes for all the jobs, even cybercrime. Why wait to be breached when you can have AI do it for you
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 13/05/2026
Today marks 9 years since the #WannaCry outbreak. The ransomware impacted over 200,000 computers worldwide before @malwaretech.com discovered the kill switch that stopped it from spreading further. #Cybersecurity #TechHistory #OTD 2017
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WannaCry, the ransomware attack that changed the history of cybersecurity
WannaCry showed how unpatched flaws and leaked cyber tools can cripple global systems, reshaping cybersecurity defenses worldwide.
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 10/04/2026
Please don’t. Where’s @sanders.senate.gov?
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 07/04/2026
Anthropic new model, Mythos, is so powerful that it has “already found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser.” #AI #Glasswing #cybersecurity
anthropic.com
Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
A new initiative to secure the world’s most critical software and give defenders a durable advantage in the coming AI-driven era of cybersecurity.
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Astronaut Terry Virts @astroterry.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
These images that the Artemis-2 crew took of the Moon and Earth and our solar system yesterday are just spectacular. www.cnn.com/2026/04/07/s...
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NASA releases stunning new ‘Earthset’ image taken during historic lunar flyby | CNN
Over seven hours, the astronauts took thousands of photos that will help inform scientists’ understanding of the moon. The first ones have now been released.
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 01/04/2026
You can finally change your Google Gmail username!
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Change your Google Account username in a few simple steps.
Here’s how to change your Google Account username (and how to change your Gmail address) in a few simple steps.
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 28/03/2026
RIP Mac Pro (2006-2026)
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 27/03/2026
Siri now becomes the front-end for all AIs
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David Pogue @davidpogue.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Ring's Super Bowl ad, which seemed to depict a SkyNet-style surveillance network for finding lost dogs, backfired spectacularly. In today's free “Pogue’s Posts” column: My interview with Ring's CEO to learn what went wrong. substack.com/@pogueman/no...
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The Ring Super Bowl Ad: Interview with the CEO
The seven ingredients of a perfect-storm corporate crisis
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Matt Davies @mattdaviescartoon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
We Caved. Newsday.com/matt
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 11/02/2026
Update your Apple devices! Tons of bug and security fixes in these new OS versions: iOS 26.3 iPadOS 26.3 macOS Tahoe 26.3 tvOS 26.3 watchOS 26.3 visionOS 26.3
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 11/02/2026
Criticize the government online? DHS might demand Google hand over your info. Our latest EFFector breaks down Homeland Security's unlawful subpoenas targeting critics—plus our campaign for end-to-end encryption and a bill to stop government face scans. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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🗣 Homeland Security Wants Names | EFFector 38.3
Criticize the government online? The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) might ask Google to cough up your name. By abusing an investigative tool called "administrative subpoenas," DHS has been
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 11/02/2026
At long last!
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 11/02/2026
Update your Apple devices! Tons of bug and security fixes in these new OS versions: iOS 26.3 iPadOS 26.3 macOS Tahoe 26.3 tvOS 26.3 watchOS 26.3 visionOS 26.3
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 31/01/2026
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This is your regular reminder that the data broker industry must be destroyed.
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 25/01/2026
Looks like Florida is the ONLY warm place in the country right now. It’s 22°F (-6°C) but feels single digit because of the wind, and will be even colder for at least the entire week! Snow shoveling later (8-18+ inches). Stay safe, folks! #WinterStorm
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 23/01/2026
Siri is getting smart; at long last!
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 15/01/2026
Getting these too, and PayPal’s all the time. 21st century, but still so much wrong with tech today.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 14/01/2026
The FBI’s raid today on the home of @washingtonpost.com reporter @hannahnatanson.bsky.social is an alarming escalation in the Trump administration’s war on the press. Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social explain how the DOJ is not only attacking the First Amendment but also ignoring federal law.
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 15/01/2026
You’ll need the link (url) to the post containing the video, and to enter that link at fdown.net. Just make sure you use the actual link resulting from clicking/tapping on the date/time of the post.
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 15/01/2026
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 11/01/2026
Copied 40GB in seconds.
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
If you aren't angry, you aren't paying attention. A woman was murdered by ICE in Minneapolis today. This should outrage us all. ICE out of our cities now. youtube.com/shorts/ecsmn...
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ICE Out of Cities Now
YouTube video by Ed Markey for Senate
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 08/01/2026
Yes! cc: @lyalindotcom.bsky.social
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 07/01/2026
Mac users found their Logitech mice stopped working because someone at Logitech forgot to renew an expired app certificate. *pinches bridge of nose and sighs loudly for the rest of time*
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Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate
That’s one heck of an oversight.
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 07/01/2026
Welcome to Bluesky, @opensource.google!
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Venezuela opposition reports the so called "capture" of Maduro was a negotiated deal between Maduro and US for an agreed exit strategy. We reported in November that this would be the case. The US bombed Venezuelan service members as part of a death theatre. #VenezuelaInvasion
https://x.com/YourAnonCentral/status/1986920235698692355
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Reuters @reuters.com · 03/01/2026
Trump says US has captured Venezuela President Maduro reut.rs/3N5kCbm
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Trump says US has captured Venezuela President Maduro
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said that the United States had captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, and flown them out of the country.
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Randy Balbuena @randyb.net · 01/01/2026
It’s not over yet
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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Picard management tip: Start your log entries with the current stardate. It helps you keep track of what year it is.
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