Level1 News January 13 2020: Patron Edition
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0:55 - The FBI has asked Apple to unlock another shooter’s iPhone
3:38 - US finally prohibits ISPs from charging for routers they don’t provide
5:12 - Unpatched US government website gets pwned by pro-Iran script kiddie
6:42 - US Government-funded Android phones come preinstalled with unremovable malware
9:26 - US announces AI software export restrictions
11:39 - FBI Surveillance Vendor Threatens to Sue Tech Reporters for Heinous Crime of Doing Journalism
14:28 - San Diego police facial recognition hasn't been connected to a single arrest
15:11 - New York Is Proposing the Creation of a ‘Public Venmo’
18:00 - NYC internet plan aims to provide all New Yorkers with broadband access
19:06 - Vermont bill would ban cellphone use for anyone under 21
20:41 - NHS gets £40m to cut login times on its IT systems
22:20 - Hong Kong police seize 3,721 cell phones from protesters
23:55 - Toyota will transform a 175-acre site in Japan into a ‘prototype city of the future’
26:24 - Indian Supreme Court finds 150-day Internet blackout in Kashmir illegal
27:32 - Over two dozen encryption experts call on India to rethink changes to its intermediary liability rules
31:09 - Hundreds of millions of cable modems are vulnerablec to new Cable Haunt vulnerability
32:55 - Mozilla says a new Firefox security bug is under active attack
33:51 - Skype audio graded by workers in China with 'no security measures'
35:40 - Unpatched VPN makes Travelex latest victim of “REvil” ransomware
38:18 - Half of the websites using WebAssembly use it for malicious purposes
40:09 - Ring Fired Employees for Watching Customer Videos
43:30 - Verizon will finally sell you TV without a contract
44:46 - Amazon Takes a Swipe at PayPal's $4 Billion Acquisition
46:57 - Amazon Employees Leak Customer Data to Third-Party Agent (Again)
48:13 - Intel's first discrete GPU is built for developers
49:10 - AMD Unveils Ryzen 4000 Mobile Series With Bold Performance Claims, Insane 64-Core Threadripper Beast
50:43 - Thunderbolt 4 arrives in 2020, but USB will remain the king of PC ports
52:01 - Stripteasing Musk launches Tesla SUV program in China
53:59 - Uber stops upfront ride pricing in response to California worker law
54:50 - SpaceX launch: 60 more Starlink satellites launched into space
56:22 - E-scooter startup Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100
57:38 - Amazon sees Alexa devices more than double in just one year
59:21 - Spectrum Kills Home Security Business, Refuses Refunds for Owners of Now-Worthless Equipment
1:01:21 - Disney+ Titles Disappear Without Warning, Bringing Confusion To The Streaming Wars
1:02:31 - Sprint pulls the plug on Virgin Mobile
1:03:37 - Sonos sues Google for allegedly stealing smart speaker tech
1:06:27 - Google legal chief leaving amid sexual misconduct troubles
1:07:41 - Google Chrome to hide notification spam starting February 2020
1:09:02 - Company Says It's Built A Marijuana Breathalyzer, Wants To Roll It Out By The Middle Of This Year
1:11:32 - CWA launches campaign to unionize video game and tech workers
1:14:16 - NextMind is building a real-time brain computer interface, unveils Dev Kit for $399
1:15:44 - Reddit bans impersonation on its platform
1:17:54 - Facebook Is Forcing Its Moderators to Log Every Second of Their Days — Even in the Bathroom
1:19:59 - Facebook’s revised political advertising policy doubles down on division
1:21:08 - Facebook bans deepfake videos in the lead up to the 2020 U.S. election
1:23:22 - A Facebook Bug Exposed Anonymous Admins of Pages
1:25:46 - Twitter will soon let you choose who can reply to your tweets
1:27:54 - Instagram says it's removing posts supporting Soleimani to comply with US sanctions
1:29:23 - Dubai gets its first selfie museum, features 15 themed rooms
1:32:21 - Walmart unveils a robot warehouse to whisk food to your car
1:35:41 - AI-written articles are copyright-protected, rules Chinese court
1:38:00 - Pilotless air taxi from China’s Ehang takes flight in the US for the first time
1:40:43 - Microsoft launches tool to identify child sexual predators in online chat rooms
1:43:53 - SoftBank-backed Zume cuts 360 jobs, closes pizza delivery business
1:44:55 - Warner Bros. Signs Deal for AI-Driven Film Management System
1:47:20 - AI Companies Are Selling Photos of Fake People to Dating Apps and Marketers
1:48:54 - Airbnb Claims Its AI Can Predict Whether Guests Are Psychopaths
1:51:30 - Samsung’s ‘artificial human’ project definitely looks like a digital avatar
1:53:32 - A Japanese virtual companion is being westernized
1:56:03 - The Mechanical Muse
1:58:15 - Cuttlefish perceive depth—and they wore 3D glasses to prove it
2:00:47 - We ate Impossible Foods' pork
2:02:58 - For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity
1:59:45 - Police in Australia are accusing 24 people of deliberately setting bushfires