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Level1 News April 19 2022: The Twit Hits the Fan

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0:00 - Intro
1:13 - US Extradites Man Who Allegedly Sold Backdoored Phones for the FBI
3:04 - Attention in Washington Shifts from Crypto Writ Large to Stablecoins
5:43 - California suggests taking aim at AI-powered hiring software
7:56 - US judge in Google case asks for more information on attorney-client privilege
9:07 - EU Officials Targeted with Pegasus Spyware
10:25 - Apple Faces Further Charges in EU Antitrust Case Triggered by Spotify
12:16 - Meet the 1,300 librarians racing to back up Ukraine’s digital archives
13:26 - Israel's NSO Group appeals to US Supreme Court for immunity in WhatsApp suit
15:22 - Russia reveals RSK Tornado supercomputer platform
17:40 - In response to killings, El Salvador's bitcoin president attacks civil liberties
18:33 - Tencent shuts down Penguin Esports, its rival to Amazon's Twitch, as China's crackdown on tech continues
21:02 - iPhone supplier Pegatron suspends production at two factories in China
21:49 - Ethereum dev imprisoned for helping North Korea evade sanctions
22:35 - Australian 'Finfluencers' May Face up to 5 Years in Jail in Crackdown
24:40 - Turkey considers prison terms for anyone publishing unapproved economic data
25:34 - In major reversal, Elon Musk is not joining Twitter’s board
25:47 - Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter
25:53 - Twitter Board Expected To Fight Musk Offer
28:22 - Buying Twitter ‘is not a way to make money,’ says Musk in TED interview
29:11 - Twitter Board Mulling Poison Pill to Dodge Musk Bid
31:19 - Behind Mark Zuckerberg big plans for AR glasses
33:15 - Meta Plans to Take Nearly 50% of Creator's Earnings in Horizon Worlds
35:47 - Apple Says Plan for Nearly 50% Commission on Metaverse Purchases 'Lays Bare Meta's Hypocrisy'
37:04 - Epic Games Lands $2B As Sony Bets On Its Metaverse
38:58 - Metaverse Company to Offer Immortality Through ‘Live Forever’ Mode
41:28 - Wildlife trafficking thrives on Facebook despite pledge to fight illegal trade
42:39 - TikTok Revenue Set To Surpass Twitter, Snap Revenue Combined
43:56 - Twitter says it’s experimenting with ‘unmentioning’
45:13 - WhatsApp to launch ‘Communities’ — more structured group chats with admin controls
46:58 - Chart: Kids on Social Media

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Level1 News April 20 2022: The Inescapable Drone Of Advertising

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0:00 - Intro
1:10 - Mac sales fly as PC declines – did the M1 chip save Apple?
2:35 - AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Review: 3D V-Cache Powers a New Gaming Champion
4:16 - Amazon slaps U.S. sellers with 5% fuel and inflation surcharge
5:31 - Amazon workers made up almost half of all warehouse injuries last year
7:44 - Amazon Targets High Schoolers in a Warehouse Recruiting Blitz
9:28 - Amazon filing outlines plans to fight the New York union vote
10:40 - Google to invest $9.5 billion in U.S. offices, data centers this year
13:00 - SoCal man says car computer on his new Tesla froze, causing vehicle to be stuck at 83 mph on freeway
14:25 - Over 10 Percent of Tesla Model S EVs Fail Germany’s Strict Inspection After 3 Years
16:15 - CNN+ struggles to lure viewers, drawing under 10,000 daily users
18:58 - E Ink's New Color Electronic Paper Is Fast Enough for Video
20:18 - Intel patent suggests drones may be used to create mobile billboards in the near future
22:41 - Intel Says It'll Deliver 2025 Chip Tech a Half Year Early
25:34 - Disconnected: Samsung.com sales reps say the system makes them work for free
28:42 - Peloton raises subscription fees, cuts prices for Bikes, Treads
30:29 - ‘Club Penguin Rewritten’ shut down by Disney, website seized by London police
32:10 - ‘Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet’ NFT Went on Sale for $48M. It Ended With a Top Bid of Just $280
33:21 - Wikipedia community votes to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations
34:46 - Remember IMDb TV? It’s called ‘Amazon Freevee’ Now
35:43 - Google quietly launches its awaited ‘Switch to Android’ app on iOS
37:46 - Microsoft: Moving Windows 11 taskbar may never be an option again
38:51 - Paypal founder launches tirade against ‘gerontocracy’ over bitcoin
40:28 - PS3, Vita Games Mysteriously Expiring, Making Them Unplayable
42:32 - ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ has the best opening weekend for a video game movie
44:22 - 45 Robinhood Users' Angry FTC Complaints
45:32 - Tim Cook uses privacy keynote to attack sideloading
47:13 - U.S. Warns Sophisticated ICS/SCADA Malware Can Damage Critical Infrastructure
48:53 - New Speedcam App Lets Anyone, Anywhere Submit Evidence Of Drivers Speeding
50:59 - Russia is jamming GPS satellite signals in Ukraine, US Space Force says
51:59 - Git for Windows issues vuln-plugging update: Patch now
53:51 - Chrome Web Store will show badges for reputable developers
54:56 - Cop Admits To Playing Copyrighted Music Through Squad Car PA To Keep Videos Off YouTube
57:27 - RaidForums Gets Raided, Alleged Admin Arrested
58:28 - Pentagon's outgoing data boss warns of quantum cyber threats
59:32 - Class action lawsuit about unlawful location tracking
1:01:24 - A ‘cautionary tale’ about location tracking
1:03:20 - Microsoft Patch Tuesday, April 2022 Edition

