Level1 News Patreon Edition: December 16 2019 (Patreon)

Level1 News December 16 2019: Patreon Edition

01:21 - AT&T doesn’t want you to see its slow Internet speed-test results 03:31 - Google Hands Feds 1,500 Phone Locations In Unprecedented ‘Geofence’ Search 06:22 - Google under investigation from NLRB 08:21 - ACLU sues Homeland Security agencies over phone spying practices - CNET 09:51 - NHS gives Amazon free use of health data under Alexa advice deal 12:42 - Italian court orders Facebook to reopen neo-fascist party’s page | The Independent 14:43 - Greeks set to face heavy fines if they don't spend 30 per cent of their income electronically 18:06 - Two of China's largest tech firms are uniting to create a new 'domestic OS' | ZDNet 19:48 - China tells government offices to remove all foreign computer equipment | World news | The Guardian 22:10 - Russian police raid NGINX Moscow office | ZDNet 24:22 - India shuts down internet once again, this time in Assam and Meghalaya | TechCrunch 27:19 - India proposes new rules to access its citizens’ data | TechCrunch 28:32 - Iran's internet freedom is on life support 30:18 - Mozilla to force all add-on devs to use 2FA to prevent supply-chain attacks | ZDNet 31:58 - Iran Banks Burned, Then Customer Accounts Were Exposed Online - The New York Times 34:03 - Genetic database that identified Golden State Killer acquired by crime scene DNA company - The Verge 37:18 - If Logged Into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used For Ads 39:35 - New Plundervolt attack impacts Intel CPUs | ZDNet 41:51 - Apple Used the DMCA to Take Down a Tweet Containing an iPhone Encryption Key - VICE 43:03 - Inside the Podcast that Hacks Ring Camera Owners Live on Air - VICE 48:42 - Apple to Appear at CES Conference in 2020 49:50 - Apple New Mac Pro Desktop Costs $52,000. Without $400 Wheels 52:33 - Apple: Only clean the Pro Display XDR nano-texture screen with our polishing cloth 53:25 - Apple CEO Tim Cook says 'a monopoly by itself isn't bad if not abused' 55:17 - Apple sues iPhone CPU design ace after he quits to run data-center chip upstart Nuvia 58:21 - Intel CEO Wants To Destroy The Thinking About Having 90% Share In CPU Market, Talks 10nm Problems, 7nm Roadmap And More 1:00:32 - AT&T Said Trump Tax Cuts Would Create Thousands Of Jobs. Instead, AT&T's Laying Off Thousands. 1:02:16 - Verizon Media plans to lay off 150 people this week 1:03:32 - Uber loses $1.4 billion in value after reporting thousands of sexual assaults in its rides 1:06:13 - Former Oracle product manager says he was forced out for refusing to deceive customers. Now he's suing the biz 1:08:34 - Lawsuit forces CenturyLink to stop charging “Internet Cost Recovery Fee” 1:10:24 - Less than 10% of Americans are buying $1000+ smartphones 1:11:07 - Samsung has sold 1 million Galaxy Fold smartphones 1:13:09 - Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top 10 'Best Places to Work' List 1:14:43 - Xbox Series X: Microsoft’s next Xbox console for 2020Best Places to Work In the World 2020 List: Top 10 1:16:18 - Nikon Is Killing Its Authorized Repair Program 1:17:35 - Netflix Ordered to Stop Poaching Fox Employees 1:21:00 - Spin's San Francisco staff becomes the first e-scooter workforce to unionize 1:22:59 - E-scooter company Unicorn goes bust after spending big on Facebook ads 1:24:29 - Sony announces plan to publish PlayStation games on non-PS consoles 1:25:59 - Microsoft Teams is the first Office app for LinuxScene changed to browserScene changed to browser 1:29:18 - Facebook Tells US Attorney Bill Barr It’s Not Prepared To Get Rid Of Encryption On WhatsApp And Messenger 1:30:54 - FTC may try to delay Facebook's plan to integrate its apps, Wall Street Journal reports 1:32:29 - Facebook says it will spend $130 million for oversight board, but won’t name members until 2020 1:34:30 - YouTube unveils a stricter harassment policy. Now the company just has to enforce it 1:37:00 - Billboard 200 to Include Official Video Plays From YouTube, Streaming Services 1:39:36 - "Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers, and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media" 1:41:13 - Prosecutors say a man stole $88,000 from a bank vault. The FBI caught him after he flashed stacks of bills on social media 1:43:35 - Cigna Uses AI to Check if Patients Are Taking Their Medications 1:45:48 - Google Assistant can now interpret 44 languages on smartphones 1:46:46 - 3D Printed Village by ICON and New Story in Tabasco, Mexico 1:50:03 - Researchers fooled Chinese facial recognition terminals with just a mask 1:51:22 - Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped 1:52:45 - Pooper Scooper Robot Will Find, Detect And Automatically Pick Up Your Dog’s Poo 1:54:50 - Microsoft reveals new Windows Logo and Microsoft 365 icons 1:56:52 - A social media influencer will serve 14 years in prison after his plot to take over a website at gunpoint backfired 1:58:25 - Scientists Dodge FDA to Offer a $1 Million Anti-Aging Treatment in Colombia