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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