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The Level1 Show January 7 2025: Dave's Not Here, Man

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0:00 - Intro
1:09 - US appeals court blocks Biden administration effort to restore net-neutrality rules
2:05 - Microsoft faces FTC scrutiny over alleged antitrust practices in federal cybersecurity deals
3:36 - SEC Writes Off $10 Billion in Fines it Can't Collect
6:07 - NATO plans to build satellite links as backups to undersea cables — recent cable damage incidents shine spotlight on Project HEIST
6:48 - US considers potential rules to restrict or bar Chinese drones
8:12 - Trump's Former FCC Head Ajit Pai Asks Supreme Court to Uphold TikTok Ban
9:46 - US files complaint against fintech app Dave and its CEO
10:49 - 'Our own little Y2K': L.A. County Sheriff's computer dispatch system still down
11:44 - Belgium becomes first EU country to ban sale of disposable vapes
12:34 - Has Russia's shadow fleet, built to evade sanctions, added sabotage to its list?
14:27 - India again delays rules to break PhonePe-Google Pay duopoly
15:14 - Cloudflare's VPN app among half-dozen pulled from Indian app stores
15:40 - A Canadian Runner Was Arrested in India for Traveling with a Garmin inReach
16:40 - China to Subsidize Smartphone Purchases in Bid to Lift Spending
18:00 - Russia Vows Retaliation to ‘Censorship’ As Telegram Blocks Propaganda Outlets
18:47 - US Treasury says Chinese hackers stole documents in 'major incident'
19:53 - U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions
21:09 - Most complaints against Boeing, FAA go nowhere, frustrating whistleblowers
23:35 - Transit systems turn to AI to catch drivers who block bus lanes
24:55 - Cisco Confirms Authenticity of Data After Second Leak
26:01 - US telco Lumen says its network is now clear of China's Salt Typhoon hackers
26:42 - AT&T says its network is now clear after Salt Typhoon hack

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ASUS ProArt X870E Review and Testing!

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A motherboard made for Creators... or maybe reviewers! Either way, it's a pretty good motherboard!
Just make sure you update the BIOS!!

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The Level1 Show January 3 2025: On Her Majesty's Streaming Service

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0:00 - Intro
0:56 - DeepSeek's new AI model appears to be one of the best 'open' challengers yet
1:48 - OpenAI’s Strategic Investments in Humanoid Robotics Explained
2:53 - New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality
3:47 - Microsoft Is Forcing Its AI Assistant on People—and Making Them Pay
4:39 - Encyclopedia Britannica Is Now an AI Company
5:13 - Is OpenAI’s GPT-5 an Ambitious Leap or a Costly Misstep?
6:10 - Arizona's getting an online charter school taught entirely by AI
7:45 - Robot taxi riders in San Francisco targeted with a new form of harassment
9:32 - Emergency heart surgery for boy after drones fell from sky at Lake Eola on Saturday night
10:15 - The British Army is trialing radio waves to zap drones out of the sky – at 13 cents per shot
11:03 - Missiles Are Now the Biggest Killer of Airline Passengers
12:33 - Flying Was Already the Worst. Then America Stopped Using Headphones.
13:06 - 'Stressed' Amazon driver abandons 80 packages in Mass. woods during holiday shipping rush
13:59 - Scientists explore longevity drugs for dogs that could also ‘extend human life’
14:44 - Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO, who is charged with sex trafficking, has dementia, lawyers say
15:14 - James Bond Battles A New Foe: Amazon
16:25 - Woman Who Warned Social Media Not to Fall for Keanu Reeves Romance Scam Becomes Homeless After Falling for Keanu Reeves Romance Scam
17:22 - 'NATO Santa' shot down over Moscow in apparent Russian propaganda video
18:09 - Miyamoto's son was so bad at Super Mario 64 he questioned his parenting
19:05 - Man With Skull Tattoo On Face Laments Not Being Able To Find A Job
19:58 - Bald eagle officially declared US national bird after 250 years
20:32 - Baby Bird Found Alive Inside Dead Man's Stomach After Being Swallowed During Fertility Ritual
21:03 - Chicken Gets Her Own Hi-vis Jacket To Help Cross The Road
21:52 - Burt, beloved crocodile from 'Crocodile Dundee,' dies at over 90 years old
22:40 - Is This Deer Playing a Trick on Michigan Hunters?
23:33 - Commercial tea bags release millions of microplastics, entering human intestinal cells
25:16 - Man arrested for disrupting Christmas church services, pouring whiskey into holy water, deputies say

