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Level1 News February 1 2022: Fly Like An Elon, With No Privacy

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0:00 - Intro
8:16 - US threatens use of novel export control to damage Russia’s strategic industries if Moscow invades Ukraine
9:38 - DHS warns of Russian cyberattack on US if it responds to Ukraine invasion
10:26 - White House clamps down on federal cybersecurity after big hacks
12:17 - Will the chip shortage end soon? Biden's team has bad news
13:22 - FCC proposal would curb ISP lock-ins at apartment complexes
14:39 - FCC approves internet "nutrition label" proposal
15:52 - FCC ejects China Unicom from US markets on espionage fears
17:21 - Epic vs. Apple Takes a Twist As 35 US States and Department of Justice Weigh in to Back 'Fortnite' Maker
18:46 - Prosecutors drop charges against Gang Chen, MIT professor accused of hiding ties to China
21:25 - Government demands to remove Twitter content hit record high
22:53 - ‘Sold by Amazon’ program shut down after WA attorney general’s antitrust investigation
25:43 - Amazon Activist’s Firing Deemed Illegal by Labor Board Officials
26:52 - Julian Assange wins right to seek appeal against extradition to the US
28:13 - European parliament adopts draft of Digital Services Act
29:18 - EU court annuls Intel's 2009 billion euro antitrust fine
32:07 - Drop bitcoin as legal tender, IMF urges El Salvador
32:46 - El Salvador Buys The Dip, Acquires 410 Bitcoin
33:21 - Apple fined $5.6M after Dutch dating app antitrust order
33:52 - N.Korean internet downed by suspected cyber attacks
35:14 - Indonesia bans some crypto trading and sales
36:11 - Amazon ends widely mocked scheme that turned workers into Twitter “ambassadors”
37:30 - Facebook-backed Diem Association may be close to dissolving
38:48 - Facebook’s plan to offer free internet in developing countries ended up costing users, WSJ reports
41:27 - YouTube CEO hints at potential NFT features
42:24 - 40 People Arrested For Alleged Twitch Money Laundering Scheme
44:29 - Twitter suspends Wordle-ruining bot
46:12 - Australia: Scott Morrison's WeChat account has been taken down
47:27 - 'Female-only' app Giggle is slammed for discriminating against trans women and women of colour
49:16 - Elon Musk offered $5k to remove a bot tracking his flights
51:57 - r/antiwork subreddit goes dark after Fox News interview

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Level1 News February 2 2022: This Winter I Hear A Humming, More Fabs In Ohio

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0:00 - Intro
2:34 - Intel Core i9-12900HK With RTX 3080 Ti Review: MSI's GE76 Raider Laptop Screams
3:31 - Nvidia is reportedly preparing to abandon its $40 billion takeover of Arm
4:35 - Apple revenue pops 11% to $123.9 billion, Cook says supply chain improving
5:20 - Peloton should put itself up for sale and fire its CEO, activist investor demands
6:33 - Intel Reveals Plans for Massive New Ohio Factory, Fighting the Chip Shortage Stateside
8:35 - Fremont Tesla Factory Named Most Efficient Auto Factory in North America
10:49 - Windows 11 is getting Android apps, taskbar improvements, and more next month
11:30 - Valve will start selling the Steam Deck on February 25th
12:36 - LG’s Latest Announcement Solidifies Everything Wrong With TVs
15:57 - Microsoft Teams surpasses 270M monthly active users, as growth slows from early days of pandemic
17:08 - Google kills off FLoC, replaces it with Topics
18:02 - Google gets hit with a new lawsuit over ‘deceptive’ location tracking
19:37 - Google Labs starts up a blockchain division
20:33 - Meta has built an AI supercomputer it says will be world’s fastest by end of 2022
21:36 - Spotify removes Neil Young's music after he objects to Joe Rogan's podcast
25:00 - SAT will soon be all-digital and shortened from 3 hours to 2
27:46 - Faster internet speeds linked to lower civic engagement in UK
30:06 - Mark Cuban on his online pharmacy: ‘Our KPI is how much we can reduce the stress of our patients’
32:22 - We’re happy to inform you that Apple isn’t requiring verification for education discounts anymore
33:17 - macOS 12.3 will break cloud-storage features used by Dropbox and OneDrive
35:27 - Unknown space object beaming out radio signals every 18 minutes remains a mystery
36:32 - The James Webb Space Telescope arrives at its final orbit
37:38 - Space Force Just Launched Satellites Capable Of 'Inspecting' Enemy Satellites
38:40 - Researchers Build AI That Builds AI
40:07 - Flying car wins airworthiness certification
42:32 - Recycling should be easier. These home appliance start-ups are trying to help.
43:50 - Meta researchers build an AI that learns equally well from visual, written or spoken materials
45:11 - Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge

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Level1 News January 25 2022: Google Gets the Gavel