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It's Like an Onion Stuffed with Peanut Butter - ASRock AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT Review

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Like an onion stuffed with peanut butter, you may not enjoy it, but at least it'll hold you over till better options arrive. Is this an affordable card with decent FPS? Join Wendell as he tests the ASRock AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT 1080p Phantom Gaming graphics card.

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Level1 News February 9 2022: Scientific Proof No One Likes Bixby

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0:00 - Intro
1:03 - Destiny 2 Devs Getting $1.2 Billion From Sony To Stay At Bungie
2:40 - YouTube Earnings: Video Platform Has More Revenue Than Netflix in Q4
4:02 - Microsoft says that if Apple isn't stopped now, its antitrust behavior will just get worse
5:30 - SpaceX Starlink premium: Satellite internet tier at $500 per month
7:09 - Metronome raises $30M to help software companies shift to usage-based pricing models
9:59 - Austin Samsung facility spilled sulfuric acid waste into tributary, city memo says
12:13 - Cloud computing and virtualization company Citrix to be acquired for $16.5B
13:25 - Intel fails to get Spectre, Meltdown flaw lawsuit tossed
15:39 - Buying real estate in the metaverse
17:27 - World’s Fastest Gaming Monitor Hits 500 Hz Refresh Rate
19:01 - Anthony Levandowski’s latest moonshot is a peer-to-peer telecom network powered by cryptocurrency
21:54 - How Wordle Went From Viral Sensation to Part of The New York Times
24:12 - Electric roadway will charge your EV while you're driving
26:44 - Ferrari Enters the Metaverse: Luxury Carmaker Wants to Bolster Real-World Brand
27:59 - Hiding Windows 11’s Teams icon doesn’t just save taskbar space—it also saves RAM
30:01 - Sega sells the rest of its arcades, leaving the business for good
32:08 - International Space Station will plummet to a watery grave in 2031
33:22 - The Pentagon is looking for garbage collectors in space
34:57 - A Chinese Satellite Just Grappled Another And Pulled It Out Of Orbit
36:48 - A piece of a SpaceX rocket is on track to collide with the far side of the moon
38:40 - People prefer interacting with female robots in hotels, study finds
40:53 - Cruise to offer free robo-taxi rides in S.F. for the public
41:57 - DeepMind says its new AI coding engine is as good as an average human programmer

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Z690 AORUS Master DDR5 Gaming Motherboard

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Join Wendell in another Z690 Motherboard review, this time with the AORUS Master DDR5!
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6500 XT Part 2: IT'S NOT 12 FPS!!!!

