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GIVEAWAY! IcyDock Stuff

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5.25" drive bays are the reason for celebration today! With love from IcyDock, Wendell is giving away MB924IP-B 24 x 2.5" SAS/SATA HDD/SSD Mobile Rack Enclosure for 3 x 5.25" Bay (6 x Mini-SAS HD) and the MB602SPO-B 2 x 2.5" SAS/SATA SSD/HDD & (Ultra) Slim ODD Backplane Cage for External 5.25" Bay

Visit the Level 1 Forums to enter by September 5th
https://forum.level1techs.com/t/community-giveaway-icydock-stuff/187576

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The Level1 Show August 26 2022: The Restaurant at the End of Humanity

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0:00 - Intro
0:19 - Curiosity Mars rover gets 50 per cent speed boost from software update
1:02 - OK Google, get me a Coke: AI giant demos soda-fetching robots
2:01 - Russia unveils model of proposed space station after leaving ISS
2:38 - Russian Army Expo Shows Off Robot Dog Carrying Rocket Launcher
3:15 - Baidu has China's first permits for fully driverless robotaxi services
4:02 - This San Francisco Restaurant Is Run Entirely By Robots
5:41 - Redwire to launch first commercial space greenhouse in 2023
6:46 - Rocket Lab will self-fund a mission to search for life in the clouds of Venus
7:43 - Eye implant made from pig protein restored sight in 14 blind people
9:38 - Rodolfo Castro's on-field MLB phone flub a relatable moment
10:34 - Old laptop hard drives will allegedly crash when exposed to Janet Jackson music
12:06 - Japan wants young people to drink more alcohol. It's just not sure how to convince them
13:20 - Hidden 'Hunger Stones' Reveal Drought Warnings From The Past
14:54 - Most electric cars are quiet. But Dodge says its future electric muscle car will be super loud
17:19 - Strippers at LA strip club want to join actors' union
18:50 - Kids and teens Mullet Championship finalists are up for online judging
21:08 - Air Force may put Angry Kitten in planes for electronic warfare edge
22:36 - U.S. murder suspect calls cops to complain about cold fries, heads back to jail
24:16 - Monkey at California zoo calls 911: 'monkey see, monkey do'
25:07 - Scott Morrison resists calls to resign after secretly assuming five ministerial roles while Australia PM
27:04 - Romanian central bank hires fortune teller
27:41 - People living in and around a giant treehouse on city property are terrorizing neighbors
28:22 - Human body parts sold on Facebook leads to arrest of Pennsylvania man
30:08 - Vatican’s Exorcists Face Burnout with Huge Numbers of Claimed Possessions
31:10 - Group defends hiring man as period dignity officer
32:54 - Reusable Toilet Cloth Viral Trend Is Making People Cringe, Twitter Wants Another Way to 'Save Earth'
35:04 - Capri Sun wild cherry recall over cleaning solution
36:18 - City tells New Yorkers: don’t panic about ‘splooting’ squirrels
37:14 - Wave of badly written Kindle titles on Pelosi, Taiwan hits Amazon's Kindle platform

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The Level1 Show August 23 2022: America's Most Dystopian Home Videos

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0:00 - Intro
1:22 - New US Privacy Law May Give Telecoms Free Pass on $200 Million Fines
3:16 - Analytics company sues FTC, denies illegal data-sharing
4:08 - Amazon criticizes 'burdensome' FTC probe into Prime
5:22 - US bans export of tech used in 3nm chip production
6:21 - Court upholds FCC’s decision on 5.9 GHz, Wi-Fi
7:47 - US approves Google plan to let political emails bypass Gmail spam filter
8:22 - Google to Pay Nearly $43M Over Collection of Android Location Data
9:16 - Suspected developer of crypto mixer Tornado Cash arrested
10:44 - With Help From WEF, Canada to Launch Federal Digital ID Program
11:59 - South Korea to pardon Samsung's Lee, other corporate giants
12:59 - Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting
14:40 - Linking to news doesn’t make Google liable for defamation, Australia court rules
15:37 - Alibaba, ByteDance share algorithm details with Chinese regulator
16:33 - VLC says India internet providers blocking site poses threat to users
18:37 - Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook for first time ever
19:27 - Tesla's public Superchargers are deemed 'illegal' in Germany due to technicality
20:57 - Police Used a Baby’s DNA to Investigate Its Father for a Crime
22:58 - Hospital and Drugmaker Move to Build Vast Database of New Yorkers’ DNA
24:46 - The largest YouTube royalties heist in history spotlights a much larger problem
25:57 - Major NHS IT outage to last for three weeks
27:43 - Amazon studio plans lighthearted show of Ring surveillance footage
29:55 - Microsoft Employees Exposed Own Company’s Internal Logins
30:41 - 1,900 Signal users’ phone numbers exposed by Twilio phishing
31:25 - Losses from crypto hacks surged 60% to $1.9 billion from January to July, Chainalysis says
32:03 - Update Zoom for Mac now to avoid root-access vulnerability
33:27 - The Hacking of Starlink Terminals Has Begun
34:23 - Microsoft urges Windows users to run patch for DogWalk zero-day exploit
35:37 - North Korean hackers use signed macOS malware to target IT job seekers
36:21 - iOS VPNs have leaked traffic for years, researcher claims
37:51 - Estonia says it repelled major cyber attack after removing Soviet monuments
38:47 - A Tool That Monitors How Long Kids Are in the Bathroom Is Now in 1,000 American Schools

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The Level1 Show August 24 2022: Where Have All the Cryptobros Gone?

