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Threadripper 5000 Inbound: Checking Out the Gigabyte MC62-G40WRX80

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TR5K COMETH! Wendell is very excited, so here's a motherboard review! Yeah!

https://www.gigabyte.com/Enterprise/Server-Motherboard/MC62-G40-rev-10

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The Level1 Show August 2 2022: Feds Seek to Police The Kraken

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0:00 - Intro
0:57 - Senate Passes $280 Billion Industrial Policy Bill to Counter China
2:57 - F.T.C. Sues to Block Meta’s Virtual Reality Deal as It Confronts Big Tech
6:02 - Congressional Democrats Introduce Net Neutrality Bill
6:40 - Two senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits
8:52 - Justice Department investigating data breach of federal court system
10:25 - New Orleans OKs some police use of facial recognition
12:19 - China targets Fed to gain influence, senator charges, drawing Powell rebuke
13:49 - Bipartisan Bill Seeks to Eliminate Taxes on Crypto Transactions Under $50
14:33 - Coinbase shares tumble 21% after report that it's facing SEC probe
15:49 - Why One Critical Second Can Wreak Havoc on the Internet
17:52 - Kraken, a U.S. Crypto Exchange, Is Suspected of Violating Sanctions
18:39 - T-Mobile will pay out $350M to customers in data breach settlement
20:23 - Uber admits covering up 2016 hacking, avoids prosecution in U.S. settlement
22:33 - UK cybersecurity chiefs back plan to scan phones for child abuse images
25:41 - FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications
29:30 - Documents Show How Roblox Planned to Bend to Chinese Censorship
31:40 - Google Maps launches Street View in India after 11-year wait
32:48 - Saudi Arabia plans IPO of $500 billion project Neom by 2024
35:48 - Uzbekistan blacks out internet to quell dissent
36:45 - Google to be banned in Ukraine’s occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions
37:25 - El Salvador's Finance Minister Says Bitcoin Adoption is 'Gaining Ground'
38:09 - EU found evidence employee phones compromised with spyware
39:38 - Meta's revenue shrank for the first time in its history
40:16 - Facebook parent Meta raises price of its Quest 2 VR headset by $100
40:57 - Meta and Apple in ‘deep’ competition to build the metaverse, Zuckerberg tells staff
41:56 - Meta is shutting down Tuned, its social app for couples
43:45 - Instagram walks back TikTok-style changes — Adam Mosseri explains why
44:06 - Zuckerberg Says 30% of Instagram Will Be Recommended Posts
45:01 - Ky. woman falls victim to new method of stealing cars spreading on social media
46:27 - Inside TikTok's Attempts to ‘Downplay the China Association’

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The Level1 Show August 3 2022: Singing the (Team) Blues

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0:00 - Intro
0:47 - Amazon Prime membership prices increased in Europe as inflation bites
2:04 - Intel (INTC) earnings Q2 2022
2:38 - Intel To Wind Down Optane Memory Business - 3D XPoint Storage Tech Reaches Its End
3:13 - Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+ Sapphire Rapids 56 Core CPU Benchmarks Leak Out, 35% Faster Than Ice Lake Flagship
3:49 - Coding Mistake Made Intel GPUs 100X Slower in Ray Tracing
4:14 - Intel to produce Taiwanese company MediaTek's chips
5:52 - Apple Replaces Last Remaining Intel-Made Component in M2 MacBook Air
6:24 - Nikkei Asia finally woke up to the fact that Apple’s Patents have pointed to a major push into Autos for years
7:08 - Apple CarPlay could be a trojan horse into the automotive industry
8:50 - Apple Watch Series 8 rugged model to reportedly introduce new design
9:50 - AMD’s leaked Noise Suppression feature might be its response to RTX Voice
10:37 - Netflix Dodges App Store Tax With a New External Sign-Up Page on iOS
13:18 - Google Chrome delays third-party cookies phase out to 2024
14:14 - Google is adding Flyover-like aerial views to Maps
15:30 - Grand Theft Auto 6 details revealed in report on Rockstar’s new culture
19:00 - Two of Europe's biggest internet satellite companies are merging to take on Starlink
20:53 - Shopify's pandemic boom is over — here's how it's tightening its belt
22:36 - Three Arrows Capital Founders Cite 3 Key Crypto Trades That Blew Up the Firm
23:20 - Vox Media cuts staff, slows down hiring as recession fears grow
23:53 - Tesla locks 80 miles of customer’s battery range for $4,500 ransom
25:37 - Charter to pay $7b in damages after installer murders woman
27:11 - Jack Ma to give up control of fintech giant Ant Group: WSJ
27:44 - Senate bill takes aim at Visa and Mastercard's rising credit card fees for merchants
30:46 - 'Orwellian' facial recognition cameras in UK stores challenged by rights group
31:53 - Kmart halts use of in-store facial recognition amid Australian privacy investigation
32:44 - The Unsolved Mystery Attack on Internet Cables in Paris
34:11 - A newly discovered malware hijacks Facebook Business accounts
34:49 - Source code for Rust-based info-stealer released on hacker forums
36:01 - Windows 11 is getting a new security setting to block ransomware attacks
36:56 - Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts
37:38 - A small Canadian town is being extorted by a global ransomware gang
38:14 - Titanium Blockchain CEO pleads guilty to $21 million ICO scam
38:57 - Solana DeFi Protocol Nirvana Drained of Liquidity After Flash Loan Exploit
39:26 - Google's Nest Will Provide Data to Police Without a Warrant

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L1 Deep Dive: The Marketing of The Rings of Power

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OR: An Obsessive Hyper-Focused Look at Something Most People Will Not Notice Or Care About: A Memoir, by Me.

