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Level1 News July 31 2018: Fake News, Faker Users Patreon Edition

1:46 - FCC's Ajit Pai Will Not Recuse Himself Into Securus Probe 3:47 - FCC's Ajit Pai Again Refuses to Answer Congress' 'DDoS' Questions 7:32 - Europe fines Asus, Denon Marantz, Philips, Pioneer for fixing prices 9:13 - NY orders Charter out of state, says it must sell Time Warner Cable system 12:10 - Tech firms should be made liable for 'fake news' on sites: UK lawmakers 14:36 - UK snooping 'unlawful for more than decade' - BBC News 17:10 - The MPAA Seeks Stronger Actions to Fight Streaming Video Piracy 19:19 - Senator Asks US Government to Remove Flash From Federal Sites, Computers 20:56 - Massachusetts proposes net neutrality law to call out bad ISPs 22:09 - Massachusetts Senate Passes Resolution to Do In-Depth Study on Right-to-Repair 23:10 - Rep. Don Young's Constituents Criticize His Apparent Net Neutrality Reversal 24:42 - Windows scores a win over Linux as another state decides to switch 27:37 - Court: Native American tribe can't be a "sovereign" shield during patent review 29:41 - Government spends $150,000 to create video game to teach people how to run a business 32:41 - Twitter stock plunges 21% after earnings show effects of fake-account purge 34:37 - Twitter says that it will begin suspending repeatedly abusive Periscope commenters 35:50 - Twitter's cleanup effort continues: It suspended more than 143,000 developer apps in the last quarter 36:44 - Twitter appears to have fixed "shadow ban" of prominent Republicans 38:53 - Facebook bans 'InfoWars' founder Alex Jones for 30 days 41:17 - Facebook Earnings Call Disaster Reminds Investors of Deadly Investing Mistakes 42:42 - Facebook shareholders have drawn up a new proposal to fire Mark Zuckerberg as chairman 44:15 - Facebook signs agreement with Washington state to end discriminatory ad targeting 45:41 - Facebook Forced to Block 20,000 Posts About Snack Food Conspiracy After PepsiCo Sues 47:24 - Facebook's "downvote" system begins rolling out wider in US 51:12 - Tesla asks suppliers for refunds to help it become profitable 54:18 - Tesla troll and short doxxed as heavily invested in oil industry, Musk reportedly calls his boss 56:46 - Microsoft acknowledges price increases coming for Office 2019 and Windows 10 Enterprise users 58:10 - Equifax says it's spent $200m on security since the breach, so everything's OK now 1:00:02 - Qualcomm's $44B NXP acquisition dies as China trade war rages on 1:02:05 - Mozilla executive claims that Google has made YouTube slower on Edge and Firefox 1:04:33 - US airlines change Taiwan reference on websites ahead of Chinese deadline 1:06:47 - Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Apps From the Play Store 1:07:54 - Why is MoviePass down? It temporarily ran out of money 1:09:59 - Someone Uploaded What Look to Be Apple's Internal iPhone Repair Videos 1:11:16 - Apple confirms MacBook Pro thermal throttling, software fix coming today 1:12:16 - Apple's T2 Security Chip May Cause Issues in iMac Pro, MacBook Pro 1:13:30 - Leaked benchmarks show Intel is dropping hyperthreading from i7 chips 1:15:05 - Record-breaking solid state memory stores data at 100 times the density of Blu-ray 1:16:24 - Robots Wielding Water Knives Are the Future of Farming 1:18:08 - Boston Dynamics Is Gearing Up to Produce Thousands of Robot Dogs 1:19:48 - Google is building "virtual agents" to handle call centers' grunt work 1:20:46 - Google cars self-drive to Walmart supermarket in trial 1:23:42 - IBM Watson Reportedly Recommended Cancer Treatments That Were 'Unsafe and Incorrect' 1:25:55 - Windows 10 will try not to reboot when you're just grabbing a cup of coffee 1:27:15 - Amazon's Facial Recognition Wrongly Identifies 28 Lawmakers, A.C.L.U. Says 1:30:43 - 23andMe Is Sharing Its 5 Million Clients' Genetic Data with Drug Giant GlaxoSmithKline 1:33:30 - New NetSpectre Attack Can Steal CPU Secrets via Network Connections