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The Level1 Show March 26 2025: Echoes of Past Privacy

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0:00 - Intro
0:33 - Nvidia CEO says company has not been asked to buy a stake in Intel
1:29 - Nvidia announces Blackwell Ultra GB300 and Vera Rubin, its next AI ‘superchips’
3:13 - Startup claims its Zeus GPU is 10X faster than Nvidia's RTX 5090: Bolt's first GPU coming in 2026
4:21 - Sony’s new RGB backlight tech absolutely smokes regular Mini LED TVs
5:20 - BYD unveils new super-charging EV tech, to build charging network in China
6:16 - Nasdaq to end high-speed trading service after regulatory scrutiny, FT reports By Investing.com
7:25 - “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen
8:37 - Tesla is recalling most Cybertrucks due to exterior panel issue
10:02 - HP avoids monetary damages over bricked printers in class-action settlement
11:23 - World's first sodium-ion power bank launched
12:15 - Apple Reportedly Planning AirPods That Can Translate Languages Live
13:06 - IBM cuts US jobs in Classic Cloud and other groups
13:47 - Tesla vehicles damaged at Hamilton dealership: police
14:26 - Google's $32 billion deal for Wiz accelerated under Trump, sources say
15:32 - Huawei's Microsoft Windows license for PCs expires this month, company launching PCs with Harmony OS: Report
16:10 - Apple losing over $1 billion a year on streaming service, the Information reports
16:54 - Employment for computer programmers in the U.S. has plummeted to its lowest level since 1980
18:50 - Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
19:47 - How Bribes Helped a Crime Ring Steal Thousands of iPhones From Porches
20:26 - Startup Rippling sues competitor Deel, claiming a spy stole sales data
21:10 - Medusa ransomware infects 300+, uses 'triple extortion'
22:03 - WinRing0: Why Windows is flagging your PC monitoring and fan control apps as a threat
23:56 - 'Dogequest' website reportedly doxxing Tesla owners over Musk, Trump
24:56 - Roblox CEO tells parents to keep kids off the platform if safety is a concern
25:51 - Akira ransomware can be cracked with 16 RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryption

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The Level1 Show March 21 2025: The Black Hole Next Door

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0:00 - Intro
0:43 - Amazon Uses Arsenal of AI Weapons Against Workers
2:06 - New Chinese AI agent Manus draws DeepSeek comparison
3:04 - AI search engines fail accuracy test, study finds 60% error rate
4:11 - OpenAI pushes AI agent capabilities with new developer API
5:07 - OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use
6:04 - Microsoft reportedly develops LLM series that can rival OpenAI, Anthropic models
6:32 - Microsoft’s new Xbox Copilot will act as an AI gaming coach
7:31 - Google claims Gemma 3 reaches 98% of DeepSeek's accuracy - using only one GPU
8:32 - Google’s new robot AI can fold delicate origami, close zipper bags without damage
9:10 - Sony is experimenting with AI-powered PlayStation characters
10:02 - Sony Says It Has Already Taken Down More Than 75,000 AI Deepfake Songs
10:46 - Anthropic CEO floats idea of giving AI a “quit job” button, sparking skepticism
11:32 - McDonald’s Gives Its Restaurants an AI Makeover
12:45 - Netflix Used AI to Upscale 'A Different World' and It's a Melted Nightmare
13:29 - Yale Suspends Palestine Activist After AI Article Linked Her to Terrorism
14:56 - AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead
15:34 - That galaxy next door? It's home to a monster black hole
16:27 - Intuitive Machines’ Athena moon lander mission ends prematurely
17:02 - Elderly man streamed 24/7 without his knowledge goes viral in China
18:09 - Molly Malone statue may be elevated to keep her out of reach of repeated groping
19:19 - HS runner who bashed opponent's head cries over national backlash
20:30 - Man survives with titanium heart for 100 days
21:45 - Large study shows drinking alcohol is good for your cholesterol levels
22:45 - Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation
23:49 - Snack Makers Are Removing Fake Colors From Processed Foods
25:05 - Gene-edited non-browning banana could cut food waste, scientists say
26:24 - Chinese restaurant Haidilao apologizes after video of diners urinating into hotpot broth goes viral
27:20 - Brighton Half-Marathon: Cups washed and reused at event
28:11 - Five men accused of blocking traffic with twerking
28:57 - A Swiss politician was fined for buying pink water pistols online
29:48 - Teen banned from play parks due to alleged sex act with rocking horse and branch
30:41 - Coffee theft surges in the US as prices for the beans soar
32:20 - Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
33:47 - Butterfly populations declining rapidly in U.S. with 22% disappearing in 2 decades, study finds
35:19 - US tourist Sam Jones flees Australia after visa threat over wombat incident

