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The Level1 Show December 31 2024: FaceBots

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0:00 - Intro
1:32 - Microsoft Bundling Practices Focus of Federal Antitrust Probe
3:06 - Biden administration launches probe into China's semiconductor industry
3:39 - Google’s counteroffer to the government trying to break it up is unbundling Android apps
5:22 - FCC ‘rip and replace’ provision for Chinese tech tops cyber provisions in defense bill
6:38 - Government to Name ‘Key Witness’ Who Provided FBI With Backdoored Encrypted Chat App Anom
7:45 - Senators rip into automakers for selling customer data and blocking right to repair
8:52 - Drones continue to buzz over US bases. The military isn’t sure why and how to stop them.
10:03 - CFPB sues America's largest banks for 'allowing fraud to fester' on Zelle
12:07 - Bill requiring US agencies to share custom source code with each other becomes law
13:15 - New Law Requiring Businesses to Report Who Owns Them Is Put on Hold Again
15:03 - Nvidia and AMD rush to stockpile graphics cards ahead of Trump tariff that could raise prices by 40%
16:03 - Lyft says San Francisco overcharged it $100M in taxes
17:22 - In Maine, remote jobs give prisoners a lifeline
18:27 - Right-wing warfare pits Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy against MAGA over H-1B visas
22:50 - Who is Kay Granger? Congresswoman missing for six months found living at dementia care home
24:55 - The EU wants Apple to open AirDrop and AirPlay to Android
25:25 - Cloudflare Must Block 'Piracy Shield' Domains and IP Addresses Across its Service
26:46 - The USB-C charging mandate arrives in the EU — here’s what that means
27:51 - Sweden says China denied request for prosecutors to board ship linked to severed cables
29:32 - Albania to close TikTok for a year
30:08 - Russia bans crypto mining in multiple regions, citing energy concerns
30:44 - South Korea mulls creating 'KSMC' contract chipmaker to compete with TSMC, requires a $13.9 billion investment
31:54 - Critics decry Vietnam’s ‘draconian’ new internet law
33:07 - El Salvador strikes $1.4bn IMF deal after scaling back Bitcoin policies
34:16 - Meta Expects AI Characters to Generate Social Media Content
37:03 - More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD
37:41 - Meta to add display to Ray-Bans as race over smart glasses intensifies
38:19 - The ‘Art of the Deal’ President wants to try and save TikTok

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The Level1 Show December 27 2024: California Murder Squirrel

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0:00 - Intro
0:33 - OpenAI brings ChatGPT to your landline
2:01 - Microsoft introduces Phi-4, an AI model for advanced reasoning tasks
2:58 - Meta asks California AG to block OpenAI’s switch from non-profit to for-profit
3:40 - Salesforce will hire 2,000 people to sell AI products, CEO Benioff says
5:18 - YouTube is letting creators opt in to allowing third-party AI training
5:53 - UK arts and media reject plan to let AI firms use copyrighted material
6:27 - itch.io says it was taken down by Funko
8:12 - New Research Shows AI Strategically Lying
11:02 - Waymo robotaxis are coming to Tokyo in 2025
11:43 - A Waymo robotaxi got stuck in a roundabout loop
12:19 - ‘Burning through cash,' Boston Dynamics lays off 45 employees
13:06 - Driverless bus service in Scotland to be withdrawn due to lack of interest
14:08 - Mayorkas says federal authorities are addressing New Jersey drone sightings
14:41 - Astronauts who flew to space aboard Starliner face additional delay
15:31 - The US military is now talking openly about going on the attack in space
16:23 - MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style
17:59 - New York Considering Special Hotline Just for CEOs to Report Alleged Threats to Their Safety After Brian Thompson Killing
18:55 - Fox News anchor gushes over Trump's new hairdo, calls it ‘the winds of winning’
19:30 - Syria: Freed prisoner who said he was a victim of the Assad regime was an intelligence officer, locals say
20:15 - Mount Vernon, New York, police force strip searched nearly everyone it arrested, DOJ says
21:19 - Hornets To Return PS5 To Fan After Taking It Away Off Camera
22:32 - Rare Pokémon cards are being used to finance organized crime
24:03 - City of Fukushima to name offenders in malicious cases of unsorted garbage in Japan 1st
25:16 - NSW Police charge two men after ABC triple j Unearthed website allegedly used to plan stabbing inside Goulburn prison
26:07 - More than a million vapes a day in UK thrown away, says research
26:56 - “Unprecedented” decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts
27:57 - Man who helped design breathalysers banned for drink driving
28:30 - Polish government releases strategic butter reserves
29:50 - Liquid Death’s Pit Diaper sells out, solves concert bathroom woes
30:40 - Are adults forgetting how to read?
31:13 - Flat Earther admits he was wrong after traveling 9,000 miles to Antarctica to test his belief
31:53 - Italian woman rescued from cave for second time in two years
33:15 - Video: California ground squirrel displays 'carnivorous behavior'

