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How to Set Up SR-IOV with Intel Flex 170

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The Level1 Show April 16 2024: Silicon Sabbath

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0:00 - Intro
0:56 - Starting today, ISPs must display labels with price, speeds, and data caps
1:39 - FCC chair rejects call to impose Universal Service fees on broadband
3:08 - FCC won’t block California net neutrality law, says states can “experiment”
4:49 - A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress
5:55 - Biden considering Australian request to drop Julian Assange charges
6:59 - New bill would force AI companies to reveal use of copyrighted art
8:19 - JPMorgan, Wall Street giants on BLS economist’s ’Super Users’ list
9:30 - US to award Samsung up to $6.6 billion chip subsidy for Texas expansion, sources say
10:37 - TSMC wins $6.6 bln US subsidy for Arizona chip production
11:28 - SK hynix to Build $3.87 Billion Memory Packaging Fab in the U.S. for HBM4 and Beyond
12:36 - SEC warns Uniswap Labs of potential enforcement action
13:48 - Cox Plans to Take Piracy Liability Battle to the Supreme Court
15:48 - Biden Takes Aim at SpaceX’s Tax-Free Ride in American Airspace
17:35 - Kaspersky: Biden administration preparing to prevent Americans from using Russian-made software over national security concern
18:12 - Hollywood Believes The Time Is Ripe To Bring Back SOPA
19:33 - UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s
21:24 - EU's new tech laws are working; small browsers gain market share
22:11 - Germany wants its robots to be good Christians, take Sundays off from work
23:15 - Apple's India iPhone output hits $14 billion in 2024
25:06 - Brazil judge opens inquiry into Musk after refusal to block accounts on X
26:05 - NIST Unveils New Consortium to Operate the NVD
27:19 - Fury as home insurance companies cancel coverage after secretly taking pictures of owners' properties using drones, high altitude balloons and even manned airplanes
28:34 - Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks
29:47 - Microsoft employees exposed internal passwords in security lapse
30:36 - Crypto trader's defense says Mango Markets was a trade, not theft
31:21 - SF Giants using facial recognition tech to fast-track ticket line
32:20 - Academics reckon Apple's default apps have privacy pitfalls
34:03 - LG Smart TVs have security bugs that could let hackers in
34:51 - AT&T: Data breach affects 73 million or 51 million customers. No, we won’t explain.
35:43 - Canadian DNA lab knew its paternity tests identified the wrong dads, but it kept selling them
36:56 - The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind

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The Level1 Show April 17 2024: Oh The Humane-ity

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0:00 - Intro
0:49 - Apple confirms layoffs affecting 700+ workers, including car team
1:36 - Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs
3:20 - Rich Americans get second passports, citing risk of instability
4:18 - Apple's upcoming M4 chips bring AI to its entire line of Macs. Here's when they're expected
6:08 - Apple will open the iPhone to repair with used parts
7:24 - Apple Vision Pro users complain of black eyes
8:37 - Intel unveils Gaudi 3 AI chip as Nvidia competition heats up
10:18 - Intel investigating games crashing on 13th and 14th Gen Core i9 processors
10:57 - Google announces Axion, its first custom Arm-based data center processor
11:26 - Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple
12:39 - AMD to open source MES firmware for Radeon GPUs
13:59 - Fairphone's Fairbuds are true wireless earbuds with repairable design and user-replaceable batteries
14:50 - 3D magnetic recording to boost Seagate's HDD storage capacity to 120TB+
15:36 - The First Major AI Consumer Hardware Launch is a Dumpster Fire
16:27 - We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners
17:05 - Synchron, a rival to Musk’s Neuralink, readies large-scale brain implant trial
18:18 - Microsoft reportedly begins showing full screen Windows 11 ad on Windows 10 PCs as end of support date looms
19:23 - New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser
21:18 - Shoplifting crackdown to include £55m for facial recognition tools in England and Wales
22:04 - The Morning After: Amazon stops paying bonuses to Alexa developers
22:47 - Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators
23:32 - Beeper Took On Apple’s iMessage Dominance. Now It’s Been Acquired
24:12 - Google Vids is the latest AI-powered app in Workspace
25:04 - Suicide Squad Hackers Are Somehow Playing As Deathstroke
25:53 - Alibaba founder Jack Ma re-emerges with praise of 'transformations'
26:39 - The Crew Is Reportedly Being Revoked From Ubisoft Connect Accounts
27:25 - Amazon owes $525 mln in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury says
28:22 - Meta (again) denies that Netflix read users’ private Facebook messages
29:29 - Meta will require labels on more AI-generated content
30:42 - Instagram to Blur Out Nude Images Sent to Teens in DMs
31:19 - Amid TikTok Ban Threats, ByteDance Surges In Profit
31:56 - TikTok Notes: plans for new photo-based app, reports claim
32:54 - Aosta Valley, Italy: 22 year-old French woman found dead in church was searching for ghosts, police say
33:31 - Elon Musk says his posts did more to ‘financially impair’ X than help it
34:38 - AI-generated Elon Musk videos flood YouTube with fake eclipse streams to promote crypto scams

