Level1 Weekly News - March 25, 2019 (Patreon)

Level1 News March 26 2019: Of Fortnite and Fentanyl Patron Edition

1:01 - FCC to Cough Up $43,000 Settlement for Refusing to Turn Over Fake Comment Records 3:12 - Microsoft Says the FCC 'Overstates' Broadband Availability in the US 5:01 - The majority of scooters in LA are going to share your location with the city 6:36 - California reintroduces 'Right to Repair' bill after previous effort failed 8:20 - Pentagon Wants to Test A Space-Based Weapon in 2023 11:14 - Racing Against China, U.S. Reveals Details of $500 Million Supercomputer 12:40 - Nevada considers technology to scan cellphones after crashes 14:15 - Virginia transit officials drove through Elon Musk’s tunnel. They say they’ll stick with railways and roads 16:17 - Google fined nearly $1.7 billion for ad practices that violated European antitrust laws 18:27 - EU citizens being tracked on sensitive government sites 19:55 - Brexit: More Than 3 Million People Demand Cancellation 21:55 - TV piracy ring walks the plank after Euro cops launch 14 raids and shutter 11 data centres 23:33 - Germany urged to champion global treaty to ban 'killer robots' 25:28 - Google bans VPN ads in China 27:22 - Who pressured WHO to put gaming on a par with drug addiction to help silence political dissent? Oh hi there, China 29:49 - Vladimir Putin signs sweeping Internet-censorship bills 31:07 - Uber used secret spyware to try to crush Australian start-up GoCatch 32:43 - Ghana cedis: Google regrets 'glitch' that tanked Ghanaian currency 33:44 - MIT Develops Algorithm to Accelerate Neural Network Evaluation by 200x 37:40 - Safety first: Volvo to add in-car sensors to prevent drunk driving 39:05 - Nvidia’s latest AI software turns rough doodles into realistic landscapes 40:51 - US Military Getting Robotic Exoskeletons To Turn Soldiers Into Superhumans 42:37 - A Robot Leg Learned to Walk by Itself Without Programming, in a Scarily Short Time 46:10 - Dashcam video shows Tesla steering toward lane divider—again 48:00 - Tesla sues former employees for allegedly stealing data, Autopilot source code 49:02 - Elon Musk email to Tesla employees: help with deliveries 50:32 - New York Times CEO warns publishers ahead of Apple news launch 52:23 - Apple quietly announces 10.5-inch iPad Air and refreshed iPad mini 54:32 - Kaspersky Lab Files Antitrust Complaint Against Apple Over App Store Policy 56:08 - Opensignal: AT&T's 5G E falls short of T-Mobile and Verizon 4G speeds 57:32 - AT&T, Comcast say they are making progress in fight against robocalls 59:31 - Cable lobby seeks better reputation by dropping “cable” from its name 1:00:14 - Oracle Swings the Layoff Axe and Clear-cuts Teams of Engineers 1:03:27 - Facebook, Axios And NBC Paid This Guy To Whitewash Wikipedia Pages 1:06:36 - Founder of 8chan expresses regret in wake of New Zealand massacre 1:07:03 - Walmart is reportedly looking into launching its own cloud gaming service 1:08:23 - Google announces Stadia, a new game streaming platform 1:11:28 - So much for RTX: Crytek reveals real-time ray tracing demo for AMD and Nvidia hardware 1:12:59 - Microsoft just booted up the first “DNA drive” for storing data 1:14:19 - Oculus unveils the Rift S, a higher-resolution VR headset with built-in tracking 1:16:20 - NVIDIA's $99 Jetson Nano is an AI computer for DIY enthusiasts 1:18:19 - MoviePass brings back its unlimited movie plan, with a limited time price of $9.95 1:20:58 - Most Bitcoin Trading Faked by Unregulated Exchanges, Study Finds 1:22:53 - Kickstarter’s staff is unionizing 1:24:29 - Lithuanian Pleads Guilty to Stealing $100 Million From Google, Facebook 1:26:09 - Devin Nunes faces an uphill battle in his lawsuit against Twitter 1:28:00 - Facebook Fights for Dismissal of D.C. Privacy Protection Suit 1:30:17 - Facebook to overhaul ad targeting to prevent discrimination 1:32:24 - MySpace reportedly loses 50 million songs uploaded over 12 years 1:34:39 - Instagram to block anti-vaccine hashtags amid misinformation crackdown 1:38:44 - Nokia firmware blunder sent some user data to China 1:39:38 - FEMA shared 2.3 million disaster survivors' personal information with contractor 1:40:37 - 750,000 Medtronic defibrillators are vulnerable to hacking 1:42:16 - Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years 1:43:44 - Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users’ Passwords Exposed Online 1:44:59 - Microsoft ships antivirus for macOS as Windows Defender becomes Microsoft Defender 1:46:03 - Flood of 4K James Bond Leaks Further Point to iTunes Breach 1:47:16 - South Korea spycam: hundreds of motel guests secretly filmed and live-streamed online 1:49:24 - Aluminum producer switches to manual operations after ransomware infection 1:50:23 - Hacked tornado sirens taken offline in two Texas cities ahead of major storm 1:52:16 - New Mirai malware variant targets signage TVs and presentation systems 1:53:36 - PewDiePie fans keep making junk ransomware 1:54:58 - Brand New: New Logo and Identity for Nurx by Koto