57: Is Starship Ready to Launch?

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Samsung actually did it! Samsung engineers accidentally leak confidential information while using AI to fix their source code! Plus, SpaceX is gearing up to launch its fully stacked Starship spacecraft for its first orbital flight test, pending regulatory approval. Elon Musk's company is set to take payloads and astronauts to deep space destinations, including the Moon and Mars, with a massive reusable booster known as the Super Heavy. And, Microsoft has introduced a new public preview for its Teams software that boasts a two times faster experience and a new design, with exciting new features like real-time syncing of Microsoft Loop components and avatars with improved performance and lighting. Stay tuned for more updates!

00:00 - Intro
01:12 - SpaceX’s Starship is waiting for FAA approval of an orbital launch attempt
11:14 - The new, better Microsoft Teams
21:00 - Samsung workers made a major error by using ChatGPT

Summary:

SpaceX is set to launch its fully stacked Starship spacecraft for a first orbital flight test pending regulatory approval, according to CEO Elon Musk. The spacecraft is designed to take payloads and astronauts to deep space destinations, including the Moon and Mars, and is paired with a massive reusable booster known as the Super Heavy. The Starship had been delayed due to environmental concerns, but the FAA is expected to grant a license for the launch. If approved, the Super Heavy and Starship will launch on April 17th, with the Super Heavy heading to the Gulf of Mexico and Starship traveling into orbit before reentering the Earth's atmosphere and landing in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii.

Microsoft has introduced a new public preview for its Teams software that boasts a two times faster experience and a new design, which is currently only available for Windows users. The company is working on extending the preview to new teams to a broader set of customers later this year, including education government clouds and platforms such as Mac, VDI, and web. The new features include the removal of the navbar, a much lighter text area, and improvements in performance, rendering pipelines, video quality, multi-account or multi-tenant meetings, streamlining app installation, hardening security, and memory optimization. Teams now includes a real-time syncing of Microsoft Loop components, and avatars have been improved with better performance and lighting, allowing additional customization options. There are also new animated emojis that translate into emote Avatar versions on Microsoft Teams.

Samsung engineers at its semiconductor arm unwittingly leaked confidential information while using ChatGPT, an AI writer, to fix problems with their source code. In three recorded incidents, employees inputted trade secrets, such as source codes, internal meeting notes, and hardware data, effectively in the hands of OpenAI, the company behind the AI service. Samsung Semiconductor is now developing its own inhouse AI for internal use, limited to prompts of 1024 bytes. Samsung Electronics warned workers of the dangers of leaking confidential information, which is impossible to retrieve as it is stored on OpenAI's servers. It appears Samsung has no recourse to request the retrieval or deletion of the sensitive data. The EU's GDPR and Italy have banned the use of ChatGPT nationwide due to non-compliance with GDPR.

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