Level1 News July 26 2021: Patreon Edition!
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0:00 - Intro
4:32 - FTC Formally Adopts Right to Repair Platform
6:36 - Biden Names Tech Foe Jonathan Kanter as DOJ Antitrust Chief
7:56 - 'Facebook isn't killing people,' Biden says as he walks back attack over vaccine lies
9:47 - FCC Investigating Whether Cuban Government Is Jamming HAM Radio
11:37 - Judge forces US Capitol rioter to unlock laptop seized by FBI
13:06 - Democratic bill would suspend Section 230 protections when social networks boost anti-vax conspiracies
15:36 - 'Nuclear football' procedures to be reviewed after January 6 incident
17:26 - CIA Director Renews Efforts To Solve 'Havana Syndrome' Mystery
17:58 - Vienna Is the New Havana Syndrome Hot Spot
19:32 - Report Finds Big Telecom Spends $320,000 on Lobbying Every Day
21:02 - Virginia will use a $700 million grant to roll out statewide broadband
23:32 - Suit Claims Sexual Harassment, Discrimination At Game Studio Activision Blizzard
26:46 - Serial Swatter Who Caused Death Gets Five Years in Prison
28:40 - EU plans to make Bitcoin transfers more traceable
30:35 - France Investigates Report Morocco Had Macron’s Phone Hacked
31:47 - Italy imposes ‘green pass’ restrictions on unvaccinated people
32:59 - White House formally blames China’s Ministry of State Security for Microsoft Exchange Hack
34:07 - China Weighs Serious Penalty for Didi After U.S. IPO as Tech Crackdown Escalates
35:32 - China bans off-campus tutoring in education overhaul that sets off market rout among dozens of listed edtech platforms
36:48 - Beijing calls out Amazon, ByteDance, NetEase for violating users’ rights in latest crackdown
37:59 - China rejects hacking charges, accuses U.S. of cyberspying
39:04 - China debuts super fast maglev train capable of going over 370 mph
40:55 - China Tech Crackdown: Billionaires Are Ramping Up Donations
42:17 - India considering phased roll out of central bank digital currency
43:21 - Clubhouse is now out of beta and open to everyone
45:14 - How TikTok sees inside your brain
49:19 - Leaked Intel i9-12900K Benchmark Shows 28% Gain Over Ryzen 9
51:04 - iFixit CEO names and shames tech giants for right to repair obstruction
54:08 - Google is starting to tell you how it found Search results
55:11 - Banks, brokerages, PSN, the Steam Store, and more went down in massive internet outage
56:35 - Tencent is buying British game studio Sumo for $1.27 billion
57:44 - Mastercard to Test USDC Stablecoin for Payments
58:32 - Square to Create New Bitcoin Platform for Financial Services
1:00:11 - Tesla will 'most likely' restart accepting bitcoin as payments, says Musk
1:01:16 - Tesla plans to open its charging network to other EVs later this year
1:03:21 - Mercedes-Benz to go all-electric by 2030
1:04:29 - Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV
1:05:42 - LG might sell iPhones in its stores after quitting Android devices
1:06:17 - iOS and Android Activations Now Split Evenly in the U.S., Research Shows
1:08:21 - TV Networks Call for Nielsen Ratings to Lose Accreditation
1:12:07 - Google pushed a one-character typo to production, bricking Chrome OS devices
1:13:34 - Jeff Bezos says critics of the rich going to space 'are mostly right'
1:17:41 - Together Price helps you share subscription passwords
1:20:03 - Take-Two has been issuing takedowns for GTA mods
1:22:08 - Google turns AlphaFold loose on the entire human genome
1:23:59 - Intel’s Mobileye begins testing autonomous vehicles in New York City
1:25:11 - Cloud seeding in UAE: Artificial rain with drones, electricity
1:26:34 - Jeff Bezos Travels To Space And Back On Blue Origin Rocket
1:28:08 - OpenAI disbands its robotics research team
1:29:14 - China launches secretive suborbital vehicle for reusable space transportation system
1:31:16 - Astronomers push for global debate on giant satellite swarms
1:35:36 - The Inevitable Weaponization of App Data Is Here
1:37:35 - Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance
1:42:14 - Pegasus spyware seller: Blame our customers, not us, for hacking
1:43:19 - Telegram founder listed in leaked Pegasus project data
1:44:48 - Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations
1:46:14 - Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure
1:47:15 - 16-Year-Old HP Printer-Driver Bug Impacts Millions of Windows Machines
1:48:33 - Toronto-area woman wants Freedom Mobile to stop assigning her phone number to other people
1:50:02 - Fans ask a PC game to drop Denuvo—and dev agrees, blames “performance impact”
1:53:54 - DuckDuckGo launches new Email Protection service to remove trackers
1:55:32 - MAGA-branded ‘Freedom Phone’ Is a Major Security Hazard
1:56:25 - 15,000-year-old viruses discovered in Tibetan glacier ice