Level1 News - Week of April 15, 2019 (Patreon)

Level1 News April 16 2019: Wikilocked Up Patron Edition

0:50 - Trump puts kibosh on nationalized 5G network 4:34 - Democrats’ net neutrality bill passes House 5:30 - Big Tech Lobbying Gutted a Bill That Would Ban Recording You Without Consent 7:50 - Senators Introduce Bill That Would Ban Websites From Using Manipulative Consent Forms 10:36 - A new bill would force companies to check their algorithms for bias 13:39 - YouTube Disables Comments On Livestreams Of Congressional Hearing On White Nationalism Because They Were Too Hateful 15:16 - Speaker Nancy Pelosi to appear on Kara Swisher Recode Decode podcast 17:21 - Google Helps Government Conduct Warrantless Searches, Alleges EPIC 19:45 - Hackers publish personal data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents 21:19 - Chicago is Tracking Kids With GPS Monitors That Can Call and Record Them Without Consent 23:47 - Much to Oracle’s chagrin, Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B JEDI cloud contract finalists 26:31 - Andrew Yang Plans to Use 3D Hologram for Remote Campaigning 28:40 - Silk Road 2 Founder Dread Pirate Roberts 2 Caught, Jailed for 5 Years 30:36 - US firm wins Oz-backed bid to block Huawei from subsea Pacific cables 31:38 - Julian Assange faces US extradition after arrest at Ecuadorian embassy 34:59 - Swedish man jailed in Ecuador over alleged WikiLeaks involvement 36:09 - Investigatory Powers Bill: Politicians exempt themselves from new wide-ranging spying laws 38:52 - Europe to pilot AI ethics rules, calls for participants 40:54 - UK investigates Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony over game service practices 42:00 - EU data supervisor probes EU bodies' software deals with Microsoft 42:51 - Israel's Beresheet Probe Crashes on the Moon 43:50 - If you're wearing earbuds but your phone is dead, is it still distracted driving? B.C. court says yes 45:20 - Apple investigated in the Netherlands over favoring its own apps 46:18 - Chinese scientists have put human brain genes in monkeys—and yes, they may be smarter 48:59 - Microsoft worked with Chinese military university on AI 50:22 - Apple Music Censors Songs in China Referencing 1989 Tiananmen Massacre and Democracy, Watchdog Says 51:12 - Facebook to use AI to respect the dead 52:46 - Facebook is using AI to map population density around the world 54:26 - Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's privacy commissioner 55:45 - Facebook spent $22.6m to keep Mark Zuckerberg safe last year 57:52 - Facebook investors launch desperate bid to oust Mark Zuckerberg 59:09 - Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were down for more than two hours 1:00:34 - Jeff Bezos Just Confirmed Amazon’s Growth Is Slowing 1:02:10 - 'How about paying your taxes?': Walmart responds to Amazon's challenge over pay 1:03:51 - Amazon Shareholders Set to Vote on a Proposal to Ban Sales of Facial Recognition Tech to Governments 1:05:00 - Under pressure, Amazon plans to accept cash at cashierless 'Go' stores 1:07:03 - Is Anyone Listening to You on Alexa? A Global Team Reviews Audio 1:10:19 - Disney Plus: Pricing and Launch Date Announced 1:11:31 - Yahoo tries again to settle lawsuit over massive data breach. This time it offers $118 million 1:12:41 - Facebook includes weird messages inside Oculus Touch controllers 1:15:03 - To Answer Critics, YouTube Tries a New Metric: Responsibility 1:16:42 - YouTube TV costs $50 per month after another price hike 1:18:06 - SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launches first paid mission and lands all three boosters 1:19:07 - Tesla, Panasonic modify expansion plans for gigafactory 1:20:15 - Tesla’s original plan for the $35,000 Model 3 is dead 1:21:51 - Black hole picture captured for first time in space breakthrough 1:27:25 - China’s largest stock photo provider draws fire over use of black hole image 1:29:59 - Sony creates colossal 16K screen in Japan 1:30:49 - Friends trick sleeping man, rob him using his phone's face unlock 1:32:12 - How to Stop Amazon From Listening to Your Alexa Recordings 1:33:10 - Chrome, Safari and Opera criticised for removing privacy setting 1:34:32 - Dragonblood vulnerabilities disclosed in WiFi WPA3 standard 1:35:48 - Mysterious safety-tampering malware infects a second critical infrastructure site 1:37:08 - Two out of three hotels accidentally leak guests' personal data: Symantec 1:38:23 - Google Chrome engineers want to block some HTTP file downloads 1:39:20 - SAS 2019: Exodus Spyware Found Targeting Apple iOS Users 1:40:54 - Samsung’s Galaxy S10 fingerprint sensor fooled by 3D printed fingerprint 1:42:27 - Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk 1:44:10 - Walmart to add robots to US stores 1:46:45 - A robot has figured out how to use tools 1:49:11 - Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars 1:51:02 - Google’s Wing drones approved to make public deliveries in Australia