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The Level1 Show June 26th 2024: X Gonna Bill It To Ya

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0:00 - Intro
0:28 - Microsoft to Lay Off 10,000 Workers as It Looks to Trim Costs
1:08 - Apple discontinuing Apple Pay Later, ahead of new features launching this fall
2:33 - Boeing’s CEO is going to coast into retirement, having never been held to account for the mess he made
3:32 - FAA Investigating How Counterfeit Titanium Got Into Boeing and Airbus Jets
5:16 - More than 1,000 students pledge not to work at Google and Amazon due to Project Nimbus
6:23 - EV Maker Fisker Files for Bankruptcy After Its Glitchy SUV Flops
7:09 - Wells Fargo May Have Underestimated Millennial Bilt Customers
9:33 - Nvidia tops Microsoft as the most valuable public company
9:58 - Apple Suspends Work on Next Vision Pro, Focused on Releasing Cheaper Model in Late 2025
10:33 - Apple Developing Thinner MacBook Pro, Apple Watch, and iPhone
11:07 - Hands-on with Microsoft's Snapdragon-powered Surface Laptop
12:55 - How Asus claims it’s overhauling customer support after Gamers Nexus investigation
13:51 - Flip phone sales are surging as folks seek connection without distraction
14:28 - FCC Approves Mysterious SpaceX Device: Is It for the Starlink Mini Dish?
15:05 - Samsung Texas fab delayed for 2nm upgrade to face-off with TSMC and Intel, according to Korean media
16:16 - Tesla investors sue Elon Musk for diverting carmaker’s resources to xAI
17:25 - Cybertruck buyers say they’ve been told deliveries are paused due windshield wiper problems
17:56 - Sonos draws more customer anger — this time for its privacy policy
18:43 - iOS 18 could 'sherlock' $400M in app revenue
19:20 - iPhone PC emulator block inconsistent and probably illegal
19:51 - Microsoft’s embarrassment over Recall fiasco gets worse as Windows 11 feature becomes the butt of Apple exec’s joke
20:22 - Despite controversy, Recall adds new ‘Screenray’ feature, which analyzes current desktop contents
21:04 - 500,000 Books Have Been Deleted From The Internet Archive’s Lending Library
23:16 - Meta accused of trying to discredit ad researchers
24:24 - Lawsuit: Meta engineer told to resign after calling out sexist hiring practices
26:06 - How small claims court became Meta's customer service hotline
28:09 - Testing new ways to offer viewers more context and information on videos
29:44 - YouTube Is Cracking Down on Cheap Premium Plans Bought With a VPN
31:02 - X Aims to Boost Bottom Line With Payments as Revenues Plunge
31:54 - Tencent ponders banning AI vids hosted by ‘virtual humans’

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The Level1 Show June 25st 2024: Too Much Fed, Not Enough Express