Summary: Hey all, my name is Krista and I'm a professional designer and a major fan of the works of #jrrtolkien. As most of you may have heard, Amazon has recently greenlit a new television show based around the Second Age of Tolkien's Middle Earth, called #theringsofpower. The show isn't out yet, but we're starting to get trickles of promotional material now; and as someone who works in the design and advertising industry, I've been more than a little puzzled by the show's marketing strategy over the last few months. This video is my attempt to recap the pieces we've seen in 2022 (barring some that were released post-recording) and the online reactions to them, along with my own exploration of how I might approach marketing this project.

Please forgive my incredible ignorance in how I pronounce words in both English and Elvish, I think I managed to mangle even basic pronunciations in a few parts of this video haha.

And finally: This is a reminder to be kind and constructive when discussing the show in the comments. Thanks!

0:00 Brief Introduction
0:46 Out of the Frying Pan
4:04 And Into the Fire
4:57 Title Reveal
6:08 Character Posters
9:27 Teaser Trailer
11:58 Vanity in Vain
15:29 Influencer Campaigns Part 1
17:21 Influencer Campaigns Part 2
23:35 The Choices of Master Amazon
25:16 Change the Release Date
26:35 Market to Your Built-In Audience
29:35 Show Us the Lore!!
31:15 Show Us Some BTS Too!!
32:14 Why Successful Adaptations Matter
34:39 Final Remarks

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TrueNAS: Full Setup Guide for Setting Up Portainer, Containers and Tailscale #Ultimatehomeserver

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Thank you to Fractal for sponsoring this video! Check out the Fractal Meshify 2 Lite here: https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/meshify/meshify-2-lite/rg…

Wendell walks you through installing Portainer and Tailscale on TrueNAS for your home server!

Forum thread here: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/truenas-scale-ultimate-home-setup-incl-…

Check out the last video here: https://youtu.be/RWmfZHn2wLs

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The Level1 Show July 29 2022: All In All It's Just Another Catgirl Through The Wall

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0:00 - Intro
1:06 - Robot dog with machine gun hints of a dystopian future
3:17 - This robot dog just taught itself to walk
4:31 - Amazon's Prime Air drones will soon make deliveries in Texas
5:44 - Microsoft launches simulator to train drone AI systems
7:18 - UK set to have world's biggest automated drone superhighway
8:00 - OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system
9:38 - American Airlines reserves 50 flying taxis
11:15 - A brain-computer startup beat Elon Musk's Neuralink to implanting its first device in a US patient
12:19 - Astronomers reveals how black holes turn stars into 'spaghetti'
13:12 - Dormant black hole discovered outside our galaxy for first time
13:58 - NASA’s massive new SLS rocket gets first tentative launch dates
15:14 - Media Confidence Ratings at Record Lows
16:59 - Secret Service Director James Murray announces retirement
19:03 - Iran Bans Dogs for being a "Symbol of the West"
20:58 - Bhagwant Mann Discharged From Delhi Hospital After A Day
23:15 - Quidditch cuts ties to 'Harry Potter' as it rebrands as quadball
24:19 - NASA Perseverance rover: Bundle of string on Mars' surface found
25:06 - Pakistani goat's loooong ears could be world record. Of course Twitter weighs in
26:32 - Snyder Cut Fan Campaign Fueled by Bot Accounts, Report Says
27:19 - US tourist falls into Mount Vesuvius after taking selfie
28:29 - Thousands of litres of water to stop '60-degree' Tour de France roads melting
29:46 - Sesame Street Responds To Accusations Character Ignored Two Fans
31:31 - Taste the toxin? Skittles ‘unfit for human consumption’, lawsuit claims
33:45 - Chinese gamers are using a Steam wallpaper app to get porn past the censors

#level1show

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The Level1 Show July 27 2022: All Blocks, No Chains

