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The Level1 Show November 15 2024: Mynah Way Or The Hynah Way

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0:00 - Intro
0:43 - AI Workers Seek Whistleblower Cover to Expose Emerging Threats
2:34 - Did OpenAI just spend more than $10 million on a URL?
3:27 - Perplexity CEO offers AI company's services to replace striking NYT staff
4:22 - Leaked Training Shows How Doctors in New York’s Biggest Hospital System Are Using AI
6:05 - Microsoft tests AI-powered editing in Notepad
6:51 - Waymo explores using Google’s Gemini to train its robotaxis
7:57 - Disney forms dedicated AI and XR group to coordinate company-wide use and adoption
9:08 - Prime Video will let you summon AI to recap what you’re watching
10:04 - Netflix Bullish on Gen AI for Games After Laying Off Human Game Developers
10:35 - Amazon starts drone deliveries in Arizona
11:41 - Toddlers show increased physical activity with a robot playmate moving around the room
13:24 - This Black Hole Is Eating Stuff at Over 40 Times The Theoretical Limit
14:35 - Mystery as four NASA astronauts are rushed to hospital without explanation after returning from space
15:32 - LignoSat: First wood-panelled satellite launched into space
16:33 - 'Did Joe Biden Drop Out' Google Searches Spike on Election Night, Suggesting Many Americans Had No Idea He Wasn't Running
17:44 - HK should put baby photos in gov't offices to encourage civil servants to have kids
18:33 - Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu orders treason charges against children to be dropped
19:30 - IKEA will pay 6 million euros to East German prisoners forced to build their furniture in a landmark move
20:28 - Man died after friends dared him to sit on box of fireworks to win an auto rickshaw
21:10 - Ambulance hits Oregon cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill, lawsuit says
22:15 - 'Tar ball' mystery: Sydney identifies objects that shut beaches
23:20 - Axe Attack On Paris Train Leaves 4 Teens Injured
24:20 - Houston mother accused of trying to sell newborn to highest bidder on Facebook
25:14 - Vancouver couple drops suit against Irish nanny for quitting
26:50 - 13 Lewisville officers disciplined after 'inappropriate contact' during prostitution busts
27:41 - South Korean police arrest American YouTuber for his safety
28:52 - Youngstown police: Elderly man fends off machete attack with his nunchucks
30:26 - Florida’s convicted killer clown Sheila Keen-Warren released from prison
31:40 - 11-Year-Old Girl Wins $300K After Police Seize And Slaughter Her Pet Goat
33:48 - 43 monkeys escape South Carolina research facility; police warn residents to secure doors and windows
34:31 - Novel way to beat dengue: Deaf mosquitoes stop having sex
35:04 - Mynah photobombs motorway camera in New Zealand, netizens amused
35:30 - Raccoon drops from ceiling at LaGuardia Airport and goes on the run
35:51 - Baby Haggis is the new Moo Deng: A pygmy hippo is born in Edinburgh
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The Level1 Show October 30th: Pack It Up, Plastic Pillows

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0:00 - Intro
0:42 - Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $73m, despite devastating year for layoffs
2:34 - Apple and Goldman Sachs fined millions for misleading Apple Card holders
4:17 - Amazon says it ditched plastic air pillows
5:23 - T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users
6:12 - Intuit asked us to delete part of this Decoder episode
7:38 - Arm to Scrap Qualcomm Chip Design License in Feud Escalation
9:02 - Qualcomm brings laptop-class CPU cores to phones with Snapdragon 8 Elite
10:01 - TSMC halts chip supply to customer after finding it in Huawei product, source says
10:41 - Nvidia's Jensen Huang admits AI chip design flaw was '100% Nvidia's fault' — TSMC not to blame, now-fixed Blackwell chips are in production
11:22 - iFixit’s Meta Quest 3S teardown reveals a Quest 2 ‘hiding inside’
12:22 - Arkansas May Have Vast Lithium Reserves, Researchers Say
13:27 - Huawei’s HarmonyOS NEXT launch marks a divorce from Android
14:25 - Adobe made its painting app completely free to take on Procreate
15:26 - Disney and Apple are breaking up over App Store fees
16:03 - Netflix closes AAA game studio before it ever released a game
18:17 - Roblox's Child Safety Changes Reveal How Dangerous It's Been
19:30 - This App Set Out to Fight Pesticides. After VCs Stepped In, Now It Helps Sell Them
22:04 - Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police
23:24 - Almost anything goes on social media — as long as it doesn’t make billionaires feel even a little bit unsafe
26:11 - LinkedIn Fined More Than $300 Million in Ireland Over Personal Data Processing
26:51 - Elon Musk's X hit by 90% revenue plunge in India
27:48 - Yelp disables comments on the McDonald's Trump visited
28:55 - Oversight Board says Meta’s handling of a satirical image of Harris and Walz raises ‘serious concerns’
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You Probably Won't Buy Intel's New Ultra 9 285k CPU

