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Mobo Twin Powers, Activate! Checking Out The Supermicro H12SSL-I/H12SSL-NT

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NOTE: The H12SSL-I's network interface is 1 gig, not 10 gig. Sorry for the confusion!

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Level1 Presents: THE FORBIDDEN ROUTER PART III - THE FINAL CHAPTER

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The Forbidden Router is complete, but what vessel could possibly contain it?

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Level1 News June 15 2022: Tik Tok, You're On The Clock

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0:00 - Intro
0:42 - Apple’s M2 lineup could add a 15-inch MacBook Air and 14-inch iPad Pro
1:03 - Apple iOS 16 previewed at WWDC 2022
1:42 - iOS 16 supports Nintendo’s Switch Pro and Joy-Con controllers
2:38 - Apple will allow Linux VMs to run Intel apps with Rosetta in macOS Ventura
3:49 - Apple expands fintech ambitions in iOS 16
6:12 - MetalFX Upscaling will bring DLSS-like image reconstruction to games on MacOS
6:46 - Next-Generation Apple CarPlay Will Be a Whole Car OS
7:35 - Meta has reportedly shelved its watch with in-built cameras
9:16 - Microsoft Trying to Kill HDD Boot Drives By 2023: Report
10:10 - Microsoft tries collaborating with unions to avoid ‘public disputes’
11:12 - Microsoft Won't Ban Most Staff From Seeking Jobs at Big Tech Rivals
12:23 - Microsoft winds down its business in Russia, lays off more than 400 people
13:13 - Google developer Emma Haruka Iwao has calculated Pi to 100 trillion digits
14:12 - Some NYC Restaurants Still Owed Thousands of Dollars After Grubhub’s Free Lunch Debacle
15:09 - Diablo Immortal now has Blizzard’s lowest ever user score on Metacritic
17:31 - Salesforce takes crypto plunge with new NFT cloud
18:17 - PayPal Lets Users Transfer Bitcoin and Ethereum to External Wallets
19:05 - Wall Street's top cop proposes massive changes to the stock market
20:35 - Nintendo wanted hacker's prison sentence to turn heads
22:46 - Inside Roku, Talk Is Heating up About an Acquisition by Netflix
24:30 - Bosses wanting a return to office face off with workers who want to stay home
25:36 - Facebook Gaming brings Crayta’s user-generated games to its cloud platform
27:19 - Alleged Google Pixel 7 Pro prototype surfaces on reddit
28:48 - Twitter to provide spam data to Elon Musk as part of deal
30:01 - Texas AG Ken Paxton to investigate Twitter over fake accounts
31:16 - Twitter Refusing Jan 6 Committee Request for Slack Chat Logs
31:56 - Amid growing concerns around app addiction, TikTok rolls out more screen tools

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Level1 Presents: THE FORBIDDEN ROUTER II - DIAL-UP BY DAWN

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Wendell walks you through some of the software that makes the FORBIDDEN ROUTER tick!

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Level1 News June 10 2022: I Track Cheddar Like a Food Inspector

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Bad news everyone, THE FORBIDDEN ROUTER turned Ryan into a ghost. He should be fine by next week, I did a bunch of incantations and the router is back to normal...

...FOR NOW.

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0:00 - Intro
0:45 - NASA selects partners to develop new spacesuits for return to the moon
2:26 - NASA praises Boeing's 'picture-perfect' Starliner mission
3:38 - Scientists have grown plants in genuine lunar soil for the first time
4:51 - TomTom improves mapmaking process, supported my aligned Maps organization
5:47 - Is technology spying on you? New AI could prevent eavesdropping
7:18 - Google quietly bans deepfake training projects on Colab
7:51 - Robot orders increase 40% in first quarter as desperate employers seek relief from labor shortages, report says
9:17 - Answering the 'robo call': Isotopes adjust to automated calls of balls, strikes
10:22 - Tiny robotic crab is smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot
11:35 - We tasted the expanded collection of Star Trek wines and found them… wanting
13:32 - DeLorean is back for the future with brand new EV
14:44 - Catholic exorcists say they feel overwhelmed by overload of cases
15:52 - "Period Crunch" Cereal Wants to Normalize Menstruation Talk
17:37 - Finland MP calls for boycott of Turkish kebabs, approves Kurdish kebabs
18:47 - Wayne County Man Arrested for Too Many Wildlife Feeders
20:05 - J.D. Vance, Porn Hunter, is Coming for Your Porn
20:59 - Man dies searching for Frisbees in Florida lake amid alligator warnings
22:07 - New 'Smart' Cheese Rinds Help Fight Parmesan Fraud
23:08 - Missing Pet Tortoise Found In Attic 30 Years Later — Still Alive And Well
25:19 - Johnny Depp Fans Want His Attorney Camille Vasquez as Mera in Aquaman 2
26:57 - Man disguised as 'old woman' attacks Mona Lisa with cake
28:29 - North Korea Begins 'Immortal Potion of Love' Covid Vaccine Program
28:59 - Woman Tries First Proper Meal After 23 Years of Only Eating Potato Chips

