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Deskmini x600 Overview and Review

Posted by wendell on Sat, 06/15/2024 - 11:11

Check it out here: https://www.asrock.com/nettop/AMD/DeskMini%20X600%20Series/index.asp

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The Level1 Show June 14th 2024: Swipe Right, Citizen-San

Posted by wendell on Fri, 06/14/2024 - 02:01

https://www.one-tab.com/page/Cra6g_4SRt6dxcRYm_nypA

0:00 - Intro
0:24 - Open letter from OpenAI insiders calls for whistleblower protections
1:12 - AI apocalypse? ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity all went down at the same time
2:14 - Sony Pictures Will Cut Film Costs 'Using AI, Primarily'
2:55 - Adobe scolded for selling ‘Ansel Adams-style’ images generated by AI
4:17 - Zoom CEO Eric Yuan wants AI clones in meetings
5:44 - ChatGPT's voice closely resembles Scarlett Johnasson's, says lab analysis
6:56 - California teachers are using AI to grade papers. Who’s grading the AI?
9:18 - The Raspberry Pi 5 gets an AI upgrade
11:03 - NewsBreak: Most downloaded US news app has Chinese roots and 'writes fiction' using AI
11:31 - Using AI to decode dog vocalizations
12:32 - Young children are more likely to trust information from robots over humans
13:35 - Google AI just might kill you: it misidentified a Destroying Angel mushroom as an edible "button mushroom"
14:38 - Apple Reportedly Developing Robots That'll Roam Your Home
15:35 - Ford Says Drivers Will Be Able to Take Their Eyes Off the Road in Two Years
16:27 - SpaceX’s Starship soars through new milestones in test flight of the most powerful rocket ever built
16:47 - Boeing Starliner docks with space station after encountering new issues
17:22 - China’s Chang’e-6 probe successfully lands on far side of the moon
18:09 - Aging Hubble telescope moves to ‘one-gyro’ operations, reducing productivity and limiting science
18:59 - 1st annual space piracy conference will examine threats of orbital crime and smuggling
19:47 - Internet addiction alters brain chemistry in young people, study finds
21:33 - More than half of US adults will have cardiovascular disease by 2050, research finds
22:59 - Biomedical paper retractions have quadrupled in 20 years
23:20 - First human head transplant could be achieved by 2030, veteran NHS neurosurgeon claims
24:42 - Woman Who Received Pig Kidney Transplant Has It Removed
25:27 - Tokyo govt to launch dating app to boost birth rate
26:25 - Yuntai: Hiker finds pipe feeding China's tallest waterfall
28:03 - Finnish police use classical music to prevent young people from partying on beach
28:40 - WestJet announces new Basic fare — called UltraBasic
30:46 - Pringles thief told police 'once you pop, you can't stop'
32:14 - Amazon delivery driver reportedly leaves package at smoking garage, doesn't call 911
33:09 - French protesters to poo in the Seine amid Paris 2024 Olympics controversy
34:42 - Mississippi state trooper Ivana Williams fired after sending sex tape of her and another woman to colleagues
36:31 - A Taylor Swift class is coming to Quinnipiac University
38:09 - Spanish tourist town bans sex dolls and genital costumes for bachelor and bachelorette parties
39:21 - Media mogul Rupert Murdoch marries for fifth time
41:15 - Phish Fan Who Ripped First Bong Hit at Sphere Banned from Venue
42:07 - Maryland senior told to leave high school graduation due to makeup
44:19 - Orange juice makers consider using alternative fruit as prices skyrocket
45:32 - U.S. Postal Service Releases Dog Bite National Rankings
46:48 - Alaska man killed by moose protecting newborn calves
47:22 - Singer Taylor Momsen bit by a bat while performing on stage
48:19 - 'We go everywhere together,' says man who took baby goat on a cross-Canada road trip

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Checking out ASRock's AMD Servers, Ryzen Motherboards, and Monitors @ Computex 2024!

Posted by wendell on Thu, 06/13/2024 - 13:57

Wendell brings you the scoop on ASRock's AMD offerings from Computex 2024! Also some pretty cool monitors were there!

