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The Level1 Show July 19 2022: Amazon the Snitch

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0:00 - Intro
1:40 - FTC warns tech companies against misusing health data, following Biden's executive order protecting abortion access
2:27 - L3Harris in move to buy NSO Group
4:25 - FCC cracks down on spam "auto warranty" robocalls
6:06 - Man set up fake ISP to scam low-income people seeking gov’t discounts, FCC says
7:39 - Ex-CIA engineer convicted in massive theft of secret info
9:17 - SEC letter to Musk questions tweet about Twitter acquisition
10:49 - Section 230 doesn’t stop Omegle sexual abuse lawsuit, says court
12:42 - UFO Whistleblowers Would Get Immunity Under New Amendment
13:57 - EU antitrust regulators probing tech group AOM's video licensing policy
15:07 - Amazon offers to limit use of merchant data in bid to settle EU antitrust probe
16:35 - EU lawmakers slam “radical proposal“ to let ISPs demand new fees from websites
18:19 - UK’s Online Safety Bill on pause pending new PM
19:43 - Myanmar's junta rolls out Chinese camera surveillance systems in more cities
21:14 - India proposes right to repair framework for mobile phones, consumer durables
22:41 - G20 watchdog to propose first global crypto rules in October
23:23 - Binance served crypto traders in Iran despite U.S. sanctions, clients say
24:39 - Sri Lanka central bank warns against use of cryptocurrency amid economic crisis
26:47 - Some Beijing travelers asked to wear COVID monitoring bracelets, sparking outcry
27:57 - New working speculative execution attack sends Intel and AMD scrambling
29:12 - X.Org Server Hit By New Local Privilege Escalation, Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
30:03 - Lenovo Patches UEFI Code Execution Vulnerability Affecting Many Laptops
31:00 - I Tried the Honda Key Fob Hack on My Own Car. It Totally Worked
33:09 - New York judge freezes assets of Three Arrows Capital
34:22 - Microsoft Office VBA macro block still going ahead soon
35:21 - Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do
37:45 - China's Suspected IP Thieves Targeted by Startup- Strider Technologies
39:59 - Shocking Study Reveals Most Government Websites Serve Tracking Cookies Without Consent
41:27 - CEO Arrested for Selling $1 Billion in Fake Cisco Hardware on Amazon, eBay
42:57 - Elden Ring gaming giant Bandai Namco says hackers may have stolen customer data
44:11 - Amazon Admits Giving Police Ring Footage Without Consent

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SuperMicro M12SWA-TF and Threadripper!

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AMD Threadripper 5000 is here! Kind of... But the WRX 80 motherboards are here at least... after waiting for over a year for the last gen that never showed... Oh well! We have the Supermicro M12SWA-TF now to go with our Threadripper 3000 while we wait for the Threadripper 5000.
Lots of numbers in this description...
The Motherboard:
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/M12SWA-TF

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Cheat Codes for Breaking Device Limits in Your Home Lab (not for work)

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Wendell lays out some tricks for making the most out of your home lab machine using PCI-e! You won't have to go up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, back, or around for to maximize your home lab performance!

Some of the products in this vid:
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Level1 Last Week in Tech Friday July 15 2022: Infidelity So Nice It Produces Twice

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0:00 - Intro
1:12 - US Army buys Penguin drone, Bayraktar’s Latvian lookalike
2:45 - AI-powered technology will be used to speed up VAR offside calls at World Cup
4:18 - Meet ReachBot, a robot designed to explore Martian caves
6:19 - Cloned mice created from freeze dried skin cells in world first
8:20 - Steve Jobs awarded posthumous Medal of Freedom by President Biden
8:58 - Cinemas Ban Groups Watching 'Minions: The Rise of Gru' in Formal Attire
11:59 - Objective Reality May Not Exist, Scientists Say
13:17 - Uvalde school shooting report: Officer sought permission to shoot gunman before he entered school but didn't hear back in time
14:35 - Free noodles offered as Japan wrestles with low youth turnout for elections
16:51 - Wavy, inflatable tube people set up in Rockhampton Botanic Gardens to deter flying fox population
18:36 - Authorities arrest organizers of ‘Helwan Real Batman Battle’
19:22 - Call to tighten New Zealand law that allows public pooing if no one watching
22:01 - Channel 10’s new breakfast show records 44 Sydney viewers in dismal debut
23:34 - Beck wishes he had let "Weird Al" Yankovic parody "Loser"
24:27 - Hikers from Texas rescued on Colorado trail, officials say
25:26 - Nigerian couple charged with plotting to get child to UK to harvest organs
26:26 - Germany’s largest landlord to restrict heating at night
30:23 - Elon Musk reacts to report he had secret twins with Neuralink exec weeks before baby with Grimes

