Level1 News March 15 2021: Patron Edition!
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0:00 - Intro
2:43 - Facebook asks court to dismiss U.S. government, states antitrust cases
4:33 - Reddit hires its first chief financial officer as it prepares to go public.
6:15 - Citizen Sleuths Launch A Slick New Website To Hunt Down Capitol Insurrectionists
8:01 - Twitter sues Texas AG Ken Paxton, citing Trump ban retaliation claim
9:03 - Twitter is testing an 'undo' option after sending tweets
10:37 - Burger King apologizes for 'Women belong in the kitchen' tweet
14:11 - Clearview AI violates Californians' privacy, lawsuit alleges
15:19 - OpenAI’s state-of-the-art machine vision AI is fooled by handwritten notes
17:11 - Waymo simulated real-world crashes to prove its self-driving cars can prevent deaths
19:16 - Furious AI researcher creates a list of non-reproducible machine learning papers
21:44 - Sidewalk robots get legal rights as "pedestrians"
23:28 - Honda launches world's first level 3 self-driving car
26:08 - At Least 30,000 U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked Via Holes in Microsoft’s Email Software
26:27 - Up to 60,000 computer systems exposed in Germany to Microsoft flaw
26:42 - European banking regulator EBA targeted in Microsoft hacking
28:00 - Tesla (TSLA), Cloudfare (NET) Breached in Verkada Security Camera Hack
29:40 - A bug in a popular iPhone app exposed thousands of call recordings
31:25 - Bangladesh bought phone-hacking tools from Israel, documents show
35:04 - Epic Games Widens Fight Against Google With Australia Lawsuit
37:14 - Comcast scrambled to fix mistake that cut some users’ upload speeds by 20%
38:50 - Apple Planning Switch to Randomized Serial Numbers for Future Products Starting in 'Early 2021'
39:49 - iOS 14.5 won't actually let you change a default music service
41:06 - Adobe officially releases Photoshop for Apple M1, says it’s 50% faster
42:25 - The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo
44:35 - Asus Brings PC Gaming Excess to Android With New ROG Phone
47:19 - The iMac Pro is being discontinued
49:24 - Amazon withholds its ebooks from libraries because it prefers you pay it instead
51:20 - Amazon expands its palm recognition payment tech to more of its stores
52:12 - Uber and Lyft create a shared database of drivers banned for assault
53:12 - Tesla (TSLA) Is Plugging a Secret Mega-Battery Into the Texas Grid
55:19 - Automotive Startup Canoo Debuts a Snub-Nosed Electric Pickup
57:26 - PayPal to acquire cryptocurrency security startup Curv
59:03 - SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for trucks, ships, and planes [Updated]
1:00:21 - UK businesses caught buying five-star Google reviews
1:01:27 - MGM's iconic roaring movie lion replaced by an all-CG logo
1:02:34 - Disney Plus Tops 100 Million Subscribers Worldwide
1:04:54 - Stadia lets you play people's screenshots, and it feels kinda like the future
1:06:37 - Shops return to rural Sweden but are now staff-free
1:07:58 - Cryptominers have already cracked Nvidia's RTX 3060 hash rate limiter
1:09:18 - Netflix Tests Cracking Down on Password Sharing
1:10:36 - LG is cramming ads everywhere it can on its TVs
1:13:30 - Putting Roblox’s incredible $45 billion IPO in context
1:16:09 - White House reportedly plans to name Amazon foe Lina Khan to FTC
1:18:37 - DARPA taps Intel to help build the holy grail of encryption
1:20:54 - The Air Force Is Having To Reverse Engineer Parts Of Its Own Stealth Bomber
1:22:51 - Elon Musk Is Creating a City in Texas. It Will Be Called Starbase and It Will Be Ruled by 'The Doge'
1:25:16 - Xi’s Gambit: China Plans for a World Without American Technology
1:27:05 - LinkedIn Pauses New Sign-Ups in China to Review Compliance
1:28:38 - China’s ‘Sharp Eyes’ Program Aims to Surveil 100% of Public Space
1:30:57 - Maglev train: China debuts prototype that can hit speeds of 620 kilometers per hour
1:34:#3 - Pivoting from NASA, Russia partners with China for lunar space station
1:36:00 - Russia slows down Twitter to protect citizens from illegal content
1:37:20 - French startup lobby to file privacy complaint against Apple
1:38:18 - EU approves Microsoft’s $7.5 billion Bethesda acquisition
1:39:39 - Samsung and Mastercard to pilot biometric payments card in South Korea