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Benchmarking an MSI Build with "Cheaper" Memory, a 4070ti and the i7 Ultra 270k Plus

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Intel Xeon 6 658X for Workstations Launching Now.. but how's it stacking up?

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System 76's Thelio Mira w/ Pop! OS and Cosmic 🚀

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Building with SilverStone's RM 100 Chassis

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Minisforum's N5 Max is an Absurd NAS

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System 76's Thelio Mira w/ Pop! OS and Cosmic 🚀

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Building a Somewhat More Affordable AM5 Server in the Silverstone RM32 3U Case!

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Building a PC to help with the Existential Dread (w/ PZ MSI Mobo and Fractal North XL Momentum Case)

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Fractal Pop 2 Air Quick Build

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A New Silverstone 5u Case for our Storage Server and Virtual Machines! (Featuring a FSP 1600w PSU)

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Upgrading the HL 15 and Rambling about 45 Drives Creator Summit

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What is the Least Expensive Threadripper Build Without Losing too much Performance?

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256 GB on AM5: E-Z Mode!


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Explaining Agentic AI and The Loop

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Finally! Panther Lake! A Quick Look at the Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG

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Minisforum MS O2 Ultra Is a Fantasy Level Mini PC

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Is Custom Building a Forbidden Router in 2025 a Good Idea? Featuring Editor Grant

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Strix Halo Mini PC vs DIY Build -- Does it make sense for Gaming? For AI? What for?

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Minisforum MS S1 Max AI Review, Benchmarks, and Comfy UI Setup Guide

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More Strix Halo MADNESS With The GMKtec EVO-X2 Mini PC!

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Showcasing the New MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 2mg on the Server Crash Cart!

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Minisforum UM680 Slim: A Mini PC Masterpiece?

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Small Form Factor Workstation: Reviewing and Benchmarking the Minisforum MS-A2


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Is STRIX Better than SPARK? Now Launching w/new Software: AMD's Ryzen AI Halo Developer Workstation

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Intel and Kioxia @ Computex 2026! Gaming Handhelds, New Xeon, and Storage!

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Benchmarking an MSI Build with "Cheaper" Memory, a 4070ti and the i7 Ultra 270k Plus

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Linux Weekly 6: 9950X3D2, Local AI on Intel GPUs, and Forbidden Routers

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Intel Xeon 6 658X for Workstations Launching Now.. but how's it stacking up?

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AMD Presents Ryzen 9 9950X3D 2: The Sequel Everyone Asked For, But Will Anyone Want?

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Linux Weekly 5: Linux 7.0, XEON and France

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Everyone Loves Intel Again? Here's some Ultra 7 270K Plus & Core Ultra 5 250K Plus ASRock builds!

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Intel's Battle Matrix Benchmarks and Review

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Minisforum M1 Pro 285H Review


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256 GB on AM5: E-Z Mode!

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Cooling Two Epyc CPUs with the Silverstone XE360P-DD!

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The Level1 Links With Friends Show June 3 2025: Grand Theft Wind

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Intel Has a Problem Part 2: Post Mortem: Revived. But the Aftermath?


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NVIDIA's Secret Windows Upgrades for N1/N1X Laptops Help Everyone; AMD Could Benefit the Most

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Global Launch Review of the XFX RX 9070 GRE

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“What Would I Do With 8 GPUs?” — 10 Years Later… Millions ft Charlie Boyle from Nvidia

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“AI Factory” Isn’t a Metaphor — It’s a Design Pattern (And That Changes Everything)

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Intel B70 -- Arc Pro Battlemage Lands with 32gb VRAM, 600+ GB/sec bandwidth, and more

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Teaching a Robot how to Game with Turnstone and Nvidia VSS!

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What Do You Want to Run on this 4 DGX Spark Cluster? Preparing for GTC '26 #tech #nvidia

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DGX and RTX 6000s at SC 25

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4x Radeon AI Pro R9700 in a single system! And HAProxy: Owning the Means of Production


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A 5090 "Gaming Laptop"... Sure. It's A Lot!