Thank you to ASRock for providing travel to Computex!

0:00 - Intro
0:35 - AMD Servers
5:10 - New AMD Motherboards
5:45 - ASRock Monitors

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Checking out the SER8 8845HS

Posted by wendell on Wed, 06/12/2024 - 13:52

A new mini PC from Beelink!

Check it out here: https://www.bee-link.com/collections/mini-pc/products/beelink-ser8-8845…

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The Level1 Show June 12th 2024: Oral B(ricked

Posted by wendell on Wed, 06/12/2024 - 01:44

https://www.one-tab.com/page/eX6yPv6lRFerob5xWcPxZQ

0:00 - Intro
0:35 - Microsoft announces up to 1,500 layoffs, leaked memo blames 'AI wave'
1:31 - Microsoft Axes More HoloLens Employees
2:38 - Google's privacy chief and head of competition law are leaving, will not be replaced
3:15 - Google cuts at least 100 jobs across cloud unit, sources say
4:14 - NYSE says technical issue fixed after Berkshire Hathaway wrongly shown to fall 99%
5:11 - Ikea is hiring workers for its online Roblox store for £13.15 per hour, and you can even serve virtual meatballs
6:45 - Elon Musk accused of illegal $7.5 billion Tesla stock sale in new insider trading lawsuit
7:54 - Water company installs locked shields over fire hydrants in South LA to prevent theft
9:33 - Nvidia hits $3 trillion market cap on back of AI boom
10:38 - Intel CEO Takes Aim at Nvidia in Fight for AI Chip Dominance
11:37 - Intel details new Lunar Lake CPUs that will go up against AMD, Qualcomm, and Apple
12:48 - AMD unveils Ryzen AI and 9000 series processors, plus Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot graphics card at Computex 2024
13:19 - For the second time in two years, AMD blows up its laptop CPU numbering system
15:32 - Google can keep a phone if you send for repair with non-OEM parts
16:48 - Arm aims to capture 50% of PC market in five years, CEO says
17:19 - Humane warns AI Pin owners to ‘immediately’ stop using its charging case
18:02 - Apple put a Thread smart home radio into its newest Macs and iPads
18:46 - TSMC’s Arizona chip plant death demonstrates its mounting challenges in the US
20:35 - Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech
22:35 - Apple finally confirms how long it will support iPhones, and it's less than Samsung and Google
23:03 - Toyota apologizes for cheating on vehicle testing and halts production of three models
24:08 - IBM's Iconic Model-M Keyboard Reimagined by 8BitDo
25:01 - These microLED monitors can stack together like Legos
25:54 - Surprise! It seems that the Apple Vision Pro can track your breathing
26:57 - AT&T says customers facing 'interoperability issue' impacting ability to call non-AT&T users has been resolved
28:06 - Dell expects memory and SSD prices to jump an additional 20% this year
29:32 - A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back
30:01 - This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI
30:25 - Google is working on a Recall-like feature for Chromebooks, too
31:03 - Microsoft reopens Windows 10 beta testing for ‘new features’ and improvements
31:29 - Google will disable classic extensions in Chrome in the coming months
32:41 - GameStop (GME) Q1 earnings, plans to sell more stock
33:35 - Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’
35:02 - Max raises prices across its ad-free plans
36:19 - 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects
37:17 - Elon Musk’s Starlink Connects and Divides Brazil’s Marubo People
40:18 - Artists flee Instagram for new app Cara in protest of Meta AI scraping
42:41 - Former Meta engineer sues company saying he was fired over handling of Gaza content
43:57 - Meta algorithms discriminate in education ads, study warns
45:51 - Instagram is testing ‘unskippable’ ads that you can’t scroll past
46:50 - Elon Musk reportedly diverted thousands of AI chips from Tesla to X
48:27 - X has new rules that officially allow porn now
50:18 - Australia drops attempt to force X into removing terror vid
51:25 - TikTok acknowledges exploit targeting high-profile accounts
52:38 - Donald Trump Joins TikTok, App He Tried to Ban as President

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New Intel Motherboards, A770 AI Demos, Arc GPUs, and MORE: Intel @ ASRock's Computex 2024 Booth

Posted by wendell on Tue, 06/11/2024 - 12:36

Wendell checks out what's going on with Intel's upcoming releases at ASRock's Computex 2024 booth!

