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ASUS RT-BE96U WiFi 7 Tri-Band Router Review

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Join Wendell as he delves into the new ASUS RT-BE96U WiFi 7 Router.
Why does it look like that? Is it good? Those answers and more in this newest Level 1 Techs review video.

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The Level1 Show April 26 2024: P-U-Gi-Oh

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0:00 - Intro
0:35 - Meta releases Llama 3, claims it’s among the best open models available
1:30 - AI Computing Is on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says
2:33 - Microsoft’s ‘AI Watchdog’ defends against new LLM jailbreak method
3:42 - iOS 18 to include limited on-device AI features
4:28 - Microsoft Takes Down AI Model Published by Beijing-Based Researchers Without Adequate Safety Checks
5:06 - Adobe Premiere Pro is getting AI video tools — and maybe OpenAI’s Sora
6:01 - Adobe Firefly used thousands of Midjourney images in training its 'ethical AI' model
6:45 - Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text—with a twist
7:44 - Henry Cavill James Bond Trailer Gets 2.3M Views Despite Being Fake
8:48 - Half of online traffic in 2024 generated by bots, report finds
9:45 - Tech exec predicts ‘AI girlfriends’ will create $1B business: ‘Comfort at the end of the day’
10:39 - US Air Force confirms first successful AI dogfight
11:37 - Boston Dynamics’ new electric Atlas robot is swiveling nightmare fuel
13:00 - US — Chinese military planners gear up for new kind of warfare
13:21 - Walmart will deploy robotic forklifts in its distribution centers
13:44 - Amazon Grows To Over 750,000 Robots As World's Second-Largest Private Employer Replaces Over 100,000 Humans
14:54 - NASA confirms that debris from space station crashed into Florida home
15:52 - Nasa: 'New plan needed to return rocks from Mars'
16:41 - ‘Sleeping giant’ massive black hole found in the Milky Way galaxy
17:30 - A Dungeons & Dragons actual play show is going to sell out Madison Square Garden
18:13 - Glasgow's viral Willy Wonka event to be recreated for LA
18:50 - Boban Marjanovic Intentionally Misses Free Throw So Fans Win Free Chicken Promotion
19:28 - Female Yu-Gi-Oh player quits tournament because opponents smelled bad
20:56 - Ontario resident wins public funding for unusual genital surgery
21:45 - Mexican news channel accidentally airs man's testicles instead of solar eclipse
22:35 - Biden Jokes His Uncle May Have Been Eaten by Cannibals
23:35 - Spain Sex Scandal: Spanish Politician Resigns As Municipal Councillor Over Leaked Photos and Videos Showing Him Eating Poop and Offering Himself As 'Sex Slave'
24:24 - Red Lobster Is Reportedly Heading For Bankruptcy After Losing Millions On Endless Shrimp
24:58 - Customers disappointed after email listing $60K Tim Hortons prize sent in error
25:29 - Prettier in pink: Heinz, Mattel launch limited 'Barbie'cue sauce
26:06 - Gravy delivered to Ontario legislature: police
27:27 - Giant pumpkin paddler Adam quite possibly the first person to float in one down Tumut River
28:07 - San Jose police audit reveals use of controversial tactic
28:37 - IRS revenue agent arrested for filing false tax returns
29:01 - Supreme Court to consider outlawing sleeping outside even if no inside space is available
29:29 - Brazilian woman arrested after taking corpse to sign bank loan: ‘She knew he was dead’
30:23 - Photo radar and red light cameras catch dozens of Ottawa police officers in first 3 months of 2024
31:12 - Woman working with feds accused of luring Hialeah man to his execution
31:51 - Woman named Crystal Methvin arrested for crystal meth
32:30 - Man arrested after woman says he used her car to sexually pleasure himself for 3 years
33:15 - China: Internet amused by 'sanitary pad' building design
34:03 - ‘My hoo haa is gonna be out’: US Olympians slam Nike for skimpy women’s track kit
35:02 - Trained birds hired to take on downtown poop ahead of NFL Draft in Detroit
35:33 - Snake on a train delays Japanese bullet service
35:54 - Mammoth mayhem: elephant escapes circus and roams Montana streets
36:31 - Earthworm crowned UK invertebrate of the year by Guardian readers
37:08 - Family Accidentally Ends Up With 50 Baby Octopuses After Their Pet—Thought to Be Male—Laid Dozens of Eggs
37:39 - Geese recovered after being stolen from Texas park