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0:00 - Intro
0:16 - Apple brings ChatGPT to its apps, including Siri
0:53 - Craig Federighi says Apple hopes to add Google Gemini and other AI models to iOS 18
1:15 - Tim Cook is ‘not 100 percent’ sure Apple can stop AI hallucinations
1:50 - Adobe’s new terms of service say it won’t train AI on customers’ work
3:08 - SoftBank’s new AI makes angry customers sound calm on phone
3:56 - The Rise and Fall of BNN Breaking, an AI-Generated News Outlet
5:12 - Survey finds payoff from AI projects is 'dismal'
7:23 - New Stable Diffusion 3 release excels at AI-generated body horror
9:12 - Elon Musk drops lawsuit after OpenAI published his emails
10:20 - OpenAI Bolsters Lobbying Arm Amid Regulatory Pressure
11:08 - What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?
11:43 - Clearview AI Used Your Face. Now You May Get a Stake in the Company.
12:13 - AI Generated Models Star in New Virtual Beauty Pageant
13:04 - Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photo
13:41 - Waymo issues software and mapping recall after robotaxi crashes into a telephone pole
15:06 - Dutch police tests AI-powered autonomous robot dogs for drug raids
15:40 - World’s 1st pediatric robotic brain surgery performed on Oklahoma girl
16:20 - Tesla claims it has 2 Optimus humanoid robots working autonomously in factory
17:52 - SpaceX wants to build 1 Starship megarocket a day with new Starfactory
18:43 - Four Tops star says hospital put him in straitjacket and ordered psychological examination after not believing he was famous singer
19:50 - Conn. town to pay $100K after Kendrick Lamar video shown in class
20:59 - Bike Share Toronto urges riders to 'wipe down seats' if renting bike for naked ride
21:36 - North Dakota sets age limit for US Congressional candidates
22:39 - Pope Francis accused of repeating homophobic slur that prompted Vatican apology
23:02 - MTG Claims Gas Prices Will Be Higher Due To EVs
23:49 - California teacher arrested for DUI, child endangerment to face no charges: "It is not illegal to teach drunk."
25:02 - General election: Count Binface and Elmo return to stand against Sunak and Starmer
26:26 - Prosecutor won't file criminal charges over purchase of $19K lectern by Arkansas governor's office
27:25 - Florida school board bans book about book bans
28:09 - IDF forces use 15th-century weapon against Hezbollah
28:57 - Man named Optimus Prime arrested for car theft in south Austin
30:07 - Unaware she was pregnant, Virginia mom has a 'miracle birth' at Taco Bell
30:30 - 'Thought it was a big nut': Mumbai doctor on finding human finger in ice cream
31:10 - A real nut case: Cold Stone Creamery faces suit over lack of real pistachios in pistachio ice cream
32:09 - Emerging Psychedelic Mushroom Alternative More Toxic Than Fentanyl, New Research Suggests
33:03 - Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries
34:07 - Samyang: Denmark recalls Korean ramen for being too spicy
35:28 - PFAS drinking water rule challenged by utility lobby groups
36:27 - Low-calorie sweetener xylitol linked to heart attack and stroke, study says
37:30 - Researchers plan to retract landmark Alzheimer’s paper containing doctored images
38:09 - Oregon Ridge wildlife habitat mistakenly mowed, fueling outrage
39:02 - Woman mauled to death posted video of her dancing with XL bully to song saying 'I don't 'give a f***' about the breed being banned
39:42 - Pigeon problems: German town votes to have birds killed, outraging animal rights’ activists
40:59 - African elephants address one another with individually specific name-like calls
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The Level1 Show June 21st 2024: Birth Más

