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Intel And The AI PC Revolution! Lunar Lake REVEALED

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Wendell is in Taipei for Computex! But first, Intel is showing off their new line of mobile CPUs that seem poised to shake things up for them in Q3.

Check out our Xeon 6 video: https://youtu.be/z-9020QjSaQ

0:00 - Intro
1:23 - Why Meteor Lake?
2:09 - Architecture Overview
4:31 - New E Cores
5:37 - New P Cores
6:57 - Xe2 Graphics
8:47 - What's Up With The NPU?
11:01 - Connectivity and Questions
15:00 - Final Thoughts

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The Level1 Show June 4th 2024: Federal Air Travel Rules (Taylor's Version)

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0:00 - Intro
0:59 - FTC Chair Lina Khan: AI models could violate antitrust laws
2:42 - Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift’s Private Jet
5:45 - Amazon execs may be personally liable for tricking users into Prime sign-ups | Ars Technica
8:05 - Treasury Sanctions Creators of 911 S5 Proxy Botnet – Krebs on Security
9:47 - New York plans to ban smartphones in schools, allowing basic phones only | TechSpot
10:55 - Another US state repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition | Ars Technica
12:05 - California advances measures targeting AI discrimination and deepfakes | AP News
13:16 - California launching pilot program to charge drivers for miles driven - Autoblog
14:47 - Gov. Polis Signs Bill Mandating That Consumers Have More Options To Fix Electronics
16:32 - UK law will let regulators fine Big Tech without court approval - The Verge
17:31 - Environment Agency chief admits regulator buries freedom of information requests | Environment Agency | The Guardian
18:31 - UK MPs In Full Moral Panic Decide To Ignore The Research, Push For Dangerous Ban On Phones For Kids | Techdirt
20:48 - Opinion: Ottawa wants the power to create secret backdoors in our networks to allow for surveillance - The Globe and Mail
22:06 - Russia mulling charging companies to use foreign software
23:06 - China sets up third fund with $47.5 bln to boost semiconductor sector | Reuters
23:32 - Hong Kong Makes First Arrests Under New Security Law | TIME
24:49 - Cooler Master’s Customer Data Leaked in Data Breach
25:20 - Hackers Claim Ticketmaster Data Breach: 560 Million Users' Info Up for Sale
26:41 - Ransomware Group Claims Responsibility for Christie’s Hack - The New York Times
27:30 - Google accused of secretly tracking drivers with disabilities | Ars Technica
28:41 - Best Buy, Geek Squad most impersonated for scams in 2023 • The Register
30:07 - Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine under DDoS cyber-attack | Internet Archive Blogs
31:37 - Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span | Ars Technica
32:46 - Former SK hynix employee charged with stealing tech for Huawei — Chinese national was arrested at airport | Tom's Hardware
33:55 - Discord’s turning the focus back to games - The Verge

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The Level1 Show May 28 2024: Fraudulent Self Driving

