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The Level1 Show February 5 2025: Smart Freezers, Dumb Executives

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0:00 - Intro
0:56 - Apple Reports Best Quarter Ever in 1Q 2025 Results: $36.3B Profit on $124.3B Revenue
1:36 - Google announces ‘voluntary exit program’ for Pixel, Android team
3:03 - Only 1 in 10 Oracle Java users want to stay with Big Red
4:13 - Sony removes PlayStation account requirement from 4 single-player Steam games
4:50 - Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 sell out almost instantly
5:38 - Trump to impose 25% to 100% tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, impacting TSMC
6:19 - TSMC founder says Tim Cook told him in 2011 that Intel did not know how to be a foundry
7:34 - Microsoft's new Surface PCs offer Intel Inside for $400 more
8:32 - Comcast is rolling out ‘ultra-low lag’ tech that could fix the internet
9:56 - Garmin users say their GPS watches are bricked
11:02 - Bassinet backlash reflects debate over adding fees to connected devices
11:59 - Walgreens' smart freezer doors were a $200 million misstep
13:19 - Apple chips can be hacked to leak secrets from Gmail, iCloud, and more
14:05 - More Of The Shame: Software Flaw Exposes Millions of Subarus, Rivers of Driver Data
15:04 - UnitedHealth confirms 190 million Americans affected by Change Healthcare data breach
16:24 - Lawsuit accuses Amazon of secretly tracking consumers through cellphones
17:09 - NordVPN Says Its New Protocol Can Circumvent VPN Blockers
17:49 - NSA can track powered-down phones: how to actually protect your privacy
19:06 - Logitech’s peel-and-stick radar sensors could let companies invisibly monitor their offices
20:15 - WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of Israeli spyware

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Is The RTX 5080 TRULY A Generational Upgrade?

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The RTX 5080 is a pretty good GPU, but who is it really for? Wendell investigates!

0:00 - Intro
1:36 - Card Overview
4:14 - AI Features
10:48 - What kind of gamer is this for?
12:03 - Benchmarks
16:46 - Final Thoughts

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The Level1 Show January 29 2025: Solar is for Sheep

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0:00 - Intro
0:28 - Staffers say Amazon 'botched' its return-to-office strategy
3:11 - Gen Z is 'career catfishing' in power move to irk corporate employers
4:38 - Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 review: Brutally fast, but DLSS 4 is the game changer
5:46 - After 18 years, Sony's recordable Blu-ray media production draws to a close — will shut last factory in Feb
6:32 - Intel pitches modular PCs to cut e-waste, ease repairs
7:31 - Earthquake may have affected 20,000 TSMC wafers — the majority will likely have to be scrapped
8:14 - South Carolina to Reboot Giant Nuclear Project to Meet AI Demand
9:03 - Solar farms are booming in the US and putting thousands of hungry sheep to work
9:59 - Medical Device Company Suddenly Stops Hospitals From Fixing Machines Themselves
11:28 - Google-owned Fitbit to pay $12.2 million after consumers were burned by smartwatches
12:19 - China’s ‘artificial sun’ sets nuclear fusion record, runs 1,006 seconds at 180 million°F
13:43 - Netflix is raising prices after reporting largest-ever subscriber jump
14:26 - macOS Sequoia 15.3 and iOS 18.3 Enable Apple Intelligence Automatically
15:13 - Game Developers Are Getting Fed Up With Their Bosses’ AI Initiatives
16:25 - Florida demand for VPNs surges by 1,150% after Pornhub bans access
16:57 - TikTok unlikely to come back to App Store, Google Play
18:13 - Adobe Premiere Pro now lets you find video clips by describing them
19:21 - Ticketmaster Argues That Competition Would Cost Fans More Money
20:16 - Meta denies forcing accounts to follow Donald Trump, claims hiding Democratic hashtags is a bug
21:06 - Before Zuckerberg yanked it, Meta's fact checking was mostly ineffective
21:50 - AI-generated “challahorse” takes Polish internet by storm after some users think it is genuine
22:43 - Instagram to restrict Korean teenagers' screen time starting today
23:26 - Don't report fires on Facebook says Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue
24:05 - RedNote Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators
24:39 - More than 50 Reddit communities ban X links to protest Musk
25:25 - TikTok says it's in the process of restoring service to US

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The Level1 Show January 24 2025: No Soup Drops for You