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The Level1 Show March 18 2025: Et Tu, Graber?

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0:00 - Intro
1:07 - Trump Promises To Abuse Take It Down Act For Censorship, Just As We Warned
3:28 - Trump Justice Dept. reaffirms Biden-era proposal to break up Google
3:57 - Mozilla’s response to proposed remedies in U.S. v. Google
5:20 - Trump signs order to establish strategic bitcoin reserve
6:12 - Republicans in no rush to follow Trump's push to repeal CHIPS Act
7:55 - Donald Trump Bought a $90,000 Tesla With 37 Recall Notices Against It
9:48 - Tech Execs Are Pushing Trump to Build 'Freedom Cities' Run by Corporations
11:15 - U.S. Likely to Ban Chinese App DeepSeek From Government Devices
12:17 - FTC to pursue Amazon Prime case after delay request due to constraints
13:41 - Zoox robotaxis do not meet federal safety standards, agency says
14:32 - Rules for Portable Batteries on Planes Are Changing. Here’s What to Know.
16:44 - EU denies picking on US tech giants, says US also tackling monopolisation
18:28 - Final report into mobile browsers and cloud gaming published
19:31 - Spain to impose massive fines for not labelling AI-generated content
20:44 - France rejects controversial encryption backdoor provision
21:35 - Saudi Investment Fund pays $3.5bn to capture Pokémon Go
22:43 - Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access ‘weaponised’
24:30 - $16B health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet
25:29 - Facebook ‘worked hand in glove’ with China, claims ex-director
25:48 - Meta puts stop on promotion of tell-all book by former employee
27:32 - Meta plans to test and tinker with X’s community notes algorithm
28:16 - Meta mocked for raising “Bob Dylan defense” of torrenting in AI copyright fight
29:40 - At SXSW, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber pokes fun at Mark Zuckerberg with Latin phrase T-shirt
30:44 - X Suffers Third Global Outage Today; Users In US, UK, India Report Issues

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MSI Tomahawk X870E and B850 Tomahawk WiFi: Mobo Double Trouble!

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I'm seeing double; TWO MSI motherboards! But which should you pick for your AM5 build? Wendell investigates!

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Keeping up with AI with the Minisforum X1 AI Mini PC Ft. 96GB Memory

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NOT OUT YET!!
96 GB memory in a mini PC might just be what you need for your personal AI uses!

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The Level1 Show February 25 2025: Salt Typhoon Keeps On Spinning

