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Level1 News May 4 2022: Excuse Me Waiter, There Are Ads In My Algorithm

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0:00 - Intro
1:55 - U.S. opens first major silicon carbide chip plant in New York
3:14 - Google launches Media CDN to compete on content delivery
3:45 - Apple Launches Do-It-Yourself Repairs For iPhone 13, iPhone 12 and iPhone SE
5:09 - Android’s app store privacy section starts rolling out today
6:56 - Dell defends CAMM, its controversial new laptop memory
8:34 - Comcast and Charter team up to topple Roku, Amazon streaming hardware
11:04 - Facing Protests, Amazon Makes Cell Phone Access at Warehouses Permanent
12:37 - Pixel Watch prototype is left at a bar, gets photographed
13:40 - Qualcomm’s M1-class laptop chips will be ready for PCs in “late 2023”
14:39 - Amazon (AMZN) Q1 2022 earnings
15:11 - Netflix Employees Could Face More Layoffs as Stock Falls
16:13 - Tesla shares sink, losing over $125 billion in market value
16:49 - Apple reports best March quarter ever with new records for iPhone and Mac
18:15 - Starlink made a deal with Hawaiian Airlines to fix in-flight Wi-Fi
20:00 - Virtual meeting study: 50% of participants arrive late, 22% don’t say anything
21:12 - Crypto firms seek clearer U.S. rules on their interest-bearing products
22:01 - Fidelity to allow Bitcoin in 401(k) plans
23:13 - YouTube is testing ads on its short-form answer to TikTok, Shorts
25:53 - Call of Duty slumps heading into Activision-Microsoft deal vote
27:13 - Robinhood cutting about 9% of full-time employees
28:16 - With $130 Million In Hand, Ayar Labs Looks To Commercialize Optical I/O
29:34 - Twitch Considering Cutting Streamer Pay to Boost Profits
32:04 - Researchers develop a paper-thin loudspeaker
33:48 - Arm China Pursues Rogue CEO in Court, Close to Ousting
34:49 - Indian cows (and buffaloes) are going online
36:14 - Cloudflare detects one of the largest DDoS attacks on record targeting crypto platform
37:06 - North Koreans Are Jailbreaking Phones to Access Forbidden Media
39:10 - Microsoft fixes 40-minute Point of Sale bug in Windows 11
40:01 - Microsoft finds Linux desktop flaw that gives root to untrusted users
40:44 - Microsoft Edge is getting a built-in VPN powered by Cloudflare
43:03 - Russian hacking in Ukraine has been extensive and intertwined with military operations, Microsoft says
43:49 - Hackers Reportedly Target Wind-Energy Companies
44:28 - NFTs Stolen After Bored Ape Yacht Club Instagram, Discord Hacked
45:32 - Call of Duty cheaters are being struck blind by anti-cheat software
46:15 - Google now lets you request the removal of personal contact information from search results

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Level1 News February 8 2022: Crouching China, Sunken Airplane

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0:00 - Intro
5:17 - FBI confirms it obtained NSO’s Pegasus spyware
6:58 - FBI director: China biggest threat to U.S.
9:01 - Senate introduces bill to allow farmers to fix their own equipment
12:23 - It's Not Just the IRS—the US Government Wants Your Selfies
14:44 - Waymo sues state DMV to keep robotaxi safety details secret
16:40 - FTC to review Microsoft's $68.7B deal to buy Activision Blizzard, report says
17:46 - Apple and Google could be forced to give up full control of their app stores
19:28 - The EARN IT Act is back in Congress
21:24 - 'Havana Syndrome': US intelligence community report says 'pulsed electromagnetic energy' could be cause
22:30 - F-35C fighter jet: Race is on to reach sunken US plane... before China
25:19 - Ohio lured Intel's chip plant with $2B incentive package
26:22 - Regulators find Europe’s ad-tech industry acted unlawfully
28:17 - EU drafts counteroffensive to China, US on technology rules
29:01 - GlobalWafers bid for Siltronic fails amid tech sovereignty concerns
31:03 - El Salvador angrily rejects IMF call to drop Bitcoin use
32:28 - Israel's laser missile defense really is a new Star Wars
33:32 - India proposes 30% tax on crypto and NFTs income
35:07 - Reuters reports zero-click iPhone exploit was also used by another Israeli surveillance firm, in addition to NSO Group
35:57 - NSO offered US mobile security firm ‘bags of cash’, whistleblower claims
37:10 - Academic Journal Claims it Fingerprints PDFs for ‘Ransomware,’ Not Surveillance
39:54 - Silenced AirTags With Disabled Speakers for Sale Online
41:06 - Blockchain platform Wormhole says it's retrieved the $324M stolen by hackers
41:58 - Google Fonts lands website privacy fine by German court
43:13 - Amazon warehouse manager pleads guilty to stealing $273K of computer parts
44:10 - Beware of Fake Testing Kits, Testing Sites for COVID-19

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Steam Deck? HackenDeck! The UM700 Ryzen MiniPC, Tested!