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There's some amazing engineering under the hood of Intel's new CPUs, but plenty of teething issues too. Wendell investigates!

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0:00 - Intro
1:04 - Overview
2:26 - Memory Latency/Artificial Benchmarks
3:29 - Gaming Benchmarks
4:59 - Power Consumption
7:11 - What's up with Intel APO?
9:45 - Conclusion
^ there's a typo here, the column is supposed to say "OS" not "CPU" lol... whoops

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The Level1 Show October 23nd: FAero-well-garden

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0:00 - Intro
0:25 - Intel & AMD Form An x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group
2:46 - Intel laying off 1,300 workers from Oregon site as it reduces workforce by 15,000 workers company wide
3:35 - Amazon.com joins push for nuclear power to meet data center demand
4:12 - Google signs deal with nuclear company as data center power demand surges
5:01 - ASML loses $75.7 billion market cap from updated sales projections, likely due to lower demand from China and delayed Intel fab
5:46 - SSD prices could drop up to 10% ahead of the New Year – TrendForce predicts an increase in production and weaker demand
6:31 - Qualcomm cancels Snapdragon Dev Kit, refunds all orders
8:17 - How this smart garden stopped growing
9:53 - SpaceX Requests Starlink Gen2 Modification, Previews Gigabit-Speeds
11:21 - Apple Headset Stalls, Struggles to Attract Killer Apps in First Year
12:48 - Gurman: Apple Could Release $2,000 'Apple Vision' Headset Next Year
13:26 - Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition hands-on: color E Ink looks pretty good
14:17 - Standing desks do not reduce risk of stroke and heart failure, study suggests
15:40 - Apple’s new feature lets brands put their stamp on emails and calls to your iPhone
17:08 - Samsung wants future phones to have no Settings menu at all
18:01 - TV ads to target households on individual streets
19:21 - Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin
20:21 - Google asks 9th Circuit for emergency stay, says Epic ruling ‘is dangerous’
21:29 - Nintendo, famed for hating emulation, likely using Windows PCs to emulate SNES games at its museum
23:24 - Netflix raises prices as password boost fades
25:11 - AI-Powered Social Media Manipulation App Promises to 'Shape Reality'
26:57 - Meta ‘Supreme Court’ expands with European center to handle TikTok, YouTube cases
27:33 - Meta is laying off employees at WhatsApp, Instagram, and more
29:01 - X Slammed for Allowing Blocked Users to See Posts Anyway: 'Countless People Will Be Put in Definitive Danger'
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The Level1 Show October 16th: Backdoor 4 Beijing

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0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Samsung apologizes for making just $6.8 billion last quarter
2:16 - Cognizant faces legal setback: US court finds company discriminated towards non-Indian workers
3:11 - Global semiconductor sales up 20.6% to hit record $53.1B
4:04 - Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs offer 'parity' performance at half the power
5:39 - AMD launches MI325X AI chip to rival Nvidia's Blackwell
7:31 - M4 MacBook Pro offered for sale on Russian site; likely real
8:40 - Nintendo announces new game hardware: an alarm clock called Alarmo
10:58 - Nintendo Switch Modder Who Refused to Shut Down Now Takes to Court Against Nintendo Without a Lawyer
12:14 - 'Nearly unusable': Calif. police majorly push back on Tesla cop cars
15:10 - Fisker bankruptcy hits major speed bump as fleet sale is now in question
16:39 - Windows 11's big 2024 update leaves behind ~9GB of undeletable files
17:11 - Roblox accused of lying to investors about user numbers by Hindenburg Research
19:22 - Chinese hack shows why Apple is right about security backdoors
20:42 - Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users
21:01 - Hacktivists Claim Responsibility for Taking Down the Internet Archive
22:20 - Porch Pirates Across the Country Target AT&T iPhones Delivered By FedEx
23:35 - MoneyGram says hackers stole customers' personal information and transaction data
24:07 - OpenAI Says China-Linked Group Tried to Phish Its Employees
24:29 - American Water warns of billing outages after finding hackers in its systems
25:12 - Comcast confirms 237K affected in feisty breach notification
25:45 - Fidelity says data breach exposed personal data of 77,000 customers
26:23 - CTV industry’s unprecedented “surveillance”

