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The Level1 Show July 27 2022: All Blocks, No Chains

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0:00 - Intro
1:18 - Amazon to buy primary health-care provider One Medical for roughly $3.9 billion
2:25 - Exclusive: Amazon instructs New York workers 'don't sign' union cards
5:18 - Amazon executives have discussed ditching Amazon Basics to appease antitrust regulators
6:05 - Apple outlines health technology strategy in new report
7:30 - Apple reaches $50 mln settlement over defective MacBook keyboards
8:06 - Apple reads the room, looks to slow hiring in '23
8:24 - Microsoft president sees 'new era' of stagnating labor pool
9:01 - Microsoft eliminates open jobs amid economic downturn
9:30 - Microsoft changes its policy against the sale of open source software in the Microsoft Store
10:33 - Google Announces Hiring Pause
11:26 - Google Begins Publicly Testing Its AR Glasses
12:13 - Smartphone shipments dropped 9% in Q2
13:20 - TikTok owner ByteDance explores self-designed chips
14:32 - Chip designers warm to U.S. bill despite big benefits to Intel
15:51 - Netflix subscriber count in the US and Canada dropped by 1.3 million over the last three months
16:04 - Netflix adds “extra home” fee, will block usage in other homes if you don’t pay
18:24 - No NFTs in Minecraft, Mojang says
19:20 - Crypto Exchange Zipmex Pauses Withdrawals, Citing 'Circumstances Beyond Our Control’
20:46 - Google, Oracle cloud servers suffer outage in UK heatwave
21:21 - GeForce Now 120fps expands to all Android devices
22:32 - Facebook revamps home feed to feel more like TikTok
23:33 - Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping
25:25 - A company called Meta is suing Meta for naming itself Meta
26:38 - Amazon sues admins from 10,000 Facebook groups over fake reviews
27:41 - Microsoft Teams is getting its own Facebook-like social network
28:59 - Snapchat is coming to the web after more than a decade as a mobile app
29:51 - Overrun by influencers, historic sites are banning TikTok creators in Nepal
31:12 - TikTok resists calls to preserve Ukraine content for war crime investigations
31:49 - Yes, crypto Twitter, the FBI is reading your tweets

#level1show

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The Level1 Show July 20 2022: Lo-Fi Beats to Study and Commit Copyright Fraud To

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0:00 - Intro
0:32 - Google says it will slow hiring through 2023 in memo to employees
0:42 - Microsoft lays off a portion of its workforce as part of a ‘realignment’
0:54 - EV maker Rivian plans to cut hundreds of jobs, report says
1:15 - Intel plans price hikes on broad range of products
1:51 - NFT marketplace OpenSea lays off 20% of its staff: ‘We have entered … crypto winter’
2:34 - Samsung sustains growth in Q2 thanks to chips
3:26 - Intel’s 12th Gen CPU can’t handle the Bar exam
4:47 - Magic Leap 2 AR Headset Arrives Sept. 30, Starting at $3,299
7:23 - Nothing officially announces flashy Phone 1, starting at £399
9:04 - BMW starts selling heated seat subscriptions for $18 a month
11:51 - Peloton will stop making its own exercise equipment
12:41 - Google exec suggests Instagram and TikTok are eating into Google’s core products, Search and Maps
16:20 - Google files counterclaim to Match’s antitrust lawsuit, says Match wants to use its services for free
17:51 - Amazon partners with Fred Hutchinson on cancer vaccine trial
19:20 - GameStop launches NFT marketplace as it hunts for growth online
20:49 - ‘Hit the kill switch’: Uber used covert tech to thwart government raids
23:15 - Get lifetime access to Microsoft Office for only $40 thanks to this limited-time only deal
24:07 - Wired’s union threatens to strike
25:42 - White House: Tesla to expand its US Supercharger network to other EVs in late 2022
26:35 - Massive Rogers outage affected Canadian phones, internet, ATMs, and debit cards
28:11 - TikTok Pauses Ad Targeting After Italy Intervenes
29:51 - YouTube ends Lofi Girl’s two-year-long music stream over bogus DMCA warning
31:47 - API rate limits at core of Musk’s decision to ditch Twitter

#level1show

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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!

Forum thread: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/forbidden-router-container-host-vm-lanc…

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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.

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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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