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The Level1 Show April 16 2024: Silicon Sabbath

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0:00 - Intro
0:56 - Starting today, ISPs must display labels with price, speeds, and data caps
1:39 - FCC chair rejects call to impose Universal Service fees on broadband
3:08 - FCC won’t block California net neutrality law, says states can “experiment”
4:49 - A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress
5:55 - Biden considering Australian request to drop Julian Assange charges
6:59 - New bill would force AI companies to reveal use of copyrighted art
8:19 - JPMorgan, Wall Street giants on BLS economist’s ’Super Users’ list
9:30 - US to award Samsung up to $6.6 billion chip subsidy for Texas expansion, sources say
10:37 - TSMC wins $6.6 bln US subsidy for Arizona chip production
11:28 - SK hynix to Build $3.87 Billion Memory Packaging Fab in the U.S. for HBM4 and Beyond
12:36 - SEC warns Uniswap Labs of potential enforcement action
13:48 - Cox Plans to Take Piracy Liability Battle to the Supreme Court
15:48 - Biden Takes Aim at SpaceX’s Tax-Free Ride in American Airspace
17:35 - Kaspersky: Biden administration preparing to prevent Americans from using Russian-made software over national security concern
18:12 - Hollywood Believes The Time Is Ripe To Bring Back SOPA
19:33 - UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s
21:24 - EU's new tech laws are working; small browsers gain market share
22:11 - Germany wants its robots to be good Christians, take Sundays off from work
23:15 - Apple's India iPhone output hits $14 billion in 2024
25:06 - Brazil judge opens inquiry into Musk after refusal to block accounts on X
26:05 - NIST Unveils New Consortium to Operate the NVD
27:19 - Fury as home insurance companies cancel coverage after secretly taking pictures of owners' properties using drones, high altitude balloons and even manned airplanes
28:34 - Apple alerts users in 92 nations to mercenary spyware attacks
29:47 - Microsoft employees exposed internal passwords in security lapse
30:36 - Crypto trader's defense says Mango Markets was a trade, not theft
31:21 - SF Giants using facial recognition tech to fast-track ticket line
32:20 - Academics reckon Apple's default apps have privacy pitfalls
34:03 - LG Smart TVs have security bugs that could let hackers in
34:51 - AT&T: Data breach affects 73 million or 51 million customers. No, we won’t explain.
35:43 - Canadian DNA lab knew its paternity tests identified the wrong dads, but it kept selling them
36:56 - The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind

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The Level1 Show April 17 2024: Oh The Humane-ity

