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The Level1 Show July 31 2024: ✖️🚫🔫💦

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0:00 - Intro
0:20 - Indie Game Publisher Humble Games Reportedly Lays Off All Staff
1:56 - Verizon hit by prepaid subscriber exodus after internet subsidy ends
2:40 - Tesla profit falls 45% to $1.48 billion on weak EV sales in Q2
3:35 - Not a Defect: Intel Blames 13th, 14th Gen CPU Crashes on Software Bug
4:22 - Intel says its desktop Core crashes don't extend to mobile chips
5:04 - VFX studio's Unreal Engine supervisor reports 50% failure rate for Intel Raptor Lake CPUs, prompting switch to AMD
6:08 - Nvidia's third-party RTX 40-series GPUs are losing performance over time thanks to rubbish factory-installed thermal paste
7:06 - AMD claims its top-tier Ryzen AI chip is faster than Apple’s M3 Pro
8:41 - Huawei plans tri-fold smartphone as Apple weighs foldable iPhone, reports say
9:37 - Apple loses top 5 spot in China smartphone market as domestic brands dominate
10:29 - Lawsuit: T-Mobile must pay for breaking lifetime price guarantee
11:04 - T-Mobile expands fiber footprint with Metronet acquisition
12:20 - Chinese researchers create four-gram drone
12:41 - CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage
13:34 - AT&T February wireless outage blocked more than 92 million calls, agency says
14:08 - Microsoft: Our licensing terms don't raise rivals' costs
14:45 - Microsoft: Linux Is the Top Operating System on Azure Today
15:19 - Windows 11 strikes again with irritating pop-up that can't be disabled
16:45 - World of Warcraft developers form Blizzard’s largest and most inclusive union
17:56 - More flight cancellations are expected as airlines gradually recover from global tech outage
18:59 - After years of uncertainty, Google says it won't be 'deprecating third-party cookies' in Chrome
19:46 - Max-Hulu-Disney+ Bundle Pricing Revealed
20:52 - Google defends itself in proposed class action, says it never collected users’ personal information
22:00 - Google's Exclusive Reddit Access
22:58 - X swapped its water pistol emoji with a regular gun, for some reason
23:48 - Florida sheriff apologizes after posting photo of dead body on Instagram

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The Level1 Show July 24 2024: How Do You Do, Fellow Kids

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0:00 - Intro
0:19 - Poll shows 84% of PC users unwilling to pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware - VideoCardz.com
1:31 - GlobalWafers scores $400M for building 300mm wafer plants • The Register
2:27 - NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules | NVIDIA Technical Blog
3:20 - ASUS' New NUC Tiny PCs Have RTX 4000 GPUs
4:20 - Google and Microsoft consume more energy than some countries due to AI advances | Windows Central
6:12 - Rabbit r1's AI assistant has secretly been storing user chats that can't be deleted | ZDNET
7:05 - Mangled fingers, no time off: Why the women who make Samsung’s semiconductors are striking
8:47 - Global IT outage: Airlines, businesses affected by CrowdStrike, Microsoft issues | AP News
9:44 - Microsoft introduces a new form of Windows updates because things weren’t confusing enough
10:20 - Exclusive: Google-backed software developer GitLab explores sale, sources say | Reuters
10:55 - Kaspersky Lab Closing U.S. Division; Laying Off Workers
11:33 - After initially rejecting it, Apple has approved the first PC emulator for iOS - The Verge
12:20 - Netflix's Password Sharing Crackdown Backfires With Slow Subscriber Growth in Q2 | Venture Capital Post
12:46 - RIAA Sues Verizon After ISP "Buried Head in Sand" Over Subscribers' Piracy * TorrentFreak
13:44 - ‘Unhealthy addiction’: Grim warning for Australian Temu shoppers | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
14:40 - Doomscrolling linked to existential anxiety, distrust, suspicion and despair, study finds | Social media | The Guardian
16:34 - 41% of People Believe Every Text “Needs” to Include an Emoji | DRGNews
17:52 - Amazon is reportedly now tracking individual hours employees spend at the office in latest worker crackdown | TechRadar
19:17 - Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees | Ars Technica
20:39 - Internal Microsoft Email Shows DEI Leader Blasting Layoffs - Business Insider
21:17 - Dirty diaper resold on Amazon ruined a family business, report says | Ars Technica
23:47 - David Zaslav on Election: Next President Should Supports Deregulation
25:25 - Facebook ads for Windows desktop themes push info-stealing malware
26:06 - A New Development in the Debate About Instagram and Teens - The Atlantic
27:26 - Meta Reportedly Unhappy With How Much Money Its VR Division Burns
28:22 - Google Search ending 'Notes' experiment
29:47 - Trump says 'I'm for TikTok' as potential US ban looms | Reuters
31:38 - Did gay dating app Grindr crash during the RNC in Milwaukee?