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Building A Hot New System With The ASUS ProArt X670E-Creator WiFi

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The Level1 Show April 19 2024: Rise of the Robotaxis

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0:00 - Intro
1:25 - ‘Social Order Could Collapse’ in AI Era, Two Top Japan Companies Say
2:25 - AI seen cutting worker numbers, survey by staffing company Adecco shows
3:07 - AI hardware company from Jony Ive, Sam Altman seeks $1 billion in funding
4:19 - How Texas will use AI to grade this year’s STAAR tests
5:51 - Tesla's Musk predicts AI will be smarter than the smartest human next year
7:07 - Microsoft could update Copilot to detect upcoming natural disasters. Here's how
8:00 - AI-generated pornography will disrupt the adult content industry and raise new ethical concerns
9:16 - Deepfake-generating camera can undress people automatically
10:40 - Spotify launches personalized AI playlists that you can build using prompts
12:10 - End of the Line? Saudi Arabia ‘forced to scale back’ plans for desert megacity
12:59 - Waymo will launch paid robotaxi service in Los Angeles on Wednesday
13:22 - GM’s Cruise robotaxis are back in Phoenix — but people are driving them
13:59 - Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on Aug. 8; shares pop
14:50 - Air Force secretary plans to ride in AI-operated F-16 fighter aircraft this spring
16:01 - NASA Figured Out Why Its Voyager 1 Probe Has Been Glitching for Months
16:41 - 'Heavy' history: ULA launches final Delta rocket after 64 years (video, photos)
17:34 - Varda Space’s orbital drug factory success fuels $90M in new funding
18:23 - AMC Exec: We Wouldn't Have Made the Dune Popcorn Bucket if We Knew You'd Be Sickos About It
18:50 - Chechnya bans music with tempos deemed too fast or slow
19:44 - Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Mexico, the US, and Canada
20:25 - 'Why do my eyes hurt?' Google searches spike after solar eclipse
21:54 - Bioluminescent petunias, thanks to genetics research for pharmaceuticals
22:40 - Students in Iran threatened with prosecution for graduation dance video
23:07 - 'Monopoly' Movie From Margot Robbie, Lionsgate in the Works
23:51 - High levels of lead, sodium found in Lunchables, Consumer Reports says
24:31 - EPA announces first-ever national regulations for "forever chemicals" in drinking water
25:06 - Complaints of brown water persist at Tacoma elementary school
26:20 - Record number of books targeted for bans in US
26:57 - Embattled Harvard honesty professor accused of plagiarism
27:42 - Burglar left 'large bowel movement' in victims' toilet, say Guelph, Ont. police
28:21 - Sierra Leone Declares Emergency After Addicts Dig Up Graves To Get High On Drug Made From Human Bones
29:17 - Woman claims she received stolen Jeep as a birthday tip from Waffle House customer, police say
30:11 - East CLE traffic cam issues ticket to grandmother while her van was being towed
31:28 - Naked defendant appears in court after support cat goes missing during traffic stop
33:08 - Airplane passenger fined in Sydney for urinating in a cup
33:40 - Mother and daughter accused of performing illegal butt injections arrested in sting operation in Texas
34:28 - Porch pirate disguises self in trash bag while stealing package in Sacramento, surveillance video shows
35:15 - Ontario may soon count student residences as homes
35:55 - Wait, does America suddenly have a record number of bees?
37:32 - Bird mimicking police siren at Bicester station confuses officers