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0:00 - Intro
0:49 - Apple confirms layoffs affecting 700+ workers, including car team
1:36 - Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs
3:20 - Rich Americans get second passports, citing risk of instability
4:18 - Apple's upcoming M4 chips bring AI to its entire line of Macs. Here's when they're expected
6:08 - Apple will open the iPhone to repair with used parts
7:24 - Apple Vision Pro users complain of black eyes
8:37 - Intel unveils Gaudi 3 AI chip as Nvidia competition heats up
10:18 - Intel investigating games crashing on 13th and 14th Gen Core i9 processors
10:57 - Google announces Axion, its first custom Arm-based data center processor
11:26 - Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple
12:39 - AMD to open source MES firmware for Radeon GPUs
13:59 - Fairphone's Fairbuds are true wireless earbuds with repairable design and user-replaceable batteries
14:50 - 3D magnetic recording to boost Seagate's HDD storage capacity to 120TB+
15:36 - The First Major AI Consumer Hardware Launch is a Dumpster Fire
16:27 - We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners
17:05 - Synchron, a rival to Musk’s Neuralink, readies large-scale brain implant trial
18:18 - Microsoft reportedly begins showing full screen Windows 11 ad on Windows 10 PCs as end of support date looms
19:23 - New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser
21:18 - Shoplifting crackdown to include £55m for facial recognition tools in England and Wales
22:04 - The Morning After: Amazon stops paying bonuses to Alexa developers
22:47 - Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators
23:32 - Beeper Took On Apple’s iMessage Dominance. Now It’s Been Acquired
24:12 - Google Vids is the latest AI-powered app in Workspace
25:04 - Suicide Squad Hackers Are Somehow Playing As Deathstroke
25:53 - Alibaba founder Jack Ma re-emerges with praise of 'transformations'
26:39 - The Crew Is Reportedly Being Revoked From Ubisoft Connect Accounts
27:25 - Amazon owes $525 mln in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury says
28:22 - Meta (again) denies that Netflix read users’ private Facebook messages
29:29 - Meta will require labels on more AI-generated content
30:42 - Instagram to Blur Out Nude Images Sent to Teens in DMs
31:19 - Amid TikTok Ban Threats, ByteDance Surges In Profit
31:56 - TikTok Notes: plans for new photo-based app, reports claim
32:54 - Aosta Valley, Italy: 22 year-old French woman found dead in church was searching for ghosts, police say
33:31 - Elon Musk says his posts did more to ‘financially impair’ X than help it
34:38 - AI-generated Elon Musk videos flood YouTube with fake eclipse streams to promote crypto scams

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Building A Hot New System With The ASUS ProArt X670E-Creator WiFi

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The Level1 Show April 19 2024: Rise of the Robotaxis

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0:00 - Intro
1:25 - ‘Social Order Could Collapse’ in AI Era, Two Top Japan Companies Say
2:25 - AI seen cutting worker numbers, survey by staffing company Adecco shows
3:07 - AI hardware company from Jony Ive, Sam Altman seeks $1 billion in funding
4:19 - How Texas will use AI to grade this year’s STAAR tests
5:51 - Tesla's Musk predicts AI will be smarter than the smartest human next year
7:07 - Microsoft could update Copilot to detect upcoming natural disasters. Here's how
8:00 - AI-generated pornography will disrupt the adult content industry and raise new ethical concerns
9:16 - Deepfake-generating camera can undress people automatically
10:40 - Spotify launches personalized AI playlists that you can build using prompts
12:10 - End of the Line? Saudi Arabia ‘forced to scale back’ plans for desert megacity
12:59 - Waymo will launch paid robotaxi service in Los Angeles on Wednesday
13:22 - GM’s Cruise robotaxis are back in Phoenix — but people are driving them
13:59 - Elon Musk says Tesla will unveil its robotaxi on Aug. 8; shares pop
14:50 - Air Force secretary plans to ride in AI-operated F-16 fighter aircraft this spring
16:01 - NASA Figured Out Why Its Voyager 1 Probe Has Been Glitching for Months
16:41 - 'Heavy' history: ULA launches final Delta rocket after 64 years (video, photos)
17:34 - Varda Space’s orbital drug factory success fuels $90M in new funding
18:23 - AMC Exec: We Wouldn't Have Made the Dune Popcorn Bucket if We Knew You'd Be Sickos About It
18:50 - Chechnya bans music with tempos deemed too fast or slow
19:44 - Total eclipse of the Internet: traffic impacts in Mexico, the US, and Canada
20:25 - 'Why do my eyes hurt?' Google searches spike after solar eclipse
21:54 - Bioluminescent petunias, thanks to genetics research for pharmaceuticals
22:40 - Students in Iran threatened with prosecution for graduation dance video
23:07 - 'Monopoly' Movie From Margot Robbie, Lionsgate in the Works
23:51 - High levels of lead, sodium found in Lunchables, Consumer Reports says
24:31 - EPA announces first-ever national regulations for "forever chemicals" in drinking water
25:06 - Complaints of brown water persist at Tacoma elementary school
26:20 - Record number of books targeted for bans in US
26:57 - Embattled Harvard honesty professor accused of plagiarism
27:42 - Burglar left 'large bowel movement' in victims' toilet, say Guelph, Ont. police
28:21 - Sierra Leone Declares Emergency After Addicts Dig Up Graves To Get High On Drug Made From Human Bones
29:17 - Woman claims she received stolen Jeep as a birthday tip from Waffle House customer, police say
30:11 - East CLE traffic cam issues ticket to grandmother while her van was being towed
31:28 - Naked defendant appears in court after support cat goes missing during traffic stop
33:08 - Airplane passenger fined in Sydney for urinating in a cup
33:40 - Mother and daughter accused of performing illegal butt injections arrested in sting operation in Texas
34:28 - Porch pirate disguises self in trash bag while stealing package in Sacramento, surveillance video shows
35:15 - Ontario may soon count student residences as homes
35:55 - Wait, does America suddenly have a record number of bees?
37:32 - Bird mimicking police siren at Bicester station confuses officers

