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The Level1 Show March 26 2025: Echoes of Past Privacy

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0:00 - Intro
0:33 - Nvidia CEO says company has not been asked to buy a stake in Intel
1:29 - Nvidia announces Blackwell Ultra GB300 and Vera Rubin, its next AI ‘superchips’
3:13 - Startup claims its Zeus GPU is 10X faster than Nvidia's RTX 5090: Bolt's first GPU coming in 2026
4:21 - Sony’s new RGB backlight tech absolutely smokes regular Mini LED TVs
5:20 - BYD unveils new super-charging EV tech, to build charging network in China
6:16 - Nasdaq to end high-speed trading service after regulatory scrutiny, FT reports By Investing.com
7:25 - “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen
8:37 - Tesla is recalling most Cybertrucks due to exterior panel issue
10:02 - HP avoids monetary damages over bricked printers in class-action settlement
11:23 - World's first sodium-ion power bank launched
12:15 - Apple Reportedly Planning AirPods That Can Translate Languages Live
13:06 - IBM cuts US jobs in Classic Cloud and other groups
13:47 - Tesla vehicles damaged at Hamilton dealership: police
14:26 - Google's $32 billion deal for Wiz accelerated under Trump, sources say
15:32 - Huawei's Microsoft Windows license for PCs expires this month, company launching PCs with Harmony OS: Report
16:10 - Apple losing over $1 billion a year on streaming service, the Information reports
16:54 - Employment for computer programmers in the U.S. has plummeted to its lowest level since 1980
18:50 - Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
19:47 - How Bribes Helped a Crime Ring Steal Thousands of iPhones From Porches
20:26 - Startup Rippling sues competitor Deel, claiming a spy stole sales data
21:10 - Medusa ransomware infects 300+, uses 'triple extortion'
22:03 - WinRing0: Why Windows is flagging your PC monitoring and fan control apps as a threat
23:56 - 'Dogequest' website reportedly doxxing Tesla owners over Musk, Trump
24:56 - Roblox CEO tells parents to keep kids off the platform if safety is a concern
25:51 - Akira ransomware can be cracked with 16 RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryption

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The Level1 Show March 25 2025: Mob Me Gently

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0:00 - Intro
1:21 - Trump fires FTC’s only two Democrats: ‘The President just illegally fired me’
2:37 - FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies
3:58 - US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator
4:46 - Top broadband official exits Commerce Department with sharp Musk warning
5:57 - No, there's no 'kill switch': Pentagon tries to reassure international F-35 partners
7:16 - Furious at the FCC, Arkansas jail cancels inmate phone calls rather than lower rates
8:06 - Newsom sends prepaid phones, aka 'burners,' to tech CEOs
9:05 - Teslas Destroyed and Damaged After Attack at Las Vegas Facility
10:35 - Musk’s Starlink gets deployed at the White House
11:53 - Apple ordered by EU antitrust regulators to open up to rivals
13:15 - Dutch parliament calls for end to dependence on US software companies
14:28 - Five charged in European Parliament Huawei bribery probe
17:05 - European tech industry coalition calls for 'radical action' on digital sovereignty — starting with buying local
17:56 - Apple loses German antitrust fight, faces greater scrutiny
18:26 - Google Search charged with breaking EU antitrust rules
19:32 - Back to cash: life without money in your pocket is not the utopia Sweden hoped
20:28 - Hamster forum and local residents’ websites shut down by new internet laws
21:27 - China Releases New Labeling Requirements for AI-Generated Content
22:45 - The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury
25:45 - Fake Down Syndrome Influencers Created With AI Are Being Used to Promote OnlyFans Content
26:59 - Bluesky users debate plans around user data and AI training
27:44 - Luigi Mangione’s X account has been taken offline.

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Wendell on Day 1 GTC 2025

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Wendell went to Nvidia's GTC to check out their AI Robots claims! Can it be true? Join Wendell and find out!

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The Level1 Show March 21 2025: The Black Hole Next Door

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0:00 - Intro
0:43 - Amazon Uses Arsenal of AI Weapons Against Workers
2:06 - New Chinese AI agent Manus draws DeepSeek comparison
3:04 - AI search engines fail accuracy test, study finds 60% error rate
4:11 - OpenAI pushes AI agent capabilities with new developer API
5:07 - OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use
6:04 - Microsoft reportedly develops LLM series that can rival OpenAI, Anthropic models
6:32 - Microsoft’s new Xbox Copilot will act as an AI gaming coach
7:31 - Google claims Gemma 3 reaches 98% of DeepSeek's accuracy - using only one GPU
8:32 - Google’s new robot AI can fold delicate origami, close zipper bags without damage
9:10 - Sony is experimenting with AI-powered PlayStation characters
10:02 - Sony Says It Has Already Taken Down More Than 75,000 AI Deepfake Songs
10:46 - Anthropic CEO floats idea of giving AI a “quit job” button, sparking skepticism
11:32 - McDonald’s Gives Its Restaurants an AI Makeover
12:45 - Netflix Used AI to Upscale 'A Different World' and It's a Melted Nightmare
13:29 - Yale Suspends Palestine Activist After AI Article Linked Her to Terrorism
14:56 - AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead
15:34 - That galaxy next door? It's home to a monster black hole
16:27 - Intuitive Machines’ Athena moon lander mission ends prematurely
17:02 - Elderly man streamed 24/7 without his knowledge goes viral in China
18:09 - Molly Malone statue may be elevated to keep her out of reach of repeated groping
19:19 - HS runner who bashed opponent's head cries over national backlash
20:30 - Man survives with titanium heart for 100 days
21:45 - Large study shows drinking alcohol is good for your cholesterol levels
22:45 - Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation
23:49 - Snack Makers Are Removing Fake Colors From Processed Foods
25:05 - Gene-edited non-browning banana could cut food waste, scientists say
26:24 - Chinese restaurant Haidilao apologizes after video of diners urinating into hotpot broth goes viral
27:20 - Brighton Half-Marathon: Cups washed and reused at event
28:11 - Five men accused of blocking traffic with twerking
28:57 - A Swiss politician was fined for buying pink water pistols online
29:48 - Teen banned from play parks due to alleged sex act with rocking horse and branch
30:41 - Coffee theft surges in the US as prices for the beans soar
32:20 - Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
33:47 - Butterfly populations declining rapidly in U.S. with 22% disappearing in 2 decades, study finds
35:19 - US tourist Sam Jones flees Australia after visa threat over wombat incident