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No Steam Deck? No problem! Wendell shows off the mini PC Valve recommends for Steam Deck testing and development, the UM700 from Minisforum.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B08SC66X5S/?tag=level1techs-20

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Level1 News February 4 2022: Why You Should Be Paranoid About the Crazy Train of NFTs

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0:00 - Intro
1:12 - ID.me CEO backtracks on claims company doesn't use powerful facial recognition tech
3:37 - Verizon’s TracFone Customers Complain of Attackers Stealing Their Phone Numbers
5:24 - New DeadBolt ransomware targets QNAP devices, asks 50 BTC for master key
7:04 - Major Linux PolicyKit security vulnerability uncovered: Pwnkit
7:52 - UK government plans to release Nmap scripts for finding vulnerabilities
9:20 - eBay will now authenticate trading cards worth $750 or more
12:04 - Hactivists say they hacked Belarus rail system to stop Russian military buildup
13:59 - Minecraft DDoS Attack Leaves Small European Country Without Internet
16:24 - New MoonBounce UEFI bootkit can't be removed by replacing the hard drive
17:15 - Supply chain attack used legitimate WordPress add-ons to backdoor sites
19:05 - Ozzy Osbourne’s NFT project shared a scam link, and followers lost thousands of dollars
21:05 - Merck wins cyber-insurance lawsuit related to NotPetya attack
22:02 - China's mandatory Olympics app raises privacy and censorship concerns, watchdog group warns
23:43 - Booby-trapped sites delivered potent new backdoor trojan to macOS users
25:21 - Apple might let you use Face ID with a mask in the next iOS update
26:07 - Marak Github issues
27:08 - 40 quintillion stellar-mass black holes are lurking in the universe, new study finds
28:20 - China gives 'Fight Club' new ending where authorities win
30:58 - Frogs Without Legs Regrow Leglike Limbs in New Experiment
32:23 - Long in the tooth: Goldie the pufferfish has emergency dental work
34:15 - Tennessee school board bans teaching of Holocaust graphic novel Maus
35:50 - Michigan school district says there are no litter boxes in bathrooms for students who 'identify as furries'
36:31 - Tables not being lowered for 'furries,' RRISD responds to candidate's Twitter claim
37:59 - Restitution Activist Tried Stealing Indonesian Artwork Thinking It was African
39:44 - Eric Clapton claims YouTube is using subliminal advertising to keep the masses subservient – in an interview posted to YouTube
41:06 - Apple's AirTag uncovers a secret German intelligence agency
43:15 - China hires western TikTokers to polish its image during 2022 Winter Olympics
44:13 - Texas woman arrested for allegedly trying to purchase child at Walmart checkout, deputies say
46:43 - Weber Grills under fire for poorly timed meatloaf recipe
48:03 - "Whoopsie!" Riot Games clarifies that Killjoy does not buy or sell NFTs

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Level1 News January 28 2022: My Bologna Has A Fresh Face, It's S-C-A-R-Y

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0:00 - Intro
0:21 - Locations and contact data on 515,000 vulnerable people stolen in Red Cross data breach
1:33 - VPN Provider Agrees to Block Torrent Traffic and The Pirate Bay on U.S. Servers
2:48 - OpenSubtitles Hacked, 7 Million Subscribers' Details Leaked Online
3:44 - Crypto.com CEO confirms hundreds of accounts were hacked, hedges on other details
5:04 - Safari bug can leak some of your Google account info and recent browsing history
6:47 - Microsoft warns of destructive cyberattack on Ukrainian computer networks
7:37 - U.S. to let teens drive big rigs in test apprenticeship program to help ease supply chain backlogs
10:00 - IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access
12:09 - Canada’s Prince Andrew high school announces plan to change name
13:50 - Cat charity CEO quits over colleague keeping 18 cats in house
15:01 - Final Fantasy VII Tifa Adult Video Interrupts Italian Senate Meeting
15:50 - Woods Cross Police have a K-9 that's trained to sniff out porn
17:28 - Missouri Highway Patrol mistakenly sends Batman-themed alert
18:11 - South Milwaukee home features communal bathroom
19:05 - Chinese couple trapped on lockdown date get engaged
20:01 - California city plans to use lasers to solve growing crow problem
21:05 - Oscar Mayer's bologna face mask quickly sells out
22:00 - Fans at Disney World reportedly wait almost 7 hours for dragon-shaped popcorn bucket
22:26 - M&Ms characters redesigned for a "more dynamic, progressive world," Mars announces
24:56 - Formerly Bullied Man Finds Happiness Married to Hatsune Miku

