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The Level1 Show July 24 2024: How Do You Do, Fellow Kids

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0:00 - Intro
0:19 - Poll shows 84% of PC users unwilling to pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware - VideoCardz.com
1:31 - GlobalWafers scores $400M for building 300mm wafer plants • The Register
2:27 - NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules | NVIDIA Technical Blog
3:20 - ASUS' New NUC Tiny PCs Have RTX 4000 GPUs
4:20 - Google and Microsoft consume more energy than some countries due to AI advances | Windows Central
6:12 - Rabbit r1's AI assistant has secretly been storing user chats that can't be deleted | ZDNET
7:05 - Mangled fingers, no time off: Why the women who make Samsung’s semiconductors are striking
8:47 - Global IT outage: Airlines, businesses affected by CrowdStrike, Microsoft issues | AP News
9:44 - Microsoft introduces a new form of Windows updates because things weren’t confusing enough
10:20 - Exclusive: Google-backed software developer GitLab explores sale, sources say | Reuters
10:55 - Kaspersky Lab Closing U.S. Division; Laying Off Workers
11:33 - After initially rejecting it, Apple has approved the first PC emulator for iOS - The Verge
12:20 - Netflix's Password Sharing Crackdown Backfires With Slow Subscriber Growth in Q2 | Venture Capital Post
12:46 - RIAA Sues Verizon After ISP "Buried Head in Sand" Over Subscribers' Piracy * TorrentFreak
13:44 - ‘Unhealthy addiction’: Grim warning for Australian Temu shoppers | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
14:40 - Doomscrolling linked to existential anxiety, distrust, suspicion and despair, study finds | Social media | The Guardian
16:34 - 41% of People Believe Every Text “Needs” to Include an Emoji | DRGNews
17:52 - Amazon is reportedly now tracking individual hours employees spend at the office in latest worker crackdown | TechRadar
19:17 - Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees | Ars Technica
20:39 - Internal Microsoft Email Shows DEI Leader Blasting Layoffs - Business Insider
21:17 - Dirty diaper resold on Amazon ruined a family business, report says | Ars Technica
23:47 - David Zaslav on Election: Next President Should Supports Deregulation
25:25 - Facebook ads for Windows desktop themes push info-stealing malware
26:06 - A New Development in the Debate About Instagram and Teens - The Atlantic
27:26 - Meta Reportedly Unhappy With How Much Money Its VR Division Burns
28:22 - Google Search ending 'Notes' experiment
29:47 - Trump says 'I'm for TikTok' as potential US ban looms | Reuters
31:38 - Did gay dating app Grindr crash during the RNC in Milwaukee?

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The Level1 Show July 23 2024: An Army of Ones and Zeroes

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0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Reinstatement of net neutrality rules temporarily halted by appeals court - The Verge
1:17 - FCC closes “final loopholes” that keep prison phone prices exorbitantly high | Ars Technica
2:39 - FTC blasts Microsoft’s new ‘degraded’ Xbox Game Pass Standard tier and price increases - The Verge
4:32 - USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap | TechCrunch
5:21 - US Senate introduces ground-breaking bill to setup legal framework for ethical AI development | TechSpot
7:24 - Senators press AT&T, Snowflake for answers on wide-ranging data breach
8:18 - US to issue proposed rules limiting Chinese vehicle software in August | Reuters
10:58 - One-third of US military could be robotic by 2039: Milley
12:20 - NOAA Is in Danger - The Atlantic
13:52 - It May Soon Be Legal to Jailbreak AI to Expose How it Works
15:26 - Court Prohibits California Regulators from Enforcing Private Investigator Licensing Law Against Anti-Spam Crusader - Institute for Justice
17:01 - Meta won't bring future multimodal AI models to EU
18:09 - Britain's new government aims to regulate most powerful AI models | Reuters
19:11 - ByteDance must keep gatekeeper label, EU court says in boost for regulators | Reuters
20:11 - Huawei expected to take open RAN step to stay in Germany
22:03 - Google’s $500M effort to wreck Microsoft EU cloud deal failed, report says | Ars Technica
23:04 - Mysterious Case Of Norway’s Missing Undersea Cable - The Pinnacle Gazette
24:46 - Asian Tech Selloff Deepens on Worry Over US Trade Restrictions on Chips - Bloomberg
25:26 - Portal needed for victims to report AI deepfakes, federal police union says | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
28:02 - Leaked Docs Show What Phones Cellebrite Can (and Can’t) Unlock
29:50 - Israeli firm behind tech that reportedly cracked Trump shooter’s phone wants more fed business | FedScoop
30:59 - Ransomware costs at critical infrastructure orgs soar • The Register
31:46 - Rite Aid says breach exposes sensitive details of 2.2 million customers | Ars Technica
33:15 - Hackers Claim to Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages | WIRED
34:42 - AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records | WIRED
35:51 - Furniture giant shuts down manufacturing facilities after ransomware attack
36:32 - WazirX halts withdrawals after losing $230M worth crypto assets in security breach | TechCrunch
38:03 - Cloudflare reports almost 7% of internet traffic is malicious | ZDNET
38:51 - Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers
39:41 - New camera-based system can detect alcohol impairment in drivers by checking their faces | TechSpot