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0:00 - Intro
0:16 - Apple brings ChatGPT to its apps, including Siri
0:53 - Craig Federighi says Apple hopes to add Google Gemini and other AI models to iOS 18
1:15 - Tim Cook is ‘not 100 percent’ sure Apple can stop AI hallucinations
1:50 - Adobe’s new terms of service say it won’t train AI on customers’ work
3:08 - SoftBank’s new AI makes angry customers sound calm on phone
3:56 - The Rise and Fall of BNN Breaking, an AI-Generated News Outlet
5:12 - Survey finds payoff from AI projects is 'dismal'
7:23 - New Stable Diffusion 3 release excels at AI-generated body horror
9:12 - Elon Musk drops lawsuit after OpenAI published his emails
10:20 - OpenAI Bolsters Lobbying Arm Amid Regulatory Pressure
11:08 - What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?
11:43 - Clearview AI Used Your Face. Now You May Get a Stake in the Company.
12:13 - AI Generated Models Star in New Virtual Beauty Pageant
13:04 - Photographer Disqualified From AI Image Contest After Winning With Real Photo
13:41 - Waymo issues software and mapping recall after robotaxi crashes into a telephone pole
15:06 - Dutch police tests AI-powered autonomous robot dogs for drug raids
15:40 - World’s 1st pediatric robotic brain surgery performed on Oklahoma girl
16:20 - Tesla claims it has 2 Optimus humanoid robots working autonomously in factory
17:52 - SpaceX wants to build 1 Starship megarocket a day with new Starfactory
18:43 - Four Tops star says hospital put him in straitjacket and ordered psychological examination after not believing he was famous singer
19:50 - Conn. town to pay $100K after Kendrick Lamar video shown in class
20:59 - Bike Share Toronto urges riders to 'wipe down seats' if renting bike for naked ride
21:36 - North Dakota sets age limit for US Congressional candidates
22:39 - Pope Francis accused of repeating homophobic slur that prompted Vatican apology
23:02 - MTG Claims Gas Prices Will Be Higher Due To EVs
23:49 - California teacher arrested for DUI, child endangerment to face no charges: "It is not illegal to teach drunk."
25:02 - General election: Count Binface and Elmo return to stand against Sunak and Starmer
26:26 - Prosecutor won't file criminal charges over purchase of $19K lectern by Arkansas governor's office
27:25 - Florida school board bans book about book bans
28:09 - IDF forces use 15th-century weapon against Hezbollah
28:57 - Man named Optimus Prime arrested for car theft in south Austin
30:07 - Unaware she was pregnant, Virginia mom has a 'miracle birth' at Taco Bell
30:30 - 'Thought it was a big nut': Mumbai doctor on finding human finger in ice cream
31:10 - A real nut case: Cold Stone Creamery faces suit over lack of real pistachios in pistachio ice cream
32:09 - Emerging Psychedelic Mushroom Alternative More Toxic Than Fentanyl, New Research Suggests
33:03 - Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries
34:07 - Samyang: Denmark recalls Korean ramen for being too spicy
35:28 - PFAS drinking water rule challenged by utility lobby groups
36:27 - Low-calorie sweetener xylitol linked to heart attack and stroke, study says
37:30 - Researchers plan to retract landmark Alzheimer’s paper containing doctored images
38:09 - Oregon Ridge wildlife habitat mistakenly mowed, fueling outrage
39:02 - Woman mauled to death posted video of her dancing with XL bully to song saying 'I don't 'give a f***' about the breed being banned
39:42 - Pigeon problems: German town votes to have birds killed, outraging animal rights’ activists
40:59 - African elephants address one another with individually specific name-like calls
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AI and Unified Memory Architecture: Where is it? Is it Long on Promise, Short on Delivery?

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Sit back, relax and enjoy the soothing sounds of Wendell's rambleing. This episode focuses on the MI 300a/x and Nvidia Grace Hopper. Enjoy!

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The Level1 Show June 19th 2024: Cash Rejected Everywhere Around Me

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0:00 - Intro
0:31 - Best Buy is laying off more employees as it reckons with falling sales
2:18 - NYT Union Urges Management Reconsider Cuts to Art Department
2:45 - United Airlines launches personalized ads on seat-back screens
4:03 - Want to pay cash? That’ll cost you extra
5:55 - Germany sees company bankruptcies soar
7:36 - Nvidia takes 88% of the GPU market share, crushing Intel's grasp into nothingness
8:11 - Chipmaker Intel to halt $25-billion Israel plant, news website says
9:13 - Flow claims it can 100x any CPU's power with its companion chip and some elbow grease
10:15 - Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed
11:32 - HP CEO: Printed pages are down 20% since pandemic
12:53 - `Raspberry Pi is now a public company
13:40 - One-Line Patch For Intel Meteor Lake Yields Up To 72% Better Performance, +7% Geo Mean
14:19 - Roku TV owners complain that motion smoothing is stuck ‘on’ after an update
15:38 - Musk, SpaceX sued by former employees alleging harassment, retaliation
16:46 - Apple and OpenAI aren’t paying each other yet, says Bloomberg
19:03 - Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18
19:38 - Google’s abuse of Fitbit continues with web app shutdown
21:23 - Google is ready to fill free streaming TV channels with ads
22:02 - Microsoft postpones Windows Recall after major backlash — will launch Copilot+ PCs without headlining AI feature
23:50 - Mastercard to phase out card entry for e-commerce by 2030 in Europe
24:39 - Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's enormous 309GB download "not representative of a typical player install experience"
25:51 - "Un-contract" customers enraged as T-Mobile unlocks its price-lock with new rate hikes
26:49 - Ancient Rom Site Forced To Remove Sega, Sony, Nintendo Games
27:37 - YouTuber charged over video of helicopter shooting fireworks at Lamborghini
28:29 - YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads
29:30 - YouTube announces new restrictions on gun videos
30:48 - Pew: A growing number of Americans are getting their news from TikTok
32:04 - The word ‘bot’ is increasingly being used as an insult on social media