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The Level1 Show October 9th: Good Guy Gabe

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0:00 - Intro
0:22 - Microsoft exec reassures staff there’s no plan for Amazon-style RTO
1:40 - Amazon’s Shark Tank-like Buy It Now gets a trailer
3:39 - Steam will let you sue Valve now
4:29 - Raspberry Pi launches camera module for vision-based AI applications
6:25 - Cerebras files for IPO
7:46 - AMD improves Zen 5 CPU latency and performance with BIOS updates
8:36 - Starlink Surpasses 4 Million Subscribers, Cementing Dominance in Satellite Internet
10:21 - Palmer Luckey: Every country needs a 'warrior class' excited to enact 'violence on others in pursuit of good aims'
14:11 - Mazda’s $10 Subscription For Remote Start Sparks Backlash After Killing Open Source Option
15:14 - Helene damage in Spruce Pine, N.C. could induce chip shortage, threaten economy
16:16 - Enel X Way North America is shutting down – here's what we know
18:02 - Behind OpenAI's audacious plan to make AI flow like electricity
19:29 - Google’s AI search summaries officially have ads
19:47 - More ads are coming to Amazon Prime Video
21:30 - Did Apple just kill social apps?
22:51 - Juno YouTube App for Vision Pro Removed From App Store
24:33 - Nintendo has reportedly shut down Ryujinx, the Switch emulator that was supposedly immune
26:13 - Bank of America is down: Users report their accounts showing empty balance during widespread outage
26:44 - AT&T claims VMware offered it a 1,050 percent price rise
28:26 - Ubisoft investors push for company sale as shares hit decade-low
30:15 - The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve — SteamOS and Arch should both benefit greatly
31:30 - People are posting 'fake animal rescues' for social media likes
32:45 - The Hawk Tuah Girl's Podcast "Talk Tuah" Becomes the 3rd Most Popular Podcast on Spotify in the US after The Joe Rogan Experience and The Tucker Carlson Show
35:12 - Meta hit with new author copyright lawsuit over AI training
35:43 - Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
36:45 - Nintendo Is Now Going After YouTube Accounts Which Show Its Games Being Emulated

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The Level1 Show September 25th: It's a Wonderful (Online) Life

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0:00 - Intro
1:56 - Tech Jobs Have Dried Up—and Aren’t Coming Back Soon
2:36 - Cisco's second layoff of 2024 affects thousands of employees
2:50 - IBM quietly axing thousands of jobs, source claims
3:30 - Billionaire tech CEO: Bosses shouldn't 'BS' employees about AI impact
4:56 - Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
5:41 - Israel didn't tamper with Hezbollah's exploding pagers, it made them
6:41 - Intel turns foundry business into subsidiary, weighs outside funding
7:56 - Apple Charging 20% More to Replace Batteries in iPhone 16 Pro Models
9:11 - Tech giants fight plan to make them pay more for electric grid upgrades
10:16 - Microsoft and Abu Dhabi's MGX to back $30bn BlackRock AI infrastructure fund
12:02 - TCL accused of selling quantum dot TVs without actual quantum dots
14:18 - Musk's Neuralink gets FDA's breakthrough device tag for 'Blindsight' implant
15:31 - Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers
18:45 - The Trumps Have Gone Full Crypto With World Liberty Financial
20:01 - YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
20:35 - Microsoft has scrapped Edge's big UI refresh with rounded tabs
22:16 - Snapchat’s AI selfie feature puts your face in personalized ads — here’s how to turn it off
23:10 - “Dead Internet theory” comes to life with new AI-powered social media app
24:50 - Elon Musk’s X circumvents official block in Brazil but says move was ‘inadvertent’
26:02 - YouTube launches Communities, a Discord-like space for creators and fans to interact with each other
26:57 - Instagram makes all teen accounts private, in a highly scrutinized push for child safety
28:13 - Nearly half of Gen Zers wish social media 'was never invented'