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The Level1 Show July 12 2024: A Figma of Apple's Imagination

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0:00 - Intro
0:32 - Phil Schiller to join OpenAI board in 'observer' role following Apple's ChatGPT deal
1:49 - ChatGPT outperforms undergrads in intro-level courses, falls short later
4:06 - Sam Altman says OpenAI's GPT-5 will be a "significant leap forward"
4:50 - OpenAI unveils CriticGPT: A game-changer for AI code error detection
6:12 - Microsoft AI CEO: Content on the open web is "freeware" for AI training
6:55 - Apple will reportedly announce a partnership with Google at iPhone 16 event
9:38 - AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings
10:40 - Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to be ripping off Apple's Weather app
11:32 - The telltale words that could identify generative AI text
12:17 - Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Results
13:27 - MIT’s soft robotic system is designed to pack groceries
14:12 - Zoox's self-driving cars join Austin's roads in July
14:54 - Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines
15:30 - 'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robots
16:47 - People can move this bionic leg just by thinking about it
17:32 - Florida man arrested after shooting, destroying Walmart delivery drone, deputies say
18:19 - Chinese rocket static-fire test results in unintended launch and huge explosion
19:20 - NASA’s commercial spacesuit program just hit a major snag
19:46 - SpaceX wants to launch up to 120 times a year from Florida -- and competitors aren't happy about it
21:02 - Alzheimer’s scientist indicted for allegedly falsifying data in $16M scheme
21:43 - Drinking from plastic bottles can raise type 2 diabetes risk, study warns
23:13 - Inflight ‘raw dogging’: The bizarre new travel trend that’s creating a buzz
24:34 - FDA to ban soda additive brominated vegetable oil amid health concerns
25:40 - Leftover Ramen Broth Is Causing Problems on South Korea's Mount Halla
26:28 - Nissin's Campfire S'mores Cup Noodles is an ode to summer
27:08 - Sri Lanka fishermen die after drinking from bottles found in sea
28:00 - Welsh Government to ban politicians from lying
29:12 - Anthony Bray sentenced to four months for possession of replica Master Sword
30:25 - Vietnam: Outrage at student height requirement
31:04 - Minnesota county board candidate who allegedly threw live tarantula at tenant is charged with assault
33:39 - Drugs disguised as Taco Bell burritos found during Tennessee traffic stop
34:18 - Rapper BG ordered to have all future songs approved by US government
35:42 - Thai teacher caught livestreaming under skirt while teaching
36:31 - North Liberty woman arrested for calling police to get out of meeting online date
37:39 - Man fined for squirting mixture of urine and flour onto woman's dress to try to chat her up, Singapore News
38:47 - To save spotted owls, US officials plan to kill hundreds of thousands of another owl species
39:25 - Runaway Household Cavalry horses on loose again in central London

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The Level1 Show July 10 2024: Everyday Is A Spying Road

