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The Level1 Show August 6 2024: Crashing Trains for the Gram

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0:00 - Intro
1:16 - French Internet Lines Cut in Latest Attack During Olympics
2:14 - If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe
3:37 - There is no online voter registration in Texas
4:59 - Amazon Paid Almost $1 Billion for Twitch in 2014. It’s Still Losing Money.
6:46 - Ford trying to patent system that reports speeding vehicles to police
8:16 - Nebraska teen accused of derailing train, recording the crash and posting it online
9:25 - ‘House of the Dragon' Season 2 Finale Leaks on TikTok and Twitter/X
10:31 - Senators propose “Digital replication right” for likeness, extending 70 years after death
13:06 - Germany says China was behind a 2021 cyberattack on a government agency and summons its ambassador
14:47 - Russia to allow crypto payments in international trade to counter sanctions
15:29 - HealthEquity data breach affects 4.3M people
16:13 - US agency puts onus on Amazon for sale of hazardous third-party products
19:22 - Microsoft Pushes US Lawmakers to Crack Down on Deepfakes

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Looking at a Ryzen 7 Mobile Chipset Motherboard from AliExpress

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This AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS Motherboard looks pretty cool and Wendell has some ideas! Stay tuned for those.
Check out the forum post here: https://youtu.be/eeYRsVmYJjs
This is where we bought ours https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806388284807.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2u…

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The Level1 Show August 2 2024: Hello... Girly?

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0:00 - Intro
0:41 - OpenAI training and inference costs could reach $7bn for 2024, AI startup set to lose $5bn
1:32 - AI Adoption Creeps as Enterprises Wrestle With Costs and Use Cases
2:58 - Introducing Llama 3.1: Our most capable models to date
3:43 - Mark Zuckerberg imagines content creators making AI clones of themselves
4:32 - Google's new weather prediction system combines AI with traditional physics
5:13 - The AI job interviewer will see you now
5:37 - AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry
7:00 - The Bookseller - News - Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI
7:44 - AI-generated faces can be spotted by studying eyeballs, researchers find
8:42 - iFixit CEO takes shots at Anthropic for 'hitting our servers a million times in 24 hours' and even the AI company's own chatbot disapproves
9:31 - AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense
10:31 - AI boyfriends from Replika and Nomi are attracting more women
11:18 - Alphabet to invest another $5B into Waymo
12:04 - Boeing-owned Wisk expects to begin carrying passengers 'later in the decade'
12:55 - Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis
13:57 - Scientists say regulation is urgently required for ‘living robots’
15:12 - Robot dog can stifle weeds by blasting them with a blowtorch
17:01 - Russia plans to create core of new space station by 2030
17:57 - NASA’s Curiosity rover makes its ‘most unexpected’ find on Mars
19:17 - May solar superstorm caused largest 'mass migration' of satellites in history
20:26 - Australian scientists genetically engineer common fly species to eat more of humanity’s waste
21:24 - "Smart soil" grows 138% bigger crops using 40% less water
22:18 - Bye Bye Superbugs? New Antibiotic Is Virtually Resistance-Proof
23:05 - Western neuroscientists reveal thoughts of brain-injured patients
24:05 - Mean girls: uOttawa researcher studies the hows and whys
25:44 - Olympics: New Zealand report Canada for flying drone to record training
26:23 - Paris Olympics 2024 prepares for motor doping detection in cycling
27:15 - Oklahoma court rules pregnant moms can use medical marijuana legally
28:37 - Mattel introduces blind Barbie, Black Barbie with Down syndrome
29:43 - Hello Kitty is 'not a cat,' but rather a 'little girl,' creators say
30:24 - Hugo awards organisers reveal thousands spent on fraudulent votes to help one writer win
31:03 - In shock move, California Forever pulls measure to build Bay Area city
32:08 - They're No. 1: U.S. Wins Math Olympiad For First Time In 21 Years
33:12 - ‘Are you serious?’: Hawaii Island mayor in disbelief after 3rd vehicle drives into harbor
34:52 - ‘It makes no sense,’ Toronto building had to tell its residents to stop throwing feces at electrical workers
36:15 - Trash balloons from North Korea hit South Korea's presidential compound
36:51 - Ohio woman pleads guilty on felony charges for calling 911 nearly 400 times
37:47 - Cops investigated after claiming criminals 'turned into cats' and escaped from cells
38:53 - France's rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on morning of Olympic opening ceremony
40:39 - Kentucky motel ordered to pay $2 million after guest dies from 150-degree shower
41:44 - Ohio court rules restaurant not responsible for injury from bone in boneless wing
42:27 - Jack in the Box employee struck by car over missing chicken strip: Police
43:27 - Team GB athlete Charlotte Dujardin pulls out of Paris Olympics after 'whipping horse 24 times'
45:31 - Flying fish damages NJ couple's Tesla parked in Atlantic Highlands driveway
46:50 - "Cocaine Sharks" Found In Brazil, Scientist Unsure Where They Get The Drug
47:36 - Florida police tell people to stop taking selfies with ‘depressed’ black bear
48:15 - Texas family wraps baby bird in warm tortilla to keep is safe
49:10 - Meet Crush, the rare orange lobster diverted from dinner plate to aquarium by Denver Broncos fans
50:27 - Why "salmon sperm facials" have enchanted Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Aniston

