Level1 News August 31 2020: Patron Edition (Patreon)

Level1 News August 31 2020: Patron Edition

https://www.linode.com/level1techs https://www.one-tab.com/page/Q5gjXjbfTPGgOM9Vt9lt1w https://www.one-tab.com/page/7RF7DA67S5O-T_QHFopptw https://www.one-tab.com/page/Gvc4e2YOSKmpWl4K0Ud-Ug 0:00 - Intro 3:56 - DC attorney general sues Instacart, claiming deceptive service fees 7:13 - Carmakers urge FTC to fight Qualcomm ruling 9:53 - TikTok sues U.S. government over Trump ban 10:39 - Texas A&M professor accused of collaborating with China amid NASA work 12:13 - China Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Uighurs 17:13 - Israeli phone hacking company faces court fight over sales to Hong Kong 20:00 - Foxconn, other Asian firms consider Mexico factories as China risks grow 24:38 - Facebook blocks group critical of Thai monarchy amid government pressure 25:43 - Facebook to pay more than $110 million in back taxes in France 27:07 - Clearview AI CEO says “over 2,400 police agencies” use its facial recognition software 29:31 - Cops in Miami, NYC arrest protesters from facial recognition matches 30:50 - Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories 31:39 - A quarter of the Alexa Top 10K websites are using browser fingerprinting scripts 32:39 - Modern spy satellites in an age of space wars 35:36 - New Zealand stock exchange halted by cyber-attack 37:14 - Chinese-Made Smartphones Are Secretly Stealing Money From People Around The World 41:13 - Thousands of Pirates Tricked into Downloading Fake 'Tenet' Torrents 42:38 - US Indictments and Raids of Piracy Group Members in 'The Scene' Throw Top-Tier Piracy World Into Chaos 43:57 - Unredacted suit shows Google’s own engineers confused by privacy settings 47:29 - A New Botnet Is Covertly Targeting Millions of Servers 48:10 - Zoom outage halts classes, meetings 52:20 - U.S. tech stocks are now worth more than the entire European stock market 53:52 - Exxon Mobil replaced by a software stock after 92 years in the Dow is a 'sign of the times' 55:29 - Apple has now terminated Epic's App Store account following legal dispute between the two companies 56:48 - Zuckerberg Denounces Apple's Monopolistic “Stranglehold” On Your iPhone 57:56 - Apple blocks Facebook update that called out 30-percent App Store ‘tax’ 59:45 - Apple showing signs it may soon launch a search engine to compete against Google Search 1:00:55 - Apple apologizes to WordPress, won’t force the free app to add purchases after all 1:03:00 - Powell’s says it won’t sell books on Amazon anymore: ‘We must take a stand’ 1:05:43 - Amazon opens its first Amazon Fresh physical grocery store, in LA 1:07:30 - Amazon Halo: a fitness band and app that scans your body, listens to your voice 1:10:19 - In South India, Amazon Builds Its Largest Office Yet 1:11:14 - Amazon Go’s cashierless tech may come to Whole Foods as soon as next year 1:13:47 - Tesla fights back against owners hacking their cars to unlock performance boost 1:15:23 - Elon Musk shows Neuralink brain implant working in a pig 1:17:51 - How WeChat Censored the Coronavirus Pandemic 1:19:15 - Facebook sues maker of advertising SDK for refusing to participate in audit 1:20:47 - Facebook warns advertisers on Apple privacy changes 1:22:14 - Facebook has begun ghosting the “Oculus” moniker in its VR division 1:24:36 - Walmart is teaming up with Microsoft on TikTok bid 1:27:45 - How a designer used AI and Photoshop to bring ancient Roman emperors back to life 1:29:41 - Take a closer look at Elon Musk’s Neuralink surgical robot 1:32:09 - Visa Unveils More Powerful AI Tool That Approves or Denies Card Transactions 1:32:59 - UK researchers use breakthrough AI to identify 50 new planets from old NASA data 1:34:22 - This Guy is Suing the Patent Office for Deciding an AI Can't Invent Things 1:36:12 - Facial recognition designed to detect around face masks is failing, study finds 1:37:18 - The FAA will test drone detecting technologies in airports this year 1:38:18 - Ditch daylight saving time, urges American Academy of Sleep Medicine 1:39:19 - Microsoft Flight Simulator players are flying into Hurricane Laura 1:41:10 - Kanye West Is Being Sued For Infringing On Trade Secrets 1:44:28 - Most of Scottish Wikipedia Written By American in Mangled English 1:48:58 - Philippines: Govt official caught having sex during Zoom meeting 1:50:12 - ‘Highly Aggressive’ Beefalo That Escaped Meat Processing Plant on the Loose in Plymouth 1:51:17 - Tesla with Autopilot hits cop car—driver admits he was watching a movie 1:52:48 - The penguin watching Pingu so he doesn't get lonely 1:56:27 - Phallic-shaped meat prompts police investigation 1:59:26 - Three grannies in Japan call themselves the “Monkey Busters” and ward off crop-eating monkeys with airguns 2:01:33 - In a first, man jailed for possessing cable ties 2:03:00 - CNN panned for on-air graphic reading 'fiery but mostly peaceful protest' in front of Kenosha fire