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

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

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

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

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Uhhhhh, so, I didn't realize this background looked so sus LOL! it's the conference room from "The Boys" tv show. They had their season finale last week. ~ Amber
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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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