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The Level1 Show May 15 2024: A Win For Democracy

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0:00 - Intro
0:47 - FTX Customers Poised to Recover All Funds Lost in Collapse
2:43 - PlayStation Reverses Course on Helldivers 2 PSN Account Requirement
6:17 - Microsoft's Xbox Cuts Aren't Over Yet, Report Says
7:07 - Deepfakes of your dead loved ones are a booming Chinese business
9:08 - Google will exit prominent San Francisco waterfront office tower
13:34 - Smart lighting company Brilliant is looking for a buyer
14:56 - Venture firms double, then halve, in stunning reversal
15:44 - Boeing says workers skipped required tests on 787 but recorded work as completed
16:05 - Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda
17:11 - Google Fit API shutdown set, fate of Android app unannounced
18:13 - San Francisco is seeing an uptick in complaints about 'bed pods'
21:09 - Apple (AAPL) earnings report Q2 2024
21:34 - Tesla Quietly Removes All U.S. Job Postings
23:10 - Google staffers question execs over 'decline in morale' after earnings
24:32 - Dell to color-code staff based on how hybrid they really are
26:40 - Apple to Power iOS 18 AI Features With In-House Server Mac Chips This Year
29:01 - Raspberry Pis get a built-in remote-access tool: Raspberry Pi Connect
30:14 - Apple slammed over iPad Pro 'Crush' ad: 'fascist aesthetic'
33:09 - Apple announces M4 with more CPU cores and AI focus, just months after M3
34:17 - Nintendo Confirms It Will Announce Switch Successor Console ‘Within This Fiscal Year'
34:51 - Apple unveils stunning new iPad Pro with M4 chip and Apple Pencil Pro
35:29 - Apple quietly kills the old-school iPad and its headphone jack
35:29 - Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip
36:43 - Hertz Charges Tesla Model 3 Renter $277 Gas Fee, Won’t Back Down
38:20 - U.S. libraries are battling high prices for better e-book access
41:26 - Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause
42:26 - Stack Overflow is feeding programmers’ answers to AI, whether they like it or not
43:01 - Pokémon Go Players Invent Fake Beaches on Real Maps to Catch Rare Wigletts
43:50 - Cogent Communications Offers $206 Million in Secured Notes Backed by IPv4 Addresses
44:29 - Microsoft wipes out evidence of real ads in Windows 11 Start menu
45:53 - Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery to Launch Disney+, Hulu, Max Bundle
46:11 - Sonos says its controversial app redesign took ‘courage’
47:07 - Dell discloses data breach of customers' physical addresses
47:49 - US Patent and Trademark Office confirms another leak of filers' address data
48:09 - Ransomware crooks SIM swap kids to pressure parents
48:50 - US, UK police identify and charge Russian leader of LockBit ransomware gang
49:22 - Apple’s iPhone Spyware Problem Is Getting Worse. Here’s What You Should Know
50:10 - Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose
51:26 - Police resurrect LockBit's site and troll the ransomware gang
52:04 - An insulin pump software bug has injured over 200 people
52:54 - Cyberattack disrupts operations at major US health care network
53:21 - B.C. mother targeted by AI phone scam initially convinced it was her son

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The Level1 Show May 14 2024: Death Of The Fast Lane

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0:00 - Intro
0:57 - US eyes curbs on China's access to AI software behind apps like ChatGPT
1:41 - US Revokes Intel, Qualcomm Licenses to Sell Chips to Huawei
2:59 - Gensler’s SEC racks up legal wins against crypto
4:04 - RFK Jr. sued Daily Kos. Things are not going well for him
5:52 - An Open Database Leaked Submissions to Utah’s Transphobic ‘Bathroom Bill’ Snitch Form
6:26 - US official says Chinese seizure of TSMC in Taiwan would be 'absolutely devastating'
6:49 - Maryland passes two bills limiting tech platforms’ ability to track users
8:58 - Leaked FBI Email Reportedly Shows Desperation to Justify Warrantless Wiretaps
10:09 - Tesla is being investigated for securities and wire fraud for self-driving claims
10:54 - Microsoft, Google seek green card rule change
13:05 - The U.S. House Version of KOSA: Still a Censorship Bill
14:49 - CISA, FBI resuming talks with social media firms over disinformation removal, Senate Intel chair says
16:27 - Germany's FM says Russia will face consequences for 'intolerable' cyberattack
17:51 - French regulator fines Google $271M over generative AI copyright issue
19:12 - Thousands of flights to and from Europe affected by suspected Russian jamming
19:40 - Yemen’s Submarine Cable Repairs Hindered by Political Dispute
20:43 - Saudi Arabia's internet usage hits 99% in 2023
21:40 - Man Booked For Using VPN In J&K's Rajouri, 3rd Such Case In 2 Days
22:48 - TikTok Sues US Government Over Potential Ban
24:19 - Partnering with our industry to advance AI transparency and literacy
25:23 - X launches Stories, delivering news summarized by Grok AI
26:06 - Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter
26:40 - RFK Jr Super PAC will sue Meta after campaign infomercial temporarily blocked
27:29 - Threads is testing cross-posting from Instagram globally
28:13 - FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole

