Today's Background: Stormwind, World of Warcraft
https://linode.com/level1techs https://www.one-tab.com/page/3LlMAYCfS6ugZeIBLA0Low https://www.one-tab.com/page/HV6wPEK3QD25D0FMTdm5Cg https://www.one-tab.com/page/Necey3ZdS0emj8nvNgvjEw 0:00 - Intro 1:51 - Biden invokes Defense Production Act for printed circuit board production 3:00 - Biden executive order bans federal agencies from using commercial spyware 4:43 - TikTok Trackers Embedded in U.S. State-government websites, review finds 6:00 - Republican Senator Rand Paul blocks bid to ban Chinese-owned TikTok 8:03 - The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library 10:19 - US military needs 7th branch just for cyber, current and former leaders say 12:19 - US court sanctions Google for deleting evidence in antitrust cases 14:12 - SEC Chair Gensler: Existing rules regulate crypto, legislation unnecessary 14:35 - SEC’s Gensler seeks $2.4B in funding to chase down crypto ‘misconduct’ 15:48 - White House Silent on IRS Visit to Matt Taibbi's House 17:06 - White House ‘very in favor’ of bill thought to target TikTok 19:22 - With ChatGPT hype swirling, UK government urges regulators to come up with rules for A.I. 20:34 - Norwegian company says TikTok data centre is limiting energy for manufacturing Ukraine ammunition 22:04 - NFT: Plans for Royal Mint produced token dropped 23:09 - Belgian intelligence puts Huawei on its watchlist 23:47 - France bans TikTok, Twitter from government staff phones 26:04 - France sets EU precedent with 2024 Olympics surveillance arsenal 27:03 - French prosecutors raid SocGen and others in connection with 'CumCum' scandal 28:40 - UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market 29:31 - Amsterdam launches stay away ad campaign targeting young British men 30:19 - OpenAI's ChatGPT Blocked In Italy: Privacy Watchdog 30:49 - Japan lawmakers eye ban on TikTok, others if used improperly 32:48 - Chinese Colleges Give Students Weeklong Spring Break to 'Fall in Love' 33:57 - China to examine US chipmaker Micron's products for cybersecurity risks 36:22 - U.S. and China wage war beneath the waves - over internet cables 37:44 - India: Government’s pursuit of new surveillance technology heightens human rights concerns 39:34 - Russia recruits Steven Seagal to teach martial arts to its soldiers 41:33 - ‘Vulkan files’ leak reveals Putin’s global and domestic cyberwarfare tactics 42:29 - El Salvador president readies bill to eliminate taxes on tech 44:22 - Liberals, Conservatives and Bloc approve Commissioner of Lobbying’s proposal to gut key ethical lobbying rules 46:10 - Disney Unplugs Metaverse Unit During Broader Layoffs 46:55 - Meta slams telco fee proposal, says ISPs should pay their own network costs 47:37 - TikTok ban backup plan? ByteDance-owned Instagram rival Lemon8 hits the US App Store’s Top 10 48:04 - Meta wants EU users to apply for permission to opt out of data collection 50:43 - Woman hospitalized after being pranked for TikTok video in Target store 52:08 - Court Orders GitHub to Reveal Who Leaked Twitter’s Source Code 53:02 - Elon Musk’s employee stock grants value Twitter at $20 billion 57:01 - EA layoffs: company to cut 800 employees, or 6% of workforce 57:50 - Disney layoffs hit ABC News as several top executives let go: 'A necessary step' 59:02 - Streaming device maker Roku to cut 200 jobs in second round of layoffs 1:00:09 - Drizly Employees Affected by ‘Layoff Tidal Wave’ 1:00:51 - Lucid to lay off 1,300 employees in restructuring 1:02:02 - Virgin Orbit funding plans fail, will stop operations, conduct layoffs 1:02:38 - Substack invites newsletter writers to invest 1:03:38 - Google Assistant might be doomed: Division “reorganizes” to focus on Bard 1:04:47 - GitHub slashes engineering team in India 1:05:29 - Investors pull $1.6 billion from Binance after CFTC lawsuit 1:07:02 - Amazon workers fume after HR rejects petition against return to office 1:08:08 - More Americans are using ‘buy now, pay later’ services to pay for groceries. Here's why that's a worrying sign. 1:09:44 - Sam Bankman-Fried’s Legal Defense Is Being Funded With Alameda Money He Gifted His Father 1:11:34 - Sam Bankman-Fried paid Chinese officials $40 million to unfreeze his crypto, new charges claim 1:12:54 - Credit Suisse rescue creates bank twice the size of Switzerland's economy 1:14:22 - Amazon seller consultant admits to bribing employees to help clients 1:15:43 - Amazon to flag ‘frequently returned’ products you maybe shouldn’t buy 1:16:49 - Google says Microsoft cloud practices are anti-competitive 1:18:20 - Google launches Ads Transparency Center as searchable database 1:19:14 - Microsoft plans major platform upgrades for “Windows 12” that will modernize the OS with AI, faster updates, and better security 1:21:42 - Microsoft starts public preview of new Teams for commercial clients