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0:00 - Intro
1:18 - Amazon to buy primary health-care provider One Medical for roughly $3.9 billion
2:25 - Exclusive: Amazon instructs New York workers 'don't sign' union cards
5:18 - Amazon executives have discussed ditching Amazon Basics to appease antitrust regulators
6:05 - Apple outlines health technology strategy in new report
7:30 - Apple reaches $50 mln settlement over defective MacBook keyboards
8:06 - Apple reads the room, looks to slow hiring in '23
8:24 - Microsoft president sees 'new era' of stagnating labor pool
9:01 - Microsoft eliminates open jobs amid economic downturn
9:30 - Microsoft changes its policy against the sale of open source software in the Microsoft Store
10:33 - Google Announces Hiring Pause
11:26 - Google Begins Publicly Testing Its AR Glasses
12:13 - Smartphone shipments dropped 9% in Q2
13:20 - TikTok owner ByteDance explores self-designed chips
14:32 - Chip designers warm to U.S. bill despite big benefits to Intel
15:51 - Netflix subscriber count in the US and Canada dropped by 1.3 million over the last three months
16:04 - Netflix adds “extra home” fee, will block usage in other homes if you don’t pay
18:24 - No NFTs in Minecraft, Mojang says
19:20 - Crypto Exchange Zipmex Pauses Withdrawals, Citing 'Circumstances Beyond Our Control’
20:46 - Google, Oracle cloud servers suffer outage in UK heatwave
21:21 - GeForce Now 120fps expands to all Android devices
22:32 - Facebook revamps home feed to feel more like TikTok
23:33 - Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping
25:25 - A company called Meta is suing Meta for naming itself Meta
26:38 - Amazon sues admins from 10,000 Facebook groups over fake reviews
27:41 - Microsoft Teams is getting its own Facebook-like social network
28:59 - Snapchat is coming to the web after more than a decade as a mobile app
29:51 - Overrun by influencers, historic sites are banning TikTok creators in Nepal
31:12 - TikTok resists calls to preserve Ukraine content for war crime investigations
31:49 - Yes, crypto Twitter, the FBI is reading your tweets

#level1show

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The Level1 Show July 26 2022: A Novel Approach to Censorship

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0:00 - Intro
1:11 - FCC chair tries to find out how carriers use phone geolocation data
1:45 - Homeland Security records show 'shocking' use of phone data, ACLU says
3:46 - FCC chair proposes raising broadband standard to 100Mbps
5:16 - Nancy Pelosi's husband buys millions in Nvidia stock before semiconductor vote
6:16 - Zuckerberg and Sandberg to Testify Over Cambridge Analytica
7:10 - House committee vote on stablecoins likely next week
9:18 - Biden administration pushes to close the growing cybersecurity workforce gap
10:38 - Democrats prepare bill that would codify net neutrality
11:56 - Lawmakers push FTC to clean up the VPN industry
13:56 - UK blocks Chinese company from acquiring knowledge on vision sensing technology
15:15 - Government says video game loot boxes will not be regulated
16:14 - Glassdoor ordered to reveal identity of negative reviewers to New Zealand toymaker
17:35 - Twitter Worker Accused of Spying for Saudi Arabia Heads to Trial
19:01 - Court Orders Cloudflare's DNS Resolver 1.1.1.1 to Block Pirate Sites in Italy
19:54 - Google will let European Play Store users pay with alternate billing systems
21:41 - Russia Released a Ukrainian App for Hacking Russia That Was Actually Malware
22:48 - Russia hits Google with fine for 'illegal content'
23:41 - Putin Signs Ban on Crypto Payments in Russia
24:31 - Google complies with Indonesia licensing rules, others risk blocking - ministry
25:30 - Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks
27:13 - A million-word novel got censored before it was even shared. Now Chinese users want answers.
28:54 - India’s central bank wants to ban cryptocurrencies, government says
29:40 - Taiwan accuses Chinese Apple supplier of stealing secrets, charges 14
30:30 - China fines ride-share outfit DiDi $1.2bn for data abuse
31:49 - iPhone sales halted in Colombia, with more bans likely to follow. Here's why
32:42 - Critical flaws in GPS tracker enable “disastrous” and “life-threatening” hacks
33:59 - Hack the pump: Rising prices lead to more reports of gas theft
35:04 - GeckoSpy: Pegasus Spyware Used Against Thailand’s Pro-Democracy Movement
36:15 - US disrupts North Korean hackers that targeted hospitals
37:42 - A New Attack Can Unmask Anonymous Users on Any Major Browser
38:46 - Google Play hides app permissions in favor of developer-written descriptions

#level1show

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Low Power/High Performance Server GRUDGE MATCH! DeskMeet, Ryzen, and Supermicro Micro-Tower Server

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Thank you to Fractal for sponsoring this video! Check out the Meshify 2 RGB here: https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/meshify/meshify-2-rgb/bla…

Well let me tell you something Level1amaniacs, all three machines here are stylin and profilin, but only one can be the CREAM of the CROP!

+ Super Micro Micro-Tower: https://youtu.be/wX5vFN3iIWo
+ DeskMeet: https://youtu.be/kL9k7LHMwYc
+ Home server hardware round-up: https://youtu.be/nWI_1tE88Gk

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It’s Not Delivery, It’s Our Pizza Box Server!

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Mama mia, that's-a spicy server!

New Customers Exclusive – Get $25 off your purchase of any AMD and Intel Processor (limit one per customer): https://micro.center/c553c3

Check out Micro Center’s Custom PC Builder: https://micro.center/5b6b3d

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Shop Supermicro SuperServer: https://micro.center/a1d548

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