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0:00 - Intro
0:38 - Google cuts mystery check to US in bid to sidestep jury trial
2:15 - Julian Assange wins right to appeal against extradition to US
3:23 - Lawmakers call out eight automakers for sharing connected vehicle data
4:43 - US House passes crypto bill despite warnings from SEC
5:11 - SEC approves 8 Ethereum ETFs including BlackRock and Fidelity
5:46 - SEC: Financial orgs have 30 days to send data breach notifications
6:31 - The DOJ makes its first known arrest for AI-generated CSAM
7:32 - NIST Releases First Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
8:18 - EPA says it will step up enforcement to address ‘critical’ vulnerabilities within water sector
10:31 - These cities bar facial recognition tech. Police still found ways to access it.
11:23 - Pentagon worried its primary satellite launcher can’t keep pace
12:01 - Pentagon: Russia likely launched counter space weapon into low Earth orbit last week
12:49 - Pentagon working with SpaceX to cut off Russian military's illicit use of Starlink internet
13:54 - Uber, Lyft Walk Back Threats to Leave Minneapolis as State Passes New Minimum Wage For Drivers
14:47 - Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments
17:40 - Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves
18:22 - California bill would require new cars to beep at speeding drivers
19:23 - California Assembly passes porn site age verification bill
20:00 - Arizona state lawmaker used ChatGPT to write part of law on deepfakes
20:58 - Justice Department seeks breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster through major antitrust suit
22:06 - Europe sets benchmark for rest of the world with landmark AI laws
22:50 - Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices
23:35 - Self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor lied 'repeatedly' to support claim, says UK judge
24:23 - ASML and TSMC can disable chip machines if China invades Taiwan
25:46 - Apple slashes iPhone prices in China amid fierce Huawei competition
26:25 - China Uses Giant Rail Gun to Shoot Smart Bomb Nine Miles Into the Sky
27:12 - China replaces imported quantum computer component with domestic product immediately after US sanctions
27:54 - Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies
28:50 - Match Group, Meta, Coinbase and more form anti-scam coalition
29:19 - In biometric 'breakthrough' year, you may soon pay with your face
29:57 - Arup revealed as victim of $25 million deepfake scam involving Hong Kong employee
30:34 - Two Santa Cruz students uncover security bug that let anyone do their laundry for free
31:56 - Over 90% female Instagram influencers fall victim to deepfake pornography, finds study
32:30 - Spyware found on US hotel check-in computers
33:20 - American Airlines backtracks after lawyers blame girl, 9, for not seeing hidden camera in bathroom
34:40 - Crooks plant backdoor in software used by courtrooms around the world

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The Level1 Show May 24 2024: I Take My Coffee Like I Take My Shirts: Bleached

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0:00 - Intro
0:34 - OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever, Is Leaving the Company
2:18 - Hello GPT-4o
3:20 - OpenAI's ChatGPT will soon be able to see everything happening on your screen
4:12 - Sam Altman Proposes ‘Universal Basic Compute’ for Global Access to GPT-7's Resources
4:56 - Google Search will now show AI-generated answers to millions by default
5:46 - Google will use Gemini to detect scams during calls
6:28 - Astra Is Google's ‘Multimodal’ Answer to the New ChatGPT
7:57 - Google targets filmmakers with Veo, its new generative AI video model
9:13 - AI in Gmail will sift through emails, provide search summaries, send emails
9:43 - Google’s invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video
10:16 - Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors
10:53 - AI is listening: Omnipresent robo-moderators are the latest online anti-toxicity strategy
11:29 - Discord is allegedly assigning gender to users with machine learning AI
12:05 - IBM open-sources its Granite AI models - and they mean business
13:12 - Artificial intelligence hitting labour forces like a "tsunami"
14:00 - She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all
16:14 - Autonomous F-16 Fighters Are ‘Roughly Even’ With Human Pilots Said Air Force Chief
16:57 - Sony lays down the gauntlet on AI, warning 700 companies against training algorithms on its music
18:40 - Amazon Workers Use Bots to Claim Limited Supply of Time Off
19:17 - Feds probe Waymo driverless cars hitting parked cars, drifting into traffic
19:32 - Cruise is back driving autonomously for the first time since pedestrian-dragging incident
20:01 - Isuzu, Gatik to Build Level 4 Autonomous Trucks - Equipment
20:24 - AT&T Goes Up Against T-Mobile, Starlink With AST SpaceMobile Satellite Deal
22:01 - NASA details plan to build a levitating robot train on the moon
22:51 - How SpaceX's private Polaris Dawn astronauts will attempt the 1st-ever 'all-civilian' spacewalk
23:20 - US government considers whether to criminally prosecute Boeing
24:20 - Boeing whistleblower says plane parts had serious defects
25:19 - Bay Area city orders scientists to stop controversial experiment
25:55 - First person to receive genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies
26:36 - US finds Israel’s use of weapons in Gaza ‘inconsistent’ with human rights law, but will not cut flow of arms
27:35 - Woman Won’t Face Jail Time For Putting Bleach In Husband’s Coffee
28:23 - HPD officer who arrested former state lawmaker for DUI now accused of drunk driving
29:01 - Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures
30:02 - Pope Set To Hold Press Conference on Aliens and the Supernatural
31:12 - Dublin to NY Portal Shut Down Due to Inappropriate Behavior
32:04 - Fla. Gov. DeSantis Signs Bill Raising Stripper Age to 21
33:04 - Gina Rinehart: Australia’s richest woman seeks removal of her portrait from exhibition
34:22 - Nashville police officer fired over OnlyFans video showing 'traffic stop'
35:28 - Internet use is associated with greater wellbeing, global study finds
36:58 - NC Senate votes to ban people from wearing masks in public for health reasons
38:11 - NYC Mayor Eric Adams proposes immigrants as solution to lifeguard shortage because they are ‘excellent swimmers’
39:03 - Jail fees for this Iowa county helped fund department's cotton candy and laser tag, lawsuit says
40:27 - Indiana judge rules tacos, burritos are sandwiches
41:06 - Difficult to digest cost of doner kebabs in Germany prompts price cap calls
42:19 - Yacht sinks after being rammed by orcas in Strait of Gibraltar
43:03 - A cruise ship dragged a dead whale into New York Harbor. What went wrong?
44:06 - Washington family devastated after butchers mistakenly kill pet pigs
45:37 - Bear Fighting And Other Animals Americans Think We Could Beat Up