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The Level1 Show November 2 2022: Call of Duty: Modern E-Waste

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0:00 - Intro
0:37 - Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report
2:51 - Seagate to Cut 3,000 Jobs Amid Poor Quarter, Charges of Export Violations
3:48 - Amazon (AMZN) earnings Q3 2022
6:25 - Freeway Crypto Halts Withdrawals After Promising 43% Returns
7:26 - Apple Is Working on a 16-Inch iPad, Further Blurring Line With Laptops
9:04 - Apple confirms the iPhone is getting USB-C, but isn’t happy about the reason why
9:38 - Apple lawsuits say health monitoring company Masimo copied Apple Watch
10:50 - Nvidia RTX 4090’s power draw may be too much for its power connector to handle
12:12 - Microsoft’s “Project Volterra” becomes an Arm-powered mini PC with 32GB of RAM
13:05 - Intel Core i9-13900K Blasts Off to 8.8GHz, Breaking World Record
13:51 - Chip can transmit all of the internet's traffic every second
15:04 - SpaceX Starlink Announces Satellite Internet for Moving RVs
16:18 - TSMC says efforts to rebuild US semiconductor industry are doomed to fail
18:30 - After complaints, Volkswagen will ditch capacitive steering wheel controls
20:23 - Apple developers are frustrated with gambling ads appearing across the App Store
21:19 - iPhone owners will now get annoying messages that an Android user 'reacted' to their text.
22:22 - iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura arrive on October 24th
23:10 - Memtest86+ Is Back! New Version Released After 9 Years
23:47 - Microsoft’s PC Manager is like CCleaner for your computer
24:27 - Spotify pulls audiobook purchases from iOS app after Apple blocks updates
27:33 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s disc is just 72MB of nothing
28:38 - Comcast’s new higher upload speeds require $25-per-month xFi Complete add-on
29:48 - Apple raises prices on Apple Music, Apple TV Plus, and Apple One
31:12 - YouTube’s latest revenue grab: A 27 percent price increase for family plans
35:07 - Amazon says fear of Google putting off vendors from TV hardware partnership
36:46 - New Zealand Uber drivers win landmark case declaring them employees
37:31 - RIAA Flags ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Music Mixer as Emerging Copyright Threat
41:59 - Lee Jae-yong: Samsung appoints convicted heir to top job
42:50 - Fake books
44:51 - Following PR Crisis, PayPal Again Updates TOS Hoping You Won’t Notice
46:04 - Thomson Reuters leaked at least 3TB of sensitive data
47:08 - New York Post employee posted racist, violent headlines targeting AOC, Hochul
49:04 - Ed Sheeran: Hacker who stole singer's unreleased music is jailed
50:51 - Australia's Medibank says data of 4 mln customers accessed by hacker
52:03 - Iran releases footage from prison fire, adding to mystery
52:47 - Google can now remove your identifying search results, if they’re the right kind
54:10 - Passkeys—Microsoft, Apple, and Google’s password killer—are finally here
55:52 - PayPal is implementing passkey logins
56:21 - Samsung privacy-protecting Maintenance Mode is coming to Galaxy S22s worldwide
57:28 - Why Block’s Square sends ads after receipts
58:30 - Ring Cameras Are Being Used to Control and Surveil Overworked Delivery Workers
1:00:42 - ‘SiriSpy’ iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your Siri conversations before fix

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Building with BeQuiet! Featuring the Pure Base 500 FX Case and the Pure Loop 2 FX Cooler!

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Pure Base 500 FX Case: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B087D7DBW6/?tag=level1techs-20
MSI MPG B550 Carbon Motherboard: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BWZGSHB/?tag=level1techs-20
MSI SUPREME X 3090ti: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B09R9JPVK9/?tag=level1techs-20

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It’s Easy Building Green! Our Fractal Pop Alder Lake Build

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Case review video: https://youtu.be/zqUanz860tg

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Data Recovery PTSD: Prep for 45 Drives Offsite Backup

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It may have caused him nightmares, but Wendell is a man of action! To defeat the loss of data, or at the very least prevent it for Linus, poor guy almost lost a lot of data; Wendell has teamed up with 45 Drives to create an offsite storage server to act as a back up site for his friends!

Having 30 14tb drives, in a single Q30 chassis Storinator running ZFS is cool. But going underground into a cellar to set it up is even cooler! Literally, it'll be cooler and save on AC cost.

