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It's "hard to know if it was ignorance or arrogance" that led the men to rely on unencrypted email for sharing confidential information, cybercrime expert Alan Woodward said of the apparent "poor OPSEC."
The Epstein Files Reveal Stunning Operational Security Fails

@… I’m working with a codebase that stores dicts of arbitrary data in pandas dataframes.
Not sure that’s an upgrade…

Databricks raised $5B in funding and $2B in new debt at a $134B valuation and says its annualized revenue exceeded $5.4B for the January quarter, up 65% YoY (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/09/databricks-completes-5-bil…

Databricks completes $5 billion funding round at $134 billion valuation
Databricks is prepared to go public "when the time is right," CEO and co-founder Ali Ghodsi told CNBC in an interview.

from my link log —
What category theory teaches us about dataframes.
https://mchav.github.io/what-category-theory-teaches-us-about-dataframes/
saved 2026-03-29

I'm thinking about taking a gap lifetime

scene reports from the kaiser, 40 years ago tonight. #deadfreaksunite #gd020986 [4/4]

from my link log —
Towards scalable dataframe systems.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00888
saved 2026-03-29 https://dotat.at/:/6GM7U.html

Towards Scalable Dataframe Systems
Dataframes are a popular abstraction to represent, prepare, and analyze data. Despite the remarkable success of dataframe libraries in Rand Python, dataframes face performance issues even on moderately large datasets. Moreover, there is significant ambiguity regarding dataframe semantics. In this paper we lay out a vision and roadmap for scalable dataframe systems. To demonstrate the potential in this area, we report on our experience building MODIN, a scaled-up implementation of the most widel…

Databricks launches Lakewatch, a security information and event management service, and announces acquisitions of security startups Antimatter and SiftD (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/24/databricks-cybersecurity-lakewatch-ipo.html

Databricks enters cybersecurity market with Lakewatch launch, bulking up ahead of IPO
Databricks wants to draw on AI to help organizations respond to a higher speed of attacks, based on newly disclosed vulnerabilities.

@…, could you pass along a request to Shopify's W3C AC rep to fill out the WebExtensions Working Group's charter survey? https://www.w3.org/wbs/33280/webextensions

W3C Authentication Platform
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Source: Databricks obtained $1.8B in fresh debt and now has over $7B in debt ahead of a potential IPO; it raised $4B in December at a $134B valuation (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/23/databricks-obtains-1point8-billio…

Databricks obtains $1.8 billion in additional debt ahead of IPO
Databricks is among the highly valued technology companies that are primed to go public in 2026.