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The Level1 Show April 23 2024: Brain Brokers

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0:00 - Intro
0:49 - House Votes to Extend—and Expand—a Major US Spy Program
1:50 - House passes bill requiring warrant to purchase data from third parties
3:05 - Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules
4:10 - US TikTok Ban Odds Rise: House Fast-Tracks Bill, Gets Senate Support
5:15 - Justice Department to File Antitrust Suit Against Live Nation
6:18 - Feds appoint “AI doomer” to run AI safety at US institute
8:34 - FBI says Chinese hackers preparing to attack US infrastructure
10:16 - SEC Targets Its Own Staff’s Texting, Nixes WhatsApp on Work Phones
10:50 - State tax officials use AI to go after wealthy payers
12:20 - The legal system is closing in on crypto, and things may only get worse
13:17 - ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say
15:21 - Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets
16:13 - Kentucky Lawmakers Override Veto, OK Fully Autonomous Vehicles
17:04 - Polk County Sheriff launches internet surveillance
18:37 - Colorado Bill Aims to Protect Consumer Brain Data
19:44 - UK mulling potential AI regulation
20:26 - Apple loses bid to throw out UK lawsuit over App Store fees
21:17 - Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be made offence in UK
22:05 - ‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram
22:52 - TikTok questioned by EU over Lite app that ‘pays’ users for watching videos
23:53 - UK e-visa rollout starts today for millions: no more physical immigration cards
24:50 - Judge refuses to Ctrl-Z divorce order made by a misclick
25:38 - China wants companies to stop using Intel, AMD and other U.S. chips
26:17 - China’s semiconductor output jumps 40% in first quarter amid growing dominance in legacy chips
26:58 - Apple deletes WhatsApp, Threads from China app store on orders from Beijing
27:19 - X blocks posts in India after election commission order
28:01 - Pakistan High Court Orders Government To Restore X, Formerly Twitter, Within 1 Week
28:43 - Liberals accuse Conservatives of using AI for amendments to jobs bill as votes loom
29:18 - X reverses course, tells Brazil court it will comply with rulings
29:59 - New Spectre v2 attack impacts Linux systems on Intel CPUs
30:39 - A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users’ Messages
31:18 - T-Mobile Employees Across The Country Receive Cash Offers To Illegally Swap SIMs
32:22 - Roku switches on 2FA for all following latest security snafu
33:14 - DOJ-Collected Information Exposed in Data Breach Affecting 340,000 - SecurityWeek
34:00 - Hackers are threatening to leak World-Check, a huge sanctions and financial crimes watchlist
34:58 - Hackers Voice Cloned the CEO of LastPass for Attack
35:38 - Change Healthcare’s ransomware attack costs reach nearly $1B
36:13 - Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak
37:15 - Hospital websites share visitors' data with Google, Meta
38:35 - How scammers have sunk to a new low with an AI obituary scam targeting the grieving
39:36 - Northrop Grumman working with Musk's SpaceX on U.S. spy satellite system
40:31 - Frontier Communications shuts down systems after cyberattack

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MinisForum MS-01: A Pint Sized Workstation Powerhouse

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Do you need a workstation? How about an itty bitty one? Then the Minisforum MS-01 Mini PC is for you!

Check it out here: https://s.minisforum.com/Level1techs-MS-01

SR-IOV Forum Thread: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/intel-i915-sr-iov-mode-for-flex-170-pro…

Minisforum compatible thread: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/minisforum-ms-01-compatibility-database…

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The Level1 Show November 23 2022: I Knew This Was Trouble When I Logged In 🎵