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Where's My Framework 16?! A Chat with Tom Lawrence on Upgrading Wendell's old Laptop

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The Level1 Links With Friends Show June 18 2025: Itty Bitty Xbox

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Phison's NEW SSD Controller: Better Laptop Battery, Faster Performance!

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The HP Zbook Ultra G1A MONSTER Laptop Linux Setup Guide!

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ROG Flow z13 Using Linux!

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The Level1 Links With Friends Show May 21 2025: Bye Bye Bing Search

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128 gigs of RAM in this ROG Flow Z13 Tablet!?

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MinisForum's MDSA156 15.6" Dual Portable Monitor Quick Overview

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The Level1 Show March 18 2025: Et Tu, Graber?


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AMD: What's up with the ECC 5200 Limit in the latest AGESA 1.3.0.0?? Oopsie not intentional (I hope)

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What Exactly is the Deal with DDR5?

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This G.Skill Memory Won't Throttle? And ASUS has a Bug

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Sapphire Makes Motherboards? Sapphire Nitro+ B850A Wifi7 Review

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Testing 256GB of GSKill DDR5 6000 on AM5!

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No E? X870 Nova Wifi Motherboard Review and Memory Chat

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A Deep Dive into Threadripper 9000!

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Beware DDR5 Silent Throttling! Buy/Don't Buy V-color Testing at DDR5 7200/ 8000 for Threadripper


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Reviewing the MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36 from MSI

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Down With 16:9 Aspect Ratios! BenQ RD280UG Programming Monitor Review

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Dell Sent Wendell a New Monitor for the Studio: Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor - U5226KW

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An OLED Monitor For the Office: DELL QD-OLED S3225QC

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Creating a PCIe Bifurcation Solution for AI Councils

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Checking Out MSI's BLAZING FAST 500hz 1440p OLED Monitor!

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Checking Out The Minisforum N5 Pro NAS: Excelsior!

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This 240hz OLED Gaming Monitor is Wendell's Dream Monitor: Ft The ASRock PG032UFS Gaming Monitor

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MSI MP251 E2 Quick Review and Overview

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The FORBIDDEN Motherboard!! Hacking More Lanes into AM5: LR-Link Broadcom PCIe Expansion

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256 GB on AM5: E-Z Mode!

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Creating a ZFS Pool of Mismatched Old Storage!

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256TB in a Single SSD Is Real, and It’s Coming to Consumers

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Setting Up a DIY Storage Server To Go Fast!

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SPRANDOM: The Best Benchmarking Standard for Storage?

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The Level1 Show September 6 2024: Empty Starliner Syndrome

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0:00 - Intro
0:40 - OpenAI in Talks for Funding Round Valuing It Above $100 Billion
2:03 - AI's impact on Philippines, the world's call center capital shows what's to come
3:35 - Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude tick
5:00 - South Korea faces deepfake 'emergency'
7:33 - Google Gemini will again support AI image generation of people
8:16 - Gannett is shuttering site accused of publishing AI product reviews
9:26 - Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Says Company's AI Assistant Has Saved $260M And 4.5K Developer-Years Of Work
10:16 - Police officers are starting to use AI to write crime reports
11:42 - Kansas City crime: 600-pound AI robot reducing crime at shopping center
13:23 - Boeing Starliner returning empty, NASA to use SpaceX to get astronauts
15:06 - Boeing, Lockheed Martin in talks to sell rocket-launch firm ULA to Sierra Space
15:37 - D&D publisher walks back controversial changes to online tools
16:27 - Marseille museum opens up naturist exhibition to nude visitors
17:54 - This Old House’s Roger Cook Dead at 70
19:28 - A woman was arrested at a Surprise meeting. The city has a law that bans criticizing officials
20:21 - North Korea orders all students abroad to return home for ideological education
20:50 - ‘It’s not fair’: South Strand parents of children playing sports in community area issued cease and desist from HOA
23:06 - Teacher in Korea sued for emotional abuse after asking student to solve problem on chalkboard
24:52 - Hiker left behind by coworkers on Mount Shavano in Colorado amid severe storms
26:11 - Indiana man spiked wife's Coke with cocaine to try to marry daughter
27:38 - Thief steals "Jaws of Life" tool after Oakland firefighters rescue girl stuck in swing
28:45 - Austrian surgeon 'let teenage daughter drill hole in patient's skull'
29:40 - Lawsuits allege Cocoa Puffs have dangerous levels of lead
30:38 - Why One Dietitian is Speaking Up for “Ultra-Processed” Foods
32:11 - Scientists may have found a radical solution for making your hamburger less bad for the planet
34:01 - 'A very scary person:' Woman pulled out gun when denied dog adoption, Tampa police say
35:47 - RFK's daughter Kick Kennedy says he once cut whale's head
36:59 - Lonely dolphin may be behind series of attacks on swimmers in Japan
37:51 - ‘Injured’ Missouri bald eagle actually ‘too fat to fly’ after gorging on raccoon