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The Level1 Show September 20th: Full Mars Living

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0:00 - Intro
0:22 - OpenAI releases new o1 reasoning model
3:08 - Audible to Start Generating AI Voice Replicas of Select Audiobook Narrators
4:32 - An AI Bot Named James Has Taken My Old Job
6:00 - Video game performers reach agreement with 80 video games on AI terms
7:56 - Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons
9:49 - Massage robot company Aescape expands to Miami
12:02 - Human drivers keep rear-ending Waymos
12:50 - ESA prints 3D metal shape in space for first time
13:47 - Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap
14:42 - Musk Posts Uncrewed SpaceX Starships Will Launch Mars Nov-Dec 2026
16:33 - Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris in response to fake AI Trump endorsement
17:35 - Pastor Claims 'Witchcraft' To Blame For Trump's Bad Debate
18:08 - Part of brain network much bigger in people with depression, scientists find
18:55 - Raygun ranked world number one after Paris Olympics controversy
20:27 - Putin 'Dismayed' by Young Son Cosplaying Disney Characters
23:00 - Which Brands Want to Loosen the Definition of “Recyclable”?
24:20 - Exec behind $500 billion sustainable paradise Neom complained about worker deaths taking up his time
26:20 - Canadian Army says new military sleeping bags not suitable for 'typical Canadian winter'
28:43 - Crime minister has purse stolen at police conference
29:08 - Gas station worker accused of beating customer with bat for taking too much nacho cheese
31:00 - D.C. Police Searching for Man Who Sodomized Himself with a Cucumber
32:13 - Rangers: Dropped Cheetos bag upsets Carlsbad Caverns
33:10 - Electrocuted Birds Are Bursting Into Flames and Starting Wildfires
34:37 - Cat makes surprise return home four days after being ‘cremated’
35:38 - Japan’s cat testicle calendar is here for nyantama fans to go nuts with

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Gaming on ZEN 4 to ZEN 5: Windows vs Linux

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Weird stuff is still happening with the new Ryzen's, so lets take a look specifically at the uplift presents!

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The Level1 Show September 18th: Boldly Folding Where No Man Has Ever Folded Before

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0:00 - Intro
0:31 - Microsoft Lays Off Another 650 Staff From Its Video Game Workforce, Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Sends Memo to Staff
1:40 - Verizon to eliminate nearly 5,000 employees in $2 billion cost-cutting move
2:12 - Samsung Elec plans global job cuts of up to 30% in some divisions, sources say
3:06 - Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony president
4:16 - AMD’s new Variable Graphics Memory lets laptop users reassign their RAM to gaming
5:21 - China's Huawei prices trifold phone, to launch same day as Apple iPhone 16
6:28 - Oracle designing data center that would be powered by 3 small nuclear reactors
7:33 - Sleep apnea detection is coming to the Apple Watch
8:16 - AirPods Pro 2 adds 'clinical grade' hearing aid feature
9:47 - Sony’s PS5 Pro is a pricey test of next-gen consoles
11:07 - Former Samsung execs arrested for allegedly using stolen memory tech to build chip factory in China — suspects leaked $3.2B worth of Samsung secrets
12:04 - Ex-Google exec said goal was to 'crush' competition, trial evidence shows
13:19 - Here's how Android apps are getting better at detecting sideloading
14:01 - Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023
15:13 - YouTube on TVs is cramming ads down your throat even when pausing videos
16:54 - Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads
18:06 - Mark Zuckerberg says he's done apologizing
19:21 - Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option
20:18 - Police brushed him off. So he exposed an international bike theft ring on his own
21:56 - TikTok craze leads to Iceland cucumber shortage

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