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Level1 News June 8 2022: Horton Hears Exactly Who You Are

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Bad news everyone, THE FORBIDDEN ROUTER turned Ryan into a ghost. He should be fine by next week, I did a bunch of incantations and the router is back to normal...

...FOR NOW.

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0:00 - Intro
1:35 - Tim Hortons app tracked too much personal information without adequate consent, investigation finds
3:41 - Larger-than-30TB hard drives are coming much sooner than expected
4:37 - Smartphones will kill off the DSLR within three years says Sony
6:16 - Broadcom plans 'rapid subscription transition' for VMware
7:18 - Judge rules Cydia's antitrust case against Apple can move forward
9:11 - Consumers embrace milk carton QR codes, may cut food waste
11:00 - Apple to shift iPad capacity to Vietnam amid China supply chain woes
12:01 - Tangle-free magnetic USB cables are here
13:03 - 18 European countries’ consumer groups have joined the fight against loot boxes
16:22 - Elon Musk reportedly declares remote work ‘no longer acceptable’ at Tesla
18:15 - No more dealer markups: Ford wants to move to online-only sales for EVs
19:42 - Internal Documents Show Amazon's Dystopian System for Tracking Workers Every Minute of Their Shifts
24:02 - Farmer Says Dealer Wouldn’t Repair His Tractor Until He Filed FTC Complaint
25:48 - Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Go successor leaks via retailer
26:35 - Amazon to pull Kindle out of China, other businesses to remain
27:33 - U.S. charges OpenSea ex-employee in first NFT insider trading case
28:37 - Netflix’s password-sharing test in Peru is confusing subscribers, report suggests
29:32 - Some of Canon’s wireless Pixma printers are stuck in reboot loops
29:58 - Qualcomm wants to buy a stake in Arm alongside its rivals
31:02 - SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Talks Next Generation Starlink Satellites
32:31 - IBM ordered to pay $1.6b to BMC Software
33:17 - Chorus shows off 25 gigabit per second retail fibre broadband - Service Providers
34:17 - Video game developers want fair online games. Some players really don’t.
36:24 - This Smart Pacemaker Simply Dissolves Inside the Body When It's No Longer Needed
38:02 - Sheryl Sandberg to step down as COO of Facebook-parent Meta
38:44 - Immersion accuses Meta Platforms of patent infringement in AR/VR
39:38 - Metaverse Murders will be punished as real crimes, says UAE’s AI minister
42:18 - Instagram moderators say Iran offered them bribes to remove accounts
42:59 - Apparent Schematics For Meta's Project Cambria Headset Leak

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ASRock Rack ROMED8-2T Review, proto-Build & Chat. What do you want to see?

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This is the board being used in the forbidden router!
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Level1 News June 7 2022: Federal Bureau of Bad Splash Pages

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Bad news everyone, THE FORBIDDEN ROUTER turned Ryan into a ghost. He should be fine by next week, I did a bunch of incantations and the router is back to normal...

