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The Level1 Show November 27 2024: WoW We're Old

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0:00 - Intro
0:58 - Infosys founder defends call for 70-hour workweeks, says he "doesn't believe in a work/life balance"
2:07 - Bay Area tech company, down from $12B to $159M in value, lays off 319
2:37 - Grubhub just sold for $650 million. Four years ago it was worth $7.3 billion
3:36 - Comcast to spin off cable networks
4:24 - Google Shielded Email could fight spam with email forwarding
5:39 - Apple TV+ spent $20B on original content. If only people actually watched.
6:20 - World of Warcraft turns 20
7:18 - Google is further cracking down on sites publishing ‘parasite SEO’ content
8:59 - Baldur's Gate 3 is doing even better in 2024 than it did in 2023, with daily users up 20%, and Larian thinks it knows why: "Mods are very good"
11:02 - Half of Young Norwegians Say Online Piracy Is an Acceptable Way to Save Money
12:39 - The top ten best selling CPUs on Amazon are all AMD chips, with the two-year old Ryzen 7 5700X sitting at the tippety-top and Intel's best effort relegated to 12th place
13:25 - Windows 365 Link is a $349 mini PC that streams Windows from the cloud
14:55 - A new ‘ultra-secure’ phone carrier says it can make you harder to track
16:03 - The global growth rate for mobile internet subscribers has stalled
16:37 - D-Link says replace vulnerable routers or risk pwnage
17:32 - Apple says Mac users targeted in zero-day cyberattacks
17:59 - Ubuntu Linux impacted by decade-old 'needrestart' flaw that gives root
18:39 - NSO Group admits cutting off 10 customers because they abused its Pegasus spyware, say unsealed court documents
20:34 - Roblox no longer allows users under 13 to message others outside of games
21:27 - Explicit deepfake scandal shuts down Pennsylvania school
23:06 - T-Mobile Breached in Major Chinese Cyber-Attack on Telecoms
23:55 - Modern cars are surveillance devices on wheels with major privacy risks
25:58 - Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany
27:07 - New AI Tool Tracks Your Steps by Reading the Bacteria You Carry
28:34 - What Graykey iPhone hack tool can unlock
29:12 - Disclosure of 7 Android and Google Pixel Vulnerabilities

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The Level1 Show November 20 2024: All The Better To Troll You With, My Dear

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0:00 - Intro
0:15 - AMD layoffs: Company to cut 4% of workforce, or about 1,000 employees
0:41 - JPL to layoff 5% of its workforce, the third major layoff this year
1:23 - Struggling DNA-testing site 23andMe to lay off 40% of its workers
2:25 - Gartner Predicts Power Shortages Will Restrict 40% of AI Data Centers By 2027
3:18 - New thermal material provides 72% better cooling than conventional paste
3:49 - Micron unveils industry's first 60TB SSD with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface
4:49 - Amazon developing driver eyeglasses to shave seconds off deliveries, sources say
5:38 - Lithium-ion batteries have ruled for decades. Now they have a challenger.
6:43 - LG's new stretchable display can grow by 50%, bendy panels can be deformed into new form factors
7:30 - Tesla issues sixth Cybertruck recall in a year
8:02 - Workers voice safety concerns after TSMC fined for violations following on-site death
9:13 - Microsoft Edge is trying to forcefully get your Chrome tabs again
11:07 - Google's got new rules for Android 15 virtual machine support
12:18 - A New Streaming Customer Emerges: the Subscription Pauser
13:37 - Academic papers retracted due to ... software licensing?
14:35 - How Italy became an unexpected spyware hub
15:40 - The Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World
16:22 - Amazon confirms employee data stolen after hacker claims MOVEit breach
17:02 - 1.5 million Americans hit in massive debt relief service data breach — names, addresses, SSNs and more exposed
17:32 - Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out
18:50 - FBI says hackers are sending fraudulent police data requests to tech giants to steal people's private information
19:37 - Phone network employs AI "grandmother" to waste scammers' time with meandering conversations
20:22 - Amazon shuts down secret project to develop fertility tracker
21:05 - DNA testing company vanishes along with its customers' genetic data
21:54 - Why you should always offboard outgoing staff: A disgruntled ex-Disney employee targeted former colleagues with DDoS attacks and hacked its menu system to change peanut allergen information
23:51 - Is your air fryer spying on you? Concerns over ‘excessive’ surveillance in smart devices
24:47 - Google Online Security Blog: Safer with Google: New intelligent, real-time protections on Android to keep you safe

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Intel Ultra 9 285K: How Is It On Linux?

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Main channel vid: https://youtu.be/rrym7146I_8

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The Level1 Show October 29th: Deere In The Fed Lights

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0:00 - Intro
0:32 - White House orders Pentagon and intel agencies to increase use of AI
1:59 - Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule
3:06 - Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC
6:08 - Air taxis and other electric-powered aircraft cleared for takeoff with final FAA rules
8:23 - Democrats want DOJ to prosecute tax prep companies that allegedly shared user data with Meta and Google
9:31 - 30% of the cameras in Border Patrol's main surveillance system are broken, memo says
10:58 - Crises at Boeing and Intel Are a National Emergency
11:56 - US FTC probing Deere over customers' 'right to repair' equipment
13:13 - Europe's top court rules for Intel to end long-running antitrust case
15:08 - Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children
15:51 - Smartphones: 'I feel guilty for not buying my daughter one for school'
17:40 - UK-based dissident can sue Saudi Arabia for alleged spyware, court rules
18:48 - UK Considers New Smartphone Bans for Children
19:56 - Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
20:54 - Russia says 'unprecedented' cyber attack hits foreign ministry amid BRICS summit
21:29 - Spectre flaws continue to haunt Intel and AMD
22:14 - Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers' cloud products
23:03 - Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.
23:53 - Lawsuit Argues Warrantless Use of Flock Surveillance Cameras Is Unconstitutional
25:17 - Why you should power off your phone at least once a week - according to the NSA
26:14 - Students raise privacy concerns over using QR codes to get into bathrooms
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The Level1 Show October 9th: Good Guy Gabe