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The Level1 Show January 1 2025: Screenage Wasteland

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0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Walmart sued over illegally opening bank accounts for delivery drivers
2:34 - Copyright Abuse Is Getting Luigi Mangione Merch Removed From the Internet
4:41 - Qualcomm secures key win in chips trial against Arm
5:55 - Xerox to Acquire Lexmark
6:47 - Apple is reportedly working on a smart doorbell system that could unlock your door with Face ID
7:38 - US data-center power use could nearly triple by 2028, DOE-backed report says
8:12 - Yikes! The Average American Spent 2.5 Months on Their Phone in 2024
9:07 - Copyright Industry Wants To Apply Automated Blocking To The Internet’s Core Routers
10:38 - TSMC's first new overseas fab in years begins to make chips — JASM coming online
11:24 - Hertz continues EV purge, asks renters if they want to buy instead of return
13:40 - Success: Internet quantum teleportation is set to change the world
14:43 - Netflix sues Broadcom's VMware over US virtual machine patents
15:51 - Asus bombards Windows 11 with christmas.exe malware-like Christmas wreath banner
16:47 - Massive VW Data Leak Exposed 800,000 EV Owners’ Movements, From Homes To Private Spaces
18:04 - 9th telecoms firm hit by Chinese espionage campaign, White House says
19:28 - Hackers hijack a wide range of companies' Chrome extensions, experts say
20:10 - A fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and it’s not clear YouTube can stop him
21:49 - Japan's MUFG Bank suffers online banking glitch, hints at cyberattack
22:24 - WhatsApp scores historic victory against NSO Group in long-running spyware hacking case
23:15 - Honey controversy: Coupon-finder accused of 'exploiting' influencers
24:22 - Windows 11 installation media bug causes security update failures
25:08 - One third of adults can't delete device data
26:19 - The Paper Passport Is Dying

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The Level1 Show December 31 2024: FaceBots

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0:00 - Intro
1:32 - Microsoft Bundling Practices Focus of Federal Antitrust Probe
3:06 - Biden administration launches probe into China's semiconductor industry
3:39 - Google’s counteroffer to the government trying to break it up is unbundling Android apps
5:22 - FCC ‘rip and replace’ provision for Chinese tech tops cyber provisions in defense bill
6:38 - Government to Name ‘Key Witness’ Who Provided FBI With Backdoored Encrypted Chat App Anom
7:45 - Senators rip into automakers for selling customer data and blocking right to repair
8:52 - Drones continue to buzz over US bases. The military isn’t sure why and how to stop them.
10:03 - CFPB sues America's largest banks for 'allowing fraud to fester' on Zelle
12:07 - Bill requiring US agencies to share custom source code with each other becomes law
13:15 - New Law Requiring Businesses to Report Who Owns Them Is Put on Hold Again
15:03 - Nvidia and AMD rush to stockpile graphics cards ahead of Trump tariff that could raise prices by 40%
16:03 - Lyft says San Francisco overcharged it $100M in taxes
17:22 - In Maine, remote jobs give prisoners a lifeline
18:27 - Right-wing warfare pits Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy against MAGA over H-1B visas
22:50 - Who is Kay Granger? Congresswoman missing for six months found living at dementia care home
24:55 - The EU wants Apple to open AirDrop and AirPlay to Android
25:25 - Cloudflare Must Block 'Piracy Shield' Domains and IP Addresses Across its Service
26:46 - The USB-C charging mandate arrives in the EU — here’s what that means
27:51 - Sweden says China denied request for prosecutors to board ship linked to severed cables
29:32 - Albania to close TikTok for a year
30:08 - Russia bans crypto mining in multiple regions, citing energy concerns
30:44 - South Korea mulls creating 'KSMC' contract chipmaker to compete with TSMC, requires a $13.9 billion investment
31:54 - Critics decry Vietnam’s ‘draconian’ new internet law
33:07 - El Salvador strikes $1.4bn IMF deal after scaling back Bitcoin policies
34:16 - Meta Expects AI Characters to Generate Social Media Content
37:03 - More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD
37:41 - Meta to add display to Ray-Bans as race over smart glasses intensifies
38:19 - The ‘Art of the Deal’ President wants to try and save TikTok

