Level1 News November 2 2020: Patron Edition!
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0:00 - Intro
0:48 - Spy agency ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products
2:54 - iOS 14's Upcoming Anti-Tracking Prompt Sparks Antitrust Complaint in France
4:33 - Briefing: Apple Lobbied U.S. Congress on Uighur Slave Labor Bills
7:55 - Trump’s campaign website hacked by cryptocurrency scammers
9:14 - U.S. FCC votes to maintain 2017 repeal of net neutrality rules
12:39 - CBP Refuses to Tell Congress How it is Tracking Americans Without a Warrant
17:04 - Police are using facial recognition for minor crimes because they can
20:10 - Wisconsin Republican Party says hackers stole $2.3 million
21:37 - FBI, DHS Warn Hospitals of ‘Credible Threat’ from Hackers
24:23 - Elon Musk’s SpaceX will ‘make its own laws on Mars’
26:29 - Amazon.com (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) Probed by Germany Over Online Sales Curbs
28:33 - Germany Regulators Look to Block Teens From Porn Sites
30:28 - Mobile networks banned from selling locked phones38:57 -
32:26 - Taiwan's UMC to pay $60m fine to settle US trade secrets case
34:38 - 'Iranian YouTube' CEO Sentenced To 10 Years Over Video Uploaded By User
35:56 - Pakistan's PM takes aim at Macron; asks Facebook to ban Islamophobic content
37:54 - In a first, researchers extract secret key used to encrypt Intel CPU code
40:31 - Security Blueprints of Many Companies Leaked in Hack of Swedish Firm Gunnebo
41:54 - Over 100 irrigation systems left exposed online without a password
44:15 - Ransomware hit a Georgia county. That didn't stop its ballot counting.
45:31 - Google Patches Actively-Exploited Zero-Day Bug in Chrome Browser
46:28 - Chrome bug meant browser didn’t respect user requests to delete Google site data
48:28 - Surveillance Startup Used Own Cameras to Harass Coworkers
53:06 - The US Navy has a manual for when Twitch viewers ask about war crimes
57:47 - AMD's $649 Radeon RX 6800XT will take on NVIDIA's RTX 3080
59:50 - NVIDIA allegedly cancels GeForce RTX 3080 20GB and RTX 3070 16GB
1:00:48 - AMD grabs Xilinx for $35 billion as chip industry consolidation continues
1:02:07 - Apple develops alternative to Google search
1:04:33 - SpaceX Starlink public beta begins: It’s $99 a month plus $500 up front
1:06:28 - About 3% of Starlink satellites have failed so far
1:09:35 - RIAA's YouTube-DL Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub's CEO
1:12:29 - CD Projekt Tests Gamers’ Patience With Third Cyberpunk Delay
1:14:20 - Amazon Argues Users Don't Actually Own Purchased Prime Video Content
1:16:49 - Samsung, Stanford make a 10,000PPI display that could lead to 'flawless' VR
1:18:17 - Consumer Reports: Tesla Autopilot a “distant second” to GM Super Cruise
1:19:55 - Netflix prices are being increased in the US today, standard plan jumps to $14
1:21:47 - Grubhub Sued for Listing Restaurants Without Permission
1:23:25 - Sony’s PlayStation 5 Is Beating Microsoft's Xbox in the Online Black Market
1:24:55 - TikTok-parent ByteDance launches its first gadget in a big education push
1:26:26 - Microsoft plans big Windows 10 UI refresh in 2021 codenamed 'Sun Valley'
1:28:19 - Zoom Deleted Events Discussing Zoom “Censorship"
1:29:20 - Mailchimp makes its censorship rules official, outlines right to ban users for "inaccurate" content
1:31:33 - NASA's Perseverance Rover Is Midway to Mars
1:33:23 - A NASA probe is so full of asteroid material that it now has a problem
1:34:52 - Robot Cam confuses linesman’s bald head for a football in Scotland
1:36:04 - Uber sued by drivers over ‘automated robo-firing'
1:37:24 - All-terrain microrobot flips through a live colon
1:39:22 - Waymo and Daimler are teaming up to build fully driverless semi trucks
1:41:34 - White Castle to Expand Implementations with Miso Robotics and Target Up to 10 New Locations Following Pilot
1:42:27 - Lil Miquela, LoL’s Seraphine: Virtual Influencers Make More Real Money Than Ever
1:47:49 - Facebook sued over Cambridge Analytica data scandal
1:48:52 - Facebook tells academics to stop monitoring its political ads for any rule-breaking.... on privacy grounds
1:50:57 - Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games you already paid for
1:51:52 - Facebook steps into cloud gaming — and another feud with Apple
1:54:22 - Facebook's new Oversight Board strives to be seen as independent
1:57:06 - How Facebook censorship helps suppress dissent in Vietnam
1:59:30 - Twitch suspends DragonForce guitarist for playing his own music