Swap GPUs at the Press of a Button: Liqid Fabric PCIe Magic Trick!

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Easily allocate hundreds of GPUs WITHOUT touching them!
Check out other Liqid solutions here: https://www.liqid.com

0:00 Intro
1:00 Explaining the Magic
2:00 Showing the Use Case Set Up
4:41 The Problem with Microsoft
6:07 Infrastructure as Code Hardware Control
10:36 Game Changing our Game Testing and More
16:12 Outro

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The Level1 Show May 17 2024: 2 Hot 4 Dronez

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0:00 - Intro
0:22 - Humans now share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of the ‘dead internet’
1:17 - Fake Monet and Renoir on eBay among 40 counterfeits identified using AI
2:36 - Katy Perry's own mom fell for her Met Gala AI photo.
3:48 - The teens making friends with AI chatbots
4:43 - Motional delays commercial robotaxi plans amid restructuring
5:45 - An AI-controlled fighter jet took the Air Force leader for a historic ride. What that means for war
6:04 - Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation
7:02 - Drone Company Zipline Dictates Mayor's Quote on How 'Normal' Zipline Is
7:38 - Amazon’s Delivery Drones Won’t Fly in Arizona’s Summer Heat
8:15 - As Amazon's robot ranks swell, workers worry about their future
9:48 - Tempe company uses robots to write handwritten cards
10:25 - Boeing Starliner launch delayed until May 17
11:22 - SWAT team sold fake body armor as Homeland Security launches major investigation
11:54 - Brazen burglars steal $250k in cash by cutting hole into the roof of Onyx strip club
12:37 - DEA tells Congress that getting illegal drugs in US is as easy as calling Uber Eats
13:09 - Marvel Will Release No More Than Three Movies and Two Shows Per Year, Bob Iger Says
13:41 - Fans following Taylor Swift to Europe after finding Eras Tour tickets less costly there
14:30 - Women are paying big money to scream, smash sticks in the woods. It's called a rage ritual.
15:29 - Kyoto government worker assaults coworker for spoiling popular manga series at the office
16:02 - New York governor regrets saying Black kids in the Bronx don’t know what a computer is
16:27 - George Santos Reviving Drag Persona ‘Kitara Ravache’ to Hawk Videos for $350 a Pop of Him Dressed as Woman
16:55 - California superintendent fired for allegedly threatening students who didn't clap for her daughter
17:28 - Donald 'Von ShitzInPantz' has now formally been entered into the public record at Trump's hush-money trial
18:24 - Woman found living inside Family Fare sign in Midland
19:09 - Panera to stop selling Charged Sips caffeinated drinks allegedly linked to 2 deaths
19:36 - Zoo In China Stages Phony Panda Exhibit In Which Two Dogs With Dyed Fur Were The Main Attraction
20:08 - How bird flu could threaten cow cuddling. Yes, it is a thing
20:45 - Vultures deemed 'too drunk to fly' after dumpster diving taken to 'rehab' center
21:24 - Bag of snakes found in passenger's pants at Miami International Airport
21:42 - Pier pressure: more than 1,000 sea lions assemble at San Francisco dockside
22:39 - OpenAI considers allowing users to create AI-generated pornography
23:13 - Researchers warned against using AI to peer review academic papers
23:57 - Google DeepMind’s ‘leap forward’ in AI could unlock secrets of biology
25:40 - OpenAI Exec: A Year From Now, Today's ChatGPT Will Look 'Laughably Bad'
27:09 - 40,000 AI-narrated audiobooks flood Audible, dividing authors and listeners
29:03 - Meet MAI-1: Microsoft Readies New AI Model to Compete With Google, OpenAI
29:43 - Microsoft says it did a lot for responsible AI in inaugural transparency report
30:40 - We Asked AI to Predict Kentucky Derby Winners—Here Are Its Picks