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Phison Max14um and the State of Gen 5

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Wendell is once again testing the limits on the progression of the future, this time with the Max14um from Phison. How much will this change the industry?

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The Level1 Show April 23 2024: Brain Brokers

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0:00 - Intro
0:49 - House Votes to Extend—and Expand—a Major US Spy Program
1:50 - House passes bill requiring warrant to purchase data from third parties
3:05 - Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules
4:10 - US TikTok Ban Odds Rise: House Fast-Tracks Bill, Gets Senate Support
5:15 - Justice Department to File Antitrust Suit Against Live Nation
6:18 - Feds appoint “AI doomer” to run AI safety at US institute
8:34 - FBI says Chinese hackers preparing to attack US infrastructure
10:16 - SEC Targets Its Own Staff’s Texting, Nixes WhatsApp on Work Phones
10:50 - State tax officials use AI to go after wealthy payers
12:20 - The legal system is closing in on crypto, and things may only get worse
13:17 - ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say
15:21 - Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets
16:13 - Kentucky Lawmakers Override Veto, OK Fully Autonomous Vehicles
17:04 - Polk County Sheriff launches internet surveillance
18:37 - Colorado Bill Aims to Protect Consumer Brain Data
19:44 - UK mulling potential AI regulation
20:26 - Apple loses bid to throw out UK lawsuit over App Store fees
21:17 - Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be made offence in UK
22:05 - ‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram
22:52 - TikTok questioned by EU over Lite app that ‘pays’ users for watching videos
23:53 - UK e-visa rollout starts today for millions: no more physical immigration cards
24:50 - Judge refuses to Ctrl-Z divorce order made by a misclick
25:38 - China wants companies to stop using Intel, AMD and other U.S. chips
26:17 - China’s semiconductor output jumps 40% in first quarter amid growing dominance in legacy chips
26:58 - Apple deletes WhatsApp, Threads from China app store on orders from Beijing
27:19 - X blocks posts in India after election commission order
28:01 - Pakistan High Court Orders Government To Restore X, Formerly Twitter, Within 1 Week
28:43 - Liberals accuse Conservatives of using AI for amendments to jobs bill as votes loom
29:18 - X reverses course, tells Brazil court it will comply with rulings
29:59 - New Spectre v2 attack impacts Linux systems on Intel CPUs
30:39 - A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users’ Messages
31:18 - T-Mobile Employees Across The Country Receive Cash Offers To Illegally Swap SIMs
32:22 - Roku switches on 2FA for all following latest security snafu
33:14 - DOJ-Collected Information Exposed in Data Breach Affecting 340,000 - SecurityWeek
34:00 - Hackers are threatening to leak World-Check, a huge sanctions and financial crimes watchlist
34:58 - Hackers Voice Cloned the CEO of LastPass for Attack
35:38 - Change Healthcare’s ransomware attack costs reach nearly $1B
36:13 - Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak
37:15 - Hospital websites share visitors' data with Google, Meta
38:35 - How scammers have sunk to a new low with an AI obituary scam targeting the grieving
39:36 - Northrop Grumman working with Musk's SpaceX on U.S. spy satellite system
40:31 - Frontier Communications shuts down systems after cyberattack