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The Level1 Show June 17th 2024: A Fine They Can't Refuse

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0:00 - Intro
1:31 - FTC Chair Lina Khan tells TechCrunch the agency is pursuing the 'mob bosses' in Big Tech
2:33 - ISPs ask FCC for tax on Big Tech to fund broadband networks and discounts
3:29 - US sanctions PC cooling and power supply maker DeepCool for selling products to Russia, fueling its war efforts in Ukraine
4:36 - Four more states join US monopoly lawsuit against Apple
5:32 - Yelp can sue reputation company for promising to suppress bad reviews
6:52 - Mobile driver’s licenses are coming to New York state starting June 11th
8:13 - NY’s ‘SAFE For Kids Act’: A Lesson in How Not to Regulate The Internet
9:23 - Utah Suing TikTok, Alleging Live Feature Is a 'Virtual Strip Club'
10:57 - Huge Win for Copyright User Rights in Canada: Federal Court Rules Digital Lock Rules Do Not Trump Fair Dealing
12:23 - EU announces higher tariffs on Chinese EVs as trade tensions sharpen
13:23 - Valve faces $843 million lawsuit in UK for allegedly overcharging 14 million gamers
14:52 - UK education department awards Fujitsu contract uplift
15:59 - There’s an AI Candidate Running for Parliament in the UK
17:44 - 'Flying taxis' to be tested during Paris Olympics
18:26 - Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals
19:06 - Turkish student arrested for using AI to cheat in university exam
20:05 - China Is Testing More Driverless Cars Than Any Other Country
20:54 - Japan law forces third party App Stores on Apple & Google
21:20 - Bangladeshi police agents accused of selling citizens’ personal information on Telegram
21:57 - Apple fined in South Korea for violating location data collection law
23:08 - Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship
24:08 - Brazil hires OpenAI to cut costs of court battles
25:00 - Data broker shuts down product related to driver behavior patterns
26:08 - Your driving could be monitored by popular apps
26:51 - China state hackers infected 20,000 Fortinet VPNs, Dutch spy service says
28:05 - Two arrested over 'text message blaster' smish campaign
28:38 - New York Times source code stolen using exposed GitHub token
29:52 - Malicious VSCode extensions with millions of installs discovered
31:13 - Researcher Finds Vulnerability In Kyber Post-Quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanism (KEM)
32:15 - A disgruntled ex-employee at a Singaporean IT firm caused carnage after deleting over 180 servers
33:01 - Hackers Using OTP bots To Bypass Two-Factor Authentication
33:55 - Facial recognition to be used at British Grand Prix for a second year
34:38 - Workers at TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods wearing body cameras. Here’s what shoppers need to know

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The MS-01 Mini PC with... ** 24 ** hard drives!? Easy Button Disk Shelf

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45HomeLab HL15: https://store.45homelab.com/configure/hl15

Minisforum MS-01: https://s.minisforum.com/Level1techs-MS-01

45drives Homelab HL-15 video: https://youtu.be/Ipkg0qj3qq0

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Deskmini x600 Overview and Review

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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

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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!

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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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