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The Level1 Show September 3 2024: Até Logo, Twitter

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0:00 - Intro
0:49 - Appliance and Tractor Companies Lobby Against Giving the Military the Right to Repair
2:20 - Watchdog warns FBI is very sloppy on safe data storage
3:33 - OpenAI, Anthropic share models with U.S. AI Safety Institute
4:46 - U.S. Justice Department sues RealPage, alleging it enabled price-fixing on rents
6:46 - Families can sue app developer for breaking its anti-bullying pledge
8:11 - Wyoming is pushing crypto payments, trying to beat the Fed to a digital dollar
9:49 - Illinois Amends Human Rights Act to Address AI Use in Hiring and Employment
11:19 - California legislature passes controversial “kill switch” AI safety bill
12:26 - California passes landmark bill requiring easier data sharing opt outs for consumers
13:26 - Web Monitoring System being used for blocking online content in Pakistan, reveals minister
14:26 - Telegram CEO indicted in Paris Court
16:46 - France to trial ban on mobile phones at school for children under 15
18:27 - Trudeau says Canada will slap big tariffs on Chinese-made EVs
19:50 - Australia grants workers 'right to disconnect' after hours
20:58 - Brazil threatens X with shutdown
21:11 - Elon Musk dubs Brazil judge ‘dictator’ in response to claim Starlink accounts blocked
22:58 - Russian government hackers found using exploits made by spyware companies NSO and Intellexa
24:28 - Don’t trust Google for customer service numbers. It might be a scam.
25:39 - Major Backdoor in Millions of RFID Cards Allows Instant Cloning
27:05 - DICK'S shuts down email, locks employee accounts after cyberattack

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The Beelink GTi14 Ultra: A Mini PC That Can Use A Full Sized GPU?

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A Mini PC that can connect to a full sized GPU through PCIe? It's more likely than you think!

https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-gti14-ultra9-185h

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A Laptop With No Screen? Checking out the MinisForum AtomMan G7 Ti

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A mini pc with a laptop form factor? That's weird! Let's take a look!

https://store.minisforum.com/products/atomman-g7-ti

0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Unboxing and overview
3:47 - Thermal and cpu/memory benchmarks
5:46 - Hardware considerations
8:28 - Gaming benchmarks
8:52 - Outro

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The Level1 Show August 21 2024: Disbarment+

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0:00 - Intro
0:32 - Bay Area's Cisco reveals $10.3B yearly profit, thousands of layoffs
2:05 - Sonos lays off 100 employees as its app crisis continues
3:27 - Paramount Global to lay off 15% of U.S. workforce and close TV studio
5:25 - Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google's woes mysteriously vanishes
7:47 - Disney+ streaming terms mean lawsuit after LI doc Kanokporn Tangsuan's food allergy death must be tossed, Disney says
11:28 - Intel sells stake in Arm, estimated to raise $147 million as part of business turnaround
12:29 - AMD’s new Zen 5 CPUs fail to impress during early reviews
13:40 - Redbox app axed, dashing people’s hopes of keeping purchased content
15:41 - New AI tool enables real-time face swapping on webcams, raising fraud concerns
17:27 - Apple says Patreon must switch to its billing system or risk removal from App Store
18:40 - Google Chrome drops support for the most popular ad blocker, leaving over 30 million users stranded
20:11 - Valve confirms it'll support the ROG Ally with its Steam Deck operating system
21:01 - We played Valve’s secret new shooter, Deadlock
21:24 - Valve banned The Verge from its secret Deadlock playtest for leaking information on the game

