Level1 Links with Friends May 18 2026: Floatplane Edition!!!

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0:00 - Intro

0:46 - US clears H200 chip sales to 10 China firms as Nvidia CEO looks for breakthrough

1:52 - FTC Chairman Ferguson Advises Companies to Comply with the Take It Down Act

3:03 - Twin brothers wipe 96 gov't databases minutes after being fired

4:57 - When It Comes to Data Privacy, Consumers Must Be in the Driver’s Seat: Attorney General Bonta, Partners

Secure $12.75 Million General Motors Privacy Settlement

6:12 - ‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan

8:28 - EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push

9:35 - EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram ‘addictive design’ hooking kids

10:05 - EU mulls restricting use of U.S. cloud for sensitive government data: sources

10:45 - EU social media ban could come this summer, von der Leyen says

11:06 - The European Union backs Italy’s right to make Meta pay for news

11:51 - Palantir to be granted ‘unlimited access’ to NHS patient data

12:44 - UK Antitrust Regulator Is Officially Investigating Microsoft Office

13:32 - Keir Starmer raises eyebrows as he proudly declares himself a 'gooner'

15:14 - South Korea floats ‘citizen dividend’ using AI profits

16:00 - South Korea exploring using Hyundai robots as army numbers fall

16:47 - IRGC-linked media outlines plan to tax and control undersea internet cables in the Hormuz Strait — Iran's mouthpiece calls for a cut of $10 trillion of transactions that pulse through the cables daily

18:02 - "Unethical use of Azure" reportedly leads to firing of Microsoft Israel execs — Microsoft has been investigating potential abuse of its products in targeting Palestinians

19:14 - Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

20:14 - Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoor

21:29 - Revealed: Israeli Tech Exposes Users of Musk's Starlink Satellite-based Internet

22:48 - Canvas hack: Company pays criminals to delete students' stolen data

23:36 - Fiber optic cables can eavesdrop on nearby conversations

24:42 - Foxconn Ransomware Attack Shows Nothing Is Safe Forever

25:09 - Fingerprint theft risk from hand signs and AI

26:52 - Cisco (CSCO) Q3 earnings report 2026

27:22 - GM lays off 500-600 salaried IT workers to cut costs

27:52 - Tech unemployment ticks up to 3.8% in April amid AI-driven layoffs

28:25 - Google announces its Chromebook successor: the Googlebook

29:46 - Motherboard sales 'collapse' by more than 25% as chipmakers strangle enthusiast PC market to build more AI chips — Asus projected to sell 5 million fewer boards than 2025, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock also expected to see reduced sales numbers

30:56 - Micron ships gigantic 245TB SSD

31:49 - Intel stock hits fourth straight record high as Apple report fuels chip rally

32:44 - Amazon turns its logistics empire into a new business, taking on UPS and FedEx in freight and shipping

33:29 - Imminent Samsung Strike Could Be an Earthquake for AI

34:48 - We just got a new reason to believe the Trump phone is real(ish)

35:37 - 70% of Americans oppose data centers near their homes, now less popular than nuclear power plants — opposition towards nearby AI infrastructure heating up as tech companies ramp up projects to acquire more compute

36:33 - Microsoft's massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off 'half the country' to meet power requirements, government says — $1 billion project stalls over capacity disagreements and lack of infrastructure

37:36 - A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure

39:22 - Maryland citizens slapped with $2 billion power grid upgrade bill for out-of-state AI data centers — state complains to federal energy regulators, says additional cost breaks ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ promises

40:46 - Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have one year to find new power as their utility pivots to data centers

41:54 - First Real-Time Brain-Controlled Hearing Device

43:10 - New Nightmare Just Dropped: '3D' Animated Ads on Trucks in Traffic

44:37 - LinkedIn planning to lay off 5% of staff in latest tech-sector cuts, source says

45:06 - Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce as AI adoption reshapes operations

46:23 - EBay rejects GameStop's $56 billion bid as 'neither credible nor attractive'

47:10 - Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator

47:54 - Why you're probably going to lose money on Polymarket

49:39 - Developer re-enables 3D printer features that Bambu Lab disabled, firm promptly threatens legal action — OrcaSlicer-BambuLab project now shuttered

51:16 - Meta and TikTok Are Getting Your Data From State Healthcare Sites

52:17 - Meta employees launch protest against mouse-tracking tech at US offices

53:00 - X agrees to British crackdown on hate speech and militant content, regulator says

56:08 - Anthropic, Gates Foundation launch $200 million partnership for AI in health, education

56:58 - Anthropic says ‘evil’ portrayals of AI were responsible for Claude’s blackmail attempts

58:00 - Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools

58:53 - Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find

59:45 - UCF students boo commencement speaker over AI praise

1:00:43 - Medical AI transcriber for Ontario doctors 'hallucinated,' generated errors: auditor general

1:01:43 - Parents say ChatGPT got their son killed with bad advice on party drugs

1:03:43 - OpenAI endorses the Kids Online Safety Act.

1:04:09 - Altman faces self-dealing claims in Elon Musk lawsuit over OpenAI ties

1:05:16 - Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis after able 'drive into standing water'

1:06:09 - What do Waymo cars in Atlanta do when they're empty?

1:06:54 - Unitree unveils world's first mass-produced manned mecha GD01

1:08:01 - Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences votes on capping "A" grades

1:10:01 - Alabama woman, 65, shot and killed husband, 69, because he was annoying, prosecutors say

1:11:00 - South Florida police officers sue Ben Affleck and Matt Damon over 'The Rip'

1:11:37 - Toronto man arrested for 2 sex assaults is notorious ‘Pee Pee Poo Poo Man’

1:12:41 - Museum baffled by 'Knight Rider' look-alike car's traffic ticket

1:15:23 - California Mayor Resigns, Admitting to Being an Agent for China

1:15:56 - Ballmaxxing is "electrifying, addictive, euphoric and transcendental" according to those pursuing bigger balls

1:17:07 - Colorful ‘sea piggies’ are mysteriously washing up on Texas beaches

1:18:26 - CDC not requiring hantavirus cruise passengers to isolate at home

1:19:57 - Why are some people mosquito magnets? Clues are emerging

1:20:52 - Reported Bigfoot sightings stoke a long-running hunt for answers

1:22:28 - Laredo family says bee attacks keep them trapped inside home

1:23:43 - Beware of drunk deer, police warn, announcing season of inebriation