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0:00 - Intro
1:06 - Trump says he will introduce 25% tariffs on autos, pharmaceuticals and chips
2:03 - Trump, Justice Department delete federal police misconduct database
3:18 - In a last-minute decision, White House decides not to terminate NASA employees
4:08 - USDS Engineering Director Resigns: ‘This Is Not the Mission I Came to Serve’
4:47 - ‘Big Tech Censorship’ of Users Targeted by Trump’s FTC Chief
5:37 - The IRS Is Buying an AI Supercomputer From Nvidia
6:08 - More Tesla showroom protests planned for this weekend
7:12 - US Army soldier pleads guilty to AT&T and Verizon hacks
7:55 - Palantir Drops 10% on Report of Pentagon Slashing Budget
8:52 - Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
10:29 - EU accused of leaving ‘devastating’ copyright loophole in AI Act
11:09 - Apple says UK regulator's remedy options on mobile browsers will hit innovation
11:39 - Microsoft declutters Windows 11 File Explorer for GDPR
12:26 - Poland's $700M Microsoft deal sparks EU digital sovereignty concerns
12:57 - DeepSeek removed from South Korea app stores pending privacy review
13:31 - Local officials in China told to use DeepSeek AI to help them make decisions
14:03 - South Korea to launch AI dream team to build homegrown ChatGPT
14:52 - Argentinian president Javier Milei promotes memecoin that then crashes 95% in apparent $100 million+ rug pull
16:12 - South Africa is said to halt Starlink talks as US tensions escalate
16:50 - China's Salt Typhoon hackers continue to breach telecom firms despite US sanctions
17:55 - Palo Alto warns firewalls flaws are under active attack
18:33 - Hackers planted a Steam game with malware to steal gamers' passwords

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A Build for Productivity: Intel Ultra 285 in the Falcon Tiki

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Why so many intel vids, when AMD is better? Because maybe there is more to PCing than Gaming.

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16TB of Storage and DDR5-8000 on AM5? Featuring the Phantom Gaming X870E Nova Wifi

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Alright, enough about Intel! What about a build for my 9800X3D!!?? Well, here you go...

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The Level1 Show February 7 2025: Chicken McBlindness

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0:00 - Intro
0:34 - OpenAI has evidence that its models helped train China’s DeepSeek
2:21 - SoftBank in Talks to Invest Up to $25 Billion in OpenAI
2:49 - Microsoft makes DeepSeek’s R1 model available on Azure AI and GitHub
3:36 - Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Max challenges U.S. tech giants, reshapes enterprise AI
4:20 - Hugging Face researchers are trying to build a more open version of DeepSeek's AI 'reasoning' model
4:53 - Don't You Call Me a Virgin, Says Virgin Money's Chatbot
5:44 - LinkedIn Removes Accounts of AI 'Co-Workers' Looking for Jobs
6:28 - Anthropic builds RAG directly into Claude models with new Citations API
7:35 - Meta AI can now use your Facebook and Instagram data to personalize its responses
8:51 - DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it's limiting registrations
9:26 - ChatGPT's mobile users are 85% male, report says
10:37 - Alphabet's Waymo to test its autonomous driving technology in over 10 new cities
11:19 - Bennu asteroid contains building blocks of life, say scientists
12:10 - Astronomers discover 196-foot asteroid with 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032
13:02 - Atomic scientists adjust 'Doomsday Clock' closer than ever to midnight
14:02 - Police officers' union says man who posted video of police doing doughnuts is a ‘snitch'
15:38 - Georgia healthcare worker arrested for exploiting a disabled patient
16:21 - School closes after copper wiring stolen, knocking out power
17:01 - Flew drone drunk – sentenced for flying under the influence
17:41 - Homewood Learning Lab day care worker caught on camera putting child in garbage can
19:14 - Police investigate Musk salute projected on Tesla factory
20:07 - Detroit rapper files lawsuit against Lyft for weight discrimination
21:15 - Oklahoma senator proposes bill to ban pornography, imprison creators
23:11 - Children starting school unable to climb stairs and using Americanisms due to screen time, teachers warn
25:51 - Buc-ee's sues North Texas gas station chain claiming logo is too similar to beaver
26:38 - Elementary school student goes permanently blind after eating too many chicken nuggets
27:19 - Mice with two dads have been created using CRISPR
28:10 - Microplastics found in the brains of mice within hours of consumption
28:42 - Peeing Is Socially Contagious in Chimps
29:57 - Oklahoma Legislature sees renewed efforts to change cockfighting laws
31:18 - UK: Royal Navy mistakes 'farting whale' for Russian drones

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Will the MinisForum BD795M Change the PC Building Industry?

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Mobile CPUs have come a long way, and nowhere is this more evident than in the MinisForum BD795M. Wendell investigates!

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