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The Level1 Show December 25 2024: GrubFlub

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0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Amazon workers strike at seven US sites during year's busiest period
2:08 - Tesla named one of the most deadliest car brands, NHTSA study says
3:33 - Apple reportedly won’t launch an iPhone subscription service
4:27 - Microsoft acquires twice as many Nvidia AI chips as tech rivals
5:11 - Seagate launches 32TB Exos M hard drive based on HAMR technology – Mozaic 3+ drives are the world’s first generally available HAMR HDDs
6:00 - New type of battery could outlast EVs and still be used for grid energy storage
7:52 - ‘World’s first’ grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant announced in the US in another step for the futuristic energy
9:17 - Here's how to turn off ads for Call of Duty in Windows 11
10:10 - Grubhub to pay $25 million for misleading customers, restaurants, drivers
11:07 - Florida to Lose PornHub Access
11:44 - Balatro dev swings at PEGI for rating it 18+ because of its 'evil playing cards', jokes that he should 'add microtransactions' like EA Sports FC 25 to 'lower that rating to a 3+'
12:27 - Ingram Micro ends Broadcom/VMware relationship
13:26 - Jerry Jeudy Madden rating: Why Jets owner Woody Johnson nixed trade
14:17 - Google Street View may have solved murder mystery as man pictured shoving ‘corpse’ into car boot
15:16 - Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets
16:32 - Tracker firm Hapn spilled names of thousands of GPS tracking customers
17:01 - Chinese hacker part of espionage plot exploited 81,000 Sophos firewalls, DOJ says
17:48 - Microsoft won't let customers opt out of passkey push
19:39 - Uber will need to fingerprint drivers in California to transport teens
21:03 - Hackers hit Rhode Island benefits system in major cyberattack. Personal data could be released soon
21:28 - Facial recognition: App lets police identify suspects in street
22:38 - LastPass 2022 hack fallout continues with millions of dollars more reportedly stolen
23:25 - Israeli spyware maker Paragon bought by US private equity giant
24:18 - Walmart is experimenting with body cameras for employees—like the ones used by cops—as the retail industry fends off ‘unprecedented levels’ of shopper violence

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The Level1 Show December 10 2024: The Land Down Sun-Der

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0:00 - Intro
0:35 - FTC takes action against location data companies accused of unlawfully using consumer info
5:43 - U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack
6:27 - Federal Court Says Dismantling A Phone To Install Firmware Isn’t A ‘Search,’ Even If Was Done To Facilitate A Search
8:39 - The US Department of Defense is investing in deepfake detection
9:28 - Kash Patel, Trump's pick to lead FBI, hit with Iranian cyberattack, sources say
9:59 - New York law mandates companies disable service for stolen cell phones
10:52 - Tesla CEO Elon Musk loses bid to get $56 billion pay package reinstated
12:28 - US chips are 'no longer safe,' Chinese industry bodies say in latest trade salvo
12:51 - China bans exports to US of gallium, germanium, antimony in response to chip sanctions
14:05 - China sets deadline for Big Tech to clear algorithm issues, close ‘echo chambers’
14:48 - Apple now needs $1 billion to lift iPhone 16 ban in Indonesia
16:28 - India takes out giant nationwide subscription to 13,000 journals
17:15 - Microsoft faces £1bn class action case in UK over software prices
18:24 - Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power
20:52 - Internal Google documents reveal concerns about its cloud contract with Israel
22:10 - U.S. telecoms struggle to oust Chinese hackers from networks, officials say
22:59 - Employee lawsuit accuses Apple of spying on its workers
24:19 - Amazon faces lawsuit for limiting Prime deliveries in two Washington D.C. areas over safety concerns
26:04 - A New Phone Scanner That Detects Spyware Has Already Found 7 Pegasus Infections
27:35 - Researchers Use AI To Turn Sound Recordings Into Accurate Street Images
29:06 - Solana Web3.js library backdoored to steal secret, private keys
29:46 - Vodka maker Stoli says August ransomware attack contributed to bankruptcy filing
30:34 - USB-C cable CT scan reveals sinister active electronics — O.MG pen testing cable contains a hidden antenna and another die embedded in the microcontroller
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The Level1 Show October 29th: Deere In The Fed Lights