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How Cool is the Arctic SP5 Cooler?

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The tower cooler used for am5 Turin and Geona servers has now fallen into Wendell's hands!

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ASRock Steel Legend Intel Arc B580: A Legendary Value!

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Lightning bolt. Lightning bolt. Lightning bolt.
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The Level1 Show December 27 2024: California Murder Squirrel

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0:00 - Intro
0:33 - OpenAI brings ChatGPT to your landline
2:01 - Microsoft introduces Phi-4, an AI model for advanced reasoning tasks
2:58 - Meta asks California AG to block OpenAI’s switch from non-profit to for-profit
3:40 - Salesforce will hire 2,000 people to sell AI products, CEO Benioff says
5:18 - YouTube is letting creators opt in to allowing third-party AI training
5:53 - UK arts and media reject plan to let AI firms use copyrighted material
6:27 - itch.io says it was taken down by Funko
8:12 - New Research Shows AI Strategically Lying
11:02 - Waymo robotaxis are coming to Tokyo in 2025
11:43 - A Waymo robotaxi got stuck in a roundabout loop
12:19 - ‘Burning through cash,' Boston Dynamics lays off 45 employees
13:06 - Driverless bus service in Scotland to be withdrawn due to lack of interest
14:08 - Mayorkas says federal authorities are addressing New Jersey drone sightings
14:41 - Astronauts who flew to space aboard Starliner face additional delay
15:31 - The US military is now talking openly about going on the attack in space
16:23 - MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style
17:59 - New York Considering Special Hotline Just for CEOs to Report Alleged Threats to Their Safety After Brian Thompson Killing
18:55 - Fox News anchor gushes over Trump's new hairdo, calls it ‘the winds of winning’
19:30 - Syria: Freed prisoner who said he was a victim of the Assad regime was an intelligence officer, locals say
20:15 - Mount Vernon, New York, police force strip searched nearly everyone it arrested, DOJ says
21:19 - Hornets To Return PS5 To Fan After Taking It Away Off Camera
22:32 - Rare Pokémon cards are being used to finance organized crime
24:03 - City of Fukushima to name offenders in malicious cases of unsorted garbage in Japan 1st
25:16 - NSW Police charge two men after ABC triple j Unearthed website allegedly used to plan stabbing inside Goulburn prison
26:07 - More than a million vapes a day in UK thrown away, says research
26:56 - “Unprecedented” decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts
27:57 - Man who helped design breathalysers banned for drink driving
28:30 - Polish government releases strategic butter reserves
29:50 - Liquid Death’s Pit Diaper sells out, solves concert bathroom woes
30:40 - Are adults forgetting how to read?
31:13 - Flat Earther admits he was wrong after traveling 9,000 miles to Antarctica to test his belief
31:53 - Italian woman rescued from cave for second time in two years
33:15 - Video: California ground squirrel displays 'carnivorous behavior'

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The Level1 Show December 25 2024: GrubFlub

