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The Level1 Show February 26 2025: BodyGuardr

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0:00 - Intro
0:33 - Amazon surpasses Walmart in revenue for the first time
1:32 - HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls
2:54 - Former staffers say India’s biggest IT firm was gaming the US visa system
4:23 - 'Uber for Armed Guards' Rushes to Market Following the Assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO
5:23 - Google Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic Diseases
6:16 - Google Play Books purchases on iOS now skirt the App Store's commission
6:47 - Microsoft puts Notepad's Rewrite feature behind a paywall
7:25 - Valve Releases Team Fortress 2 Full Client and Source Code
8:26 - Hacker group releases updated tool to activate almost all modern Microsoft software
9:46 - France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes
10:53 - Microsoft unveils first quantum chip, claims to create novel matter
11:47 - Acer to raise prices by 10pc in response to Trump’s tariffs
12:19 - NAND flash prices plunge due to supply glut
12:49 - Western Digital to unveil 44TB HAMR HDDs in 2026, 100TB in 2030
13:23 - Tado told users it would start charging for its app
13:59 - Nvidia to consume 77% of wafers used for AI processors in 2025
14:27 - Nikola, Once a Darling of Green Investment, Files for Bankruptcy
15:46 - Apple launches the iPhone 16E
16:13 - Murena released a de-Googled version of the Pixel Tablet
16:58 - All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 days
17:39 - Nokia is putting the first cellular network on the moon
18:26 - Apple launches Apple Health Study with Brigham and Women's Hospital
19:26 - Jeep Says The Repeated Full-Screen Pop-Up Ads Are A Glitch And Not Just A Nightmare
20:23 - Chase will soon block Zelle payments to sellers on social media
21:14 - WhatsApp Faces Tougher EU Rules as Users Top 45 Million
21:50 - Unlocking global AI potential with next-generation subsea infrastructure
22:44 - Meta approves plan for bigger executive bonuses following 5% layoffs
23:26 - Reddit mods are fighting to keep AI slop off subreddits. They could use help.
24:04 - Reddit continues to show the flip side of AI: Chart of the Week
24:45 - X Briefly Blocked Then Unblocked Signal Links as Federal Workers Seek Security

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The Level1 Show February 12 2025: Disney Minus

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0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech
2:07 - Google may use AI for weapons, surveillance – prompts backlash
3:24 - Arm ends legal efforts to terminate Qualcomm’s license
4:17 - AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter for the first time in Q4 2024
4:46 - AMD promises “mainstream” 4K gaming with next-gen GPUs as current-gen GPU sales tank
5:42 - Apple's iPhones to support Starlink direct-to-cell coverage in US
6:12 - Panasonic Shares Jump Most in 11 Years on Restructuring Plans
6:57 - Phone bans in schools don't help grades or health, study suggests
8:10 - Salesforce Cutting 1,000 Roles While Hiring Salespeople for AI
8:30 - Workday to Cut Nearly 2,000 Workers on Profit Focus
8:59 - Microsoft is cracking down on people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware
9:54 - uBlock Origin is dead for Chrome, but ad blockers live on
11:06 - Disney+ Lost 700,000 Subscribers in Final 3 Months of 2024
11:59 - Banks in Japan are blocking Steam payments for sex games, leaving Japanese adult game devs cut off from income
13:08 - Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund, says it could buy TikTok
14:13 - TikTok Traffic Bounces Back as Creators Diversify Amid Shutdown Fears
15:04 - Threads adds another 20M monthly users since December, reaching 320M
15:53 - Meta in talks to reincorporate in Texas or another state, exit Delaware, WSJ reports
16:34 - Meta's CTO said the metaverse could be a 'legendary misadventure' if the company doesn't boost sales, leaked memo shows
17:52 - “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed
19:42 - German activists sue X demanding election influence data
20:23 - Reddit community banned as user spat with Musk intensifies

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The Level1 Show February 7 2025: Chicken McBlindness

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0:00 - Intro
0:34 - OpenAI has evidence that its models helped train China’s DeepSeek
2:21 - SoftBank in Talks to Invest Up to $25 Billion in OpenAI
2:49 - Microsoft makes DeepSeek’s R1 model available on Azure AI and GitHub
3:36 - Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Max challenges U.S. tech giants, reshapes enterprise AI
4:20 - Hugging Face researchers are trying to build a more open version of DeepSeek's AI 'reasoning' model
4:53 - Don't You Call Me a Virgin, Says Virgin Money's Chatbot
5:44 - LinkedIn Removes Accounts of AI 'Co-Workers' Looking for Jobs
6:28 - Anthropic builds RAG directly into Claude models with new Citations API
7:35 - Meta AI can now use your Facebook and Instagram data to personalize its responses
8:51 - DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it's limiting registrations
9:26 - ChatGPT's mobile users are 85% male, report says
10:37 - Alphabet's Waymo to test its autonomous driving technology in over 10 new cities
11:19 - Bennu asteroid contains building blocks of life, say scientists
12:10 - Astronomers discover 196-foot asteroid with 1-in-83 chance of hitting Earth in 2032
13:02 - Atomic scientists adjust 'Doomsday Clock' closer than ever to midnight
14:02 - Police officers' union says man who posted video of police doing doughnuts is a ‘snitch'
15:38 - Georgia healthcare worker arrested for exploiting a disabled patient
16:21 - School closes after copper wiring stolen, knocking out power
17:01 - Flew drone drunk – sentenced for flying under the influence
17:41 - Homewood Learning Lab day care worker caught on camera putting child in garbage can
19:14 - Police investigate Musk salute projected on Tesla factory
20:07 - Detroit rapper files lawsuit against Lyft for weight discrimination
21:15 - Oklahoma senator proposes bill to ban pornography, imprison creators
23:11 - Children starting school unable to climb stairs and using Americanisms due to screen time, teachers warn
25:51 - Buc-ee's sues North Texas gas station chain claiming logo is too similar to beaver
26:38 - Elementary school student goes permanently blind after eating too many chicken nuggets
27:19 - Mice with two dads have been created using CRISPR
28:10 - Microplastics found in the brains of mice within hours of consumption
28:42 - Peeing Is Socially Contagious in Chimps
29:57 - Oklahoma Legislature sees renewed efforts to change cockfighting laws
31:18 - UK: Royal Navy mistakes 'farting whale' for Russian drones

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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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Checking Out The Gigabyte Aorus F032U2P OLED Monitor: EVEN MORE Butter For Your Eyes!

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Wendell takes the Aorus F032U2P for a spin. Y'all like butter? Have some more!

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A VA Panel that's Almost as Good as an IPS Panel?! Phantom Gaming PG27QRT2A $177 Monitor Review

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Maybe you don't need or want an expensive monitor just for your casual gaming. Well, we think you might like this!

Get one yourself here: https://newegg.io/ncfab8dbd1

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Music: "Bad Snacks" In the Atomosphere

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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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MSI PRO MP273U vs ACER Nitro VG1: Cheap 4k Monitors Under $200

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Wendell made a trip to Micro Center on the hunt for a cheap 4k Monitor. Are IPS monitors this cheap worth it?

MSI PRO MP273U: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGW9S82G/ref=nosim?tag=level1techs

Acer Nitro VG1: https://www.microcenter.com/product/677640/acer-vg271k-lbmiipx-nitro-27…

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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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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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