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Microsoft Is KILLING Windows | ft. Steve @GamersNexus

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The Level1 Show July 31 2024: ✖️🚫🔫💦

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0:00 - Intro
0:20 - Indie Game Publisher Humble Games Reportedly Lays Off All Staff
1:56 - Verizon hit by prepaid subscriber exodus after internet subsidy ends
2:40 - Tesla profit falls 45% to $1.48 billion on weak EV sales in Q2
3:35 - Not a Defect: Intel Blames 13th, 14th Gen CPU Crashes on Software Bug
4:22 - Intel says its desktop Core crashes don't extend to mobile chips
5:04 - VFX studio's Unreal Engine supervisor reports 50% failure rate for Intel Raptor Lake CPUs, prompting switch to AMD
6:08 - Nvidia's third-party RTX 40-series GPUs are losing performance over time thanks to rubbish factory-installed thermal paste
7:06 - AMD claims its top-tier Ryzen AI chip is faster than Apple’s M3 Pro
8:41 - Huawei plans tri-fold smartphone as Apple weighs foldable iPhone, reports say
9:37 - Apple loses top 5 spot in China smartphone market as domestic brands dominate
10:29 - Lawsuit: T-Mobile must pay for breaking lifetime price guarantee
11:04 - T-Mobile expands fiber footprint with Metronet acquisition
12:20 - Chinese researchers create four-gram drone
12:41 - CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage
13:34 - AT&T February wireless outage blocked more than 92 million calls, agency says
14:08 - Microsoft: Our licensing terms don't raise rivals' costs
14:45 - Microsoft: Linux Is the Top Operating System on Azure Today
15:19 - Windows 11 strikes again with irritating pop-up that can't be disabled
16:45 - World of Warcraft developers form Blizzard’s largest and most inclusive union
17:56 - More flight cancellations are expected as airlines gradually recover from global tech outage
18:59 - After years of uncertainty, Google says it won't be 'deprecating third-party cookies' in Chrome
19:46 - Max-Hulu-Disney+ Bundle Pricing Revealed
20:52 - Google defends itself in proposed class action, says it never collected users’ personal information
22:00 - Google's Exclusive Reddit Access
22:58 - X swapped its water pistol emoji with a regular gun, for some reason
23:48 - Florida sheriff apologizes after posting photo of dead body on Instagram

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The Level1 Show July 30 2024: Nice Flight, Shame If It Were Cancelled

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0:00 - Intro
0:23 - FTC launches probe into 'surveillance pricing'
1:24 - FCC blasts T-Mobile’s 365-day phone locking, proposes 60-day unlock rule
2:33 - Congress Wants To Let Private Companies Own The Law
4:15 - Wyden secures KOSA win, but will vote no
4:56 - AOC’s Deepfake AI Porn Bill Unanimously Passes the Senate
6:06 - US Urges Vigilance by Tech Startups, VC Firms on Foreign Funds
7:09 - DHS Has a DoS Robot to Disable Internet of Things ‘Booby Traps’ Inside Homes
9:00 - US Prepares Jamming Devices Targeting Russia, China Satellites
10:20 - CrowdStrike CEO to testify about massive outage that halted flights and hospitals
10:52 - US opens investigation into Delta after airline cancels thousands of flights
12:03 - Judge in SolarWinds case rejects SEC oversight of cybersecurity controls
13:02 - Social media platforms that mine user data aren’t shielded by federal communications law, California court says
13:54 - Digital tax talks in G20 spotlight as US tariff threat looms
15:29 - US judge will not block Biden administration ban on worker 'noncompete' agreements
16:41 - EU to investigate Delivery Hero and Glovo over food delivery cartel concerns
18:16 - Meta risks sanctions over “sneaky” ad-free plans confusing users, EU says
19:57 - Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source
20:42 - China Is Getting Secretive About Its Supercomputers
21:24 - Crowdstrike: How China swerved worst of global tech meltdown
22:07 - Malaysia asks Microsoft, CrowdStrike to consider covering losses from global outage
22:53 - Japanese media say AI search infringes copyright, urge legal reform
23:29 - Bangladesh is experiencing a ‘near-total’ internet shutdown amid student protests
24:20 - Philippines shutters its online gambling industry amid tax evasion, human trafficking concerns
25:15 - The Kremlin Jails the Father of Russia’s Internet
27:15 - Nigeria fines Meta $220 million for violating consumer, data laws
28:02 - Hackers leak documents from Pentagon IT services provider Leidos, Bloomberg News reports
28:35 - Phish-Friendly Domain Registry “.top” Put on Notice
29:43 - A Hacker ‘Ghost’ Network Is Quietly Spreading Malware on GitHub
30:45 - Hackers shut down heating in Ukrainian city with malware, researchers say
31:52 - Cyber firm KnowBe4 hired a fake IT worker from North Korea
32:43 - Telegram zero-day for Android allowed malicious files to masquerade as videos
33:48 - California officials say largest trial court in US victim of ransomware attack