...FOR NOW.

https://www.linode.com/level1techs

https://www.one-tab.com/page/X1CH6HfySEiCSkfEHmSC4Q

0:00 - Intro
2:22 - Supreme Court leak investigation heats up as clerks are asked for phone records in unprecedented move
4:45 - US retakes first place from Japan on Top500 supercomputer ranking
6:44 - Amazon Repeatedly Violated Union-Busting Labor Laws, ‘Historic’ NLRB Complaint Says
8:12 - FBI seizes domains used to sell stolen data, DDoS services
9:20 - California Right To Repair Bills Dies In Senate Committee
10:55 - Connecticut will pay a security analyst 150k to monitor election memes for misinformation
11:46 - Supreme Court blocks Texas social media law that tech companies warned would allow hateful content to run rampant
12:17 - ‘Right to repair’ equipment removed from NC Senate farm bill. Why it matters.
13:15 - US ramps up offensive and defensive cyber operations
13:58 - EU deal on single mobile charging port likely June 7 in setback for Apple
14:51 - France bans English gaming tech jargon in push to preserve language purity
17:30 - Russia opens cases against Google, other foreign tech over data storage
18:00 - HP turns back on $1b in annual sales by quitting Russia and Belarus
19:17 - Taiwan Restricts Russia, Belarus to CPUs Under 25 MHz Frequency
20:35 - Singapore to pilot digital asset trading with blockchain, tokenisation
22:31 - Ukrainian fighters take to electric bikes in the war against Russia
23:51 - Elon Musk says Starlink has been approved in Nigeria and Mozambique
24:51 - Vodafone plans carrier-level user tracking for targeted ads
25:56 - Wray: FBI blocked planned cyberattack on children’s hospital
28:24 - Clearview Is Now Selling Its AI To App Developers, School Security Contractors
30:40 - India withdraws warning on biometric ID sharing following online uproar
31:23 - Murena, the privacy-first Android smartphone, arrives
33:04 - A Spotify publisher was down Monday night. The culprit? A lapsed security certificate
33:44 - New Linux-based ransomware targets VMware servers
34:29 - GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor and provides financial assistance to patients in need
36:40 - Windows MSDT zero-day now exploited by Chinese APT hackers
37:32 - Costa Rican Social Security Fund hit with ransomware attack
39:02 - ANOTHER Guy Has Leaked Classified Military Documents On The SAME TANK GAME'S forums
40:02 - Remote learning apps shared children’s data at a ‘dizzying scale’

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Level1 Presents: THE FORBIDDEN ROUTER

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https://xcp-ng.org/

Github link for do it yourselfers: https://github.com/ronivay/XenOrchestraInstallerUpdater

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Level1 News May 24 2022: /b/ all you can /b/

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0:00 - Intro
1:09 - Deadlocked FCC could derail Biden's digital equity plans
2:07 - DHS pauses disinformation board, director to resign
3:14 - Court rules SEC’s internal judges are unconstitutional
8:45 - DOJ Announces It Won’t Prosecute White Hat Security Researchers
10:02 - White House slams Bezos criticism of Biden tax comments as "unsurprising"
11:18 - Judge rules California law requiring women on corporate boards is unconstitutional
12:53 - Senators Urge FTC to Probe ID.me Over Selfie Data
15:21 - Stablecoins Not Ready for Consumer Payments, US Watchdog Says
17:02 - Miami’s mayor backed MiamiCoin—then its price dropped 95%
19:16 - This new Army recruitment video is a case study in psychological warfare
20:46 - Canada bans Chinese tech giant Huawei from 5G network
22:54 - China is second-biggest bitcoin mining hub despite Beijing's ban
24:18 - Microsoft's Bing search engine reportedly censoring names tied to Chinese politics
25:34 - Hong Kong Mulls Blocking Telegram Channel as Part of Crackdown on Doxing
26:11 - Google's Russia office files for bankruptcy
27:16 - Russia says it's not planning to block YouTube or cut itself off from internet
27:52 - India says VPN firms unwilling to comply with new rules ‘will have to pull out’
28:47 - New Bluetooth hack can unlock your Tesla—and all kinds of other devices
29:53 - The passwords most used by CEOs are startlingly dumb
31:27 - Google Messages RCS being abused for ads
32:01 - Google will start distributing a security-vetted collection of open-source software libraries
33:10 - Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs
34:54 - National bank hit by ransomware trolls hackers with dick pics
35:50 - Angry IT admin wipes employer’s databases, gets 7 years in prison
36:38 - Ransomware gang threatens to overthrow Costa Rica government
37:28 - Researchers devise iPhone malware that runs even when device is turned off
40:21 - Web ad firms scrape email addresses before you know it
43:16 - Massive WordPress JavaScript Injection Campaign Redirects to Ads

#Level1News

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