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Level1 News July 13 2022: Bezos vs. Bluegrass

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0:00 - Intro
0:32 - Gartner foresees steep drop in global PC shipments
1:41 - This ad company subsidiary is teaming up with US carriers to take over your lock screen
3:21 - Video game industry not 'recession proof,' sales set to fall in 2022
5:28 - Apple reportedly plans to launch an ‘extreme sports’ Apple Watch with a larger screen and metal casing
7:23 - West megadrought intersects with data center water use
9:01 - Smart contact lens prototype puts a Micro LED display on top of the eye
10:07 - The First RISC-V Laptop Announced With Quad-Core CPU, 16GB RAM, Linux Support
11:18 - Workers in Campbellsville, Ky. look to join Amazon Labor Union
12:04 - Amazon bars off-duty warehouse workers from its buildings
13:13 - Disney could soon lose exclusive rights to Mickey Mouse
15:30 - Toyota will be the third automaker to lose the EV tax credit in the US
16:30 - No bids on Chevy’s first NFT, even though it came with a free Corvette Z06
17:53 - Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming looks worse on Linux than Windows
19:43 - Crypto broker Voyager Digital files for bankruptcy
20:02 - Uprise lost 99% of client funds while shorting LUNA during its price crash
20:31 - Crypto platform Vauld suspends withdrawals, trading and deposits amid financial challenges
21:33 - Ubisoft to shut down multiplayer for older games, including Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
22:48 - Google to pay $90 mln to settle legal fight with app developers
24:16 - PlayStation Store will remove customers' purchased movies
25:54 - U.S. FTC settles with Weber grills over 'right to repair'
27:56 - Facebook Gave Deleted User Data to Law Enforcement, Lawsuit Claims
30:03 - Meta is dumping Facebook logins as its metaverse ID system
31:40 - Europe faces Facebook blackout
34:32 - Reddit dives into NFTs with new Collectible Avatars
36:45 - TikTok Confirms That Some China-Based Employees Can Access US User Data
37:20 - An FCC regulator wants TikTok removed from app stores. Here's how a company executive responded
39:02 - Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition is reportedly in ‘serious jeopardy’ over spam

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Level1 News July 12 2022: See Sam, See Sam Invade Your Privacy

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0:00 - Intro
1:10 - UK could force E2E encrypted platforms to do CSAM-scanning
2:40 - Japan introduces jail time, tougher penalties for online insults
3:45 - ‘Asleep at the wheel’: Canada police’s spyware admission raises alarm
4:53 - Japanese court ruling poised to make Big Tech open up on algorithms
6:19 - China: MI5 and FBI heads warn of ‘immense’ threat
8:24 - What to know about the EU's big new laws regulating big tech
9:16 - Amazon being investigated in UK for practices which may give customers 'worse deal'
11:05 - British army Twitter and YouTube accounts compromised to promote crypto scams
12:11 - Broadest US Pirate Site Injunction Rewritten/Tamed By Cloudflare
13:18 - Microsoft Activision takeover faces competition probe in the UK
14:24 - Twitter, challenging block orders, sues India’s government
15:59 - RPT-COLUMN-U.S. forms 'friendly' coalition to secure critical minerals
17:38 - DOJ Files Charges Against Baller Ape Club ‘Rug Pull’
19:34 - Amazon agrees to drop Prime cancellation ‘dark patterns’ in Europe
21:15 - ICBM test rocket explodes seconds after launch
23:18 - FCC gets 90,000+ comments from Starlink users protesting Dish mobile service
26:06 - This Is the Code the FBI Used to Wiretap the World
28:18 - Apple's iPhone "lockdown" mode protects potential hacking targets
29:39 - How a fake job offer took down the world’s most popular crypto game
30:46 - Hotel giant Marriott confirms yet another data breach
31:55 - NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms
33:00 - Hacker claims to have stolen data of 1bn Chinese from police
34:00 - Microsoft finds Raspberry Robin worm in hundreds of Windows networks
34:52 - Texts, web searches about abortion have been used to prosecute women
36:36 - AirTag tracking experience shared by actress at Disneyland

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Home Server Hardware Round-Up

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Missed all of our other videos about home servers? No worries, this video will give you a nice taste of all the hardware! But uh, maybe go watch the other videos too yeah?