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Is The ASUS Hyper M.2 PCIe Gen 5 Card The FASTEST Thing In Your PC?

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The Level1 Show July 23 2024: An Army of Ones and Zeroes

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0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Reinstatement of net neutrality rules temporarily halted by appeals court - The Verge
1:17 - FCC closes “final loopholes” that keep prison phone prices exorbitantly high | Ars Technica
2:39 - FTC blasts Microsoft’s new ‘degraded’ Xbox Game Pass Standard tier and price increases - The Verge
4:32 - USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap | TechCrunch
5:21 - US Senate introduces ground-breaking bill to setup legal framework for ethical AI development | TechSpot
7:24 - Senators press AT&T, Snowflake for answers on wide-ranging data breach
8:18 - US to issue proposed rules limiting Chinese vehicle software in August | Reuters
10:58 - One-third of US military could be robotic by 2039: Milley
12:20 - NOAA Is in Danger - The Atlantic
13:52 - It May Soon Be Legal to Jailbreak AI to Expose How it Works
15:26 - Court Prohibits California Regulators from Enforcing Private Investigator Licensing Law Against Anti-Spam Crusader - Institute for Justice
17:01 - Meta won't bring future multimodal AI models to EU
18:09 - Britain's new government aims to regulate most powerful AI models | Reuters
19:11 - ByteDance must keep gatekeeper label, EU court says in boost for regulators | Reuters
20:11 - Huawei expected to take open RAN step to stay in Germany
22:03 - Google’s $500M effort to wreck Microsoft EU cloud deal failed, report says | Ars Technica
23:04 - Mysterious Case Of Norway’s Missing Undersea Cable - The Pinnacle Gazette
24:46 - Asian Tech Selloff Deepens on Worry Over US Trade Restrictions on Chips - Bloomberg
25:26 - Portal needed for victims to report AI deepfakes, federal police union says | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
28:02 - Leaked Docs Show What Phones Cellebrite Can (and Can’t) Unlock
29:50 - Israeli firm behind tech that reportedly cracked Trump shooter’s phone wants more fed business | FedScoop
30:59 - Ransomware costs at critical infrastructure orgs soar • The Register
31:46 - Rite Aid says breach exposes sensitive details of 2.2 million customers | Ars Technica
33:15 - Hackers Claim to Have Leaked 1.1 TB of Disney Slack Messages | WIRED
34:42 - AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records | WIRED
35:51 - Furniture giant shuts down manufacturing facilities after ransomware attack
36:32 - WazirX halts withdrawals after losing $230M worth crypto assets in security breach | TechCrunch
38:03 - Cloudflare reports almost 7% of internet traffic is malicious | ZDNET
38:51 - Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers
39:41 - New camera-based system can detect alcohol impairment in drivers by checking their faces | TechSpot

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Live Links With Friends July 15 2024 - Hardware, AI, Gov, Biz, You Name IT

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The Level1 Show July 12 2024: A Figma of Apple's Imagination