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The Level1 Show August 14 2024: uBlock'd

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0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Asus, MSI Release Motherboard BIOS Updates to Address Intel CPU Bug
2:33 - Intel Foundry Achieves Major Milestones
3:24 - The AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X Review: Zen 5 is Alive
5:07 - Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript
8:29 - Netflix suffers "the biggest leaking disaster in anime history" as significant chunk of its 2024 slate appears online
9:03 - Crunchyroll Passes 15 Million Monthly Paid Subscribers
9:40 - Delta to CrowdStrike: Don't Blame Us for Tech Problems
12:18 - Video game actors are officially on strike over AI
14:28 - Why Sonos's biggest fans turned against it
18:32 - Apple revises DMA compliance for App Store link-outs, applying fewer restrictions and a new fee structure
21:41 - A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs
22:11 - Dell lays off thousands of workers in sales reorganization
23:44 - Logitech’s ‘forever’ mouse isn’t happening
24:14 - Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line
26:07 - Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled
27:55 - Hyundai and Kia's new anti-theft software is showing results
29:00 - Cyberattack knocks Mobile Guardian MDM offline and wipes thousands of student devices

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The Level1 Show August 9 2024: You Can't Unmountain Dew What's Been Mountain Done

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0:00 - Intro
0:37 - G20 agrees to work to effectively tax the superrich
4:09 - Logitech's 'forever mouse' could mean peripherals go the way of coffee beans, TVs, and printer ink by pushing a subscription
6:22 - Microsoft now lists OpenAI as a competitor in AI and search
8:43 - Meta's AI safety system defeated by the space bar
10:18 - Nerve fibres in the brain could generate quantum entanglement
11:13 - New study simulates gravitational waves from failing warp drive
13:37 - Construction of US’ 1st fourth-gen nuclear reactor 'Hermes' begins
14:25 - Portsmouth: Thief who stole 798 Creme Eggs jailed
15:11 - Retired firefighter threatened by city leaders with jail time for trying to help his Lockland neighbors avoid potholes
15:50 - HOA members try to shut down children’s lemonade stand by calling sheriff’s office
16:42 - Skibidi Toilet files DMCA against Garry’s Mod
17:43 - Customers who save on electric bills could be forced to pay utility company for lost profits
19:03 - Andy Beshear issues apology to diet Mountain Dew
20:27 - U.S. proposes ban on airline fees for seating parents next to kids
21:10 - Everything announced at Star Trek's SDCC 2024 panel
22:31 - Olympic Triathlete Had Brutal Quote About Her Experience Swimming in Seine
23:50 - Fully-automatic robot dentist performs world's first human procedure
25:05 - How ‘girl dad’ Flavor Flav became hype man for the US women’s water polo team

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The Level1 Show August 6 2024: Crashing Trains for the Gram

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0:00 - Intro
1:16 - French Internet Lines Cut in Latest Attack During Olympics
2:14 - If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe
3:37 - There is no online voter registration in Texas
4:59 - Amazon Paid Almost $1 Billion for Twitch in 2014. It’s Still Losing Money.
6:46 - Ford trying to patent system that reports speeding vehicles to police
8:16 - Nebraska teen accused of derailing train, recording the crash and posting it online
9:25 - ‘House of the Dragon' Season 2 Finale Leaks on TikTok and Twitter/X
10:31 - Senators propose “Digital replication right” for likeness, extending 70 years after death
13:06 - Germany says China was behind a 2021 cyberattack on a government agency and summons its ambassador
14:47 - Russia to allow crypto payments in international trade to counter sanctions
15:29 - HealthEquity data breach affects 4.3M people
16:13 - US agency puts onus on Amazon for sale of hazardous third-party products
19:22 - Microsoft Pushes US Lawmakers to Crack Down on Deepfakes

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The Level1 Show August 2 2024: Hello... Girly?