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S100-WLP Mercury Series from Minisforum Overview

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A Quad-Core N100 from Minisforum is in the studio today to be reviewed by Wendell! Is this the mini pc you've been looking for? Join Wendell as he reviews the S100-WLP Mercury Series from MinisForum

Want one? Get it here: https://s.minisforum.com/Level1tech-S100

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The Level1 Show May 7 2024: In Communist Russia, Wikipedia Edits You

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0:00 - Intro
1:15 - Supreme Court declines to block Texas pornography restriction
1:54 - FCC issues $200M in fines for AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon for sharing location data
2:44 - Senators: Car Companies Are Giving Location Data to Police Without a Warrant
3:39 - US judge questions Google, DOJ in market power trial closing
4:18 - FBI’s searches of American data under FISA Section 702 drop 50 percent
5:29 - National Archives Bans Employee Use of ChatGPT
7:10 - Bipartisan senators unveil bill limiting kids’ social media use
8:25 - Automatic emergency braking at speeds up to 90mph required under new rule
9:25 - Amazon CEO Andy Jassy broke federal labor law with anti-union remarks
10:46 - Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband
12:13 - Congress lets broadband funding run out, ending $30 low-income discounts
13:03 - AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing
14:37 - US investigates Ford BlueCruise after crashes
15:18 - Microsoft bans US police departments from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition
17:00 - US is reviewing risks of China's use of RISC-V chip technology
18:34 - Poland's prosecutor general says previous government used spyware against hundreds of people
19:14 - The EU will force Apple to open up iPadOS
20:16 - UK becomes first country to ban default bad passwords on IoT devices
20:56 - Apple adds more carve-outs to its EU core tech fee after criticism from devs
21:53 - Europe plans to build 100-qubit quantum computer by 2026
22:24 - South Korea military iPhone ban is poorly thought out
23:21 - What will happen if the U.S. bans TikTok? Here's what happened when India did it
23:49 - iPhone, iPad, and other Apple device users are being locked out of their Apple IDs, here’s why
24:38 - China Launches World's Largest Electric Container Ship, Slashing 8,600 Pounds of Emissions per 100 Nautical Miles
25:34 - Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original
26:45 - Austria calls for rapid regulation as it hosts meeting on 'killer robots'
27:59 - Dropbox Says Hackers Breached Digital-Signature Product
28:32 - UnitedHealthcare CEO says ‘maybe a third’ of US citizens were affected by recent hack
28:54 - Change Healthcare hackers broke in using stolen credentials — and no MFA, says UHG CEO
29:22 - Kaiser Insurance Leaks 13.4M Members' Data to Online Advertisers
30:17 - Binance founder Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao sentenced to 4 months in prison
32:12 - Jassy, Bezos, other Amazon execs used Signal messaging app, a problem for FTC
32:55 - Ring customers get $5.6 million in refunds in privacy settlement
33:52 - Vastaamo hack: Therapy notes hacker jailed for blackmail

