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Setting up Point to Point 2.5G Wifi From the Level1Techs Building

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The Level1 Show December 18 2024: Bye Bye Blu Ray

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0:00 - Intro
0:51 - Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger calls for prayer and fasting for employees
1:25 - Amazon pilots 15-minute delivery in India
2:45 - Palantir and Anduril form partnership, as Sauron funded
4:01 - Microsoft Unveils Zero-Water Data Centers to Reduce AI Climate Impact
4:46 - Google claims its new Willow quantum chip can swiftly solve a problem that would take a standard supercomputer 10 septillion years
5:39 - New Intel B580 receives positive reviews on pre launch, but timing could be its downfall
6:21 - Intel executives say a manufacturing spinoff is possible
7:27 - Meet the Small AI Chip Maker Now More Valuable Than Intel
8:19 - Starlink's first direct-to-phone satellite network is now in orbit
9:13 - LG stops making Blu-ray players, marking the end of an era — limited units remain while inventory lasts
9:55 - New magnetic flow has potential to revolutionise electronic devices
11:01 - Palantir EVP: "Modern war cannot be won without software"
12:03 - Microsoft gives Alt+Space shortcut over to Copilot
13:12 - WordPress parent company must stop blocking WP Engine, judge rules
14:11 - WordPress CEO Rage Quits Community Slack After Court Injunction
14:46 - Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled
15:38 - Amazon is officially in the online car sales business
16:31 - YouTube TV Hikes Price $10 to $82.99
18:16 - Researchers uncover Chinese spyware used to target Android devices
19:20 - Fearful of crime, the tech elite transform their homes into military bunkers
20:49 - Boeing cancels its workplace surveillance program, will remove sensors
21:34 - Christmas at Risk for Millions of Americans as Credit Card Details Leaked
22:15 - Location data firm helps police find out when suspects visited their doctor

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The Level1 Show December 13 2024: 10 Swords from Gryffindor

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0:00 - Intro
0:45 - Meta uses GPT-4 alongside Llama for in-house coding tooling
1:22 - ChatGPT refuses to say one specific name – and people are worried
2:28 - OpenAI partners with weapons-maker Anduril on military AI
3:29 - OpenAI weighs plan for ads in ChatGPT to bolster revenue
4:36 - Amouranth’s AI Twin Has Fans Losing Their Minds
5:49 - Music sector workers to lose nearly a quarter of income to AI in next four years, global study finds
6:53 - Stop using generative AI as a search engine
8:55 - South Korea becomes first country to replace 10% of its workforce with robots
10:01 - Texas Legislators Think Drones Armed With Tasers And Pepper Spray Will Stop School Shootings
11:40 - Meet Clone Alpha: A Humanoid Robot Built with Synthetic Organs and Artificial Muscles
12:44 - Next stop: Miami
13:33 - Chinese man trapped in well in Thailand for three days as villagers mistake cries for help for ghostly sounds
14:40 - Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Won’t Pay for the Complete Duration of Anesthesia for Patients’ Surgical Procedures
16:04 - Babies Diagnosed With Werewolf Syndrome Due to Parents' Baldness Medication
16:48 - Tempers spill over as elderly residents revolt against booze ban
17:51 - Walmart worker warns of danger lurking in store restrooms: ‘If you want to be safe,’ check this one thing
19:24 - Biden falls asleep at meeting with African presidents
20:06 - Italian nun arrested over links to powerful mafia network
22:11 - Death sentence upheld for property tycoon in Vietnam — unless she pays $9 billion before execution
23:23 - Replica Harry Potter swords recalled for breaking weapons law
24:26 - Cathay Pacific apologises over inflight Family Guy episode with Tiananmen Square scene
26:23 - German island to end ritual of spanking women with cow horn
28:08 - Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis doesn't feel bad for videos as he says women 'victimized' him
29:10 - Village People singer defends Trump's use of 'Y.M.C.A.,' says song isn't a 'gay anthem'
30:42 - "Unpretentious" Mocha Mousse named Pantone's colour of the year 2025
31:36 - Muhammad overtakes Noah as top baby boy name in UK
32:44 - Man Sets Forest Ablaze After Trying To Light Spider On Fire; Wyoming Officials Caution Against That
33:30 - Japan bear attack: Bear attacks supermarket worker, ransacks meat section
34:44 - Scientists baffled as orcas seem to revive an 80s trend: dead salmon hats
36:11 - Why these sheep are flying in Texas right now

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The Level1 Show November 20 2024: All The Better To Troll You With, My Dear

