Level1 News - Week of June 24, 2019 (Patreon)

Level1 News June 25 2019: Patron Edition

1:13 - Ajit Pai Is Still Withholding Facts About Location-Data Abuse From His Own Commissioners 2:59 - First Amendment doesn’t apply to private platforms, says Supreme Court 5:10 - US Cyber Command powers up attacks against Russia's electrical grid 7:33 - Congress Now Creating A Moral Panic Around Deepfakes In Order To Change CDA 230 8:50 - House lawmakers demand end to warrantless collection of Americans’ data 9:53 - Senator Rubio targets Huawei over patents 11:27 - Google Pledges $1 Billion to Tackle Bay Area Housing Crisis 13:28 - Facebook Cryptocurrency Plan Faces Opposition in France 15:29 - Fortnite makers grilled by MPs over game safety 17:22 - Secretive Magic Leap Says Ex-Engineer Copied Headset for China 19:02 - Samsung auto-email signature accidentally reveals scripted government news story 20:20 - Man who shared New Zealand mosque shooting video gets 21-month sentence 21:44 - Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose desperate working conditions 24:25 - YouTube under federal investigation over allegations it violates children’s privacy 25:26 - YouTube Weighs Major Changes to Kids’ Content Amid FTC Probe 26:04 - Google CEO Sundar Pichai: YouTube is too big to fix 27:13 - Twitch sues troll streamers over violent videos, pornography 30:20 - Bella Thorne hits back at Whoopi Goldberg after 'The View' host blamed her for nude photo hack 34:11 - Facebook’s Calibra is a secret weapon for monetizing its new cryptocurrency 36:56 - Calibra wallet won’t launch in Facebook’s biggest market 37:48 - Rep. Maxine Waters: Facebook should stop work on Libra cryptocurrency 39:00 - Huawei says U.S. ban hurting more than expected, to wipe $30 billion off revenue 39:51 - EA: They’re not loot boxes, they’re “surprise mechanics,” and they’re “quite ethical” 43:55 - AT&T cuts another 1,800 jobs as it finishes fiber-Internet buildout 46:02 - Windows 10 yields more secrets: Microsoft plan to split OS from shell takes shape 46:44 - Apple's first 4 iOS apps for Mac are getting an upgrade. News needs it the most 47:43 - Oracle issues emergency update to patch actively exploited WebLogic flaw 48:35 - Sad SACK: Linux PCs, servers, gadgets may be crashed by 'Ping of Death' network packets 49:34 - Robocalls are overwhelming hospitals and patients, threatening a new kind of health crisis 51:14 - JavaScript tells all, which turns out not to be so great for privacy: Side-channel leaks can be exploited to follow you around the interweb 53:28 - Facebook IDs reveal child abuse victims in US court filings 56:25 - New deepfake algorithm allows you to text-edit the words of a speaker in a video 58:04 - Adobe's experimental AI tool can tell if something's been Photoshopped 1:00:48 - Upgrade your memory with a surgically implanted chip! 1:02:42 - YouTuber Simone Giertz transformed a Tesla Model 3 into a pickup truck 1:05:17 - Robotic dishwasher saves restaurants from drudgery 1:07:20 - Boaty McBoatface makes significant climate change discovery on first mission 1:08:38 - Robotic fish powered by electronic blood can swim for 36 hours 1:10:53 - U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders supports video game workers unions 1:13:50 - China is harvesting organs from detainees, tribunal concludes 1:15:47 - Tim Cook: Tech companies need to take responsibility for the 'chaos' they create 1:17:39 - In tweet, Samsung recommends scanning QLED TVs for viruses 1:19:30 - A Male Student Used Snapchat's Gender Filter To Pose As An Underage Girl Online And Allegedly Caught A Cop 1:21:02 - Squirrel attacks police officers after being fed meth 1:22:34 - Survivor's story: Floating log saved him after Google Maps sea shortcut 1:25:38 - Instagrammers slammed for a GoFundMe for 'celebration of life' trip 1:29:45 - Tifa's Chest Size Reduced in Final Fantasy VII Remake Per Square Enix Ethics Department Request 1:31:34 - Ecstasy Pills Shaped Like Wario Have Been Seized In Japan