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Level1 News February 2 2022: This Winter I Hear A Humming, More Fabs In Ohio

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0:00 - Intro
2:34 - Intel Core i9-12900HK With RTX 3080 Ti Review: MSI's GE76 Raider Laptop Screams
3:31 - Nvidia is reportedly preparing to abandon its $40 billion takeover of Arm
4:35 - Apple revenue pops 11% to $123.9 billion, Cook says supply chain improving
5:20 - Peloton should put itself up for sale and fire its CEO, activist investor demands
6:33 - Intel Reveals Plans for Massive New Ohio Factory, Fighting the Chip Shortage Stateside
8:35 - Fremont Tesla Factory Named Most Efficient Auto Factory in North America
10:49 - Windows 11 is getting Android apps, taskbar improvements, and more next month
11:30 - Valve will start selling the Steam Deck on February 25th
12:36 - LG’s Latest Announcement Solidifies Everything Wrong With TVs
15:57 - Microsoft Teams surpasses 270M monthly active users, as growth slows from early days of pandemic
17:08 - Google kills off FLoC, replaces it with Topics
18:02 - Google gets hit with a new lawsuit over ‘deceptive’ location tracking
19:37 - Google Labs starts up a blockchain division
20:33 - Meta has built an AI supercomputer it says will be world’s fastest by end of 2022
21:36 - Spotify removes Neil Young's music after he objects to Joe Rogan's podcast
25:00 - SAT will soon be all-digital and shortened from 3 hours to 2
27:46 - Faster internet speeds linked to lower civic engagement in UK
30:06 - Mark Cuban on his online pharmacy: ‘Our KPI is how much we can reduce the stress of our patients’
32:22 - We’re happy to inform you that Apple isn’t requiring verification for education discounts anymore
33:17 - macOS 12.3 will break cloud-storage features used by Dropbox and OneDrive
35:27 - Unknown space object beaming out radio signals every 18 minutes remains a mystery
36:32 - The James Webb Space Telescope arrives at its final orbit
37:38 - Space Force Just Launched Satellites Capable Of 'Inspecting' Enemy Satellites
38:40 - Researchers Build AI That Builds AI
40:07 - Flying car wins airworthiness certification
42:32 - Recycling should be easier. These home appliance start-ups are trying to help.
43:50 - Meta researchers build an AI that learns equally well from visual, written or spoken materials
45:11 - Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge

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Calling All Wizards: Let’s Build the Ultimate Data Org Guide

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Check out the forum thread, it splits into several other threads: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/the-ultimate-home-server-toward-an-amal…

We would love to hear your ideas!

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Level1 News January 25 2022: Google Gets the Gavel

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0:00 - Intro
0:54 - Elon Musk's brain implant company is inching toward human trials
2:41 - Felony charges are 1st in a fatal crash involving Autopilot
4:17 - FedEx Asks FAA to Let It Install Anti-Missile Lasers on Planes
5:20 - FTC antitrust watchdogs reportedly investigating Meta’s VR division
6:00 - FSB arrests REvil ransomware gang members
7:25 - Democrats unveil bill to ban online ‘surveillance advertising’
10:10 - EU wants to build its own DNS infrastructure with built-in filtering capabilities
11:17 - Chinese regulator denies issuing guidelines on internet giants’ investments, fundraisings
12:00 - U.S. examining Alibaba's cloud unit for national security risks
12:48 - UK Gov't Plans Publicity Blitz to Undermine Chat Privacy
15:20 - WhatsApp Ordered To Help U.S. Agents Spy On Chinese Phones—No Explanation Required
16:30 - Winter Olympics: Athletes advised to use burner phones in Beijing
16:57 - Israeli citizens targeted by police using Pegasus spyware, report claims
18:05 - Biden to Expand National Security Agency Role in Government Cybersecurity
18:35 - Senate committee votes to advance major tech antitrust bill
20:29 - Cambodia’s Internet May Soon Be Like China’s: State-Controlled
21:02 - California judge rules Google’s confidentiality agreements break labor law
23:09 - Fed releases long-awaited study on a digital dollar but doesn't take a position yet on creating one
26:57 - Bank of Russia Calls for Full Ban on Crypto
27:21 - NYC Mayor Adams will convert his city paycheck to cryptocurrency via Coinbase
28:19 - ‘Havana syndrome’ unlikely caused by hostile foreign power, CIA says
29:38 - Rescuers Save Dog From Drowning With a Sausage and a Drone

