Level1 Weekly News - March 18, 2019 (Patreon)

Level1 News March 19 2019: Soviet Michigan Patreon Edition

3:43 - Kamala Harris introduces bill to send millions to local governments for tech support 5:22 - ISPs strike deal with Vermont to suspend state net neutrality law 6:20 - The Intercept Shuts Down Access to Snowden Trove 8:20 - The US Government Will Use Facial Recognition In Top Airports 9:23 - MSP database contains millions of photos of Michigan residents 10:35 - Police officer allegedly used sensitive database for a personal dating service 13:40 - DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System 16:31 - Arizona will go after big tech if necessary, says attorney general 18:17 - EU Expected to Hit Google with Another Massive Antitrust Fine 20:03 - Radio gaga: Techies fear EU directive to stop RF device tinkering will do more harm than good 22:03 - Fearing Cancer From 5G, Portland City Council May Ask FCC to Investigate 24:58 - You will soon be able to pay your subway fare with your face in China 26:28 - America’s Undersea Battle With China for Control of the Global Internet Grid 28:02 - US tells Germany to stop using Huawei equipment or lose intel access 32:08 - Researchers Find Critical Backdoor in Swiss Online Voting System 33:44 - Russia blocks encrypted email provider ProtonMail 34:49 - Updated: Reddit blocked on multiple ISPs and mobile data connections 35:54 - #IMPORTANT NZ police would like to... 40:51 - Samsung Galaxy S10 facial recognition fooled by a video of the phone owner 42:01 - Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading 45:15 - 39% of All Counter-Strike 1.6 Servers Used to Infect Players 47:04 - Nasty WinRAR bug is being actively exploited to install hard-to-detect malware 48:23 - Man arrested for selling one million Netflix, Spotify, Hulu passwords 51:14 - Apple dealt legal blow as jury awards Qualcomm $31 million 53:13 - These hyper-secretive economists are transforming how Amazon does business 55:49 - AT&T Jacks Up TV Prices Again After Merger, Despite Promising That Wouldn’t Happen 57:40 - Amazon Lobbied More Federal Entities Than Any Other Tech Giant in 2018 59:19 - Verizon says 5G network will cost extra $10 a month 1:01:01 - Huawei confirms it has a backup OS in case it's cut off from Android 1:02:14 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Review: Smooth 1080P Gaming For Less 1:03:55 - Steam Link Anywhere will let you stream your PC's games on the go 1:07:00 - Microsoft announces Xbox Live for any iOS or Android game 1:08:06 - HP recalls more laptops for 'fire and burn hazards' 1:10:06 - Consumers and Innovators Win on a Level Playing Field 1:12:12 - QuadrigaCX: Redditor claims exchange used to trade against its customers without assets to back them 1:14:08 - Angry Birds developer seeks backers for its 'Netflix of Games' service 1:17:10 - Smart TVs could get annoying ads just like your web browser does 1:19:22 - Amazon and KIA Team Up for Level 2 EV Battery Home-Charging Stations 1:21:41 - Ikea’s 3D-printed add-ons make its furniture more accessible for people with disabilities 1:24:46 - Tesla Pickup truck: decoding Elon Musk's teaser 1:26:22 - Stanford unveils new AI institute, built to create ‘a better future for all humanity' 1:27:21 - Origami-inspired robot gripper grasps objects up to 120 times its weight 1:29:45 - Facial recognition's 'dirty little secret': Millions of online photos scraped without consent 1:20:58 - Alphabet's AI-powered Chrome extension hides toxic comments 1:32:47 - Meet BookBot: Mountain View library’s newest robot helper 1:34:41 - CoParenter helps divorced parents settle disputes using AI and human mediation 1:38:40 - Robot ‘shark’ that eats plastic waste launched to tackle pollution 1:41:48 - YouTuber arrested after crossing US to threaten Google for deleting channel - turns out it was his wife 1:43:14 - JetBlue Offering Free Flights For A Year If You Delete All Your Instagram Posts 1:47:06 - WhatsApp explores using Google to fight misinformation 1:48:59 - Twitter reveals big changes to conversations and new camera features 1:50:36 - Twitter's Jack Dorsey records podcast with anti-vaccine fitness personality Ben Greenfield 1:53:04 - Reddit bans r/watchpeopledie in the wake of the New Zealand mosque massacres 1:54:41 - Facebook down: Social network struggles to deal with epic outage 1:57:39 - Facebook readies AI tech to combat 'revenge porn'