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0:00 - Intro
0:41 - Turns out there's 'a big supercomputer at Nvidia… running 24/7, 365 days a year improving DLSS. And it's been doing that for six years'
2:05 - Apple is pulling its AI-generated notifications for news after generating fake headlines
3:15 - Meta execs obsessed over beating OpenAI's GPT-4 internally, court filings reveal
3:46 - OpenAI's AI reasoning model 'thinks' in Chinese sometimes and no one really knows why
4:52 - Microsoft relaunches Copilot for business with free AI chat and pay-as-you-go agents
5:27 - Google reports halving code migration time with AI help
6:43 - CEO of Song-Generating AI App Says People "Don't Enjoy" Making Music With Instruments
9:00 - Deaths in US expected to exceed births in 2033: CBO
9:24 - Annual U.S. Dementia Cases Projected to Rise to 1 Million by 2060
10:09 - Longevity-Obsessed Tech Millionaire Discontinues De-Aging Drug Out of Concerns That It Aged Him
11:07 - ‘White people shouldn’t mess with it’: Native American church laments psychedelic cactus shortage
11:48 - Japan PM Ishiba struggling to find time to smoke at work
12:26 - Woman Enters MRI With Butt Plug, Ends Up In Hospital
13:21 - Southwest pilot removed from cockpit, booked for DUI
14:25 - Judge reassigned after texting 'My First Ankle Monitor' gag to another judge
15:56 - Woman says she got a side of marijuana with her chicken fries at Burger King
16:53 - French woman who believed she was in a relationship with Brad Pitt scammed out of €800,000
18:15 - Man convicted for murder may have believed he was a character in an anime scene
19:27 - North Houston parents question $1-per-minute late pickup fee at elementary school
20:20 - Soup You Can Suck On: Introducing Progresso Soup Drops, the Ultimate Cold and Flu Season Comfort
21:06 - Colossal raises $200M to "de-extinct" the woolly mammoth, thylacine and dodo
23:35 - Squirrel causes Boulder County school to go on secure status Tuesday

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NVIDIA is Taking a Risk with this Generation: The Blackwell GeForce RTX 5090 Review and Benchmarks

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There is a lot to unpack here... figuratively. There wasn't actually much in the box itself. Wendell really likes this card though! Thanks, NVIDIA for sending us one to test!

More info on the forum! https://forum.level1techs.com/t/nvidia-rtx-5090-has-launched/224532

0:00 Intro
0:40 The Hook
1:34 Physical Specs
5:56 The Big Picture and Frame Generation
12:43 Power Consumption
14:40 It hertz
21:04 Our Benchmarks
28:45 NVIDIA Broadcast and AI
30:44 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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The Level1 Show January 21 2025: TikTok: The Clock Strikes Midnight

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0:00 - Intro
0:45 - A New Jam-Packed Biden Executive Order Tackles Cybersecurity, AI, and More
1:56 - FTC sues John Deere over farmers' right to repair tractors
4:27 - Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban in the U.S.
5:37 - US finalizes rule to effectively ban Chinese vehicles, which could include Polestar
6:57 - FTC Says Refunds For Razer's False N95 Face Masks Are Going Out Now
7:42 - GM banned from selling your driving data for five years
8:29 - US removes malware allegedly planted on computers by Chinese-backed hackers
9:39 - Nvidia says US wants to control global access to AI chips
10:52 - Gov. Murphy calls for classroom ban on cellphones in N.J.
11:20 - Texas Sues Allstate for Collecting Driver Data to Raise Premiums
12:38 - New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill
13:23 - NY State Assembly Bill 2025-A2228
15:09 - AT&T Is Stopping Its 5G Internet Air Service in NY Because of New Broadband Law
15:47 - Texas defends requiring ID for porn to SCOTUS: “We’ve done this forever”
17:29 - Ohio Governor Will Let the Cops Charge the Public $750 for Bodycam Footage
19:07 - FBI Director Wray on threats America faces, decision to step down as Trump returns to the White House
20:43 - Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell arrested on child pornography charges
21:35 - Ministers mull allowing private firms to make profit from NHS data in AI push
22:39 - UK kicks off review into training AI models on copyrighted content
23:18 - UK plans to ban public sector organizations from paying ransomware hackers
24:02 - Apple's new fees for app developers under fresh EU scrutiny, Bloomberg reports
25:02 - Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies
26:20 - Indonesia plans minimum age for social media use
27:35 - Governments call for spyware regulations in UN Security Council meeting
28:53 - Google brings back digital fingerprinting to track users for advertising
30:17 - UnitedHealth hid its Change Healthcare data breach notice for months
31:05 - PowerSchool data breach victims say hackers stole 'all' historical student and teacher data
31:47 - Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting Cursor.com
32:33 - Ransomware crew abuses AWS native encryption
33:14 - Microsoft sues service for creating illicit content with its AI platform
33:47 - Startup necromancy: Dead Google Apps domains can be compromised by new owners
35:31 - Russia's largest platform for state procurement hit by cyberattack from pro-Ukraine group