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0:00 - Intro
0:43 - Microsoft lays off employees in new round of cuts
1:25 - John Deere announces mass layoffs in Midwest amid production shift to Mexico
3:17 - Unionized workers at Samsung Electronics say to stage full-scale strike
4:33 - Artificial intelligence: Nearly half of firms using AI say goal is to cut staffing costs”
5:24 - Patagonia gave 90 staff a choice — relocate across the US or leave the company. They've got 3 days to decide.
6:08 - Amazon Warehouses: Corporate Giant accused of labour law violations
8:01 - New technology enables GPUs to use PCIe-attached memory for expanded capacity
10:01 - Japan achieves staggering 402 Tb/s data rate with commercial optical fiber — record-breaking performance tapped into unused wavelength bands
10:48 - The Vision Pro will get Apple Intelligence and ‘Go Deeper’ in-store demos
11:45 - Smart highway pilot construction completed in Michigan
12:38 - Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising
13:10 - New Windows 11 Start menu annoyingly hides oft-used actions
14:09 - Microsoft's Weather app now shows more ads
15:02 - Epic Games says Apple stalling launch of its game store in Europe
16:54 - Cloudflare rolls out feature for blocking AI companies’ web scrapers
17:34 - Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan
19:13 - 'Roaring Kitty' lawsuit over GameStop is withdrawn for now
20:28 - Bleeding subscribers, cable companies force their way into streaming
21:47 - Proton Docs is a privacy-focused answer to Google Docs and Microsoft Word
22:25 - Etsy sex toy ban sparks seller outrage
23:01 - Over 14M servers may be vulnerable to OpenSSH's regreSSHion RCE flaw. Here's what you need to do
23:29 - CocoaPods Vulnerabilities Could Affect Apple, Facebook, TikTok
24:05 - Lawsuit Claims Microsoft Tracked Sex Toy Shoppers With 'Recording in Real Time' Software
25:12 - People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are
26:16 - Prudential Financial now says 2.5 million impacted by data breach
27:43 - A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too
28:54 - “Everything’s frozen”: Ransomware locks credit union users out of bank accounts
29:44 - Twilio says hackers identified cell phone numbers of two-factor app Authy users
31:02 - Synapse: Americans caught in fintech’s false FDIC promise
33:00 - Microsoft tells more customers their emails have been stolen
33:48 - Ticketmaster Breach: ShinyHunters Leak 440,000 Taylor Swift Eras Tour Tickets

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The Level1 Show July 3 2024: OneDrive Me Crazy

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0:00 - Intro
0:38 - Used EV price crash gets deeper with 'premium' brand idea history
1:39 - Redbox Fails to Pay $4 Million to NBCUniversal As It Fires Its Board
3:22 - 'Great Resignation' enters third year as workers embrace AI, upskilling, PwC says
4:45 - Nordic Online Store Boozt Blocks Thousands of ‘Serial Returners’
6:42 - Activists Disrupt Amazon Conference Over $1.2 Billion Contract With Israel
7:46 - ‘It’s been hell’: injured Amazon workers turn to GoFundMe to pay bills
9:19 - Apple Pauses Work on Planned North Carolina Campus
10:07 - Ontario Science Centre to close immediately: province
12:29 - Nvidia sees around £339bn wiped off market value in three-day sell-off
12:57 - Microsoft scores high on Surface repairability
14:02 - Microsoft ends Project Natick underwater data center experiment despite success
15:07 - Microsoft makes Copilot less useful on new Copilot Plus PCs
16:06 - Intel launches optical compute interconnect chiplet: Adding 4 Tbps optical connectivity to CPUs or GPUs
17:03 - Framework Laptop 13 is Getting a Drop-In RISC-V Mainboard Option
18:11 - Walmart adopts electronic shelf labels, following other supermarkets. What it means for you
20:08 - 3 recalls for Tesla Cybertruck in as many months
20:58 - Volkswagen's $5 bln investment in Rivian boosts EV maker's shares
21:25 - Apple expands Self Service Repair Diagnostics support to Europe
22:09 - How the Teamsters and a Homegrown Union Plan to Take On Amazon
23:35 - Monster 310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks
25:39 - Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission
26:39 - Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week
28:12 - Uber Is Locking Out NYC Drivers Mid-Shift to Lower Minimum Pay
30:01 - Google dropping continuous scroll in search results
30:40 - Streaming execs think TV’s future looks a lot like its past
31:13 - The big streamers have been cutting their original content output
31:39 - Paramount+ Is Hiking Subscription Prices Again
32:22 - Slack Will Begin Deleting Older Content From Free Workspaces
33:34 - Linux in your car: Red Hat’s milestone collaboration with exida
34:16 - Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer, CPO says in bombshell lawsuit
35:21 - Amazon mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp
36:30 - Amazon plans discount store in bid to fend off Temu and Shein
37:54 - Elden Ring balance update makes the first half of the DLC easier, so you don't have to be as good as games journalists
38:52 - New Jersey man flies to Florida to attack another player over an online gaming dispute, deputies say
41:28 - Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag
42:15 - Meta is tagging real photos as 'Made with AI,' say photographers
43:26 - Apple might partner with Meta on AI
44:23 - Reddit blocks AI bots from crawling its website

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The Level1 Show July 2 2024: The Hills Are Alive With The Fumes of Rockets