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Level1 News July 8 2022: Star Wars: The Rise of the Maintenance Budget

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0:00 - Intro
0:51 - Artificial intelligence could spot baby chickens in distress
2:23 - CAPSTONE Launches to Test New Orbit for NASA’s Artemis Moon Missions
3:10 - Inside DALL-E Mini, the Internet’s Favorite Artificial Intelligence Meme Machine
4:09 - Brain-machine interface helped a man with paralysis feed himself using robotic arms
4:46 - Copilot, GitHub’s AI-powered programming assistant, is now generally available
5:18 - New algorithm can predict future crime a week in advance, with 90% accuracy
6:08 - Rock samples from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover contain key ingredient for life
7:02 - Unexpected solar weather is causing satellites to plummet from orbit
7:59 - UK decides AI still cannot patent inventions
9:00 - China ponders nuclear-powered 2030 mission to Neptune
9:49 - China aims to bring Mars samples to Earth 2 years before NASA, ESA mission
10:57 - Single brain scan can diagnose Alzheimer’s disease | Imperial News
11:48 - The Mars Express spacecraft is finally getting a Windows 98 upgrade
12:27 - Gmail’s redesigned interface including Chat and Meet is now the new default
13:44 - MIT proposes Brazil-sized fleet of “space bubbles” to cool the Earth
15:35 - Disneyland guest reportedly evacuated from Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance 3 times
17:00 - A Gaming Night at the Museum
18:29 - Uvalde mother says police are harassing her after she saved kids from shooting
19:54 - This Bored Ape NFT Crypto Restaurant Has Stopped Accepting Crypto
20:43 - Warhammer 40k needs sensitivity readers say fans in open letter
22:14 - Rich New Yorkers Getting PAE Surgery to Avoid 'Hamptons Bladder'
23:44 - Logan Paul signs with WWE
24:49 - 109 live animals found in women's luggage in massive airport wildlife trafficking bust
25:59 - Tesla employees had no place to sit, no parking slots when they returned to office
27:18 - Mystery while Canadian radio station plays Rage Against the Machine song nonstop
27:52 - Girl after sister’s death: I would have killed sooner if I knew I’d get McDonald’s
30:07 - 'Mystery rocket' that crashed into the Moon baffles NASA scientists
31:06 - Kiss thank Austrian fans by showing Australian flag
32:07 - Pope Francis tells mums to stop ironing son's shirts and urge them to get married
33:09 - Analysts accuse Bed Bath & Beyond of scaling back AC in stores to save money as sales plummet
34:01 - New Jersey Man Convicted of Several Child Pornography Charges after Throwing Electronic Devices into Bay
35:25 - Sleepy Somerset Villages In Fear As Latex Clad Pervert "Gimp Man" Returns To Ambush Couple
36:50 - AirPods swallowed by UK TV presenter in vitamin mixup
38:06 - Prince Charles denies any wrongdoing over bags-of-cash claim

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Level1 News July 6 2022: You Gotta Fight (AirBnB) For Your Right To Party