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MinisForum MS-01: A Pint Sized Workstation Powerhouse

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Do you need a workstation? How about an itty bitty one? Then the Minisforum MS-01 Mini PC is for you!

Check it out here: https://s.minisforum.com/Level1techs-MS-01

SR-IOV Forum Thread: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/intel-i915-sr-iov-mode-for-flex-170-pro…

Minisforum compatible thread: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/minisforum-ms-01-compatibility-database…

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The Level1 Show April 24 2024: Toss A Coin To Your Developer

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0:00 - Intro
0:41 - GTA 6 Publisher Take-Two to Layoff 5% of its Workforce and Cancel Games
1:29 - Tesla Will Lay Off More Than 10% of Global Workforce
3:17 - Google terminates 28 employees for protest of Israeli cloud contract
4:04 - Intel axes 13th Gen Core i5, i7, i9 K-series CPUs — lineup will be discontinued by May 24th 2024
4:56 - Apple loses mantle as world’s biggest phone seller to Samsung as China sales drop
5:24 - News of the Snapdragon X Elite: Full steam ahead to laptop dominance over Intel, AMD and Apple M3
6:27 - Farmers have clamored for the Right to Repair for years. It’s getting little traction in John Deere’s home state.
7:19 - Google’s newly formed platforms and devices team is all about AI
7:57 - TSMC powers parts of Taipei with backup generators — Taiwan requests help as blackouts begin
8:39 - Telecom resists price cuts in $42 billion U.S. program to expand internet
10:08 - Elon Musk: Tesla sent incorrect severance packages to workers
10:38 - 'Full Self-Driving' Teslas Keep Slamming Into Curbs
11:10 - Apple will soon let users in the EU download apps through web sites, not just the App Store
12:02 - AltStore PAL Alternative App Marketplace Launches on iPhone in EU
12:50 - Apple removes the first iOS Game Boy emulator released under new App Store rules
13:40 - YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps
14:05 - Amazon Reportedly Ran a Secret Store to Get Intel on Its Competitors
14:45 - Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers
15:21 - Epic Games proposes Google app store reforms after antitrust win
15:47 - Google One is shutting down its VPN feature later this year
16:23 - The lines between streaming and cable continue to blur
17:27 - Former video game executive sparks debate after claiming players should tip developers
18:51 - Netflix (NFLX) earnings Q1 2024
19:36 - Meta AI assistant comes to WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger
20:12 - Meta is adding real-time AI image generation to WhatsApp
20:47 - Facebook apologises for flagging Auschwitz Museum’s posts as violating community standards
21:35 - Meta to close Threads in Turkey to comply with injunction prohibiting data sharing with Instagram
22:08 - Elon Musk confirms that X will charge new users a temporary fee
23:09 - TikTok Will Block Users From For You Feed for 'Problematic' Content
23:43 - Reddit Reports Surge in Copyright-Related User Bans * TorrentFreak
24:13 - Your anonymous OpenTable reviews will soon display your first name
25:13 - Telegram founder: Google, Apple are the real enemies of free speech
26:29 - Trump Media shares fall, Truth Social will launch TV platform

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