Level1 Links with Friends November 2 2026: Patreon Edition!!!
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers—Including Undercover ICE Agents
1:42 - ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History
3:23 - The US Government Is Hiding a Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies on Americans
4:58 - Trump declares robot imports a national security threat
5:37 - Trump Wants to Ban Use of the Term 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI'
6:28 - US FTC demands Walmart, Uber, Delta and others hand over data on personalized pricing
8:28 - Utah charges Kalshi and its CEO with illegally promoting online gambling
8:23 - Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws
9:56 - Flock ignores Minnesota city’s orders not to reinstall AI surveillance cameras
10:38 - US designates helium as a critical material
11:21 - DOJ questions Nvidia's $12.9 billion Hugging Face deal
12:02 - Pentagon treating military base freezer malfunctions as suspected cyberattack, officials say
12:39 - Denmark’s bid to ditch Microsoft Office for open-source alternative Collabora collapses in under six months
13:23 - Dutch MPs want to ban primary school children from using generative AI
14:20 - Police open preliminary probe into Google's data centre site activities in Muhos
15:32 - UK social media ban may lock out more than 100,000 teenagers without ID
16:35 - Lula Vows to Regulate Social Media Giants
17:13 - Canada to join EU network of supercomputers
18:01 - ‘Emotional intimacy’ from AI chatbots would be banned under Australia’s digital duty of care laws
19:28 - Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware affects most servers on planet Earth
20:02 - Binance hacked for record $6.3B, withdrawals suspended after “complex attack”
20:30 - Polymarket Halted International Trading After Hackers Drained Accounts
21:18 - Japanese internet giant GMO tells customers to shut down and disconnect PCs from the internet following data breach and ransomware threat
22:04 - Alleged Israeli spy company heavily targeted Starlink users, sources say
23:00 - Fake PS5 Emulators On GitHub Are Spreading Password-Stealing Malware
23:58 - LA Just Powered Up Speed Cameras. Tickets of Up To $500 Start Getting Mailed In Less Than 60 Days
25:27 - Florida county won’t investigate sketchy Flock cameras removed by mystery owners
26:12 - Portland company withdraws AirTag ‘Silencer’ over stalking fears, issues apology
28:31 - Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 prices hit $2,000, costing more than the RTX 5090 did at launch and with limited stock available — original $999 MSRP long forgotten, with prices now 2-3x higher
29:28 - Nvidia responds to accusations that Jensen Huang was Chinese target
30:55 - Nvidia RTX 20, 30, and 40-series GPUs hacked to remove a half-speed AI throttle — firmware exploit doubles RTX 4090's peak tensor rate, lifts RTX 3090 Ti matrix math up to 80%
32:01 - Intel's leaked 28-core Nova Lake CPU beats the Core Ultra 9 285K and Ryzen 9 9950X3D in single-thread testing
32:43 - Military drone outfit Anduril partners with Qualcomm to build laptops on US soil with new BlueChip venture — defense contractor targets a 100% domestic supply chain in the future
33:24 - Apple’s Foldable iPhone Duo Draws Early Complaints of the Screen Cracking
34:33 - In China, the AI bubble has already burst
35:20 - Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo
36:57 - Underwater data centers are heading for waters that endangered whales call home
38:03 - xAI Is Offering to Buy Out a Mississippi Neighborhood - If Residents Agree Not to Sue Over Noise
38:43 - SpaceXAI seeks single settlement with Mississippi regulators over data center permit allegations
39:45 - A Satellite Company Tests “Sunlight As A Service” — Without Astronomers’ Knowledge
40:53 - $4,700 audiophile-grade network hub promises a noise-free experience and music with 'emotional impact' — seven isolation stages per port were chosen with 'listening comparisons,' uses a $5 Realtek controller
41:38 - Comcast lost 144,000 broadband customers last quarter, is planning layoffs so AI agents can take over customer service
42:30 - Alphabet loses $475 billion in market value, the biggest drop in its history
43:43 - Microsoft offers buyouts to 60K employees, but expects low uptake
44:57 - Intel, Oracle, IBM join growing list of firms objecting to OKX–ICE tokenized stock plans
45:56 - Grand Theft Auto 6 Download Size Revealed To Be 210 GB
46:28 - Your Gmail and Photos could now fuel Google's personalized ads
47:12 - GM to pay $220 million after selling customer Smart Driver data
47:55 - Meta Will Now Alert Parents If Teens 'Repeatedly' Search For Self-Harm Content On Facebook
48:57 - Nvidia to invest $3 billion in Meta, expand partnership on Muse
49:45 - Instagram chases YouTube with a push for longer, widescreen videos
51:34 - Claude's new smart reports tell bosses when workers are 'off-topic'