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Review and Build Test of the ASRock WRX 90 WS EVO With 24 Core Threadripper

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Finally, a commercial wrx90 that's not weird! This motherboard from ASRock might be the board you are looking for, so join Wendell as he breaks it down!

Get yours here: https://newegg.io/nc61fd34f6

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The Level1 Show May 1 2024: Search Slayer

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https://www.one-tab.com/page/GZQ1oV9nQFeL9HY7WYbwDw

0:00 - Intro
0:36 - More Google employees fired over Nimbus, Israel protests
1:21 - Google search boss Raghavan warns employees of 'new operating reality'
2:40 - Indian IT outsourcing firms cut 60,000 jobs in first layoffs in 20 years
3:32 - Elon Musk insists Tesla isn’t a car company as sales falter
4:36 - Tesla to lay off 2,688 employees at its Austin facility
5:14 - Ford just reported a massive loss on every electric vehicle it sold
6:11 - Calif. carmaker once worth $2.9B teetering on edge of bankruptcy
6:46 - Why owing a home may not be in your best interest
8:05 - Apple Reportedly Developing Its Own Custom Silicon for AI Servers
8:32 - Lenovo and Micron implement LPCAMM2 memory in laptop
9:18 - Qualcomm Is Cheating On Their Snapdragon X Elite/Pro Benchmarks
10:58 - Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore
12:53 - Meet QDEL, the backlight-less display tech that could replace OLED in premium TVs
13:45 - iPhone sales drop 19% in China as Huawei demand soars
14:22 - Apple Cuts Vision Pro Shipments as Demand Falls 'Sharply Beyond Expectations'
14:56 - Apple Reportedly Stops Production of FineWoven Accessories
15:33 - Nvidia on verge of completing $700 million acquisition of Run:ai
16:00 - Startup Rivos raises $250 million to develop RISC-V AI chips
16:35 - Samsung shifts to emergency mode with 6-day work week for executives
17:20 - Intel CPU-dispensing vending machine game spotted in Japan — one user got a Core i7-8700 for $3
18:17 - Inside TSMC’s Phoenix, Arizona expansion struggles
20:06 - Tesla Cybertruck bricked after car wash, claims user
22:04 - Seagate makes HDD price hikes, says AI caused demand spike
22:40 - Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again
23:38 - Pluralistic: The specific process by which Google enshittified its search
24:41 - Windows 11 now comes with its own adware
25:06 - Windows 10 will start pushing users to use Microsoft accounts. How to turn it off.
25:42 - Axon reimagines report writing with Draft One, a first-of-its-kind AI-powered force multiplier for public safety
26:41 - No more refunds after 100 hours: Steam closes Early Access playtime loophole
27:26 - Spotify says Apple has rejected its app update with price information for EU users
28:19 - Manga Site Blocks Adult Content, But Only for US and UK Users
29:24 - Linux is now an option for safety-minded software-defined vehicle developers
30:43 - Huawei wants to take HarmonyOS smartphone platform worldwide
31:20 - Covenant Eyes: App that warns your loved ones if you watch porn is a hit with the Christian right in the US
32:07 - Garry’s Mod is taking down decades of Nintendo-related add-ons
33:01 - Meta loses $200 billion in value, Zuckerberg focuses on AI, metaverse
34:30 - Meta opens Quest operating system to third-party device makers
35:21 - AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO'
36:54 - Australian judge bans X from sharing video of bishop being stabbed in Sydney church
38:13 - Grindr sued for allegedly sharing users' HIV status and other info with ad companies
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