Thank you to ASRock for travel accommodations!

0:00 - Intro
0:44 - New Mobos
3:37 - W790 Submerged Cooling Workstation (neat!)
4:37 - Intel Arc
5:06 - AI Demos

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The Level1 Show June 11th 2024: FCC Around and Find Out

Posted by wendell on Tue, 06/11/2024 - 02:31

https://www.one-tab.com/page/reK32u4PRW2k5rwBeIoTzg

0:00 - Intro
1:18 - US sets stage for antitrust probes into Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia
2:37 - Yellen to warn of 'significant risks' from use of AI in finance
3:40 - Meta Withheld Information on Instagram, WhatsApp Deals: FTC
4:21 - FCC ends affordable internet program due to lack of funds
5:53 - ISPs seek halt of net neutrality rules before they take effect next month
6:34 - A landmark New York bill would restrict social media for children. Here's what to know.
8:08 - FBI recovers 7,000 LockBit keys, urges ransomware victims to reach out
8:40 - FBI Raids Corporate Landlord in Major Rent Price-Fixing Probe
10:22 - Tribunal rules $17 bln UK adtech lawsuit against Google can go ahead
10:57 - Meta faces call in EU not to use personal data for AI models
11:47 - Primarschule Birmensdorf will organize Kindern im Hort Tracking-Bänder
14:03 - Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War
15:13 - Scientists find security risk in RISC-V open-source chip architecture that China hopes can help sidestep US sanctions
16:02 - TSMC says it has discussed moving fabs out of Taiwan but such a move impossible
16:52 - Japan’s push to make all research open access is taking shape
17:39 - 'Bring Back Tigran Gambaryan,' Lawmakers Pressure U.S. to Treat Binance Exec's Nigeria Detention as a Hostage Situation
18:35 - Foreign streamers must pay into fund to boost Canadian content, CRTC says
19:21 - Services disrupted as London hospitals hit by cyber-attack
20:26 - Crooks threaten to leak 2.9B records of personal info
21:39 - Snowflake says there’s no evidence attackers breached its platform to hack Ticketmaster
22:40 - Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents
23:53 - Cybercriminals pose as "helpful" Stack Overflow users to push malware
24:38 - Law student ‘unfairly disciplined’ after reporting data breach blunder
25:37 - Nintendo Hits 127 Switch Piracy Tutorial Repos After 'Cracking' URL Encryption
27:24 - 'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'
29:11 - Hackers steal $305M from DMM Bitcoin crypto exchange

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Checking Out ASRock's Mini PCs and Superpowered Rack Servers @ Computex 2024!

Posted by wendell on Mon, 06/10/2024 - 13:22

Join Wendell as he checks out ASRock's mini PC and rack server offerings at Computex 2024

Thank you ASRock for paying our way to Computex!

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Computex 2024 Show Floor Part 2

Posted by wendell on Fri, 06/07/2024 - 23:38

Join Wendell as he checks out Gigabyte, Phison, Siphorex, MSI, Tyan, FSP Group and Patriot

Thank you ASRock for paying our way to Computex!

0:00 Intro
0:20 Gigabyte
10:11 Phison
12:53 Siphorex
14:24 MSI
17:23 Tyan
22:20 FSP Group
22:54 Patriot
25:11 Outro

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Computex 2024 Show Floor Part 1

Posted by wendell on Fri, 06/07/2024 - 07:24

Join Wendell as he checks out ASUS, Colorful, Cooler Master, Supermicro, Asustor, and Kioxia during Computex 2024

Thank you ASRock for paying our way to Computex!

0:00 Intro
0:27 ASUS
3:39 Colorful
6:26 Cooler Master
7:23 Supermicro
11:32 ASUSTOR
14:15 Kioxia

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