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0:00 - Intro
0:15 - AMD layoffs: Company to cut 4% of workforce, or about 1,000 employees
0:41 - JPL to layoff 5% of its workforce, the third major layoff this year
1:23 - Struggling DNA-testing site 23andMe to lay off 40% of its workers
2:25 - Gartner Predicts Power Shortages Will Restrict 40% of AI Data Centers By 2027
3:18 - New thermal material provides 72% better cooling than conventional paste
3:49 - Micron unveils industry's first 60TB SSD with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface
4:49 - Amazon developing driver eyeglasses to shave seconds off deliveries, sources say
5:38 - Lithium-ion batteries have ruled for decades. Now they have a challenger.
6:43 - LG's new stretchable display can grow by 50%, bendy panels can be deformed into new form factors
7:30 - Tesla issues sixth Cybertruck recall in a year
8:02 - Workers voice safety concerns after TSMC fined for violations following on-site death
9:13 - Microsoft Edge is trying to forcefully get your Chrome tabs again
11:07 - Google's got new rules for Android 15 virtual machine support
12:18 - A New Streaming Customer Emerges: the Subscription Pauser
13:37 - Academic papers retracted due to ... software licensing?
14:35 - How Italy became an unexpected spyware hub
15:40 - The Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World
16:22 - Amazon confirms employee data stolen after hacker claims MOVEit breach
17:02 - 1.5 million Americans hit in massive debt relief service data breach — names, addresses, SSNs and more exposed
17:32 - Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out
18:50 - FBI says hackers are sending fraudulent police data requests to tech giants to steal people's private information
19:37 - Phone network employs AI "grandmother" to waste scammers' time with meandering conversations
20:22 - Amazon shuts down secret project to develop fertility tracker
21:05 - DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data
21:54 - Why you should always offboard outgoing staff: A disgruntled ex-Disney employee targeted former colleagues with DDoS attacks and hacked its menu system to change peanut allergen information
23:51 - Is your air fryer spying on you? Concerns over ‘excessive’ surveillance in smart devices
24:47 - Google Online Security Blog: Safer with Google: New intelligent, real-time protections on Android to keep you safe

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Tailscale: NETWORKING MAGIC!

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Tailscale is a free, with low subscription cost options, and scalable service that allows you to make a secure private network. Upload your media and invite your friends to upload theirs, and pretty soon you've got a safe and secure "internet" of your very own!

Download here! https://tailscale.com/download
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0:00 Intro
0:44 What is Tailscale
1:46 Who is this Guy?
2:53 Interview about Tailscale and the Future of Networking
22:39 Using Taiscale at Level1Techs
24:53 Outro

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The Level1 Show November 5th 2024: Hard Lines On Soft Serve

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0:00 - Intro
0:40 - FCC: Space-based network backup can kill mobile dead zones
1:28 - A Million People Play This Video Wargame. So Does the Pentagon.
2:57 - U.S. Military Makes First Confirmed OpenAI Purchase for War-Fighting Forces
4:16 - US Copyright Office Grants DMCA Exemption for Ice Cream Machines
5:31 - U.S. Consumer Watchdog Cautions Businesses on Surveillance of Workers
6:54 - Six senators tell Biden administration UN cybercrime treaty must be changed
8:14 - China hacked phones of Donald Trump's family, says FBI
8:52 - Florida AG sued over children's social media ban
10:00 - Kamala Harris And Tim Walz Launch Their Own Fortnite Map
11:21 - Tim Walz shows off his epic Crazy Taxi skills during Twitch stream
13:16 - Tim Walz, AOC to play Madden NFL on Twitch to appeal to young males
14:57 - An investigation exposes data brokers using ads to help track almost any phone
15:37 - European Commission sets its regulatory crosshairs on Temu for illegal product sales
16:25 - Microsoft says Google is running 'shadow campaigns' in Europe in cloud
17:37 - Criminals are looting millions from ATMs in Europe. Here’s why Germany is a prime target
18:52 - China rated Canada’s most aggressive cyber threat
20:51 - Google granted 5-year exemption from Canada’s Online News Act
22:00 - Russian court fines Google $2 decillion
22:57 - Russia Publishes New Crypto Law Expanding State Control Over Digital Assets
23:38 - iPhone 16 now banned in Indonesia over Apple's unfulfilled investment commitments
24:43 - Indian firms secretly funneled AMD, Nvidia AI GPUs to Russia — sanctions reportedly skirted on hundreds of millions of dollars of hardware
26:00 - 21,000 laborers killed working on Saudi Vision 2030, documentary shows
27:20 - How Strava ‘gave away locations’ of world leaders including Trump, Putin and Macron
28:36 - JPMorgan begins suing customers over 'infinite money glitch'
30:23 - Colorado Agency 'Improperly' Posted Passwords for Its Election System Online
31:50 - 'FakeCall' Android Malware Can Now Hijack Bank Calls
32:40 - Flock Innovates to Help Agencies Tackle Sideshows
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The Level1 Show October 16th: Backdoor 4 Beijing