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0:00 - Intro
0:39 - McDonald's is ending its drive-thru AI test
1:59 - Perplexity Is a Bullcrap Machine
3:30 - OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever launches 'safe superintelligence' AI firm
4:49 - OpenAI CEO says company could become for-profit corporation, The Information reports
5:45 - GPT-4 has passed the Turing test, researchers claim
6:50 - Former Snap engineer launches Butterflies, a social network where AIs and humans coexist
7:54 - China’s DeepSeek Coder becomes first open-source coding model to beat GPT-4 Turbo
8:20 - Meta has created a way to watermark AI-generated speech
8:55 - Ukraine is using AI to manage the removal of Russian landmines
9:35 - AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hell
10:49 - Authorities Investigating AI Running for Mayor in Wyoming
11:37 - Mich. GOP candidate apologizes for 'disrespectful' AI-generated MLK Jr endorsement video
12:52 - London premiere of movie with AI-generated script cancelled after backlash
13:17 - Ukrainian robot drone tanks get Starlink power to battle Russia
13:52 - Future of Warfare: Pentagon Building Kamikaze AI Drones
14:59 - Public servants uneasy as government 'spy' robot prowls federal offices
16:13 - China’s next-gen sexbots powered by AI are about to hit the shelves
17:13 - Boeing Starliner: Two astronauts wait to come home amid spacecraft issues
18:12 - Human missions to Mars in doubt after astronaut kidney shrinkage revealed
19:10 - Astronomers detect sudden awakening of black hole 1m times mass of sun
19:51 - Voyager 1 makes stellar comeback to science operations
20:30 - Microplastics discovered in human penises for the first time
21:16 - $2.4 million Texas home listing boasts built-in 5,786 sq ft data center with full liquid cooling immersion system, no bedrooms
22:14 - Awful News: High School Cancels Basketball Game to be Played by Women in Thongs
23:08 - Mysterious metal monolith shows up in Las Vegas after reappearing in Wales
23:49 - Vermont lawmaker apologizes for dousing colleague’s bag
24:46 - Louisiana classrooms now required by law to display the Ten Commandments
25:40 - Secret Service agent robbed at gunpoint during Biden's Los Angeles trip
26:19 - Just Stop Oil targets Taylor Swift’s jet – and fails to locate it
27:25 - Philippines accuses China of using bladed weapons in major South China Sea escalation
28:50 - Ohio attorney suspended over throwing poop-filled Pringles cans has license reinstated
30:17 - Mom Defends Her Decision Not To Return the Shopping Cart Despite Backlash
32:11 - Biotech companies are trying to make milk without cows
33:54 - Waffle House servers are getting a raise - to $3 an hour
34:55 - Wear it, then recycle: Designers make dissolvable textiles from gelatin
35:49 - Radio trackers placed on rare beetles across Dartmoor
37:04 - Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus
38:55 - Bear shreds seats then dozes off after breaking into Canadian woman’s car

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The Level1 Show June 28th 2024: The Most Satisfying Troubleshoot of All Time

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0:00 - Intro
0:39 - McDonald's is ending its drive-thru AI test
1:59 - Perplexity Is a Bullcrap Machine
3:30 - OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever launches 'safe superintelligence' AI firm
4:49 - OpenAI CEO says company could become for-profit corporation, The Information reports
5:45 - GPT-4 has passed the Turing test, researchers claim
6:50 - Former Snap engineer launches Butterflies, a social network where AIs and humans coexist
7:54 - China’s DeepSeek Coder becomes first open-source coding model to beat GPT-4 Turbo
8:20 - Meta has created a way to watermark AI-generated speech
8:55 - Ukraine is using AI to manage the removal of Russian landmines
9:35 - AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hell
10:49 - Authorities Investigating AI Running for Mayor in Wyoming
11:37 - Mich. GOP candidate apologizes for 'disrespectful' AI-generated MLK Jr endorsement video
12:52 - London premiere of movie with AI-generated script cancelled after backlash
13:17 - Ukrainian robot drone tanks get Starlink power to battle Russia
13:52 - Future of Warfare: Pentagon Building Kamikaze AI Drones
14:59 - Public servants uneasy as government 'spy' robot prowls federal offices
16:13 - China’s next-gen sexbots powered by AI are about to hit the shelves
17:13 - Boeing Starliner: Two astronauts wait to come home amid spacecraft issues
18:12 - Human missions to Mars in doubt after astronaut kidney shrinkage revealed
19:10 - Astronomers detect sudden awakening of black hole 1m times mass of sun
19:51 - Voyager 1 makes stellar comeback to science operations
20:30 - Microplastics discovered in human penises for the first time
21:16 - $2.4 million Texas home listing boasts built-in 5,786 sq ft data center with full liquid cooling immersion system, no bedrooms
22:14 - Awful News: High School Cancels Basketball Game to be Played by Women in Thongs
23:08 - Mysterious metal monolith shows up in Las Vegas after reappearing in Wales
23:49 - Vermont lawmaker apologizes for dousing colleague’s bag
24:46 - Louisiana classrooms now required by law to display the Ten Commandments
25:40 - Secret Service agent robbed at gunpoint during Biden's Los Angeles trip
26:19 - Just Stop Oil targets Taylor Swift’s jet – and fails to locate it
27:25 - Philippines accuses China of using bladed weapons in major South China Sea escalation
28:50 - Ohio attorney suspended over throwing poop-filled Pringles cans has license reinstated
30:17 - Mom Defends Her Decision Not To Return the Shopping Cart Despite Backlash
32:11 - Biotech companies are trying to make milk without cows
33:54 - Waffle House servers are getting a raise - to $3 an hour
34:55 - Wear it, then recycle: Designers make dissolvable textiles from gelatin
35:49 - Radio trackers placed on rare beetles across Dartmoor
37:04 - Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus
38:55 - Bear shreds seats then dozes off after breaking into Canadian woman’s car

