Level1 News Patron Edition: 2/17/20 (Patreon)

Level1 News February 17 2020: Patreon Edition

https://www.one-tab.com/page/QeFFq3-rT8mBI9BfDR7W4g https://www.one-tab.com/page/94_eyHRlTN-Aw5-niZc3UA https://www.one-tab.com/page/DXtpLnhkRCuNS54WnCjISw 1:18 - The US is charging Huawei with racketeering 3:14 - How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades 6:22 - FBI is investigating more than 1,000 cases of Chinese theft of US technology 8:40 - Justice Dept. charges four Chinese military hackers over the Equifax data breach 10:24 - A new Senate bill would create a US data protection agency 11:49 - Amazon gets restraining order to block Microsoft work on Pentagon JEDI 13:30 - FTC will examine history of Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft mergers 15:10 - Apple liable for millions in unpaid wages after court rules retail worker bag checks illegal 19:08 - The court’s decision to allow T-Mobile and Sprint to merge is clear: Sprint sucks 21:01 - YouTube removes video of Rand Paul reading alleged whistleblower's name on Senate floor 23:15 - Man who refused to decrypt hard drives is free after four years in jail 25:53 - Trump signs order to test U.S. infrastructure's vulnerability to GPS outage 27:36 - Nevada Democrats to use iPads loaded with Google Forms to track caucus 28:41 - Ohio man arrested for running Bitcoin mixing service that laundered $300 million 30:49 - California Introduces Law to Stop Delivery Apps Screwing Over Restaurants 31:54 - Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings 32:44 - Google protests 'eye-catching' $2.6 billion EU fine, judge disagrees 34:47 - South Korea's government explores move from Windows to Linux desktop 36:11 - North Korea’s Internet Use Surges, Thwarting Sanctions and Fueling Theft 37:37 - Data Protection Authority Investigates Avast for Selling Users’ Browsing History 39:19 - Facebook accidentally blacked out an entire language 40:55 - WhatsApp hits 2 billion users, up from 1.5 billion 2 years ago 42:20 - Facebook says political candidates can use paid memes 44:35 - Twitter Accidentally Promoted A Fake Organ Ring 47:46 - Qualcomm makes case to appeals court that it didn't hurt competition 49:21 - The price of a .com domain is set to rise, and some sellers aren't happy 50:27 - Apple Pay on pace to account for 10% of global card transactions 52:16 - Nvidia’s GeForce Now is losing all Activision Blizzard games, a bad sign for cloud gaming 54:03 - Netflix Loses Bid to Dismiss $25 Million Lawsuit Over 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' 56:33 - Streaming accounts for nearly one-fifth of total US TV watching, according to Nielsen 59:34 - Samsung announces Galaxy Z Flip with the world's first foldable glass display 1:02:29 - Microsoft flirts with new anti-trust challenge with new Start Menu-based Edge ads 1:03:54 - Microsoft promises Windows 10X updates will take ‘less than 90 seconds’ 1:05:37 - IBM picks Slack over Microsoft Teams for its 350,000 employees 1:07:39 - Yahoo and Tumblr lost 33% of their web traffic in the past several years 1:08:58 - The first crewed SpaceX flight could happen around May 7th 1:10:19 - In Amazon’s Bookstore, No Second Chances for the Third Reich 1:13:12 - Inside Google's Efforts to Engineer Its Food for Healthiness 1:16:13 - Amazon Axes Delivery Partners in U.S.; Hundreds of Jobs Cut 1:18:10 - Steam: Virtual reality’s biggest-ever jump in users happened last month 1:20:19 - Tesla owner says remotely disabled Autopilot features have been restored 1:21:46 - Robot Analysts Outwit Humans in Study of Profit From Stock Calls 1:23:27 - This App Automatically Cancels and Sues Robocallers 1:25:10 - Aftermarket Self-Driving Tech vs. Tesla Auto­pilot, Cadillac Super Cruise 1:28:16 - FIFA experiments with AI for more accurate offside calls 1:29:49 - A new implant for blind people jacks directly into the brain 1:32:59 - White House Earmarks New Money for A.I. and Quantum Computing 1:34:56 - Software that swaps out words can now fool the AI behind Alexa and Siri 1:36:18 - Robot assisted microsurgery passes human clinical trial 1:37:56 - US Army to use gamers’ brain waves to train military robot swarms 1:40:10 - Couple on coronavirus ship get wine delivered by drone to their cabin 1:43:57 - MIT researchers disclose vulnerabilities in Voatz mobile voting election app 1:46:35 - Apple’s Mac computers now outpace Windows in malware and virus 1:50:01 - How Big Companies Spy on Your Emails 1:51:17 - 500 Chrome extensions secretly uploaded private data from millions of users 1:52:41 - Report: An old Android virus is reinstalling itself even after factory resets 1:54:17 - One of the most destructive botnets can now spread to nearby Wi-Fi networks 1:56:02 - Israeli Voters: Data of All 6.5 Million Voters Leaked 1:57:03 - Software error exposes the ID numbers for 1.26 million Danish citizens 1:58:39 - Plastic surgery images and invoices leak from unsecured database 1:59:51 - Activate This ‘Bracelet of Silence,’ and Alexa Can’t Eavesdrop