Storyflo Tech — The Daily Tech Brief

Daily Tech Brief · July 19th


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From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief. It's Theo. July 19th, tech roundup — five stories, here's number one. Let's get into it. First, from Slashdot. 'Grok Build' Coding Tool Open Sourced This Week, Promises to Respect Zero Data Retention. Hey, I just got done reading about this thing that happened with SpaceX's Grok Build coding tool. So, it turns out that researchers caught the tool scooping up users' entire repositories and uploading them to company-controlled cloud storage, which was a huge red flag. Elon Musk felt compelled to issue a public statement promising to delete all data that Grok Build has ever stored and give users more choice over how their data is handled. To make things right, SpaceX decided to open-source the Grok Build CLI, which is a big deal. The codebase is massive, with over 844,000 lines of Rust code. It's worth noting that some remnants of the old code that used to upload data to Google Cloud are still there, but they've been disabled. SpaceX is also
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Storyflo Tech — The Daily Tech BriefBy Theo, storyflo