Level1 News July 4 2022: Patreon Edition!
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0:00 - Intro
1:32 - Police sweep Google searches to find suspects. The tactic is facing its first legal challenge.
3:56 - California's online kids bill could end internet anonymity
5:16 - Supreme Court rejects Apple’s bid to continue fighting over two Qualcomm patents
6:53 - Bitcoin is the only coin the SEC Chair will call a commodity
7:46 - Factbox-The SEC's response to the 'meme stock' rally
9:14 - Senator posts cryptocurrency bill on GitHub, chaos ensues
10:05 - The FCC authorizes SpaceX’s Starlink system to be used on vehicles in motion
10:55 - FCC commissioner tells Apple, Google to remove TikTok from app stores
12:13 - Company behind Trump’s Truth Social now under investigation by federal prosecutors
12:55 - Tesla virtual power plant pays Powerwall owners to help end brownouts
15:08 - Russian parliament approves tax break for issuers of digital assets
15:46 - China's expanding surveillance allows state to tighten grip
17:31 - A pro-China online influence campaign is targeting the rare-earths industry
18:50 - India delays VPN rules to log customers data by 3 months
19:36 - Brazil is also considering making USB-C chargers mandatory for iPhones
20:31 - RansomHouse extortion group claims AMD as its latest victim
21:25 - California Gun Owners Data Exposed by State Justice Dept
22:15 - Kim Dotcom Not Happy, Says 'Mega Mass Piracy Report' is On the Way
24:35 - A wide range of routers are under attack by new, unusually sophisticated malware
25:52 - Firefox can now automatically remove tracking from URLs
27:06 - Employee gave OpenSea email addresses to 'unauthorized' party
27:56 - Hackers can now bring cargo ships and planes to a grinding halt
29:24 - People Are Using Deepfakes to Apply to Remote Jobs, FBI Says
31:10 - Google warns internet service providers helped distribute Hermit spyware
32:49 - T-Mobile has started selling your app data to advertisers
33:40 - Valorant will start listening to your voice chat in July
34:58 - Google launches Advanced API Security to protect APIs from growing threats
36:21 - Cryptocurrency Titan Coinbase Providing “Geo Tracking Data” to ICE
38:42 - Apple lets apps in South Korea use third-party payment systems
39:48 - Apple’s new Community Plus program recognizes its most helpful online support members
40:49 - Base 13-Inch MacBook Pro With M2 Chip Has Significantly Slower SSD Speeds
42:18 - Apple Executive Says Samsung Copied the iPhone and Simply 'Put a Bigger Screen Around It'
42:51 - AMD Ryzen PC Revenue To Decline By 26% In 2022 Due To The Success of Intel's 12th Gen CPUs, Reports Market Analyst
43:36 - TSMC sees clients scale back orders
44:32 - Sources: Unity Laying Off Hundreds Of Staffers
44:41 - Substack Is Laying Off 14% of Its Staff
44:47 - European Crypto Exchange Bitpanda Cuts Staff by Hundreds
46:13 - TSMC to Customers: It's Time to Stop Using Older Nodes and Move to 28nm
47:27 - TSMC may surpass Intel in quarterly revenue for first time
48:17 - Buyout Begone: Ford Says You Can Never Own Leased EVs
49:46 - Airbnb makes its party ban permanent
50:58 - Couple bought home in Seattle, then learned Comcast Internet would cost $27,000
54:46 - Google makes Earth Engine available to all businesses and governments
55:53 - Scoop: Google moves to keep campaign messages out of spam
57:09 - Bored Apes creator sues conceptual artist for copying its NFTs
58:58 - Robinhood almost imploded during the GameStop meme stock chaos
59:24 - FTX exploring a deal to buy Robinhood: Bloomberg report
59:37 - Three Arrows Capital crypto hedge fund defaults on Voyager loan
59:46 - Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Gets Liquidation Order
1:00:06 - Goldman Sachs Leading Investor Group to Buy Celsius Assets: Sources
1:00:34 - Bank for International Settlements to allow banks to keep 1% of reserves in Bitcoin
1:01:14 - IBM settles discrimination case that targeted exec emails
1:02:04 - ‘It keeps on going’: driving the world’s first production-ready solar car
1:05:27 - Bungie slaps YouTube takedown impersonator with $7.6M lawsuit
1:06:41 - Meta sparks anger by charging for VR apps
1:08:20 - Facebook is bombarding cancer patients with ads for unproven treatments
1:09:23 - DiCello Levitt Gutzler: Facebook Users May Be Eligible for a Payment From a Class Action Settlement
1:10:45 - Former Ankara mayor ridiculed for believing tweet on discovery of jelly bean reserves in Turkey
1:11:52 - TikTok can’t stop users from doxxing the Supreme Court
1:12:59 - Indian government censors tweets critical of Indian internet censorship
1:13:59 - Meta warns employees of ‘serious times’ in internal memo listing key product bets
1:15:46 - Did China silence a social media influencer over a tank-shaped ice cream?
1:18:17 - Artificial intelligence could spot baby chickens in distress