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0:00 - Intro
0:32 - Phil Schiller to join OpenAI board in 'observer' role following Apple's ChatGPT deal
1:49 - ChatGPT outperforms undergrads in intro-level courses, falls short later
4:06 - Sam Altman says OpenAI's GPT-5 will be a "significant leap forward"
4:50 - OpenAI unveils CriticGPT: A game-changer for AI code error detection
6:12 - Microsoft AI CEO: Content on the open web is "freeware" for AI training
6:55 - Apple will reportedly announce a partnership with Google at iPhone 16 event
9:38 - AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings
10:40 - Figma disables its AI design feature that appeared to be ripping off Apple's Weather app
11:32 - The telltale words that could identify generative AI text
12:17 - Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Results
13:27 - MIT’s soft robotic system is designed to pack groceries
14:12 - Zoox's self-driving cars join Austin's roads in July
14:54 - Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines
15:30 - 'Brain-in-a-jar' biocomputers can now learn to control robots
16:47 - People can move this bionic leg just by thinking about it
17:32 - Florida man arrested after shooting, destroying Walmart delivery drone, deputies say
18:19 - Chinese rocket static-fire test results in unintended launch and huge explosion
19:20 - NASA’s commercial spacesuit program just hit a major snag
19:46 - SpaceX wants to launch up to 120 times a year from Florida -- and competitors aren't happy about it
21:02 - Alzheimer’s scientist indicted for allegedly falsifying data in $16M scheme
21:43 - Drinking from plastic bottles can raise type 2 diabetes risk, study warns
23:13 - Inflight ‘raw dogging’: The bizarre new travel trend that’s creating a buzz
24:34 - FDA to ban soda additive brominated vegetable oil amid health concerns
25:40 - Leftover Ramen Broth Is Causing Problems on South Korea's Mount Halla
26:28 - Nissin's Campfire S'mores Cup Noodles is an ode to summer
27:08 - Sri Lanka fishermen die after drinking from bottles found in sea
28:00 - Welsh Government to ban politicians from lying
29:12 - Anthony Bray sentenced to four months for possession of replica Master Sword
30:25 - Vietnam: Outrage at student height requirement
31:04 - Minnesota county board candidate who allegedly threw live tarantula at tenant is charged with assault
33:39 - Drugs disguised as Taco Bell burritos found during Tennessee traffic stop
34:18 - Rapper BG ordered to have all future songs approved by US government
35:42 - Thai teacher caught livestreaming under skirt while teaching
36:31 - North Liberty woman arrested for calling police to get out of meeting online date
37:39 - Man fined for squirting mixture of urine and flour onto woman's dress to try to chat her up, Singapore News
38:47 - To save spotted owls, US officials plan to kill hundreds of thousands of another owl species
39:25 - Runaway Household Cavalry horses on loose again in central London

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The Atomman G7 Pt 16 Core Mini PC Review

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It's a bird, no it's a plane! WAIT! It's ATOMMAN!!!
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The Level1 Show July 9 2024: VPNyet

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0:00 - Intro
1:03 - Biden administration provides $504 million to support 12 technology hubs nationwide
2:01 - Supreme Court Puts Biden Policies Like Net Neutrality and Ban on Noncompete Contracts at Risk
4:54 - Supreme Court orders new look at social media laws in Texas and Florida
6:04 - Supreme Court to Hear Case on Texas Law Restricting Access to Porn
7:45 - Appeals court seems lost on how Internet Archive harms publishers
10:33 - FCC chair asks telecoms companies to prove they're actually trying to stop political AI robocalls
11:40 - Google, Snap, Meta and many others are "quietly" changing privacy policies to allow for AI training
12:09 - Federal judge partially blocks U.S. ban on noncompetes
13:41 - FTC warns three PC tech companies of potential warranty violations
15:01 - Mississippi law restricting children's social media use blocked
15:30 - Gov. Landry vetoes bill banning “deepfakes” in Louisiana. Here’s why
16:46 - Arkansas AG warns Temu isn't like Amazon or Walmart: 'It's a theft business'
17:53 - Uber and Lyft must pay Massachusetts rideshare drivers $32 an hour
19:24 - Canada 'sleepwalking' into cashless society, consumer advocates warn
20:42 - EU Competition Commissioner says Apple’s decision to pull AI from EU shows anticompetitive behaviour
21:22 - Exclusive: Nvidia set to face French antitrust charges, sources say
22:38 - Britain’s Brewing Battle Over Data Centers
24:16 - Number of girls in England taking computing GCSE plummets, study finds
25:35 - Europol says mobile roaming tech is hampering crimefighters
27:11 - Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio
28:00 - Two of the German military’s new spy satellites appear to have failed in orbit
29:11 - Spain introduces porn passport to stop kids from watching smut
30:03 - Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
30:55 - China Plans Broader Push to Develop Tech Like Musk’s Neuralink
31:48 - Indonesia President Orders Audit of Data Centres After Cyberattack
32:12 - Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore
32:49 - Brazil data regulator bans Meta from mining data to train AI models
33:11 - Meta defends charging fee for privacy amid showdown with EU
33:51 - Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse
35:09 - Why Are Mechanics ‘Officially’ Blocked From Fixing Cars?
36:41 - YouTube now lets you request removal of AI-generated content that simulates your face or voice
37:29 - YouTube's updated eraser tool removes copyrighted music without impacting other audio
38:28 - Angela Zhang, professor: ‘In China, the addiction of apps like TikTok, Temu or Shein has been driven to perfection’

