February 2024

SpaceX will deorbit 100 Starlink satellites with unidentified flaw

February 14, 2024

SpaceX announced today that it will be sending some 100 Starlink satellites to an early retirement after a flaw was identified that could make them a worry later on. Don’t expect a fiery light show, though, and if you use Starlink, your service should be unaffected. The announcement explains that “the Starlink team identified a […]

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BMW security lapse exposed sensitive company information, researcher finds

February 14, 2024

A misconfigured cloud storage server belonging to automotive giant BMW exposed sensitive company information, including private keys and internal data, TechCrunch has learned. Can Yoleri, a security researcher at threat intelligence company SOCRadar, told TechCrunch that he discovered the exposed BMW cloud storage server while routinely scanning the internet. Yoleri said the exposed Microsoft Azure-hosted […]

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Rasa, an enterprise-focused dev platform for conversational GenAI, raises $30M

February 14, 2024

It’s no fun as a customer to have an interaction with a bot when it’s clearly a bot with which you’re engaging. Rasa is a startup that claims to have developed the infrastructure to give developers at large enterprises the ability to build “robust” generative conversational AI assistants so that those interactions feel more personal […]

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Equity: Bret Taylor has a brand new AI startup

February 14, 2024

This is our Wednesday show, where we dig into the critical startup and venture capital stories from the week thus far.

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