Patreon News: January 20 2020 (Patreon)

Level1 News January 20 2020: Patron Edition

1:16 - Biden wants to get rid of tech's legal shield Section 230 3:52 - City of Las Vegas said it successfully avoided devastating cyber-attack 4:52 - FBI: Nation-state actors have breached two US municipalities 6:28 - FBI Changes Policy for Notifying States of Election Systems Cyber Breaches 8:43 - Apple responds to AG Barr on phone unlocking: read the full statement here 9:58 - FBI unlocks iPhone 11 Pro Max using Graykey raising privacy concerns 12:06 - The Military Is Building Long-Range Facial Recognition That Works in the Dark 14:15 - FBI arrests man suspected of orchestrating dozens of “swatting” calls 15:54 - The Navy Has Secret Classified Video of an Infamous UFO Incident 17:52 - A broken computer system costs F-35 maintainers 45k hours a year 19:18 - T-Mobile/Sprint urge court for deal approval, states warn of price hikes 21:08 - Supreme Court Declines to Consider Medical Diagnostic Patents 22:46 - Cloudflare is giving away its security tools to US political campaigns 24:23 - PopSockets, Sonos, Tile and Basecamp will ask Congress to help stop big tech bullying on antitrust 26:19 - EU mulls 5-year ban on facial recognition tech in public spaces 28:16 - As Apple plots to drop iPhone ports, Europe plans law to give all phones same charger 29:51 - Mobile phones cause tumours, Italian court rules, in defiance of evidence 31:17 - Amazon’s fresh $1B investment in India is not a big favor, says India trade minister 33:27 - Cut Undersea Cable Plunges Yemen Into Days-Long Internet Outage 34:53 - Jack Dorsey says we’ll “probably” never get to edit tweets 36:35 - Facebook says technical error caused vulgar translation of Chinese leader's name 39:32 - Alphabet stock hits $1 trillion market cap for first time 40:42 - Comcast settles lying allegations, will issue refunds and cancel debts 42:41 - Apple’s latest AI acquisition leaves some Wyze cameras without people detection 44:07 - Amazon to ask court to block DoD's $10bn early Valentine's date with a Microsoft JEDI 45:57 - Audible settles copyright lawsuit with publishers over audiobook captions 48:23 - Verizon Media launches OneSearch, a privacy-focused search engine 51:10 - Annual global PC shipments grow for the first time in 8 years 51:49 - The Boring Company's Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done 53:30 - Elon Musk shows how Teslas will talk to pedestrians 55:35 - Bing loses out to DuckDuckGo in Google’s new Android search engine ballot 57:14 - US patents hit record 333,530 granted in 2019; IBM, Samsung (not the FAANGs) lead the pack 58:29 - Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens: It’s the Real Deal 1:01:24 - Visa is acquiring Plaid for $5.3 billion, 2x its final private valuation 1:03:22 - Microsoft pledges to be carbon negative by 2030 and re-capture all of its past emissions 1:04:33 - Spencer Dinwiddie Could Decentralize Pro Sports – If Accredited Investors Want In 1:06:24 - It actually happened — Akon just founded his own crypto city in Africa 1:10:31 - Google Stadia promises more than 120 games in 2020, including 10 exclusives 1:12:26 - Toyota Kinto combines leasing, car sharing and other services in Europe 1:14:12 - 16 Top Programming Skills Show Focusing on Data is Key for Jobs 1:16:03 - NBC's New Peacock Streaming Service Is Just One Big Ad-Injection Machine 1:19:11 - Best Buy CEO Corie Barry being investigating for alleged misconduct 1:20:02 - The Evil List: Which tech companies are doing the most harm? 1:26:14 - A hacker is patching Citrix servers to maintain exclusive access 1:27:42 - Oracle Ties Previous All-Time Patch High with January Updates 1:28:47 - This App Lets Us See Everywhere People Drive 1:30:49 - Data Science Community Rocked by Pet Adoption Contest Cheating Scandal 1:32:47 - Cookies track you across the internet. Google wants to phase them out. 1:34:21 - Google to phase out user-agent strings in Chrome 1:36:10 - Google can view millions of patient health records in most states 1:37:17 - Exploit Fully Breaks SHA-1, Lowers the Attack Bar 1:38:26 - Records on Clearview AI reveal new info on police use 1:40:22 - U.S. Army to award contracts to QinetiQ-NA and Textron for robotic combat vehicles 1:42:30 - Scientists use stem cells from frogs to build first living robots 1:44:56 - Machine keeps human livers alive for one week outside of the body 1:47:23 - How Google researchers used neural networks to make weather forecasts 1:49:23 - Amazon taps AI to discover why customers buy seemingly irrelevant products 1:51:09 - Toshiba Touts Algorithm That’s Faster Than a Supercomputer 1:52:10 - Coral is Google’s quiet initiative to enable AI without the cloud 1:54:16 - 'Smile with your eyes': How to beat South Korea's AI hiring bots and land a job 1:56:42 - SpaceX moon passenger Yusaku Maezawa has 27,000 applicants for girlfriend to take along 1:58:56 - Mighty Mice In Space May Help Disabled People On Earth