Level1 News - Week of April 8, 2019 (Patreon)

Level1 News April 9 2019: Look Mom, No Hands! For Patrons!

1:50 - FTC gives ISPs green light to block applications as long as they disclose it 3:45 - Pai FCC Tours The Country Promising Better Rural Broadband, But His Policies Routinely Undermine That Goal 6:41 - Gov. Polis is about to sign a Colorado net neutrality bill — one with some serious teeth 7:03 - Elizabeth Warren unveils bill that could hold tech execs responsible for data breaches 9:48 - Former Senate staffer admits to doxxing five senators on Wikipedia 11:24 - Judge orders Fairfax police to stop collecting data from license plate readers 13:14 - DOJ reportedly warns Academy about changing Oscar rules to exclude streaming 15:09 - Feds Urge California To Ban Hands-Free Use Of Cellphones While Driving 17:01 - Unidentified satellites reveal the need for better space tracking 18:23 - Facebook, Google, Twitter to face US lawmakers about tech 'censorship' 20:33 - Social media bosses could be liable for harmful content, leaked UK plan reveals 22:50 - Australia passes social media law penalising platforms for violent content 23:38 - 'Sugar daddy' website owner charged with debauchery in Belgium 26:11 - EU charges Valve and 5 game publishers with unfair 'geo-blocking' 32:27 - French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen 34:54 - By spying on Huawei, U.S. found evidence against the Chinese firm 36:05 - MIT cuts funding ties with Huawei and ZTE citing US investigations 38:01 - People changing jobs too often could be punished by China’s social credit system 40:43 - China is reportedly trialing attention-detecting bands in schools 42:11 - Facebook, rights groups hit out at Singapore's fake news bill 44:51 - Taiwan to block Tencent and Baidu streaming sites on security risk 47:13 - When Putin's around, GPS goes haywire, study finds 48:19 - Ford, GM and Toyota collaborate for self-driving safety rules 51:32 - Google employees are lining up to trash Google’s AI ethics council 52:23 - Exclusive: Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry 54:42 - Researchers trick Tesla Autopilot into steering into oncoming traffic 57:05 - LA County is using an algorithm to clear 50,000 pot convictions faster 58:18 - Machine learning is making pesto even more delicious 1:02:01 - YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Let Toxic Videos Run Rampant 1:04:18 - Tesla stock down more than 8% day after reporting biggest sales drop in its history 1:06:48 - Elon Musk: Self-driving Teslas are going to compete with Uber, Lyft 1:08:29 - Amazon removes special promo spots for private label products 1:09:57 - Amazon’s Project Kuiper aims to offer satellite broadband access 1:12:17 - Amazon hot air balloon Prime Air patent describes stealthy delivery drones 1:14:33 - Amazon Asks Advertisers to Pledge Millions for Roku Rival 1:16:14 - Amazon Cuts More Prices at Whole Foods 1:17:24 - Jeff Bezos keeps the voting power and MacKenzie will keep 25% of the Bezos' Amazon stock 1:19:47 - The nations of the Amazon want the name back 1:22:57 - Verizon begins rolling out its 5G wireless network for smartphones 1:23:28 - The first 5G phone: our hands-on with the future of smartphones 1:25:27 - Goldman’s Trading Floor Is Going Open-Source—Kind of 1:26:57 - Google will require temp workers receive $15 minimum wage and parental leave 1:28:26 - Intel Announces Cascade Lake up to 56 Cores and Optane Persistent Memory DIMMs 1:30:37 - Android TV update puts home-screen ads on multi-thousand-dollar Sony Smart TVs 1:31:31 - Class action lawsuit accuses AT&T of lying to customers about DirecTV Now 1:32:55 - Samsung Profit Drops Most in Four Years as Chip Prices Slump 1:33:31 - Samsung begins mass production of its own 5G chips 1:35:13 - Xbox Game Pass Ultimate: Xbox Live and Xbox Game Pass for $14.99 per month 1:36:30 - Windows 10 will no longer auto install feature updates twice a year 1:37:48 - SanDisk 1TB microSD card up for pre-order now for staggering $450 1:38:54 - Lyft threatens litigation against Morgan Stanley over short-selling 1:40:16 - Millions of Facebook Records Found on Amazon Cloud Servers 1:41:55 - ‘Beyond Sketchy’: Facebook Demanding Some New Users’ Email Passwords 1:43:04 - Internet Archive recovers half a million 'lost' MySpace songs 1:44:03 - Facebook's black markets just keystrokes away, researchers say 1:47:07 - Huawei laptop 'backdoor' flaw raises concerns 1:48:32 - Kaspersky Lab will warn you if your phone is infected with stalkerware 1:50:02 - Hospital viruses: Fake cancerous nodes in CT scans, created by malware, trick radiologists 1:51:40 - Researcher prints 'PWNED!' on hundreds of GPS watches' maps due to unfixed API 1:53:43 - Hacker group has been hijacking DNS traffic on D-Link routers for three months 1:55:41 - Hackers beat university cyber-defences in two hours