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0:00 - Intro
0:47 - Apple lets apps in South Korea use third-party payment systems
1:52 - Apple’s new Community Plus program recognizes its most helpful online support members
2:53 - Base 13-Inch MacBook Pro With M2 Chip Has Significantly Slower SSD Speeds
4:22 - Apple Executive Says Samsung Copied the iPhone and Simply 'Put a Bigger Screen Around It'
4:55 - AMD Ryzen PC Revenue To Decline By 26% In 2022 Due To The Success of Intel's 12th Gen CPUs, Reports Market Analyst
5:40 - TSMC sees clients scale back orders
6:36 - Sources: Unity Laying Off Hundreds Of Staffers
6:45 - Substack Is Laying Off 14% of Its Staff
6:51 - European Crypto Exchange Bitpanda Cuts Staff by Hundreds
8:17 - TSMC to Customers: It's Time to Stop Using Older Nodes and Move to 28nm
9:31 - TSMC may surpass Intel in quarterly revenue for first time
10:21 - Buyout Begone: Ford Says You Can Never Own Leased EVs
11:50 - Airbnb makes its party ban permanent
13:02 - Couple bought home in Seattle, then learned Comcast Internet would cost $27,000
16:50 - Google makes Earth Engine available to all businesses and governments
17:57 - Scoop: Google moves to keep campaign messages out of spam
19:13 - Bored Apes creator sues conceptual artist for copying its NFTs
21:02 - Robinhood almost imploded during the GameStop meme stock chaos
21:28 - FTX exploring a deal to buy Robinhood: Bloomberg report
21:41 - Three Arrows Capital crypto hedge fund defaults on Voyager loan
21:50 - Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Gets Liquidation Order
22:10 - Goldman Sachs Leading Investor Group to Buy Celsius Assets: Sources
22:38 - Bank for International Settlements to allow banks to keep 1% of reserves in Bitcoin
23:18 - IBM settles discrimination case that targeted exec emails
24:08 - ‘It keeps on going’: driving the world’s first production-ready solar car
27:31 - Bungie slaps YouTube takedown impersonator with $7.6M lawsuit
28:45 - Meta sparks anger by charging for VR apps
30:24 - Facebook is bombarding cancer patients with ads for unproven treatments
31:27 - DiCello Levitt Gutzler: Facebook Users May Be Eligible for a Payment From a Class Action Settlement
32:49 - Former Ankara mayor ridiculed for believing tweet on discovery of jelly bean reserves in Turkey
33:56 - TikTok can’t stop users from doxxing the Supreme Court
35:03 - Indian government censors tweets critical of Indian internet censorship
36:03 - Meta warns employees of ‘serious times’ in internal memo listing key product bets
37:50 - Did China silence a social media influencer over a tank-shaped ice cream?

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Level1 News July 5 2022: Tik Tok, On the Clock, From the App Stores It Must Drop

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0:00 - Intro
1:32 - Police sweep Google searches to find suspects. The tactic is facing its first legal challenge.
3:56 - California's online kids bill could end internet anonymity
5:16 - Supreme Court rejects Apple’s bid to continue fighting over two Qualcomm patents
6:53 - Bitcoin is the only coin the SEC Chair will call a commodity
7:46 - Factbox-The SEC's response to the 'meme stock' rally
9:14 - Senator posts cryptocurrency bill on GitHub, chaos ensues
10:05 - The FCC authorizes SpaceX’s Starlink system to be used on vehicles in motion
10:55 - FCC commissioner tells Apple, Google to remove TikTok from app stores
12:13 - Company behind Trump’s Truth Social now under investigation by federal prosecutors
12:55 - Tesla virtual power plant pays Powerwall owners to help end brownouts
15:08 - Russian parliament approves tax break for issuers of digital assets
15:46 - China's expanding surveillance allows state to tighten grip
17:31 - A pro-China online influence campaign is targeting the rare-earths industry
18:50 - India delays VPN rules to log customers data by 3 months
19:36 - Brazil is also considering making USB-C chargers mandatory for iPhones
20:31 - RansomHouse extortion group claims AMD as its latest victim
21:25 - California Gun Owners Data Exposed by State Justice Dept
22:15 - Kim Dotcom Not Happy, Says 'Mega Mass Piracy Report' is On the Way
24:35 - A wide range of routers are under attack by new, unusually sophisticated malware
25:52 - Firefox can now automatically remove tracking from URLs
27:06 - Employee gave OpenSea email addresses to 'unauthorized' party
27:56 - Hackers can now bring cargo ships and planes to a grinding halt
29:24 - People Are Using Deepfakes to Apply to Remote Jobs, FBI Says
31:10 - Google warns internet service providers helped distribute Hermit spyware
32:49 - T-Mobile has started selling your app data to advertisers
33:40 - Valorant will start listening to your voice chat in July
34:58 - Google launches Advanced API Security to protect APIs from growing threats
36:21 - Cryptocurrency Titan Coinbase Providing “Geo Tracking Data” to ICE

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