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0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Amazon’s CEO says more layoffs will happen in 2023
1:11 - AWS to manage out low performers, extend hiring freeze through Q1 2023
1:46 - 10,000 Google Employees Could Be Rated as Low Performers
2:36 - FTX CEO shreds Bankman-Fried: Never seen such a failure of controls
3:18 - FTX Owes Money to More Than a Million People, Court Filing Suggests
3:40 - FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried attempts to raise cash
4:28 - Crypto lender BlockFi says it has significant exposure to FTX
4:59 - Gemini Earn Warns Customers of Likely Withdrawal Delays Due to Genesis Lending Pause
6:47 - Protocol, the tech-news focused website, will shutter and lay off its entire staff
8:09 - YouTube expands shopping features to combat digital ad slowdown
8:48 - Microsoft, Meta, others face rising drought risk to their data centers
10:26 - Epic strikes back at Apple’s iOS “security” defense in appeals court
11:18 - iPhone 15 USB-C rumor calls out high-speed data transfers as a Pro-only feature
12:25 - Nvidia hit with class action suit over melting RTX 4090 GPU adapters
12:34 - Nvidia thinks RTX 4090 cables melted because they weren’t fully plugged in
14:49 - Apple AirPods Can Work as More Affordable Hearing Aids, Study Finds
16:22 - Apple launches Emergency SOS via satellite in US and Canada
17:46 - Cloud computing: Microsoft and Nvidia are building a 'massive' AI supercomputer
18:42 - Microsoft’s Xbox streaming console ‘Keystone’ was pushed back because of its price
19:21 - Apple to buy chips from Arizona factory, CEO Tim Cook reportedly says
20:10 - US safety watchdog warns against Onewheel boards after reported ejection injuries
21:01 - Blizzard will pull 'World of Warcraft' from China as NetEase deal ends
22:06 - Google rolls out new features across Maps, Search and Shopping
24:10 - Internet providers play tricks to raise your bill. Here are the worst.
26:43 - Fortnite Maker Says Google Paid Activision Millions Not to Launch Rival App Store
27:30 - Taylor Swift Ticketmaster fiasco: Democrats scrutinize the company's dominance
29:59 - Ford CEO: 40% Less Labor To Build Electric Vehicles
30:49 - Amazon Clinic to provide virtual healthcare for allergies, acne and more
32:30 - Elon Musk restores Donald Trump's Twitter account
35:50 - Meta fires several employees, security guards for 'hijacking user accounts'
36:46 - Facebook fact-checkers will stop checking Trump after presidential bid announcement
37:22 - Musk emails remaining Twitter staff to find “anyone who actually writes software”

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The Level1 Show November 25 2022: All I Want For Christmas Is The Divine Right to Rule 👑

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0:00 - Intro
0:37 - Highlights From NASA’s Artemis Moon Rocket Launch
0:59 - The first cubesat to fly and operate at the Moon has successfully arrived
1:44 - The Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope is fully constructed
3:04 - Nasa space telescope reveals celestial hourglass formed by embryonic star
3:40 - India successfully launches first privately made rocket
4:12 - Intel unveils real-time deepfake detector, claims 96% accuracy rate
4:52 - Waymo is using its self-driving taxis to create real-time weather maps
5:58 - Why Meta’s latest large language model only survived three days online
7:40 - Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI prawn generators
9:23 - Lab-grown meat is OK for human consumption, FDA says
10:57 - The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks
11:55 - Record number of parents miss work as respiratory illnesses spike in kids
12:54 - Cows fed hemp produced milk with THC, researchers say
15:00 - Fentanyl vaccine could eliminate drug's 'high'
16:12 - World population reaches 8 billion
17:45 - Fans paid to attend World Cup by Qatar have daily allowance cancelled
18:23 - FIFA head says fans 'will survive' without beer at World Cup
19:26 - Eli Lilly CEO says insulin tweet flap “probably” signals need to bring down cost
20:06 - Customs seize so much cocaine in Belgium that incinerators can no longer keep up
20:30 - Indiana man dies after falling into manure lagoon on dairy farm
21:34 - Chinese man, 50, runs marathon in under 3.5 hours while smoking cigarettes
22:58 - Young Dolph murder suspect releases song 'No Statements' from jail
24:22 - Astronomer locked out of Twitter for three months after video of meteor flagged as 'intimate content'
25:29 - Herschel Walker explains vampires & werewolves
26:27 - Mariah Carey is not the sole "Queen of Christmas," trademark board says
27:05 - Crypto insider weighs in on FTX executives’ sex lives, alleged substance use
28:52 - Disney Is Trying To Build The First Ever Roller Coaster That Jumps Off The Track And Flies Through The Air - Engineers Say It's 'Theoretically' Possible
31:13 - Lost dog 'hands itself in' at Loughborough Police Station