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0:00 - Intro
0:54 - Elon Musk's brain implant company is inching toward human trials
2:41 - Felony charges are 1st in a fatal crash involving Autopilot
4:17 - FedEx Asks FAA to Let It Install Anti-Missile Lasers on Planes
5:20 - FTC antitrust watchdogs reportedly investigating Meta’s VR division
6:00 - FSB arrests REvil ransomware gang members
7:25 - Democrats unveil bill to ban online ‘surveillance advertising’
10:10 - EU wants to build its own DNS infrastructure with built-in filtering capabilities
11:17 - Chinese regulator denies issuing guidelines on internet giants’ investments, fundraisings
12:00 - U.S. examining Alibaba's cloud unit for national security risks
12:48 - UK Gov't Plans Publicity Blitz to Undermine Chat Privacy
15:20 - WhatsApp Ordered To Help U.S. Agents Spy On Chinese Phones—No Explanation Required
16:30 - Winter Olympics: Athletes advised to use burner phones in Beijing
16:57 - Israeli citizens targeted by police using Pegasus spyware, report claims
18:05 - Biden to Expand National Security Agency Role in Government Cybersecurity
18:35 - Senate committee votes to advance major tech antitrust bill
20:29 - Cambodia’s Internet May Soon Be Like China’s: State-Controlled
21:02 - California judge rules Google’s confidentiality agreements break labor law
23:09 - Fed releases long-awaited study on a digital dollar but doesn't take a position yet on creating one
26:57 - Bank of Russia Calls for Full Ban on Crypto
27:21 - NYC Mayor Adams will convert his city paycheck to cryptocurrency via Coinbase
28:19 - ‘Havana syndrome’ unlikely caused by hostile foreign power, CIA says
29:38 - Rescuers Save Dog From Drowning With a Sausage and a Drone

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Level1 News January 11 2022: #SpaceSelfies

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0:00 - Intro
0:53 - Venmo, PayPal and Cash App to report payments of $600 or more to IRS this year
2:53 - FTC warns of legal action against organizations that fail to patch Log4j flaw
3:20 - Cyber Command Task Force Conducted Its First Offensive Operation As The Secretary Of Defense Watched
4:46 - Elizabeth Holmes verdict: Former Theranos CEO is found guilty on 4 counts
6:20 - UK police forces have seized more than £300 million in bitcoin
7:21 - Washington state to require internet service disclosure when selling house in new year
8:45 - AT&T, Verizon reject Buttigieg's plea to delay 5G launch amid warnings of aviation chaos
9:28 - Public corporation created to bring high-speed broadband to all of Erie County
10:53 - New French Law Requires Car Commercials to Tell People to Walk or Bike Instead
12:59 - Canada's public health agency admits it tracked 33 million mobile devices during lockdown
14:26 - Google, Facebook face big privacy fines in France
15:35 - China’s locked down Xi'an city in chaos after Covid app crash
17:15 - A Digital Manhunt: How Chinese Police Track Critics on Twitter and Facebook
18:07 - In-depth report details Apple’s shift to Chinese suppliers to ‘cut costs and curry favor with Beijing’
19:16 - Over 140,000 gaming firms close as China continues new license freeze
20:05 - China's Mars orbiter snaps amazing selfies above Red Planet
21:12 - Russia to Require Netflix to Stream State Television Broadcasts
22:31 - Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation
23:46 - Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining to save electricity
25:35 - Meta sued for alleged role in extremist-linked murder of federal guard
27:13 - James Webb Space Telescope: Sun shield is fully deployed
28:36 - Biden-Harris Administration Extends Space Station Operations Through 2030
30:28 - China has moon's south pole in its sights with 3 missions launching this decade
32:53 - John Deere breaks new ground with self-driving tractors you can control from a phone
34:51 - Artificial intelligence is restoring lost works by Klimt, Picasso and Rembrandt, but not everyone is happy about it
37:06 - A ROBOT FOR THE WORST JOB IN THE WAREHOUSE
38:43 - Amazon is putting an Alexa on the Orion spacecraft Lockheed Martin is building for NASA
39:33 - Drone carrying a defibrillator saves its first cardiac arrest patient in Sweden
42:03 - Maybe 2022 should be the year we turn over decision-making to the AI

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Level1 News November 17 2021: From Steam to Vapor