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Supermicro's SYS-242H-NR 4 Socket Xeons: 8 Terabytes of Memory Overview

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A server like no other! Is it the right server for your use case?
Check it out here:
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/mp/2u/sys-242h-nr

They also have 2 other 4-sockets SKUs as 2U Storage and 4U Max IO
SYS-242B-NR
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/mp/2u/sys-242b-nr
SYS-442B-NR
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/mp/4u/sys-442b-nr

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The Level1 Show March 19 2025: Decaying DVDs

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0:00 - Intro
0:41 - AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU Review: Dominant, No Compromise Performance
1:27 - Amazon customer receives fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D, turns out to be decade-old AMD CPU
2:14 - Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges
3:51 - Tesla shares plunge 15%, suffering steepest drop in five years
4:41 - Testimony Reveals Doors Would Not Open on Cybertruck That Caught Fire in Piedmont, Killing Three
6:05 - Tesla Owners Embarrassed by Elon Musk Disguise Their Cars
6:48 - Intel names Lip-Bu Tan CEO to orchestrate turnaround at chipmaker
7:52 - Global smartwatch sales fall for first time
9:01 - iRobot Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2024 Financial Results
9:42 - Amazon, Google and Meta support tripling nuclear power by 2050
10:44 - Volkswagen to Bring Back Physical Buttons to All Vehicles
11:22 - “They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases
12:13 - Apple set to unveil boldest software redesign in years across entire ecosystem
13:47 - Deciphering the dilemma: The surprising impact of QR code menus on diminishing customer loyalty
16:21 - RCS messaging adds end-to-end encryption between Android and iOS
17:05 - How AI monitors school Chromebooks and what it means for privacy, security
18:19 - Allstate sued for exposing personal info in plaintext
19:03 - Anthropic CEO says spies are after $100M AI secrets in a ‘few lines of code’
20:19 - Developer convicted for “kill switch” code activated upon his termination
20:49 - Malicious GitHub repositories linked to nearly 1M infections
21:33 - Undocumented commands found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices
22:30 - ‘Murder conspiracy’: Suchir Balaji's mom shares pic from day of his death, claims several CCTV cameras ‘stopped working’
23:47 - Chinese Hackers Sat Undetected in Small Massachusetts Power Utility for Months

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The Level1 Show March 18 2025: Et Tu, Graber?

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0:00 - Intro
1:07 - Trump Promises To Abuse Take It Down Act For Censorship, Just As We Warned
3:28 - Trump Justice Dept. reaffirms Biden-era proposal to break up Google
3:57 - Mozilla’s response to proposed remedies in U.S. v. Google
5:20 - Trump signs order to establish strategic bitcoin reserve
6:12 - Republicans in no rush to follow Trump's push to repeal CHIPS Act
7:55 - Donald Trump Bought a $90,000 Tesla With 37 Recall Notices Against It
9:48 - Tech Execs Are Pushing Trump to Build 'Freedom Cities' Run by Corporations
11:15 - U.S. Likely to Ban Chinese App DeepSeek From Government Devices
12:17 - FTC to pursue Amazon Prime case after delay request due to constraints
13:41 - Zoox robotaxis do not meet federal safety standards, agency says
14:32 - Rules for Portable Batteries on Planes Are Changing. Here’s What to Know.
16:44 - EU denies picking on US tech giants, says US also tackling monopolisation
18:28 - Final report into mobile browsers and cloud gaming published
19:31 - Spain to impose massive fines for not labelling AI-generated content
20:44 - France rejects controversial encryption backdoor provision
21:35 - Saudi Investment Fund pays $3.5bn to capture Pokémon Go
22:43 - Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access ‘weaponised’
24:30 - $16B health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet
25:29 - Facebook ‘worked hand in glove’ with China, claims ex-director
25:48 - Meta puts stop on promotion of tell-all book by former employee
27:32 - Meta plans to test and tinker with X’s community notes algorithm
28:16 - Meta mocked for raising “Bob Dylan defense” of torrenting in AI copyright fight
29:40 - At SXSW, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber pokes fun at Mark Zuckerberg with Latin phrase T-shirt
30:44 - X Suffers Third Global Outage Today; Users In US, UK, India Report Issues

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MSI Tomahawk X870E and B850 Tomahawk WiFi: Mobo Double Trouble!

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I'm seeing double; TWO MSI motherboards! But which should you pick for your AM5 build? Wendell investigates!

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Checking Out the MSI MEG Z890 Godlike!

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Yeah yeah I know, more Intel stuff! But seriously, this motherboard is cool!

https://newegg.io/nc2c9ae839

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Looking at Pineboards Hats For Raspberry Pi

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Need a hat for your raspberry? Here you go!! https://thepihut.com/collections/pineboards

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