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The Level1 Show August 17 2022: Streaming Prices+

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0:00 - Intro
0:47 - Intel Unveils Arc Pro GPUs
1:33 - Intel shares 48 benchmarks to show its Arc A750 can compete with an RTX 3060
2:44 - Ether (ETH) price surges after ethereum completes final testnet merge
3:54 - Email Marketing Firm Mailchimp Suspends Several Crypto-Related Accounts
5:06 - ‘Data void’: Google to stop giving answers to silly questions
6:26 - Amazon begins large-scale rollout of palm print-based payments
7:46 - Spotify tickets: streaming firm tests direct pre-sales to fans
9:11 - LG’s 97-inch vibrating OLED TV claims to offer 5.1 audio without speakers
11:59 - Over 100K Cars Cut From North American Production This Week Due to Chip Shortage
13:02 - GM Makes $1,500 OnStar Subscription Mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cadillac Models
14:06 - LinkedIn dumps entire global events marketing team: Report
14:40 - Disney raises prices for streaming services
16:08 - Walmart Ponders Streaming Deal With Paramount, Disney and Comcast
16:48 - Desktop CPU Sales Lowest in 30 Years, AMD Gains Market Share Anyway
17:38 - Crypto-driven GPU crash makes Nvidia miss Q2 projections by $1.4 billion
19:43 - Groupon cuts over 500 staff, plans to focus ‘only on mission-critical activities’ from now on
20:24 - Microsoft claims Sony pays developers "blocking rights" to keep games off Xbox Game Pass
23:10 - Microsoft reportedly lays off team focused on winning back consumers
25:18 - DreamWorks Animation to Release Renderer as Open-Source Software
26:25 - Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
28:25 - NVIDIA Publishes 73k Lines Worth Of 3D Header Files For Fermi Through Ampere GPUs
29:25 - Google tries shaming Apple into adopting RCS with #getthemessage campaign
30:11 - Google Sues Sonos Over Voice Control Technology
31:02 - Crypto Lender Hodlnaut Freezes Withdrawals, Citing Market Conditions
32:21 - 99 percent of Netflix subscribers haven’t tried its games yet
33:25 - Bricked Epson printers make a strong case for user repairability

#level1show

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Focus 2 Unboxing

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Do you like cheap cases? Do you like good cases? What about good cheap cases? Well, Fractal may have what you are looking for!
Not going to lie, this video is not our normal vibe. So last Thursday during the lazy part of the afternoon, Wendell shot the video in record time and I edited it almost as quickly. There isn't much to it. The case is perfectly average. Absolutely nothing special about it. Of course, that's not a bad thing! This case is a good case if you are on a budget! Starting at $69.99 and only ten bucks more for the RGB version, we say... Yep, it's a case.

https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/focus/focus-2/rgb-black-t…

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Low Power/High Performance Server GRUDGE MATCH! DeskMeet, Ryzen, and Supermicro Micro-Tower Server

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Thank you to Fractal for sponsoring this video! Check out the Meshify 2 RGB here: https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/meshify/meshify-2-rgb/bla…

Well let me tell you something Level1amaniacs, all three machines here are stylin and profilin, but only one can be the CREAM of the CROP!

+ Super Micro Micro-Tower: https://youtu.be/wX5vFN3iIWo
+ DeskMeet: https://youtu.be/kL9k7LHMwYc
+ Home server hardware round-up: https://youtu.be/nWI_1tE88Gk

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The Level1 Show July 22 2022: Putting the "P" in Poison

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0:00 - Intro
0:34 - Self-Driving Cruise Taxi Crashes With Passengers On Board
2:54 - First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope
4:10 - Japan Wants to Bring Artificial Gravity to the Moon
6:07 - Asteroid Bennu nearly ate NASA's sampling spacecraft
7:26 - Starbucks to close 16 US stores over crime, rampant drug use
9:31 - Tech CEO John Woodware Arrested in 1992 Cold Case Murder of Computer Engineer Laurie Houts
11:50 - India: How a fake 'IPL' cricket league ran for Russian punters
13:22 - India on course to overtake China as world's most populous country
14:59 - Judge rules Subway can be sued over claims that its tuna sandwiches contain other fish species or animal products
17:47 - Arizona makes it illegal for bystanders to record cops at close range
21:06 - Weed Killer Glyphosate Found in Most Americans' Urine
22:28 - A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History on Wikipedia
25:19 - Uvalde Mayor Condemns 'Chicken' Media for Releasing School Shooting Video
27:39 - Queensland cafe worker unfairly dismissed for not using 'smiley emojis' in text message
29:38 - Former Banbury area pastor is sentenced at Northampton court after performing sexual acts on a Henry hoover at church
31:08 - Sri Lankan president resigns by email after fleeing to Singapore
33:07 - Snoop Dogg Mocks Biden With 'Sleepy Joe OG' Weed Strain
35:23 - Woman spent $600K to be Kim Kardashian, now paying $120K to 'detransition'
37:36 - Iowa racehorse tests positive for meth
38:48 - Art Collective's Billionaire Popsicles Let People Literally 'Eat the Rich'
40:39 - Billboard in Inverness, FL reminds dads not to drunkenly touch their daughters
43:02 - Penguins refuse to eat cheaper fish at Japanese aquarium

#level1show

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