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Level1 News January 19 2022: It Ain't Easy Being Green

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0:00 - Intro
0:58 - Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’
3:07 - Canon Forced to Tell Printer Users How to Break DRM
4:27 - The PC market just had another big year thanks to pandemic demand
5:09 - PCI Express 6.0 Specification Finalized: x16 Slots to Reach 128GBps
6:38 - UltraRAM Breakthrough Brings New Memory and Storage Tech to Silicon
8:33 - Microsoft Hires Key Apple Engineer to Work on Custom Chips
10:44 - Linux Mint sells out for Mozilla money -- Google becomes default search in Firefox
13:58 - The GMC Hummer EV Could Pop Wheelies Before Engineers Intervened
15:05 - Prairie Tesla owners battle loss of heat amid extreme cold weather after software update
18:34 - Tesla delays Cybertruck to early 2023, says report
20:07 - Green texts in iMessages nudge teens to use iPhones
20:56 - After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful
22:32 - The Associated Press is starting its own NFT marketplace for photojournalism
25:15 - Xbox players are fed up with forced crossplay against PC gamers
26:49 - Wordle clones yanked from Apple’s App Store
28:27 - Game maker says Apple, Google selling rip-offs in new lawsuit
29:29 - Fortnite Finally Back On iOS Via Nvidia GeForce Now Streaming
30:36 - Bitcoin slips under the $40,000 mark
31:26 - Apple submits plans to allow alternative payment systems in S.Korea
33:33 - Panasonic to Offer Four-Day Workweek in Japan
37:20 - China Tutoring Cutdown Led New Oriental Education to Fire 60,000

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Checking out the Gigabyte Z690 Gaming X DDR4: Does DDR5 Matter for Alder Lake?

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Wendell puts the Gigabyte Z690 Gaming X DDR4 through its paces!

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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 December 24 2021: And A Fart Jar In a Pear Treeeeee

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0:00 - Intro
0:55 - Apple Removes All References to Controversial CSAM Scanning Feature From Its Child Safety Webpage
3:22 - Mitto Tells Clients That Co-Founder Departed After Allegations of Phone Spying
4:34 - South Korea to test AI-powered facial recognition to track Covid-19 cases
5:24 - Activist Rona Wilson's phone infected with Pegasus spyware, says new forensic report
6:39 - Firefox fixes password leak via Windows Cloud Clipboard feature
7:11 - Ukraine arrests 51 for selling data of 300 million people in US, EU
8:41 - Google Says NSO Pegasus Zero-Click 'Most Technically Sophisticated Exploit Ever Seen'
10:57 - Hackers Steal $140 Million From Users of Crypto Gaming Company
11:48 - Crypto Scam Revenue Up 81% in 2021, Hits $7.7 Billion: Chainalysis
13:13 - Personal details of up to 80,000 SA government employees accessed in cyber attack
14:00 - Brazilian Ministry of Health hit by second cyberattack in less than a week
14:54 - Volvo Cars discloses security breach leading to R&D data theft
16:00 - Man sentenced to 3.5 years in prison after transferring $23,500 on ex-girlfriend's phone by pulling up her eyelid
17:30 - Time's Person of the Year is Elon Musk
19:27 - At EA it can take a whole day to change 3 lines of code
20:06 - Bugs across globe are evolving to eat plastic, study finds
21:12 - Backlash to Disney's $5,000 Star Wars hotel grows: 'Poorly executed idea for the rich'
23:35 - New FDA-approved eye drops could replace reading glasses for millions: "It's definitely a life changer"
24:52 - Birds Aren't Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory.
27:17 - Japanese scientists develop glowing masks to detect coronavirus
29:39 - FFXIV is super stupid popular and they're not selling copies of it for a bit, send Yoshi-P your energy
31:41 - Kraft will pay you $20 to not make your Christmas cheesecake amid supply shortage
32:40 - Omicron: BBC News cuts off Chris Whitty for update on Queen's Christmas lunch
33:30 - Students say IISc removing fans 'to prevent suicides'
35:26 - After 70 Years, North And South Korea Agree ‘In Principle’ To Formally End War
36:08 - Gwyneth Paltrow linked cryptocurrency Miner TeraWulf crashes on debut
37:19 - South Korea's largest dairy company apologizes over a video advert implying women are cows
39:02 - Red-nose rage: Aggressive deer keep attacking this Rudolph decoration
40:15 - American Reality TV Actor is Selling Her Farts at Rs 76,000 for Each Jar

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