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0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Amazon workers strike at seven US sites during year's busiest period
2:08 - Tesla named one of the most deadliest car brands, NHTSA study says
3:33 - Apple reportedly won’t launch an iPhone subscription service
4:27 - Microsoft acquires twice as many Nvidia AI chips as tech rivals
5:11 - Seagate launches 32TB Exos M hard drive based on HAMR technology – Mozaic 3+ drives are the world’s first generally available HAMR HDDs
6:00 - New type of battery could outlast EVs and still be used for grid energy storage
7:52 - ‘World’s first’ grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant announced in the US in another step for the futuristic energy
9:17 - Here's how to turn off ads for Call of Duty in Windows 11
10:10 - Grubhub to pay $25 million for misleading customers, restaurants, drivers
11:07 - Florida to Lose PornHub Access
11:44 - Balatro dev swings at PEGI for rating it 18+ because of its 'evil playing cards', jokes that he should 'add microtransactions' like EA Sports FC 25 to 'lower that rating to a 3+'
12:27 - Ingram Micro ends Broadcom/VMware relationship
13:26 - Jerry Jeudy Madden rating: Why Jets owner Woody Johnson nixed trade
14:17 - Google Street View may have solved murder mystery as man pictured shoving ‘corpse’ into car boot
15:16 - Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets
16:32 - Tracker firm Hapn spilled names of thousands of GPS tracking customers
17:01 - Chinese hacker part of espionage plot exploited 81,000 Sophos firewalls, DOJ says
17:48 - Microsoft won't let customers opt out of passkey push
19:39 - Uber will need to fingerprint drivers in California to transport teens
21:03 - Hackers hit Rhode Island benefits system in major cyberattack. Personal data could be released soon
21:28 - Facial recognition: App lets police identify suspects in street
22:38 - LastPass 2022 hack fallout continues with millions of dollars more reportedly stolen
23:25 - Israeli spyware maker Paragon bought by US private equity giant
24:18 - Walmart is experimenting with body cameras for employees—like the ones used by cops—as the retail industry fends off ‘unprecedented levels’ of shopper violence

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The Level1 Show December 24 2024: The Sky Isn't Always Bluer

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0:00 - Intro
0:59 - F.A.A. Bans Drone Flights Near Key Sites in New York
1:40 - US government tells officials, politicians to ditch regular calls and texts
3:45 - U.S. Prepares New AI Chip Restrictions to Close China’s Backdoor Access
4:45 - Congress funds removal of Chinese telecom gear as feds probe home router risks
5:51 - U.S. Weighs Ban on Chinese-Made TP-Link Router in Millions of American Homes
6:59 - DHS Says China, Russia, Iran, and Israel Are Spying on People in US with SS7
8:42 - Trump FCC chair wants to revoke broadcast licenses—the 1st Amendment might stop him
10:07 - Federal Trade Commission Announces Bipartisan Rule Banning Junk Ticket and Hotel Fees
11:23 - Pricing software adds billions to rental costs, White House says
12:39 - SoftBank CEO and Trump announce $100 billion U.S. investment
13:40 - Big loss for ISPs as Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to $15 broadband law
15:16 - Nebraska sues Change Healthcare over security failings that led to medical data breach of over 100 million Americans
17:39 - Seatbelt Reminders Will Be Chiming More, for Passengers' Own Good
19:35 - SpaceX wants Starbase to become an official city in Texas
20:25 - Broward judge dons virtual reality headset in what’s thought to be a courtroom first
21:42 - Apple pushed hard by EU to make iOS and iPadOS more interoperable
22:46 - EU opens investigation into TikTok over election interference
23:38 - Hundreds of websites to shut down under UK's 'chilling' internet laws
26:04 - EU signs $11B deal for sovereign satellite constellation to rival Musk's Starlink
27:06 - Spain introduces bill to combat online fake news
27:52 - China’s homebrew Bluetooth alternative is on the march
29:46 - Chinese cybersecurity centre accuses US of hacking and stealing tech secrets
30:59 - Quantum anxiety sees Australia ban some crypto tech by 2030
32:41 - Who needs the dark web? Drug sales flourish on social media
33:54 - So, Bluesky Has An Extortion Problem
35:00 - Meta fined $263M over 2018 security breach that affected ~3M EU Facebook users
36:23 - TikTok turns to US Supreme Court in last-ditch bid to avert ban

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