Level1 News November 30 2020: Patreon Edition
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0:00 - Intro
2:28 - FCC Maintains Ban on Mobile Phone Voice Calls During Flights
4:08 - ZTE’s Designation as Security Threat Affirmed by U.S. FCC
5:02 - FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on January 20
6:10 - IRS Could Search Warrantless Location Database Over 10,000 Times
9:32 - New SEC proposal outlines rules for giving equity to gig workers
12:06 - Hard to believe but Congress just approved an IoT security law and it doesn't totally suck
15:09 - UK to set up ‘pro-competition’ regulator to put limits on big tech
16:30 - Britain commits US$333 million to help carriers replace Huawei 5G
18:06 - European Parliament vote takes another big step toward ‘right to repair’ rules
21:25 - France orders tech giants to pay digital tax
23:12 - Australia’s spy agencies caught collecting COVID-19 app data
24:36 - Russia wants to ban social media sites discriminating against Russian news outlets
28:05 - India bans 43 more Chinese apps over cybersecurity concerns
30:10 - Zuckerberg Changed Facebook Algorithm to Highlight CNN Post-Election
31:17 - Facebook’s Libra could launch in January
34:10 - Twitter will warn you if you 'like' misleading tweets
36:01 - Solomon Islands set to ban Facebook in the name of 'national unity'
37:35 - Twitter verification will return early next year
39:37 - China bans spending by teens in new curbs on livestreaming
45:58 - Pushed by Pandemic, Amazon Goes on a Hiring Spree Without Equal
47:28 - Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries
48:57 - Amazon partners with the US government to stop the sale of counterfeit goods
50:46 - Prolonged AWS outage takes down a big chunk of the internet
52:20 - People Can't Vacuum Or Use Their Doorbell Because Amazon's Cloud Servers Are Down
54:32 - Amazon workers at Alabama warehouse file with National Labor Relations Board to hold unionization vote
54:56 - Secret Amazon Reports Expose Company Spying on Labor, Environmental Groups
57:18 - Google ordered to hand over emails in £453m divorce battle
59:09 - Apple extends fee waiver for digital classes in App Store
1:01:48 - Apple security chief maintains innocence after bribery charges
1:04:40 - Comcast to enforce 1.2TB data cap in entire 39-state territory in early 2021
1:09:08 - IBM Planning 10,000 Job Cuts in Europe Ahead of Unit Sale
1:10:14 - Tesla is now worth half a trillion dollars
1:10:31 - Tesla (TSLA) Elon Musk Is World's Second-Richest Person, Passing Bill Gates
1:13:26 - Elon Musk talks new Tesla model to be designed in Europe: likely a small electric hatchback
1:16:35 - OneWeb exits bankruptcy and is ready to launch more broadband satellites
1:18:48 - General Motors launches OnStar Insurance Services
1:19:43 - Salesforce is considering buying messaging app Slack
1:20:46 - Nintendo sues more hack sellers, ‘a worsening international problem’
1:23:23 - Microsoft hints at turning Xbox into an app for your TV
1:24:21 - Dyson pledges new investment into AI, robotics and batteries
1:25:03 - China launches ambitious mission to land on moon and return samples to Earth
1:26:39- Amazon's Alexa spouts anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, says British MP
1:33:10 - Chinese police have seized $4.2 billion cryptos from PlusToken Ponzi crackdown
1:34:51 - A hacker is selling access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives
1:36:22 - Patients of a Vermont Hospital Are Left ‘in the Dark’ After a Cyberattack
1:38:10 - Microsoft productivity score feature criticised as workplace surveillance
1:39:24 - US Fertility says patient data was stolen in a ransomware attack
1:40:02 - Sophos notifies customers of data exposure after database misconfiguration
1:40:53 - 2FA bypass discovered in web hosting software cPanel
1:41:59 - Baidu's Android apps caught collecting sensitive user details
1:44:38 - 'Smart' doorbells for sale on Amazon, eBay came stocked with security vulnerabilities
1:46:34 - Apple lets some Big Sur network traffic bypass firewalls
1:48:22 - Fugging hell: tired of mockery, Austrian village changes name
1:50:45 - Culled mink rise from the dead to Denmark's horror
1:52:52 - Utah helicopter crew discovers mysterious metal monolith deep in the desert
1:54:57 - US Postal Service's 'Operation Santa' letter campaign goes digital in 108th year