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The Level1 Show June 19th 2024: Cash Rejected Everywhere Around Me

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0:00 - Intro
0:31 - Best Buy is laying off more employees as it reckons with falling sales
2:18 - NYT Union Urges Management Reconsider Cuts to Art Department
2:45 - United Airlines launches personalized ads on seat-back screens
4:03 - Want to pay cash? That’ll cost you extra
5:55 - Germany sees company bankruptcies soar
7:36 - Nvidia takes 88% of the GPU market share, crushing Intel's grasp into nothingness
8:11 - Chipmaker Intel to halt $25-billion Israel plant, news website says
9:13 - Flow claims it can 100x any CPU's power with its companion chip and some elbow grease
10:15 - Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed
11:32 - HP CEO: Printed pages are down 20% since pandemic
12:53 - `Raspberry Pi is now a public company
13:40 - One-Line Patch For Intel Meteor Lake Yields Up To 72% Better Performance, +7% Geo Mean
14:19 - Roku TV owners complain that motion smoothing is stuck ‘on’ after an update
15:38 - Musk, SpaceX sued by former employees alleging harassment, retaliation
16:46 - Apple and OpenAI aren’t paying each other yet, says Bloomberg
19:03 - Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18
19:38 - Google’s abuse of Fitbit continues with web app shutdown
21:23 - Google is ready to fill free streaming TV channels with ads
22:02 - Microsoft postpones Windows Recall after major backlash — will launch Copilot+ PCs without headlining AI feature
23:50 - Mastercard to phase out card entry for e-commerce by 2030 in Europe
24:39 - Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's enormous 309GB download "not representative of a typical player install experience"
25:51 - "Un-contract" customers enraged as T-Mobile unlocks its price-lock with new rate hikes
26:49 - Ancient Rom Site Forced To Remove Sega, Sony, Nintendo Games
27:37 - YouTuber charged over video of helicopter shooting fireworks at Lamborghini
28:29 - YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads
29:30 - YouTube announces new restrictions on gun videos
30:48 - Pew: A growing number of Americans are getting their news from TikTok
32:04 - The word ‘bot’ is increasingly being used as an insult on social media

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The Level1 Show June 11th 2024: FCC Around and Find Out