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0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Amazon to raise seller fulfillment fees for the holidays
2:20 - Apple reportedly lays off contract recruiters
3:39 - Google will roll out new updates to reduce low-quality and unoriginal content in search results
5:30 - Intel Drops DirectX 9 Support On Xe, Arc GPUs, Switches to DirectX 12 Emulation
6:16 - The upcoming Pixel Tablet could ship with a 64-bit only version of Android 13
6:56 - Qualcomm is re-entering the server chip market
7:49 - TSMC to Begin 3nm Chip Production Next Month
8:51 - AT&T workers fight return to office push: ‘We can do the same job from home’
10:01 - Streaming viewership overtakes cable TV for the first time
11:19 - Streaming Services Deal With More Subscribers Who ‘Watch, Cancel and Go’
12:06 - Paramount+ to be Bundled With Walmart+ Membership Program
13:03 - What Streaming Slowdown? Disney+ Added 14.4 Million Subscribers in Q3
13:56 - Netflix With Ads Plan Won't Allow Downloads for Offline Viewing
14:49 - Microsoft finally admits Xbox One sales were less than half of the PS4
15:37 - Microsoft Sues Activation Key & Token Sellers For Enabling Customers' Piracy
17:14 - Caste in California: Tech giants confront ancient Indian hierarchy
19:00 - A New Jailbreak for John Deere Tractors Rides the Right-to-Repair Wave
20:35 - Apple may soon bring more ads to your iPhone
22:15 - A California Startup Is Selling Electric Vehicle ‘Subscriptions’
23:52 - Exclusive: Airbnb introduces new anti-party tech in U.S., Canada
25:14 - Crypto ads starring Matt Damon, Tom Brady vanish from US television
26:44 - Crypto.com laid off 260 employees — then quietly let go of hundreds more
27:16 - Buttons beat touchscreens in cars, and now there’s data to prove it
28:39 - Wichita officer to face civil trial in deadly shooting on ‘swatting’ call
29:56 - Scoop: Oracle begins auditing TikTok's algorithms
30:57 - Facebook testing encrypted chat backups
31:55 - Facebook Launches In Spain Its First Attempt To Build The 'metaverse'
33:27 - Twitch Streamers are burning out and logging off
34:37 - Amazon is internally testing a TikTok-like feed in its app

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Data Recovery PTSD: Prep for 45 Drives Offsite Backup

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It may have caused him nightmares, but Wendell is a man of action! To defeat the loss of data, or at the very least prevent it for Linus, poor guy almost lost a lot of data; Wendell has teamed up with 45 Drives to create an offsite storage server to act as a back up site for his friends!

Having 30 14tb drives, in a single Q30 chassis Storinator running ZFS is cool. But going underground into a cellar to set it up is even cooler! Literally, it'll be cooler and save on AC cost.

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ASRock WRX80 Creator Motherboard Review

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The Level1 Show August 19 2022: From the Mouths of Bots

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0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Meta is putting its latest AI chatbot on the web for the public to talk to
0:40 - Meta’s AI Chatbot Repeats Election and Anti-Semitic Conspiracies
1:04 - Meta's new AI Chatbot says CEO Zuckerberg is creepy and manipulative
1:35 - Inventors Must Be Human, Federal Circuit Rules in Blow to AI
2:51 - A bartending robot that can engage in personalized interactions with humans
4:23 - Flying car could be weeks away from takeoff
6:16 - As satellites and space junk proliferate, U.S. to revise rules
7:06 - India's new rocket fails to put satellites in right orbit
7:41 - Russian Military Satellite Appears To Be Stalking A New U.S. Spy Satellite
9:04 - FCC votes to boost manufacturing in space
9:48 - I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2 for $45: here’s what I learned
10:45 - Spiders Seem to Have REM-like Sleep and May Even Dream
12:09 - Rare hummingbird last seen in 2010 rediscovered in Colombia
12:47 - Pac-Man Movie Based on Video Game in the Works
14:33 - IRS faces online uproar over special agent job posting requiring ability to use deadly force 'if necessary'
16:27 - SoCal residents going to Mexico for cheaper groceries
17:14 - University investigates PhD student’s paper on masturbating to comics of ‘young boys’
19:04 - Excel esports on ESPN show world the pain of format errors
20:16 - LAPD: Body found on fire hanging in tree in Griffith Park likely a suicide
21:38 - So you hate cats? It turns out they like that
23:41 - Snickers maker apologises for advert suggesting Taiwan is a country
25:14 - Great-grandson of Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien, 53, was sprayed in the face with WEEDKILLER

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DIMMs the way I see it! A Threadripper Pro Memory Ramble

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The Level1 Show August 16 2022: Only Fans or People on a Watchlist?!