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The Level1 Show July 5 2024: Literal Robot Skin Suits

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0:00 - Intro
0:59 - Multiple AI companies bypassing web standard to scrape publisher sites, licensing firm says
2:07 - Open Source LibreChat Offers More Than Just Extra LLMs
2:46 - OpenAI CTO: AI Could Kill Some Creative Jobs That Maybe Shouldn't Exist Anyway
3:39 - Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs
4:43 - OpenAI to pull plug on 'unsupported' nations from July 9
5:17 - Google is bringing Gemini access to teens using their school accounts
5:46 - YouTube Reportedly in Talks With Record Labels to License Songs for AI
6:26 - Major record labels sue AI company behind ‘BBL Drizzy’
8:13 - Opinion: As AI is embraced, what happens to the artists whose work was stolen to build it
8:52 - AI dataset licensing companies form trade group
9:37 - Toys “R” Us riles critics with “first-ever” AI-generated commercial using Sora
10:47 - Google AI Uses Enough Electricity in 1 Second to Charge 7 Electric Cars
11:18 - Microsoft: 'Skeleton Key' Jailbreak Can Trick Major Chatbots Into Behaving Badly
12:20 - NBC to use AI-generated version of Al Michaels' voice during Summer Olympics
13:05 - Company cuts costs by replacing 60-strong writing team with AI
15:21 - An influencer’s AI clone started offering fans ‘mind-blowing sexual experiences’ without her knowledge
16:29 - Zuckerberg disses closed-source AI competitors as trying to 'create God'
17:17 - Scientists Attached Living, Lab-Grown Skin to a Robot's Face and It Looks Like It Craves the Sweet Release of Death
18:26 - Waymo's autonomous ride-hailing service now available to all in San Francisco
18:55 - Apple wants to replace 50% of iPhone final assembly line workers with automation
20:21 - S. Korea administrative robot defunct after apparent suicide
21:47 - China Becomes First Country to Retrieve Rocks From Moon’s Far Side With Chang’e-6
22:51 - Starliner to remain docked to the ISS into July
23:37 - Dark matter: How primordial black holes could explain a long-standing mystery
24:39 - ISS astronauts take shelter in Boeing Starliner and other return spacecraft after June 26 satellite breakup
28:08 - MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offline
29:08 - Wizards Of The Coast Accused Of Using Hillary Clinton As Model For New Dungeons & Dragons Paladin
30:14 - Clothes, cookware, floss: Colorado law to ban everyday products with PFAS
31:13 - FDA warns company selling products with human fecal matter without approval
31:51 - Elon Musk confirms 12th child as he and Shivon Zilis welcomed new baby earlier this year
32:42 - Supreme Court wipes out anti-corruption law that bars officials from taking gifts for past favors
34:36 - Historic Butler Island Plantation near Darien on fire
35:40 - Pennsylvania porch pirates fight over same package in doorbell camera video
37:13 - Flipkart calls customer after 6 years over pending order: ‘what issue are you facing?’
38:00 - Neom: Saudi forces 'told to kill' to clear land for eco-city
38:57 - Maldives climate minister arrested for performing 'black magic' on President Muizzu
39:43 - Millions of mosquitoes released in Hawaii to save rare birds from extinction
40:33 - Rhinos get radioactive horns, will trigger nuclear alarms if poached
41:26 - Ronaldo the 6ft 'male' snake gives birth to 14 babies in rare 'virgin birth'
42:06 - Liskeard postal workers hampered by dive-bombing seagulls
42:50 - B.C. couple teaches rescued rats to drive tiny cars
44:15 - Llama golf caddies have North Carolina tourism on the upswing
45:18 - A pet donkey disappeared in California five years ago. He's been spotted living with a herd of wild elk