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0:00 - Intro
0:22 - Microsoft exec reassures staff there’s no plan for Amazon-style RTO
1:40 - Amazon’s Shark Tank-like Buy It Now gets a trailer
3:39 - Steam will let you sue Valve now
4:29 - Raspberry Pi launches camera module for vision-based AI applications
6:25 - Cerebras files for IPO
7:46 - AMD improves Zen 5 CPU latency and performance with BIOS updates
8:36 - Starlink Surpasses 4 Million Subscribers, Cementing Dominance in Satellite Internet
10:21 - Palmer Luckey: Every country needs a 'warrior class' excited to enact 'violence on others in pursuit of good aims'
14:11 - Mazda’s $10 Subscription For Remote Start Sparks Backlash After Killing Open Source Option
15:14 - Helene damage in Spruce Pine, N.C. could induce chip shortage, threaten economy
16:16 - Enel X Way North America is shutting down – here's what we know
18:02 - Behind OpenAI's audacious plan to make AI flow like electricity
19:29 - Google’s AI search summaries officially have ads
19:47 - More ads are coming to Amazon Prime Video
21:30 - Did Apple just kill social apps?
22:51 - Juno YouTube App for Vision Pro Removed From App Store
24:33 - Nintendo has reportedly shut down Ryujinx, the Switch emulator that was supposedly immune
26:13 - Bank of America is down: Users report their accounts showing empty balance during widespread outage
26:44 - AT&T claims VMware offered it a 1,050 percent price rise
28:26 - Ubisoft investors push for company sale as shares hit decade-low
30:15 - The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve — SteamOS and Arch should both benefit greatly
31:30 - People are posting 'fake animal rescues' for social media likes
32:45 - The Hawk Tuah Girl's Podcast "Talk Tuah" Becomes the 3rd Most Popular Podcast on Spotify in the US after The Joe Rogan Experience and The Tucker Carlson Show
35:12 - Meta hit with new author copyright lawsuit over AI training
35:43 - Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible
36:45 - Nintendo Is Now Going After YouTube Accounts Which Show Its Games Being Emulated

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Gaming on ZEN 4 to ZEN 5: Windows vs Linux

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Weird stuff is still happening with the new Ryzen's, so lets take a look specifically at the uplift presents!

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Zen5 Gaming: Where's my 5%? Windows vs "Patch" Windows vs Linux & The "Lost" Performance Ramble

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So you noticed some discrepancies in some of the Ryzen 9000s reviews eh? We noticed too. Here is Wendell's take.

0:00 Intro
0:25 Things You Need to Understand
1:24 What is Virtualization Based Security
2:09 Cyberpunk 2077 7700x
2:19 Showcasing the Problem with Cyberpunk 2077 and VBS
5:55 Educated Guess
6:13 The Other Thing to Understand with VBS
7:29 Shadow of the Tomb Raider is Different
8:38 Admin Mode Thing
10:29 How Do You Know You're Running VBS?
11:23 Wendell Ramble Time
13:47 Let's Talk About Linux
14:42 DO NOT TAKE THIS OUT OF CONTEXT!!!
15:13 Far Cry 6 and Honesty
16:34 Generally on Linux
17:59 Core Parking and Game Mode
19:17 F1 2023 Windows and Linux
20:42 I'm Doing Benchmarking Wrong
24:35 It Comes Back to Cyberpunk
26:11 The Other Problem with Benchmarking on Linux
30:47 Borderlands 3
31:36 The Importance of This Video
31:57 Bios Settings
36:59 Windows May be the Issue?
37:42 Windows May NOT be the Issue?
38:31 How's the Non-Gaming Stuff?
38:58 Conclusion

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Is Gaming On The Ryzen 9 9950X Better On Linux Than On Windows?

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Y'all like Linux? Of course you do, that's why you're here! Wendell gives you the scoop on the more powerful half of AMD's Ryzen 9000 offerings, and makes a strange discovery about gaming on linux.

0:00 - Intro
0:48 - Overview of the CPUs
2:26 - How about performance?
3:42 - A word on memory
4:47 - Are desktop CPUs still important?
6:57 - What's this about gaming?
8:41 - Closing thoughts

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Ryzen 9900X and 9950X Benchmark and Review: Is it Time to Upgrade?

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It's time for the second half of the Ryzen 9000 launch, so sit back and enjoy these not zoomed-in graphs!

Thank you Puget Systems for helping us with some of our benchmarks! https://www.pugetsystems.com/

Linux Video Here: https://youtu.be/l8W2JB4nJzY

Previous Videos Here:
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Linux Channel - https://youtu.be/A9wulvhU1Ls

0:00 Intro
1:19 Benchmarks
6:55 Cyberpunk Specifically
10:10 Potential Windows Issues Maybe?
11:04 Memory Situation
14:03 DDR5 8000 Specifically
16:00 Back to the Benchmarks
21:38 Conclusion

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Zen 5 Is Here! But How's The Linux Support?

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Wendell walks you through the linux support on two of AMD's new Zen 5 CPUs! Woo!

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