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0:00 - Intro
1:35 - Apple will no longer break Face ID on repaired iPhone 13s
2:56 - Apple Can’t Delay App Store December Deadline as Epic Legal Battle Continues
4:16 - Valve Apologizes For Steam Deck Delay To February 2022
5:35 - Google’s parent company briefly hits $2 trillion valuation
6:27 - AMD Rallies After Landing Meta in Latest Server Chip Win
7:29 - Microsoft’s new $249 Surface Laptop SE is its first true Chromebook competitor
9:21 - Microsoft to Kill OneDrive for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 in Early 2022
10:41 - Huawei offloads x86 business as it chases self-sufficiency
11:54 - Reddit to reportedly tokenize karma points and onboard 500M new users
14:21 - Rolls-Royce gets funding to develop mini nuclear reactors
16:19 - Netflix rolling out AV1 support on TVs now
18:07 - Rivian goes public in one of the biggest IPOs ever
20:00 - 'Financial Colonialism': A Bitcoin Mine in Navajo Nation Flares Tensions
22:25 - Jeff Bezos-Backed Property Startup La Haus Plans to Accept Bitcoin as Payment
24:10 - Discord pushes pause on exploring crypto and NFTs amidst user backlash
25:34 - Unity to buy 'The Lord of the Rings' VFX studio Weta Digital in $1.63 bln deal
27:24 - General Electric (GE) Will Split Into Three Units, Ending Conglomerate for Good
28:26 - Meta Quest 2 Is Already Replacing Oculus Quest 2 Branding
29:10 - Elon Musk, Tesla Execs Are Cashing Out Billions as Stock Hits Record
30:51 - Bitcoin's Taproot Upgrade Should Occur On Saturday
31:55 - Patreon’s building native video hosting for creators to sidestep YouTube
32:54 - Windows 11 SE won’t be sold separately, can’t be reinstalled once removed
33:57 - Google is taking sign-ups for Relate, a voice assistant that recognizes impaired speech
35:09 - Nvidia's Riva Custom Voice lets companies create custom voices powered by AI
36:26 - SpinLaunch is a thing for space
38:00 - Microsoft is adding more AI smarts and other new tools to Office
39:18 - Iraqi PM Safe After Drone Attack on Residence, Military Says
40:16 - Drone attack: US electrical grid threatened last year, report reveals
41:13 - A broken toilet on SpaceX capsule means astronauts will return to Earth in diapers

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Level1 News November 23 2021: That's Really Fugaking Fast

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0:00 - Intro
1:25 - NASA’s Moon landing will likely be delayed ‘several years’ beyond 2024, auditors say
2:57 - States are investigating how Instagram recruits and affects children
3:45 - Bank-only stablecoins limit innovation, official says at Cleveland Fed conference
4:27 - US government seizes $56 million in crypto from BitConnect’s ‘number one promoter’
5:44 - BlockFi in SEC Crosshairs for Crypto Accounts
6:41 - Elon Musk: SpaceX will hopefully launch Starship flight in January
7:51 - Apple (AAPL) Aims for Fully Self-Driving Car
9:23 - Apple sticking taxpayers with part of the bill for digital ID rollout
11:34 - The end of “click to subscribe, call to cancel”? One of the news industry’s favorite retention tactics is illegal, FTC says
12:16 - VR treatment for chronic pain gets FDA authorization
14:32 - Nvidia’s Arm Bid Gets U.K. Probe on National Security Concerns
15:52 - Adviser to EU’s top court suggests German bulk data retention law isn’t legal
16:39 - French government to speed up deployment of open source
18:18 - Fugaku remains world's fastest supercomputer on Top500, behind secret Chinese exascale systems
19:47 - Secretive Chinese Committee Draws Up List to Replace U.S. Tech
20:56 - Bitcoin falls as China takes aim once again at 'extremely harmful' crypto mining
21:55 - White House Spurns Intel Plan to Boost Chip Production in China
23:17 - Portugal: Proposed law tries to sneak in biometric mass surveillance.
24:07 - OpenAI ends developer waiting list for its GPT-3 API
26:15 - Discord is quietly building an app empire of bots
27:47 - New York City passed a bill requiring 'bias audits' of AI hiring tech
28:57 - Cerebras Systems raises $250M for the ‘fastest AI processor on Earth’
29:55 - Jeff Bezos: Earth Will One Day Be 'Yellowstone National Park'
33:11 - Russia may have just shot down its own satellite, creating a huge debris cloud
35:05 - America is hiring a record number of robots

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Level1 News February 10 2021: Monkey See, Monkey Capture the Objective