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The Level1 Show January 17 2025: IGUANA EMERGENCY

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0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Another new year, another round of job cuts at Microsoft
1:01 - Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge, Creating a Premier Visual Content Company
1:53 - Amazon workers in North Carolina to hold union vote next month
2:14 - Nvidia launches RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs: $2,000 RTX 5090, $1,000 RTX 5080, RTX 5070 / Ti are $549 and $749
3:24 - Nvidia CEO says his AI chips are improving faster than Moore's Law
4:42 - Quantum Stocks Drop as Nvidia CEO Sees Use Years Away
5:29 - NVIDIA Puts Grace Blackwell on Every Desk and at Every AI Developer’s Fingertips
7:22 - AMD Shows Off Next Generation of Handheld Gaming PCs at CES 2025
7:51 - Samsung is rolling out a smartphone subscription next month
8:50 - Starlink’s New Mini Dish Delivers Portable High-Speed Internet on the Go
9:51 - Chinese RISC-V project teases 2025 debut of advanced chip
10:30 - Lenovo’s Latest Laptop Has a Rollable OLED Screen
11:29 - After embarrassing blunder, AT&T promises bill credits for future outages
13:00 - Microsoft expects to spend $80 billion on AI data centers in FY 2025
13:45 - Tesla directors to pay up to $919 million to settle claims they overpaid themselves
14:47 - The unlicensed OneDrive fun ends this month
15:30 - Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com
16:40 - Advertisers Keep Avoiding News Sites, and Publishers Have Had Enough of It
17:30 - Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
19:00 - Hackers are exploiting a new Ivanti VPN security bug to hack into company networks
19:38 - The Wiretap: Telegram Handing Data On Thousands Of Users To Law Enforcement Across The World
20:13 - Widely used DNA sequencer still doesn’t enforce Secure Boot
21:03 - Online gift card store exposed hundreds of thousands of people's identity documents
22:41 - Is 10,000 steps a day worth your personal data? How 80% of fitness apps are selling your privacy

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The Level1 Show January 15 2025: Full Self Paying

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0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Another new year, another round of job cuts at Microsoft
1:01 - Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge, Creating a Premier Visual Content Company
1:53 - Amazon workers in North Carolina to hold union vote next month
2:14 - Nvidia launches RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs: $2,000 RTX 5090, $1,000 RTX 5080, RTX 5070 / Ti are $549 and $749
3:24 - Nvidia CEO says his AI chips are improving faster than Moore's Law
4:42 - Quantum Stocks Drop as Nvidia CEO Sees Use Years Away
5:29 - NVIDIA Puts Grace Blackwell on Every Desk and at Every AI Developer’s Fingertips
7:22 - AMD Shows Off Next Generation of Handheld Gaming PCs at CES 2025
7:51 - Samsung is rolling out a smartphone subscription next month
8:50 - Starlink’s New Mini Dish Delivers Portable High-Speed Internet on the Go
9:51 - Chinese RISC-V project teases 2025 debut of advanced chip
10:30 - Lenovo’s Latest Laptop Has a Rollable OLED Screen
11:29 - After embarrassing blunder, AT&T promises bill credits for future outages
13:00 - Microsoft expects to spend $80 billion on AI data centers in FY 2025
13:45 - Tesla directors to pay up to $919 million to settle claims they overpaid themselves
14:47 - The unlicensed OneDrive fun ends this month
15:30 - Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com
16:40 - Advertisers Keep Avoiding News Sites, and Publishers Have Had Enough of It
17:30 - Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
19:00 - Hackers are exploiting a new Ivanti VPN security bug to hack into company networks
19:38 - The Wiretap: Telegram Handing Data On Thousands Of Users To Law Enforcement Across The World
20:13 - Widely used DNA sequencer still doesn’t enforce Secure Boot
21:03 - Online gift card store exposed hundreds of thousands of people's identity documents
22:41 - Is 10,000 steps a day worth your personal data? How 80% of fitness apps are selling your privacy

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The Level1 Show January 14 2025: Like, Favorite, and Sub-Fly