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0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Samsung apologizes for making just $6.8 billion last quarter
2:16 - Cognizant faces legal setback: US court finds company discriminated towards non-Indian workers
3:11 - Global semiconductor sales up 20.6% to hit record $53.1B
4:04 - Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs offer 'parity' performance at half the power
5:39 - AMD launches MI325X AI chip to rival Nvidia's Blackwell
7:31 - M4 MacBook Pro offered for sale on Russian site; likely real
8:40 - Nintendo announces new game hardware: an alarm clock called Alarmo
10:58 - Nintendo Switch Modder Who Refused to Shut Down Now Takes to Court Against Nintendo Without a Lawyer
12:14 - 'Nearly unusable': Calif. police majorly push back on Tesla cop cars
15:10 - Fisker bankruptcy hits major speed bump as fleet sale is now in question
16:39 - Windows 11's big 2024 update leaves behind ~9GB of undeletable files
17:11 - Roblox accused of lying to investors about user numbers by Hindenburg Research
19:22 - Chinese hack shows why Apple is right about security backdoors
20:42 - Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million users
21:01 - Hacktivists Claim Responsibility for Taking Down the Internet Archive
22:20 - Porch Pirates Across the Country Target AT&T iPhones Delivered By FedEx
23:35 - MoneyGram says hackers stole customers' personal information and transaction data
24:07 - OpenAI Says China-Linked Group Tried to Phish Its Employees
24:29 - American Water warns of billing outages after finding hackers in its systems
25:12 - Comcast confirms 237K affected in feisty breach notification
25:45 - Fidelity says data breach exposed personal data of 77,000 customers
26:23 - CTV industry’s unprecedented “surveillance”

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The Level1 Show October 9th: Good Guy Gabe

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0:00 - Intro
0:22 - Microsoft exec reassures staff there’s no plan for Amazon-style RTO
1:40 - Amazon’s Shark Tank-like Buy It Now gets a trailer
3:39 - Steam will let you sue Valve now
4:29 - Raspberry Pi launches camera module for vision-based AI applications
6:25 - Cerebras files for IPO
7:46 - AMD improves Zen 5 CPU latency and performance with BIOS updates
8:36 - Starlink Surpasses 4 Million Subscribers, Cementing Dominance in Satellite Internet
10:21 - Palmer Luckey: Every country needs a 'warrior class' excited to enact 'violence on others in pursuit of good aims'
14:11 - Mazda’s $10 Subscription For Remote Start Sparks Backlash After Killing Open Source Option
15:14 - Helene damage in Spruce Pine, N.C. could induce chip shortage, threaten economy
16:16 - Enel X Way North America is shutting down – here's what we know
18:02 - Behind OpenAI's audacious plan to make AI flow like electricity
19:29 - Google’s AI search summaries officially have ads
19:47 - More ads are coming to Amazon Prime Video
21:30 - Did Apple just kill social apps?
22:51 - Juno YouTube App for Vision Pro Removed From App Store
24:33 - Nintendo has reportedly shut down Ryujinx, the Switch emulator that was supposedly immune
26:13 - Bank of America is down: Users report their accounts showing empty balance during widespread outage
26:44 - AT&T claims VMware offered it a 1,050 percent price rise
28:26 - Ubisoft investors push for company sale as shares hit decade-low
30:15 - The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve — SteamOS and Arch should both benefit greatly
31:30 - People are posting 'fake animal rescues' for social media likes
32:45 - The Hawk Tuah Girl's Podcast "Talk Tuah" Becomes the 3rd Most Popular Podcast on Spotify in the US after The Joe Rogan Experience and The Tucker Carlson Show
35:12 - Meta hit with new author copyright lawsuit over AI training
35:43 - Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
36:45 - Nintendo Is Now Going After YouTube Accounts Which Show Its Games Being Emulated

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USB 4.0 for DAYS! Checking Out The MSI MPG X870E Carbon WiFi

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The Level1 Show September 20th: Full Mars Living

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0:00 - Intro
0:22 - OpenAI releases new o1 reasoning model
3:08 - Audible to Start Generating AI Voice Replicas of Select Audiobook Narrators
4:32 - An AI Bot Named James Has Taken My Old Job
6:00 - Video game performers reach agreement with 80 video games on AI terms
7:56 - Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons
9:49 - Massage robot company Aescape expands to Miami
12:02 - Human drivers keep rear-ending Waymos
12:50 - ESA prints 3D metal shape in space for first time
13:47 - Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap
14:42 - Musk Posts Uncrewed SpaceX Starships Will Launch Mars Nov-Dec 2026
16:33 - Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris in response to fake AI Trump endorsement
17:35 - Pastor Claims 'Witchcraft' To Blame For Trump's Bad Debate
18:08 - Part of brain network much bigger in people with depression, scientists find
18:55 - Raygun ranked world number one after Paris Olympics controversy
20:27 - Putin 'Dismayed' by Young Son Cosplaying Disney Characters
23:00 - Which Brands Want to Loosen the Definition of “Recyclable”?
24:20 - Exec behind $500 billion sustainable paradise Neom complained about worker deaths taking up his time
26:20 - Canadian Army says new military sleeping bags not suitable for 'typical Canadian winter'
28:43 - Crime minister has purse stolen at police conference
29:08 - Gas station worker accused of beating customer with bat for taking too much nacho cheese
31:00 - D.C. Police Searching for Man Who Sodomized Himself with a Cucumber
32:13 - Rangers: Dropped Cheetos bag upsets Carlsbad Caverns
33:10 - Electrocuted Birds Are Bursting Into Flames and Starting Wildfires
34:37 - Cat makes surprise return home four days after being ‘cremated’
35:38 - Japan’s cat testicle calendar is here for nyantama fans to go nuts with

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