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0:00 - Intro
0:46 - Data ‘Surveillance’ Crackdown Begins With FTC Privacy Pitch
2:43 - FCC Cancels $886 Million in Funding for SpaceX's Starlink
4:33 - The IRS ramps up its effort to crack down on crypto tax evaders
5:04 - The DOJ is reportedly prepping an antitrust suit against Google over its ad business
6:59 - US claims Chinese seller violated export rules for ZTE
8:06 - Victory! Federal Court Upholds First Amendment Protections for Student’s Off-Campus Social Media Post
9:36 - U.S. lawmakers urge joint use of funds for broadband, EV charge stations
10:24 - Apple warns suppliers to follow China rules on 'Taiwan' labeling
11:44 - Micron to invest $40 billion in U.S. chip manufacturing
13:01 - Facial recognition smartwatches to be used to monitor foreign offenders in UK
15:16 - Tornado Cash co-founder reports being kicked off GitHub as industry reacts to sanctions
16:28 - Iran reveals use of cryptocurrency to pay for imports
17:24 - A fifth of US teens use YouTube 'almost constantly,' with TikTok not far behind
18:39 - Mark Cuban says nobody knows what the metaverse is and buying digital land is 'The dumbest sh*t ever'
19:43 - OnlyFans bribed Meta employees to put rival creators on terror watchlist
20:57 - CEO posts viral crying selfie on LinkedIn after laying off employees
22:08 - Twitter says Musk’s spam analysis used tool that called his own account a bot
24:27 - Instagram model Courtney Clenney charged with murdering boyfriend Christian Toby Obumseli in Florida apartment
25:56 - Meta injecting code into websites to track its users, research says
26:57 - Cisco hacked by Yanluowang ransomware gang, 2.8GB allegedly stolen
27:55 - Curve Finance resolves site exploit, directs users to revoke any recent contracts
28:58 - Someone Is Trolling Ethereum Celebs by Sending ETH From Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash
29:55 - Windows 11 encryption bug could cause data loss, temporary slowdowns on newer PCs
30:39 - SGX, Intel’s supposedly impregnable data fortress, has been breached yet again
31:46 - Hacker Finds Kill Switch for Submachine Gun–Wielding Robot Dog
32:48 - Pretty Good Phone Privacy Masks Your Android Device ID, Mobile Data
34:08 - 7-Eleven stores in Denmark closed due to a cyberattack
35:22 - Amazon is buying iRobot
36:19 - Twilio hacked by phishing campaign targeting internet companies
36:55 - Class Action Targets Experian Over Account Security
38:34 - DuckDuckGo will block more Microsoft ad tracking scripts to improve browser privacy
39:55 - Chaos after heat crashes computers at leading London hospitals
41:42 - This Anti-Tracking Tool Checks If You’re Being Followed

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The Level1 Show August 17 2022: Streaming Prices+

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0:00 - Intro
0:47 - Intel Unveils Arc Pro GPUs
1:33 - Intel shares 48 benchmarks to show its Arc A750 can compete with an RTX 3060
2:44 - Ether (ETH) price surges after ethereum completes final testnet merge
3:54 - Email Marketing Firm Mailchimp Suspends Several Crypto-Related Accounts
5:06 - ‘Data void’: Google to stop giving answers to silly questions
6:26 - Amazon begins large-scale rollout of palm print-based payments
7:46 - Spotify tickets: streaming firm tests direct pre-sales to fans
9:11 - LG’s 97-inch vibrating OLED TV claims to offer 5.1 audio without speakers
11:59 - Over 100K Cars Cut From North American Production This Week Due to Chip Shortage
13:02 - GM Makes $1,500 OnStar Subscription Mandatory on GMC, Buick, Cadillac Models
14:06 - LinkedIn dumps entire global events marketing team: Report
14:40 - Disney raises prices for streaming services
16:08 - Walmart Ponders Streaming Deal With Paramount, Disney and Comcast
16:48 - Desktop CPU Sales Lowest in 30 Years, AMD Gains Market Share Anyway
17:38 - Crypto-driven GPU crash makes Nvidia miss Q2 projections by $1.4 billion
19:43 - Groupon cuts over 500 staff, plans to focus ‘only on mission-critical activities’ from now on
20:24 - Microsoft claims Sony pays developers "blocking rights" to keep games off Xbox Game Pass
23:10 - Microsoft reportedly lays off team focused on winning back consumers
25:18 - DreamWorks Animation to Release Renderer as Open-Source Software
26:25 - Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
28:25 - NVIDIA Publishes 73k Lines Worth Of 3D Header Files For Fermi Through Ampere GPUs
29:25 - Google tries shaming Apple into adopting RCS with #getthemessage campaign
30:11 - Google Sues Sonos Over Voice Control Technology
31:02 - Crypto Lender Hodlnaut Freezes Withdrawals, Citing Market Conditions
32:21 - 99 percent of Netflix subscribers haven’t tried its games yet
33:25 - Bricked Epson printers make a strong case for user repairability

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