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Gigabyte Joins The Threadripper Pro Fray! Checking Out The MH53-G40 Motherboard

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Gigabyte throws their hat into the Threadripper Pro ring, and Wendell is here to check it out! Whoa!

Get yours here! https://newegg.io/nc456669e9

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This CPU is No More! It Has Ceased to Be! #intel #cpu #gaming @techtechpotato

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The Level1 Show July 26 2024: Racing Cane's

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Uhhhhh, so, I didn't realize this background looked so sus LOL! it's the conference room from "The Boys" tv show. They had their season finale last week. ~ Amber
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0:00 - Intro
0:21 - Exclusive: OpenAI working on new reasoning technology under code name ‘Strawberry’ | Reuters
1:19 - Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott thinks LLM “scaling laws” will hold despite criticism | Ars Technica
2:19 - Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI | WIRED
3:10 - Gemini AI platform accused of scanning Google Drive files without user permission | TechRadar
4:56 - Eno documentary: behind the first generative feature film - The Verge
5:48 - Ukraine rushes to create AI-enabled war drones | Reuters
7:09 - Soft Body Robots Amputates and Reattaches Its Own Legs - IEEE Spectrum
8:04 - Hoe-wielding robots? Solar-powered ‘robo-weeders’ use AI to combat pesticide-resistant weeds - Genetic Literacy Project
9:19 - Watch Figure 01 humanoid robot train for job at BMW factory
10:09 - Balloons to hoist tourists 100,000 feet into the stratosphere
10:51 - ‘Amazing’ new technology set to transform the search for alien life | Alien life | The Guardian
11:48 - Cave on the Moon Spotted in Radar Images From Lunar Satellite
12:50 - NASA cancels its moon rover mission, citing cost overruns and launch delays | AP News
13:19 - NASA Transmits Hip-Hop Song to Deep Space for First Time
14:16 - Signs of two gases in clouds of Venus could indicate life, scientists say | Venus | The Guardian
15:40 - Astronaut gives honest TripAdvisor review of living in space | KTLA
16:25 - Anti-ageing 'supermodel granny' drug extends life in animal tests
17:10 - This Is Literally Your Brain on Drugs - The New York Times
18:13 - ACT exam will see changes, including the science portion being made optional | CNN
20:40 - Man killed after hitting grandmother with car in Polk County | wtsp.com
22:23 - Democratic Senator Who Called Bitcoin An Ideal Choice For Criminals Found Guilty Of Accepting Bribes In Gold, Cash And Luxury Car - Benzinga
23:32 - ‘We are better than this:’ Officials call for end to violence, threats against linemen working to restore power
27:08 - Suspected drug-smuggling tunnel found in Tijuana is so long authorities don't have enough oxygen to reach other end
28:13 - Law enforcement warns of ‘hugging robbers’ in Southern California | KTLA
28:58 - Ex-CIA analyst Sue Mi Terry charged with spying for South Korea in exchange for luxury handbags | World News | Sky News
29:31 - Sacramento warns Target to stop calling police or face public nuisance charge | California | thecentersquare.com
30:44 - 'Kidulting': How adults are becoming the top toy buyers
31:34 - Truck Industry Blames Isekai Anime & Manga For Giving Them Bad Reputation - Animehunch
32:54 - ‘I was drunk’: Ingrid Andress responds to criticism of national anthem performance | Music | The Guardian
34:41 - UK first European country to approve lab-grown meat, starting with pet food | Environment | The Guardian
35:36 - Fats from thin air: Startup makes butter using CO2 and water
37:20 - South Korean airport authorities crack down on Trader Joe’s bagel seasoning | Food | The Guardian
38:22 - Man cited for speeding through northeast Nebraska to get Raising Cane’s
39:07 - Italian authorities confiscate almost $1 million in fake olive oil | CNN

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The 100gig Adventure

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Wendell has been busy upgrading everything to 100 gigabits!

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