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0:00 - Intro
1:18 - US sets stage for antitrust probes into Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia
2:37 - Yellen to warn of 'significant risks' from use of AI in finance
3:40 - Meta Withheld Information on Instagram, WhatsApp Deals: FTC
4:21 - FCC ends affordable internet program due to lack of funds
5:53 - ISPs seek halt of net neutrality rules before they take effect next month
6:34 - A landmark New York bill would restrict social media for children. Here's what to know.
8:08 - FBI recovers 7,000 LockBit keys, urges ransomware victims to reach out
8:40 - FBI Raids Corporate Landlord in Major Rent Price-Fixing Probe
10:22 - Tribunal rules $17 bln UK adtech lawsuit against Google can go ahead
10:57 - Meta faces call in EU not to use personal data for AI models
11:47 - Primarschule Birmensdorf will organize Kindern im Hort Tracking-Bänder
14:03 - Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War
15:13 - Scientists find security risk in RISC-V open-source chip architecture that China hopes can help sidestep US sanctions
16:02 - TSMC says it has discussed moving fabs out of Taiwan but such a move impossible
16:52 - Japan’s push to make all research open access is taking shape
17:39 - 'Bring Back Tigran Gambaryan,' Lawmakers Pressure U.S. to Treat Binance Exec's Nigeria Detention as a Hostage Situation
18:35 - Foreign streamers must pay into fund to boost Canadian content, CRTC says
19:21 - Services disrupted as London hospitals hit by cyber-attack
20:26 - Crooks threaten to leak 2.9B records of personal info
21:39 - Snowflake says there’s no evidence attackers breached its platform to hack Ticketmaster
22:40 - Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents
23:53 - Cybercriminals pose as "helpful" Stack Overflow users to push malware
24:38 - Law student ‘unfairly disciplined’ after reporting data breach blunder
25:37 - Nintendo Hits 127 Switch Piracy Tutorial Repos After 'Cracking' URL Encryption
27:24 - 'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'
29:11 - Hackers steal $305M from DMM Bitcoin crypto exchange

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The Level1 Show June 5th 2024: Junk In The PCI Slot

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0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Samsung workers’ union announces first-ever strike for chipmaker | South Korea | The Guardian
1:35 - Fisker cuts hundreds of workers in bid to keep EV startup alive | TechCrunch
2:05 - Bay Area carmaker lays off hundreds after raising $1 billion
2:42 - Phoenix Labs lays off 162 Bay Area workers in yet more video game cuts
3:24 - Klarna using GenAI to cut marketing costs by $10 mln annually | Reuters
5:11 - Salesforce (CRM) Q1 earnings report 2025
5:39 - 'Furiosa' Edges 'Garfield' in Worst Memorial Day Weekend Since 1995 - Times of San Diego
7:01 - Nearly 80% of Americans now consider fast food a 'luxury' due to high prices | Fox Business
8:19 - Arm’s next-gen Immortalis is more powerful and power-efficient - The Verge
9:05 - Gigabyte's new B650E motherboard supports plump graphics cards weighing up to 58 kg | PC Gamer
10:05 - Data centers could use 9% of US electricity by 2030, research institute says | Reuters
10:57 - AST SpaceMobile, Verizon partner on satellite internet
12:04 - Android's new Instant Hotspot feature won't be available on Samsung devices
12:46 - Spacetop, the radical new laptop with no screen, is ready for launch | PCWorld
14:33 - A startup’s “tablet” gears up to take on Apple’s iPad – On my Om
16:05 - Exclusive: Google, augmented reality startup Magic Leap strike partnership deal | Reuters
16:42 - BYD Says Its New Hybrid Cars Can Go 1,250 Miles Without Gas or Charging
17:41 - Swiss company develops CPUs from lab-grown human brains & the internet is horrified - Dexerto
18:51 - Tool may help find missing people in Colorado’s backcountry within minutes
21:04 - HUGE Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm
22:14 - YouTube has now begun skipping videos altogether for users with ad blockers
23:57 - Press Release: PayPal Announces New Leaders to Build New Advertising Platform and Accelerate Consumer Product Innovation - May 28, 2024
24:48 - Microsoft's Automatic Super Resolution arrives to improve gaming performance — Auto SR serves as an upscaler similar to Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR | Tom's Hardware
25:44 - Bungie Wins Lawsuit Against Cheat Maker Aimjunkies | PCMag
27:25 - Google threatens to pause Google News Initiative funding in U.S.
28:37 - VBScript deprecation: Timelines and next steps | Windows IT Pro Blog
29:07 - Apple says it will put its AI processing data in a "cloud black box" to keep it private | TechRadar
29:46 - Star Citizen Pushes Through the $700 Million Raised Mark and No, There Still Isn’t a Release Date - IGN
30:41 - Twitch terminates all members of its Safety Advisory Council
31:54 - ICQ will stop working from June 26
32:43 - Meta says it removed six influence campaigns including those from Israel and China - The Verge
33:19 - Instagram’s ‘limits’ adds a mute button for everyone other than close friends - The Verge
34:07 - White House rejected offer from TikTok allowing US government to oversee app | The Independent
35:37 - Exclusive: TikTok preparing a US copy of the app’s core algorithm, sources say | Reuters
37:09 - UK mother of boy who killed himself seeks right to access his social media | Internet safety | The Guardian
38:16 - More Ontario school boards file suits against social media giants | CBC News
39:07 - Pope clears way for 'God's influencer' to become a saint

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