PACW: Deposits: $28.5BN Total Assets: $44.3BN Book Value of equity: $2.8BN Market Cap: $400MM

Seems like another bank is about to go bust after today’s rate hike

If you don’t look at data, you might as well call your decisions, guesses.

When you’ve been through the deepest and darkest valleys time and time again and come out on the other side stronger, not much can phase you. The key is knowing who you are, where you’ve been and having a clear sight of where you’re going. All else is noise.

Happy Saturday from DR 🇩🇴🌞

4. ScaleAI: Donovan War AI ScaleAI, last valued over $7B, is working with the White House, US Army, and Air Force. They deployed an LLM on a classified network to help warfighters.

Listen to "From IDF Red Teamer to CEO and Cofounder: A Conversation with Reuven "Rubi" Aronashvili" by Phillip Wylie Show. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/phill…

Celtics 🔥

Looking back, one of the big things I learned from that experience was that even if you're solving tomorrow's problems, you're still working with today's technology. Don’t be discouraged if someone doesn’t see the value in your idea - the market just may not be ready for it.

Love the hospitality I’ve received while returning to the Motherland 🇩🇴 after 14 long years. Got to visit the Central Bank, got a few souvenirs from a college friend and been digging into some reading I was putting off. Now onto the northern part of the country 🧘🏽‍♂️

A hill that I will die on: some of the highest-value security work that anyone can do is simply to delete unused things.

Early stage operators, pls do the math on how much startup equity offered to you would be worth in *several* scenarios. You’re trading dollars today for a potential future return. And that’s great, if you understand the trade offs. Time value of money matters and I just think

I don't care who you are: learn SQL

The CNCF is investigating the impact of HashiCorp's license change to BSL across all projects. If your CNCF project uses Terraform, Packer, Vagrant, etc please comment on the issue. github.com/cncf/foundatio…

Hiya! It's been a minute. 🚀 Just dropped this week's issue of The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP). Check it out to see what I've been up to! cybersecuritypulse.net/p/cybersecurit…

Looking forward to this year's Texas Cyber Summit! Impressive speaker line-up and tons of juicy talks slated.

🙌🏽 Cool to see Part I of my blog series on Data Engineering for Cybersecurity included on this week's CloudSecList! CSL has been a weekly read for the past few years so cool to see my work there! Thanks Marco Lancini! cc: Monad 🚀

Pinecone is touting the first hallucination-free LLM, Luna. Not production-ready yet as it degrades performance drastically, but still cool to see that we're getting closer. pinecone.io/blog/hallucina…