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The Level1 Show November 9 2022: Cheques for Checks

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0:00 - Intro
0:27 - Stripe lays off 14% of workers
0:58 - Amazon pauses hiring for corporate workforce
1:43 - Amazon plunge pushes valuation below $1 trillion first time since 2020
2:35 - Uber whistleblower says current business model 'absolutely' unsustainable
3:36 - T-Mobile will start charging a $35 fee on all new activations and upgrades
4:38 - Charter raises base Internet to $80 a month; price hikes to hit 9.5M users
5:37 - Crypto Lender Hodlnaut Lost Almost $190 Million in Terra Crash: Report
6:23 - Bondholders of Troubled Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific Said to Be Working With Lawyer
7:03 - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II breaks franchise record with $800M sold in three days
8:20 - Microsoft promises eternal support for Call of Duty on PlayStation
9:06 - Uber tests push notification ads, a feature literally no one wants
9:46 - Windows 11 runs on fewer than 1 in 6 PCs
10:14 - Google’s building package tracking right into your Gmail inbox
11:30 - Google’s new shopping features can help you snag good deals
12:44 - Google is shutting down its dedicated Street View app next year
13:08 - RIP Google Hangouts, Google’s last, best chance to compete with iMessage
14:04 - Steam on Chromebooks enters beta, adds AMD support
14:57 - You’re Gonna Have To Pay To Use Fancy Colors In Photoshop Now
16:26 - Discord Bans 68,000 Servers, 55 Million Accounts
17:59 - Meta’s AI-powered audio codec promises 10x compression over MP3
19:39 - Teleport Creators Raise $9M to Build Decentralized Uber Rival on Solana
21:06 - Cheaper Netflix with ads plan is not supported on Apple TV
21:43 - New Mac app wants to record everything you do—so you can “rewind” it later
23:44 - AMD Unveils Radeon RX 7900 XTX And 7900 XT For Performance-Per-Watt Gaming Leadership
26:21 - PlayStation VR2 Release Date and Price Revealed
28:08 - Arm-Qualcomm legal battle suggests OEMs need Arm IP licenses, not chip firms
29:11 - New TSMC 3DFabric Alliance seeks to boost chiplet designs
30:05 - Amazon teams up with TCL after striking deal with Google
31:11 - Microsoft mulling cheap PCs supported by ads, subscriptions
32:28 - NYC is seeing more fires caused by e-bike batteries
34:22 - Saudi wealth fund sets up electric car joint venture with Foxconn
35:50 - Judge blocks Penguin Random House-Simon & Schuster merger
36:43 - Amazon Prime now comes with a full music catalog of 100 million songs and ad-free podcasts
37:50 - Wharton, Berkeley, NYU Offering Online M.B.A.s for the First Time
39:36 - Netflix adds 6th gaming studio with acquisition of Spry Fox
41:40 - Apple Employees at Unionized Maryland Store File Labor Board Complaint After Being Denied Benefits
43:16 - Apple's $100M Small Developer Assistance Fund starts paying out
44:55 - Dogecoin surges on Elon Musk's Twitter deal
45:54 - JP Morgan executes first DeFi trade on public blockchain
46:45 - Opioid lawsuits: CVS, Walgreens pharmacies agrees to $10 billion in settlements
48:38 - '14-hour days with no break and no bathroom': Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sued by his former housekeeper
52:47 - Elon Musk planning to cut half of Twitter's workforce
53:51 - Twitter reportedly limits employee access to content-moderation tools
55:07 - Elon Musk says Twitter Blue will cost $8, and include blue tick verification
57:35 - Twitter will not reinstate banned users without 'clear process,' Musk says
58:00 - Chief Twit, Elon Musk, signals interest in reviving Vine
59:07 - Facebook Has a Portal for Government Officials to Request Content Be Suppressed
1:00:00 - Ye suspended from Instagram again after targeting Jewish people in post
1:01:08 - Instagram jumps into NFTs with minting and selling feature
1:03:04 - TikTok tells European users its staff in China get access to their data
1:03:54 - Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them
1:06:47 - Tumblr will now allow nudity but not explicit boinking

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