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0:00 - Intro
0:52 - Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy to take over in Q3
1:54 - Amazon battles warehouse union drive with hardball tactics
3:12 - Andy Jassy, Next Amazon CEO, Says He's Committed to Making Video Games
4:56 - Google Cloud lost $5.61 billion on $13.06 billion revenue last year
5:53 - Google Snags Ford Cloud Partnership in Coup Over Microsoft
7:15 - Google Stadia Shuts Down Internal Studios, Changing Business Focus
8:11 - Two Google engineers resign over firing of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru
10:02 - AT&T customer since 1960 buys WSJ print ad to complain of slow speeds
10:58 - Comcast lifts uploads to 5Mbps amid complaints its low-income plan is too slow
11:57 - Cable ISP warns “excessive” uploaders, says network can’t handle heavy usage
13:06 - Wall Street is keeping very close tabs on WallStreetBets. Here's how
15:35 - FINRA Targets 'Game-Like' Digital Platforms
17:10 - Robinhood plummets back down to a one-star rating on Google Play
18:04 - Robinhood Screwed Its Users But Is More Popular Than Ever
19:45 - Elon Musk: Neuralink wires up monkey to play video games using mind
21:32 - Elon Musk admits Tesla has quality problems
22:29 - Tesla recalls 135,000 cars after pushing back against regulators
23:52 - Tesla's dirty little secret: Its net profit doesn't come from selling cars
25:22 - GM hit by chip shortage, to cut production at four plants
26:37 - Apple will invest $3.6 billion in Kia Motors to build an Apple Car, report says
27:58 - Apple's mixed reality headset could cost $3,000 and include 8K displays
29:27 - Uber buying booze delivery company Drizly for $1.1 billion
30:59 - Visa Wants to Work with Exchanges, Wallets on ‘Digital Gold’ Bitcoin
32:02 - Parler CEO John Matze says company's board fired him
33:57 - Twitter restricts numerous high-profile accounts in India following ‘legal demand’
35:20 - Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes

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Can We DESTROY Targeted Advertising And The Digital Ad Profile?

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Level1 News January 12 2021: Old McDonald Had Valuable Data

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0:00 - Intro
0:46 - Open-source developer and manager David Recordon named White House Director of Technology
2:07 - SolarWinds hackers accessed DOJ emails, no indication they reached classified systems
2:51 - FBI probe of major hack includes project-management software from JetBrains
3:54 - US: Hack of federal agencies 'likely Russian in origin'
4:34 - US bans WeChat Pay, Alipay and six more Chinese payment apps
6:00 - NYSE to delist three Chinese telecoms in dizzying about-face
7:04 - Jack Ma's disappearing act fuels speculation about billionaire's whereabouts
9:22 - China Is Said to Censor Local Media Coverage of Alibaba Probe
10:43 - UK watchdog begins investigating Nvidia's $40bn takeover of Arm
11:39 - 81,000 UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends
12:45 - Julian Assange: UK judge blocks extradition of Wikileaks founder to US
14:19 - GitHub secures a license from the U.S. government to offer GitHub to developers in Iran
16:18 - Ukraine Government Picks Stellar Development Foundation to Help Build National Digital Currency
18:27 - Japan's Brand New Anti-Piracy Law Goes Live: Here's How it Will Work
19:55 - Nissan source code leaked online after Git repo misconfiguration
21:45 - Mandatory WhatsApp Privacy Policy Update Allows User Data to be Shared With Facebook
23:12 - Telegram feature exposes your precise address to hackers
24:23 - Hackers target cryptocurrency users with new ElectroRAT malware
25:47 - Italian mobile operator offers to replace SIM cards after massive data breach
26:50 - Malware uses WiFi BSSID for victim identification
28:22 - Backdoor account discovered in more than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways
29:37 - Access To Big Data Turns Farm Machine Makers Into Tech Firms
35:31 - Singapore police can access COVID-19 contact tracing data for criminal investigations

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Level1 News January 13 2021: The Ad-pocalypse Cometh

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0:00 - Intro
1:41 - More than half of Americans turned to video games during lockdown
3:34 - Working from home: 30% say they would quit if forced back to office
6:36 - Graphics cards are about to get a lot more expensive, Asus warns
7:40 - AMD Patent Reveals Hybrid CPU-FPGA Design That Could Be Enabled By Xilinx Tech
8:54 - Uber wasted $100 million on useless digital ad campaigns
10:32 - When Big Brands Stopped Spending On Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why?
13:49 - Google iOS apps not updated in weeks. Are Apple privacy labels why?
16:08 - Google (GOOG) Union: Workers Escalating Tension With Management
17:37 - Wi-Fi’s biggest upgrade in decades is starting to arrive
19:49 - Apple Reportedly Asks Foxconn To Create Foldable iPhone Shells
21:26 - Elon Musk (TSLA) Becomes World's Richest Person, Passes Jeff Bezos
23:06 - Facebook Smart Glasses Coming ‘Sooner Than Later’ Without AR
24:45 - Verizon indefinitely delays 3G network shutdown
26:17 - ‘Minecraft Earth’ will shut down on June 30th
27:33 - Discovery+ launches today, and it's available on Fire TV, Roku and more
30:07 - Ether soars above $1,000 as bitcoin sets another record
32:41 - Epic Games buys enormous shopping mall, will convert it to global HQ
33:56 - Microsoft planning ‘sweeping visual rejuvenation of Windows’
36:00 - Waymo shelves 'self-driving' term for its technology to shore up safety
37:13 - Court Rules Deliveroo Used 'Discriminatory' Algorithm
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