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0:00 - Intro
0:41 - OpenAI training and inference costs could reach $7bn for 2024, AI startup set to lose $5bn
1:32 - AI Adoption Creeps as Enterprises Wrestle With Costs and Use Cases
2:58 - Introducing Llama 3.1: Our most capable models to date
3:43 - Mark Zuckerberg imagines content creators making AI clones of themselves
4:32 - Google's new weather prediction system combines AI with traditional physics
5:13 - The AI job interviewer will see you now
5:37 - AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry
7:00 - The Bookseller - News - Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI
7:44 - AI-generated faces can be spotted by studying eyeballs, researchers find
8:42 - iFixit CEO takes shots at Anthropic for 'hitting our servers a million times in 24 hours' and even the AI company's own chatbot disapproves
9:31 - AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense
10:31 - AI boyfriends from Replika and Nomi are attracting more women
11:18 - Alphabet to invest another $5B into Waymo
12:04 - Boeing-owned Wisk expects to begin carrying passengers 'later in the decade'
12:55 - Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis
13:57 - Scientists say regulation is urgently required for ‘living robots’
15:12 - Robot dog can stifle weeds by blasting them with a blowtorch
17:01 - Russia plans to create core of new space station by 2030
17:57 - NASA’s Curiosity rover makes its ‘most unexpected’ find on Mars
19:17 - May solar superstorm caused largest 'mass migration' of satellites in history
20:26 - Australian scientists genetically engineer common fly species to eat more of humanity’s waste
21:24 - "Smart soil" grows 138% bigger crops using 40% less water
22:18 - Bye Bye Superbugs? New Antibiotic Is Virtually Resistance-Proof
23:05 - Western neuroscientists reveal thoughts of brain-injured patients
24:05 - Mean girls: uOttawa researcher studies the hows and whys
25:44 - Olympics: New Zealand report Canada for flying drone to record training
26:23 - Paris Olympics 2024 prepares for motor doping detection in cycling
27:15 - Oklahoma court rules pregnant moms can use medical marijuana legally
28:37 - Mattel introduces blind Barbie, Black Barbie with Down syndrome
29:43 - Hello Kitty is 'not a cat,' but rather a 'little girl,' creators say
30:24 - Hugo awards organisers reveal thousands spent on fraudulent votes to help one writer win
31:03 - In shock move, California Forever pulls measure to build Bay Area city
32:08 - They're No. 1: U.S. Wins Math Olympiad For First Time In 21 Years
33:12 - ‘Are you serious?’: Hawaii Island mayor in disbelief after 3rd vehicle drives into harbor
34:52 - ‘It makes no sense,’ Toronto building had to tell its residents to stop throwing feces at electrical workers
36:15 - Trash balloons from North Korea hit South Korea's presidential compound
36:51 - Ohio woman pleads guilty on felony charges for calling 911 nearly 400 times
37:47 - Cops investigated after claiming criminals 'turned into cats' and escaped from cells
38:53 - France's rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on morning of Olympic opening ceremony
40:39 - Kentucky motel ordered to pay $2 million after guest dies from 150-degree shower
41:44 - Ohio court rules restaurant not responsible for injury from bone in boneless wing
42:27 - Jack in the Box employee struck by car over missing chicken strip: Police
43:27 - Team GB athlete Charlotte Dujardin pulls out of Paris Olympics after 'whipping horse 24 times'
45:31 - Flying fish damages NJ couple's Tesla parked in Atlantic Highlands driveway
46:50 - "Cocaine Sharks" Found In Brazil, Scientist Unsure Where They Get The Drug
47:36 - Florida police tell people to stop taking selfies with ‘depressed’ black bear
48:15 - Texas family wraps baby bird in warm tortilla to keep is safe
49:10 - Meet Crush, the rare orange lobster diverted from dinner plate to aquarium by Denver Broncos fans
50:27 - Why "salmon sperm facials" have enchanted Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Aniston

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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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