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0:00 - Intro
0:32 - White House orders Pentagon and intel agencies to increase use of AI
1:59 - Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule
3:06 - Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC
6:08 - Air taxis and other electric-powered aircraft cleared for takeoff with final FAA rules
8:23 - Democrats want DOJ to prosecute tax prep companies that allegedly shared user data with Meta and Google
9:31 - 30% of the cameras in Border Patrol's main surveillance system are broken, memo says
10:58 - Crises at Boeing and Intel Are a National Emergency
11:56 - US FTC probing Deere over customers' 'right to repair' equipment
13:13 - Europe's top court rules for Intel to end long-running antitrust case
15:08 - Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children
15:51 - Smartphones: 'I feel guilty for not buying my daughter one for school'
17:40 - UK-based dissident can sue Saudi Arabia for alleged spyware, court rules
18:48 - UK Considers New Smartphone Bans for Children
19:56 - Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
20:54 - Russia says 'unprecedented' cyber attack hits foreign ministry amid BRICS summit
21:29 - Spectre flaws continue to haunt Intel and AMD
22:14 - Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products
23:03 - Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.
23:53 - Lawsuit Argues Warrantless Use of Flock Surveillance Cameras Is Unconstitutional
25:17 - Why you should power off your phone at least once a week - according to the NSA
26:14 - Students raise privacy concerns over using QR codes to get into bathrooms
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TerraMaster Hybrid NAS: Review and Setup for the F4-424 Max -Nice homelab vm host tutorial

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Homelab made easy!
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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 17 2024: Teenage Vapeland

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0:00 - Intro
0:27 - Senate leaders ask FTC to investigate AI content summaries as anti-competitive
2:56 - A Surgeon General warning label must appear on social media apps, 42 state attorneys general demand
4:41 - US proposes requiring reporting for advanced AI, cloud providers
6:19 - Google's AI Will Help Decide Whether Unemployed Workers Get Benefits
8:49 - Google aimed to control web ad tech, US prosecutor says as trial begins
10:01 - FCC Chair Encourages Satellite Internet Competition, Hints Starlink Is a Monopoly
11:26 - Cops Are Testing Apple Vision Pro For Use In Surveillance
12:47 - U.S. says Russia funded media company that paid right-wing influencers millions for videos
14:14 - The NSA Has a Podcast—Here's How to Decode It
15:29 - Apple defeated in decade-long fight with EU over Irish tax breaks
16:42 - Google's 2.4 billion euro fine upheld by Europe's top court
17:36 - British competition regulator objects to Google's ad tech practices
18:28 - Malaysia's plan to block overseas DNS dies after a day
19:14 - Russia to Spend $646 Million to Block VPNs, Forbes Reports
19:44 - Australia plans age limit to ban children from social media
20:44 - Australia threatens fines for social media giants enabling misinformation
22:20 - Rogue WHOIS server gives researcher superpowers no one should ever have
23:34 - Microsoft is building new Windows security features to prevent another CrowdStrike incident
24:49 - SpyAgent Android malware steals your crypto recovery phrases from images
25:31 - Hacker Hits Rental Car Provider Avis, Steals Data on 300,000 Users
26:09 - More schools installing vape detectors, with money from Juul settlement

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A NAS with a No Name Motherboard, Mounted in a 3D Printed Case?!

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Talk about DIY! This homemade network attached storage may not be pretty, but gosh darn if it ain't good!

Print your own with this: https://www.printables.com/model/406125-8-bay-itx-nas

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32GB RDNA3 Only True DP2.1 GPU: The Radeon Pro W7800, And The No Good, Very Bad Cables

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Wendell gives you the lowdown on the Radeon Pro W7800, and how to tell good cables from bad ones! Also, 32gb RDNA3?

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