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Level1 News January 19 2022: It Ain't Easy Being Green

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0:00 - Intro
0:58 - Google Had Secret Project to ‘Convince’ Employees ‘That Unions Suck’
3:07 - Canon Forced to Tell Printer Users How to Break DRM
4:27 - The PC market just had another big year thanks to pandemic demand
5:09 - PCI Express 6.0 Specification Finalized: x16 Slots to Reach 128GBps
6:38 - UltraRAM Breakthrough Brings New Memory and Storage Tech to Silicon
8:33 - Microsoft Hires Key Apple Engineer to Work on Custom Chips
10:44 - Linux Mint sells out for Mozilla money -- Google becomes default search in Firefox
13:58 - The GMC Hummer EV Could Pop Wheelies Before Engineers Intervened
15:05 - Prairie Tesla owners battle loss of heat amid extreme cold weather after software update
18:34 - Tesla delays Cybertruck to early 2023, says report
20:07 - Green texts in iMessages nudge teens to use iPhones
20:56 - After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful
22:32 - The Associated Press is starting its own NFT marketplace for photojournalism
25:15 - Xbox players are fed up with forced crossplay against PC gamers
26:49 - Wordle clones yanked from Apple’s App Store
28:27 - Game maker says Apple, Google selling rip-offs in new lawsuit
29:29 - Fortnite Finally Back On iOS Via Nvidia GeForce Now Streaming
30:36 - Bitcoin slips under the $40,000 mark
31:26 - Apple submits plans to allow alternative payment systems in S.Korea
33:33 - Panasonic to Offer Four-Day Workweek in Japan
37:20 - China Tutoring Cutdown Led New Oriental Education to Fire 60,000

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Level1 News January 12 2022: Boiler Snakes Rule!

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0:00 - Intro
0:56 - Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach $3 trillion market cap
2:55 - Apple's Upcoming AR/VR Headset to Feature Three Displays
3:53 - Sony gives first details on next-gen PSVR2 headset for PS5
4:44 - Sony announces the world’s first QD-OLED 4K TV, coming later this year
5:53 - Samsung is putting NFTs in its smart TVs
6:33 - The RTX 3090 Ti is NVIDIA’s new-new flagship GPU
7:03 - Intel Announces 12th Gen Core Alder Lake: 22 New Desktop-S CPUs, 8 New Laptop-H CPUs
7:35 - Intel Demos Lightning Fast 13.8 GBps PCIe 5.0 SSD with Alder Lake
8:03 - AMD Announces Ryzen 6000 Mobile CPUs for Laptops: Zen3+ on 6nm with RDNA2 Graphics
8:54 - Samsung’s new TV remote uses radio waves from your router to stay charged
10:01 - YouTuber figured out Asus Z690 Hero motherboards melted down due to backward capacitor
11:13 - Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 3 found a weird new place to add a second screen, and we're into it
12:56 - 30% of supported Surface devices don't have Windows 11 driver packages yet
14:30 - Mercedes-Benz boasts 620-mile range for its latest EV concept
16:12 - CHEVY SILVERADO EV REVEALED: GM’S BEST-SELLING TRUCK GOES ELECTRIC
17:23 - BMW debuts its new color-changing paint technology at CES: E Ink
19:42 - This Keyboard Lets People Type So Fast It’s Banned From Typing Competitions
20:44 - Meta pulls the plug on its AR/VR operating system
21:31 - New solar roof emulates asphalt shingles, right down to the nails
23:55 - Lawsuit Says Google Pays Apple to Keep Away From Internet Search Market
24:38 - RIP Popcorn Time -- 'Netflix of piracy' is no more
25:07 - Chip manufacturing equipment vendor ASML reports fire at Berlin factory
26:06 - Sanction-hit Huawei says revenues down 29% this year
26:50 - Libraries demand a new deal on ebooks
29:03 - Activision goes to court to stop Call of Duty cheat software
30:37 - Amazon’s Fallout TV series is about to enter production
32:01 - Tech Startup Wants To Gamify Suing People Using Crypto Tokens

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