Level1 News May 17 2021: Patron Edition
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0:00 - Intro
3:00 - Pentagon Surveilling Americans Without a Warrant, Senator Reveals
4:26 - GOP lawmaker floats bill to register and fine 'fact checkers'
5:36 - First fully civilian flight to space station moves forward with NASA contract
7:44 - Your Car Is Spying on You. A CBP Contract Shows the Risks.
10:24 - Bill to ban TikTok on U.S. government devices passes committee
11:17 - DHS launches warning system to find domestic terrorism threats on public social media
12:15 - Pentagon Weighs Ending JEDI Cloud Project Amid Amazon Court Fight
13:15 - FCC approves $7B broadband connectivity fund
14:43 - U.S. Agrees to Remove Xiaomi From Blacklist After Lawsuit
15:51 - NASA criticizes China's handling of rocket re-entry as debris lands near Maldives
16:51 - Facebook Should Halt Instagram Youth, Attorneys General Say
19:15 - Online safety bill ‘a recipe for censorship’, say campaigners
20:43 - Apple Faces U.K. Class Action for App Store Overcharging
21:39 - 328 weaknesses found by WA Auditor-General in 50 local government systems
22:52 - Facebook Ordered to Stop German WhatsApp Users’ Data Collection
23:48 - Korea Unveils $450 Billion Push for Global Chipmaking Crown
26:00 - Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5 Million in Ransom
28:57 - DarkSide, hacker group behind pipeline attack, claims three new victims
29:44 - Colonial Pipeline Sought Cyber Manager Months Before Hack
30:23 - Pipeline Hackers Say They’re ‘Apolitical,’ Will Choose Targets More Carefully Next Time
31:50 - FBI warns of cybercriminals abusing search ads to promote phishing sites
34:02 - Chinese TV maker Skyworth under fire for excessive data collection that users call spying
35:14 - Thousands of Tor exit nodes attacked cryptocurrency users over the past year
36:29 - Online Cheating Charges Upend Dartmouth Medical School
37:39 - The Fortnite Trial Is Exposing Details About the Biggest iPhone Hack on Record
38:41 - Trailer maker Utility targeted in ransomware attack
40:34 - Ford Patents Terrible Billboard Scanning Tech, Shows In-Car Ads
43:31 - GasBuddy tops Apple App store amid Colonial Pipeline gas shutdown
45:14 - Intel 11th Gen Core H45 Tiger Lake-H CPUs Launch To Push Laptop Performance Envelope
46:28 - AMD and GlobalFoundries Update Wafer Supply Agreement: Orders Through 2024, Now Non-Exclusive
48:39 - Epic-Apple Judge Floats Compromise to Resolve App Store Feud
50:46 - Apple Gave Zoom Access to Special API to Use iPad Camera During Split View Multitasking
52:14 - Apple suppliers linked to Uyghur forced labor in new report
56:12 - Analytics Suggest 96% of Users Leave App Tracking Disabled in iOS 14.5
58:09 - Google goes nuclear against Roku by adding YouTube TV to the main YouTube app
1:01:38 - Vizio makes nearly as much money from ads and data as it does from TVs
1:03:04 - Microsoft Shelves Windows 10X, It is not Shipping in 2021 - Petri
1:04:24 - Prime today, gone tomorrow: Chinese products get pulled from Amazon
1:05:42 - Amazon “seized and destroyed” 2 million counterfeit products in 2020
1:07:12 - Amazon Managers Say They 'Hire to Fire' to Meet Internal Turnover Goal
1:08:54 - Valve’s Gabe Newell teases console-related plans for Steam games
1:09:46 - Sony Warns Tight PlayStation 5 Supply to Extend Into Next Year
1:10:31 - Disney Patents Blockchain-Based Movie Distribution System to Stop Pirates
1:11:32 - Researchers Have Developed Road Chargers For EVs
1:12:38 - eBay embraces NFTs
1:13:41 - Harley-Davidson launches all-electric motorcycle brand 'LiveWire'
1:15:26 - LiveLeak, the internet’s font of gore and violence, has shut down
1:16:25 - SpaceX partners with Google Cloud on Starlink
1:17:24 - Bitcoin and Other Cryptos Reel on Reports Binance Is Under Investigation
1:19:31 - Army of fake fans boosts China’s messaging on Twitter
1:20:38 - Facebook is testing pop-up messages telling people to read a link before they share it
1:21:49 - Oversight Board Says Facebook, Not Trump, Is The Problem
1:24:29 - WhatsApp, growing despite backlash, relaxes May 15 policy update deadline
1:25:17 - Clubhouse finally launches its Android app
1:28:13 - NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads for Earth with Asteroid Sample
1:29:37 - Grand Theft Auto Looks Photorealistic With Machine Learning
1:31:26 - Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing
1:32:45 - Meet the real Alexa: voice actor reportedly responsible for Amazon’s AI assistant revealed
1:33:51 - Google Plans to Double AI Ethics Research Staff