Chirag Mehta
@chirag.bsky.social
Industry Analyst and Enterprise SaaS CxO | AI Platforms and Cybersecurity | Ex-Google, SAP, Oracle | Faculty | Blogger | Design Thinker | Lifelong Learner
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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Never expected Thursday night football to be this exciting.
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Never expected Thursday night football to be this exciting.
Laminar to Rubrik, Dig to Palo, Flow to Crowdstrike, Securiti to Veeam, Cyera raising $$. AI has shifted the center of gravity in security from systems to data. As data becomes more fluid, more valuable, and more exposed, enterprises need stronger, more integrated ways to understand and control it.
Sources: New York-based data security startup Cyera is raising $400M led by Blackstone, valuing the company at $9B, up from $6B in June (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
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December 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Laminar to Rubrik, Dig to Palo, Flow to Crowdstrike, Securiti to Veeam, Cyera raising $$. AI has shifted the center of gravity in security from systems to data. As data becomes more fluid, more valuable, and more exposed, enterprises need stronger, more integrated ways to understand and control it.
Jane Austen spoke,
She knew the rules, however bent.
You may do so too.
She knew the rules, however bent.
You may do so too.
Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
December 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Jane Austen spoke,
She knew the rules, however bent.
You may do so too.
She knew the rules, however bent.
You may do so too.
OH: In some ways, the Venetian is like AWS us-east-1 … you have to try hard to bypass it even though the event is spread over six casinos!
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
OH: In some ways, the Venetian is like AWS us-east-1 … you have to try hard to bypass it even though the event is spread over six casinos!
Kim Kardashian blaming ChatGPT for failing a California bar exam was not on my bingo card.
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Kim Kardashian blaming ChatGPT for failing a California bar exam was not on my bingo card.
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Me when GenZ start talking about the life advice they're getting from ChatGPT.
November 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Me when GenZ start talking about the life advice they're getting from ChatGPT.
It's very difficult to build AI security as an add-on to an existing architecture that is not designed to detect shadow IT (AI chatbots etc.) workload. Good to see Zscaler recognizing strength in a start-up instead of building on their own. www.zscaler.com/press/zscale...
Zscaler Acquires Innovative AI Security Pioneer SPLX
Zscaler secures the enterprise AI lifecycle with acquisition of innovative AI security pioneer SPLX
www.zscaler.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
It's very difficult to build AI security as an add-on to an existing architecture that is not designed to detect shadow IT (AI chatbots etc.) workload. Good to see Zscaler recognizing strength in a start-up instead of building on their own. www.zscaler.com/press/zscale...
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happy "the car clock is finally correct" day to all who celebrate
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
happy "the car clock is finally correct" day to all who celebrate
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I’m putting phishing training in my Halloween candy this year.
October 31, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I’m putting phishing training in my Halloween candy this year.
Good to know that when the world will fall apart we will have chocolate 🍫 and coffee ☕ to console us.
From drought to disease, coffee & chocolate are feeling the heat of climate change. But science is brewing solutions.
The EU-funded BOLERO project develops climate-resilient coffee and cacao by grafting, testing new varieties, & working with farmers and industry.
Read more 🧪 link.europa.eu/rjdVww
The EU-funded BOLERO project develops climate-resilient coffee and cacao by grafting, testing new varieties, & working with farmers and industry.
Read more 🧪 link.europa.eu/rjdVww
Brewing resilience: researchers safeguard coffee and chocolate from climate threats
In the hills above Matagalpa, Nicaragua, farmer Juan Pablo Castro has been growing coffee for 25 years. His two-hectare farm, dotted with citrus trees, is typical of the smallholdings that supply much...
link.europa.eu
October 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Good to know that when the world will fall apart we will have chocolate 🍫 and coffee ☕ to console us.
It's always DNS. Always.
October 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It's always DNS. Always.
McCaffrey 7 - Falcons 3
October 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
McCaffrey 7 - Falcons 3
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This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
October 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
I feel like using "struggled mightily" and "reached for the stars" in my performance review
This has been a strange Atlantic hurricane season. It seems like every storm fell into two categories: struggled mightily, or reached for the stars.
Here's a recap of what we've seen so far this year:
Here's a recap of what we've seen so far this year:
Checking in on the strange 2025 Atlantic hurricane season
It's been a strange hurricane season across the Atlantic basin so far this year—and it's not done just yet.
www.damweather.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I feel like using "struggled mightily" and "reached for the stars" in my performance review
A fleet of Waymo "going to work" in Palo Alto.
October 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A fleet of Waymo "going to work" in Palo Alto.
If true, this is a big deal.
Privacy startup Duality says it has developed a private LLM inference framework that uses fully homomorphic encryption to let LLMs answer encrypted prompts (Rina Diane Caballar/IEEE Spectrum)
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September 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
If true, this is a big deal.
After 20 years, @gaberivera.bsky.social finally gets a headline at techmeme
On Techmeme's 20th birthday, its founder explains what's behind the site's consistency, debunks some supposed media trends, and outlines future directions (Gabe Rivera/Techmeme News)
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September 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
After 20 years, @gaberivera.bsky.social finally gets a headline at techmeme
I always feel that the Cowboys don't really want to win and every year they prove me right.
September 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I always feel that the Cowboys don't really want to win and every year they prove me right.
I can get behind this project
September 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I can get behind this project
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The treadmill screening of ‘THE LONG WALK’ took place, where every person had to walk on a treadmill faster than 3MPH for the whole movie.
If they stopped, they were escorted out of the theater.
If they stopped, they were escorted out of the theater.
September 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The treadmill screening of ‘THE LONG WALK’ took place, where every person had to walk on a treadmill faster than 3MPH for the whole movie.
If they stopped, they were escorted out of the theater.
If they stopped, they were escorted out of the theater.
Let's make sure that we take NBC out of our name and let's pretend that Microsoft never had anything to do with MSNBC either. Find a three letter word to add and throw in two red stripes in the logo.
August 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Let's make sure that we take NBC out of our name and let's pretend that Microsoft never had anything to do with MSNBC either. Find a three letter word to add and throw in two red stripes in the logo.
I recollect people referring to cloud and SaaS as a winner-take-all industry. While some companies benefitted more than others, just like any other industry, the software industry as whole benefitted a lot. People are now saying that AI is also a winner-take-all proposition. I don't agree at all.
August 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I recollect people referring to cloud and SaaS as a winner-take-all industry. While some companies benefitted more than others, just like any other industry, the software industry as whole benefitted a lot. People are now saying that AI is also a winner-take-all proposition. I don't agree at all.
TIL Reggie Jackson is the one who popularized baseball players chewing sunflower seeds. www.thetakeout.com/1932464/why-...
The Reason Baseball Players Chew Sunflower Seeds - The Takeout
Baseball players chew sunflower seeds during games to help them focus and to keep their mouths moist in hot, dusty conditions.
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August 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
TIL Reggie Jackson is the one who popularized baseball players chewing sunflower seeds. www.thetakeout.com/1932464/why-...