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0:00 - Intro
1:26 - Biden to further limit Nvidia AI chip exports in final push
2:37 - US adds Tencent, CATL to list of Chinese firms allegedly aiding Beijing's military
3:24 - US sues six of the biggest landlords over “algorithmic pricing schemes”
5:28 - DOJ cleared to sell $6.5B in Bitcoin seized from Silk Road
6:11 - Google donates $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
7:10 - Microsoft contributes $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
8:06 - US govt launches cybersecurity safety label for smart devices
8:44 - Google loses in court, faces trial for collecting data on users who opted out
10:34 - Chairman and CEO of MoviePass’ Parent Company Pleads Guilty to Securities Fraud Scheme and Conspiracy
11:24 - Italy Plans $1.6 Billion SpaceX Telecom Security Deal
13:03 - EU “energetically” probing disinformation, right-wing bias on X, report says
15:09 - EU court orders Brussels to pay damages over ‘Sign in with Facebook’ link
15:44 - Japan says Chinese hackers targeted its government and tech companies for years
16:34 - Akamai to quit its Content Delivery Network in China
17:22 - China proposes further export curbs on battery, critical minerals tech
18:36 - ‘How long can you stare at your wife?’: L&T chairman SN Subrahmanyan wants employees to work on Sundays too, sparks outrage
20:16 - Apple still barred from selling iPhone 16 in Indonesia despite investment deal, minister says
21:22 - Thailand bans imports of plastic waste to curb toxic pollution
23:04 - Delta Sets Exclusive Pact With YouTube Premium for In-Flight Viewing
23:57 - Ahead of SCOTUS Hearing, Study Finds TikTok Is Likely Vehicle for Chinese Propaganda
24:38 - TikTok pushes users to Lemon8 as ban looms
25:56 - Meta Ends Fact-Checking in Free-Speech Pitch, Opting for ‘Community Notes’
27:26 - Threads and Instagram are for politics now, says Adam Mosseri
28:25 - Meta's AI Profiles Are Indistinguishable From Terrible Spam That Took Over Facebook
29:35 - Zuckerberg says he’s moving Meta moderators to Texas because California seems too ‘biased'
30:33 - Facebook Deletes Internal Employee Criticism of New Board Member Dana White

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The Level1 Show January 8 2025: VR - Virtual Rats

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0:00 - Intro
0:42 - Public Domain Day 2025
1:39 - Silicon Valley turn of fortune: Intel worst year, Broadcom record gain
2:19 - Tesla replaces laid-off U.S. workers with foreigners using visas pushed by Musk
3:33 - Research team stunned after unexpectedly discovering new method to break down plastic: 'The plastic is gone ... all gone'
5:04 - ByteDance plans to sidestep U.S. sanctions by renting Nvidia GPUs in the cloud — report says it has set aside $7 billion budget
6:34 - Nvidia RTX 5080 rumored to hit shelves on January 21 — expected to debut at CES with sales embargo reportedly lifting two weeks later
7:28 - Micron to invest $2.17 billion to expand U.S.-based memory production
7:43 - 50% of TSMC's Arizona employees are from Taiwan, despite recent controversies — company plans to hire more US workers over time
8:22 - AI data centers reportedly cause power problems in residential areas — decreased power quality in homes near data centers causes reduced lifespan for electrical appliances
10:01 - Apple stops Vision Pro production amid weak demand and customer dissatisfaction
10:48 - Apple offers iPhone discounts in China as competition intensifies
11:45 - Drastically reduced Xiaomi bootloader unlock policy raises questions over device ownership
12:50 - Mice headsets make it easier to study brain response to virtual reality
13:50 - Tesla Is Secretly Recalling Cybertruck Batteries
14:57 - Tesla's 2024 sales fall 1.1%, marking first yearly drop since 2011
15:27 - Korea unleashes fire-proof EV battery that holds 87% power after 1000 cycles
16:24 - People are playing a new DOOM-themed CAPTCHA
17:47 - Over 3.1 million fake "stars" on GitHub projects used to boost rankings
18:05 - Turo App Used to Rent Exploded Cybertruck and New Orleans Attack Truck
19:14 - Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South
20:34 - Apple to pay $95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit
21:55 - Americans Spent 23% Less on Streaming Services in 2024
23:11 - Kalshi shuts down bets Luigi Mangione's fate: report
25:47 - Judge Upholds California's Ban on Addictive Feeds for Minors
26:39 - Venezuela's top court issues a $10 million fine for TikTok over allegedly deadly video challenges

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