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The Level1 Show July 2 2024: The Hills Are Alive With The Fumes of Rockets

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0:00 - Intro
0:39 - McDonald's is ending its drive-thru AI test
1:59 - Perplexity Is a Bullcrap Machine
3:30 - OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever launches 'safe superintelligence' AI firm
4:49 - OpenAI CEO says company could become for-profit corporation, The Information reports
5:45 - GPT-4 has passed the Turing test, researchers claim
6:50 - Former Snap engineer launches Butterflies, a social network where AIs and humans coexist
7:54 - China’s DeepSeek Coder becomes first open-source coding model to beat GPT-4 Turbo
8:20 - Meta has created a way to watermark AI-generated speech
8:55 - Ukraine is using AI to manage the removal of Russian landmines
9:35 - AI Images in Google Search Results Have Opened a Portal to Hell
10:49 - Authorities Investigating AI Running for Mayor in Wyoming
11:37 - Mich. GOP candidate apologizes for 'disrespectful' AI-generated MLK Jr endorsement video
12:52 - London premiere of movie with AI-generated script cancelled after backlash
13:17 - Ukrainian robot drone tanks get Starlink power to battle Russia
13:52 - Future of Warfare: Pentagon Building Kamikaze AI Drones
14:59 - Public servants uneasy as government 'spy' robot prowls federal offices
16:13 - China’s next-gen sexbots powered by AI are about to hit the shelves
17:13 - Boeing Starliner: Two astronauts wait to come home amid spacecraft issues
18:12 - Human missions to Mars in doubt after astronaut kidney shrinkage revealed
19:10 - Astronomers detect sudden awakening of black hole 1m times mass of sun
19:51 - Voyager 1 makes stellar comeback to science operations
20:30 - Microplastics discovered in human penises for the first time
21:16 - $2.4 million Texas home listing boasts built-in 5,786 sq ft data center with full liquid cooling immersion system, no bedrooms
22:14 - Awful News: High School Cancels Basketball Game to be Played by Women in Thongs
23:08 - Mysterious metal monolith shows up in Las Vegas after reappearing in Wales
23:49 - Vermont lawmaker apologizes for dousing colleague’s bag
24:46 - Louisiana classrooms now required by law to display the Ten Commandments
25:40 - Secret Service agent robbed at gunpoint during Biden's Los Angeles trip
26:19 - Just Stop Oil targets Taylor Swift’s jet – and fails to locate it
27:25 - Philippines accuses China of using bladed weapons in major South China Sea escalation
28:50 - Ohio attorney suspended over throwing poop-filled Pringles cans has license reinstated
30:17 - Mom Defends Her Decision Not To Return the Shopping Cart Despite Backlash
32:11 - Biotech companies are trying to make milk without cows
33:54 - Waffle House servers are getting a raise - to $3 an hour
34:55 - Wear it, then recycle: Designers make dissolvable textiles from gelatin
35:49 - Radio trackers placed on rare beetles across Dartmoor
37:04 - Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Scientists track a bug-controlling super-sized fungus
38:55 - Bear shreds seats then dozes off after breaking into Canadian woman’s car

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