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The Level1 Show April 10 2023: Patreon Edition!

https://linode.com/level1techs 0:00 - Intro 1:37 - 'War of the states': EV, chip makers lavished with subsidies 4:18 - New York Inspector General Says NYPD Violating Surveillance Law 5:51 - Florida has spent $1.5 million developing smartphone ID apps that hardly anyone is using 8:41 - FCC Poised to Cut Off Alleged Illegal Robocall Gateway Provider 9:27 - FBI broke into wrong hotel room during training exercise 9:58 - FBI Seizes Bot Shop ‘Genesis Market’ Amid Arrests Targeting Operators, Suppliers 11:39 - Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure face antitrust probe 12:56 - These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft 17:38 (I'm like hey what's up hello) - Italy's ChatGPT ban kick-starts surge of VPN downloads 18:00 - Germany considers following Italy in banning ChatGPT 19:22 - German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’ 21:03 - Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters 21:49 - Royal Mail apologises for 'misjudged' April Fools' joke promising staff pay rises 23:00 - Right to repair, universal charging port mandates eyed to save Canadians money 25:11 - Australia bans TikTok on government devices over security concerns 26:38 - Labor to consider age-verification ‘roadmap’ for restricting online pornography access 28:06 - China plans $500 million subsea internet cable to rival US-backed project 29:47 - China Plans to Ban Exports of Rare Earth Magnet Tech 30:28 - Japan restricts chipmaking equipment exports as it aligns with US China curbs 31:08 - Japan to increase chip-gear spending by 82%, higher than any nation 31:49 - Glitch in system upgrade identified as cause of delays at Singapore immigration 32:45 - Taiwan official blasted for blaming student suicide increase on 'tall buildings' 34:21 - Terry Gou: Foxconn founder in fresh run for Taiwan presidency 36:38 - India opts against AI regulation 37:56 - India to require Facebook and Twitter rely on gov’t fact checking 38:49 - South Africa fights to keep phone networks up as lights go out 40:22 - Ugandan president calls on Africa to ‘save the world from homosexuality’ 42:20 - Open garage doors anywhere in the world by exploiting this “smart” device 43:37 - Alcohol recovery startups Monument and Tempest shared patients’ private data with advertisers 44:55 - Computer scientists designing the future can’t agree on what privacy means 47:03 Truck thief gunned down by owner after AirTag gives away location 48:59 - Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars 50:13 - South Wales Police to bring back facial recognition cameras after report finds 'no risk of bias' 51:23 - IRS-authorized eFile.com tax return software caught serving JS malware 52:20 - Capita, company providing UK’s nuclear submarine training, confirms ‘cyber incident’ 55:03 - Novel social engineering attacks soar 135% amid uptake of generative AI 56:24 - Western Digital says hackers stole data in ‘network security’ breach 57:53 - JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon says banking crisis is not over yet 59:07 - Google to save money on employee laptops, services and staplers 59:52 - Groupon, which has lost 99.4% of its value since its IPO, names a new CEO… based in Czech Republic 1:00:48 - Crypto exchange Binance has Australian financial services licence cancelled by Asic 1:01:44 - Amazon lays off some employees in its video games unit: Read the memo 1:03:08 - Google says its AI supercomputer is faster, greener than Nvidia A100 chip 1:03:44 - Microsoft announces $299.99 Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock that connects via USB-C 1:04:33 - Dumb phones are on the rise in the U.S. as Gen Z limits screen time 1:06:16 - American teens are not into virtual reality, only 4% use it daily 1:07:38 - GM only sold 2 Hummer EVs in Q1. Here's why 1:08:55 - New models of the IBM Model F keyboard Mark II incoming 1:10:28 - Pair charged in Norwalk vandalism that caused internet outages 1:11:22 - Walmart says majority of goods to be fulfilled through automated sites by 2025 1:12:55 - Cisco Systems pulled out of russia and destroyed $23.42m worth of equipment 1:14:10 - Bob Lee, creator of Cash App and former CTO of Square, stabbed to death 1:14:49 - Microsoft is making it easier to block annoying autoplay videos in Edge 1:16:11 - Sony worries Microsoft will only give it a “degraded” Call of Duty 1:17:17 - Google will require that Android apps let you delete your account and data 1:17:44 - After disrupting businesses, Google Drive’s secret file cap is dead for now 1:19:05 - Music Labels Win Legal Battle Against Youtube-dl’s Hosting Provider 1:20:36 - Free Google Play Alternative MicroG Framed in Bogus 'Vanced' DMCA Notices 1:21:29 - Google brings “Nearby Share” to Windows, making it easy to transfer files 1:22:10 - Chrome 113 To Ship WebGPU By Default 1:23:25 - GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help 1:25:34 - Audible is testing ad-supported access to select titles for non-members 1:27:53 - Yes, Tinder Is Working on a $500 Subscription Tentatively Called 'Tinder Vault'

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Smeemer

Wendell, Oshpark is a short turn PCB service based in the US. Only one that I know of.

Anonymous

No link of links?

Staatlicher Nagetierfunktionär

Twitter, if not stopped by US gov because trying very hard to be "neutral", will be the most important social media for remaining humanity

Anonymous

Hey guys, South African here. The blackouts story is quite a lot more crazy than you realize. I could do a giant post about it but I'll try to keep this concise. I swear this is an overview. I'll give you the full story if you want to read more, Daily Maverick is arguably the most legit newspaper we have: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/eskom-intelligence-files-cartels/ Basically: Yes, 'cable theft'/'vandalism' in the form of copper, battery, solar panel, etc. theft is rampant here, but that is not the main issue. One quick thing I will say about this is that cable theft is fueled by desperation.* The main issue is that we have only one power utility that is state operated, and along with being corrupt and incompetent, it is being controlled by 4 cartels to extract wealth to the detriment of the country. They do things like stealing spare parts, placing fake orders (they are the 'seller'), sabotaging power stations (they provide the repairs), stealing diesel by the kiloliter, the list is endless. This has led to the entire country experiencing anywhere from 2-10hrs of blackouts daily for the entire year of 2023 to date, and most of 2022. More alarmingly, 2 of these cartels are apparently run by (as yet unnamed) high ranking government officials. We don't know who exactly, but it's not hard to guess. The Vice President (DD Mabuza) recently stepped down, quietly and without giving a reason. He holds major sway in the province which experiences the highest degree of this type of organized crime (including hit squads, see article for more info on that). The other is very likely the Energy and Natural Resources Minister who, until recently, oversaw national energy policy. A few years ago, we got a well meaning CEO put in charge of the utility (this is not a new problem). Late last year, he stepped up the investigations into theft, sabotage and corruption, and was accused of being a traitor by the aforementioned energy minister, and poisoned with cyanide. Luckily he survived, but he had already decided to step down at that point, as his position had become untenable. He plans to leave the country. The government is making some token gestures to get the problem under control, but the gravy train has many passengers, and to mix metaphors, it's a glass houses situation of the highest order. Nobody wants to start looking too closely at who is getting rich from where, lest they get a bit of the same attention. It's honestly really sad. The ANC, yeah... They always seem to do the opposite of whatever the right move is. Get offered $8 billion by the West to fix our power infrastructure? Let's do joint military exercises with Russia and China on the eve of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I could rattle off a dozen more such examples off the top of my head. *High commodity prices, combined with high inflation are a nasty combo. Unfortunately when the US raises interest rates to combat inflation domestically, it has the effect of exporting it to the rest of the world, who use the Dollar as their global reserve currency. But that is a separate post.