Level1 News - Week of June 17, 2019 (Patreon)

Level1 News June 18 2019: Patron Edition

1:57 - Comcast broke law 445,000 times in scheme to inflate bills, judge finds 3:34 - NASA estimates it will need $20 to $30 billion for moon landing, administrator says 4:53 - Suits allege Amazon’s Alexa violates laws by recording children’s voices without consent 8:25 - The long-awaited upgrade to the US weather forecast model is here 10:14 - A Year Later, U.S. Government Websites Are Still Redirecting to Hardcore Porn 12:50 - Ten U.S. states sue to stop Sprint-T-Mobile deal, saying consumers will be hurt 15:01 - Supreme Court to hear Comcast appeal in Byron Allen racial bias suit 18:01 - Google must face lawsuit alleging hiring bias against conservatives, judge rules 20:17 - Maine governor signs bill banning internet providers from selling consumer data without consent 21:20 - Nasa to open International Space Station to tourists 23:23 - Poway Synagogue Shooting: 8chan Served Search Warrant for Alleged Shooter’s Posts, Data on Other Users 24:21 - Texas Can Steal Your Photos Without Paying for 'Takings' 26:36 - Congress to investigate deepfakes as doctored Pelosi video causes stir 28:17 - CERN Ditches Microsoft to 'Take Back Control' with Open Source Software 29:43 - Dawn of the noisy electric car: EU laws requiring audible warning sounds take effect July 1 33:11 - India set to launch second lunar mission; land rover on the moon 33:51 - India plans to have its own space station 34:37 - Draft bill proposes 10-year prison term for dealing in cryptocurrency 36:40 - Huawei scraps laptop launch because of US blacklisting 38:49 - Telegram blames China for cyberattack coinciding with Hong Kong protests 40:27 - Kim Dotcom in final bid to halt extradition 41:50 - Russia Says it Will Soon Begin Blocking Major VPNs 45:19 - AMD Is Working On A Monster 64-Core Threadripper, Landing As Early As Q4 2019 47:17 - Apple Has Capacity to Make All iPhones for U.S. Outside of China 48:25 - LG Elec's 5G phones in doubt as chip deal with Qualcomm set to expire 49:33 - Huawei asks Verizon to pay over $1 billion for over 230 patents: source 50:20 - Huawei will delay Mate X foldable phone launch until September 51:12 - Amazon Lays Off Dozens Of Game Developers During E3 52:49 - FedEx Trims Amazon Ties as Retailer Flexes Delivery Muscles 54:00 - Google promises to play nice with ad blockers (again) 56:35 - SpaceX successfully launched and landed its Falcon 9 rocket on the California coast this morning 57:27 - Tesla says solar roof is on its third iteration, currently installing in 8 states 59:09 - Audi Recalls Its First Electric Car for Battery Fire Risk 1:00:46 - United Technologies, Raytheon To Merge To Create New Aerospace Giant 1:01:44 - IT pro screwed out of unused vacation pay, bonus by HPE after judge rules: The law is a mess but it's still the law 1:03:06 - The next Xbox console is Project Scarlett, launching holiday 2020 1:04:09 - Konami Announces The Turbografx-16 Mini 1:05:40 - Salesforce to buy Tableau Software in an all-stock deal 1:07:21 - India’s largest video streaming service, owned by Disney, breaks Safari compatibility to fix security flaw 1:08:18 - Uber Copter to Offer Helicopter Rides in NYC in July 1:09:29 - Walmart will stock your fridge with groceries while you're not home 1:11:57 - Google Stadia requires $130 upfront, $10 per month at November launch 1:14:08 - Digital marketer Mailchimp bans anti-vaccination content 1:17:34 - Facebook collected device data on 187,000 users using banned snooping app 1:18:23 - Facebook’s new Study app pays adults for data after teen scandal 1:19:36 - Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency, Libra, Gets Big Backers 1:21:53 - Facebook Worries Emails Could Show Zuckerberg Knew of Questionable Privacy Practices 1:23:01 - This Deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg Tests Facebook’s Fake Video Policies 1:24:39 - Jordan Peterson Announces Free Speech Platform ‘Thinkspot' 1:26:43 - OJ Simpson is now on Twitter and says he's 'got a little getting even to do' 1:28:57 - Credit Scores Could Soon Get Even Creepier and More Biased 1:31:40 - Popular Soccer App Spied on Fans Through Phone Microphone to Catch Bars Pirating Game Streams 1:32:57 - 'RAMBleed' Rowhammer attack can now steal data, not just alter it