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Deskmeet B660: More Like Desk Meat! 128gb / 20tb dGPU in a Tiny Package

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Don't let the small form factor fool you, this thing packs a punch! Meet Deskmeet from ASRock. If you want a mini desktop computer as your gaming pc, well you are in luck! This dude holds a B660 motherboard, DDR4 memory, a 20cm long graphics card (RX 6600 in our case), and the power supply all inside a 8-liter case! Cool stuff bro!!

https://www.asrock.com/nettop/Intel/DeskMeet%20B660%20Series/index.asp?…

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Level1 News June 17 2022: FOMO (Fear of Morbin' Out)

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0:00 - Intro
0:30 - NASA creates team to study UFOs
1:38 - Waymo is teaming up with Uber on autonomous trucking because time really heals all wounds
2:42 - ‘AI’ Shopping Startup Exaggerated Tech Capabilities to Potential Investors
4:12 - Fearing lawsuits, factories rush to replace humans with robots in South Korea
5:07 - Autonomous Mayflower reaches American shores -- in Canada
6:05 - Ingenuity Adapts for Mars Winter Operations
7:04 - NASA just bought the rest of the space station crew flights from SpaceX
8:34 - New type of 3D printing uses sound waves to build up objects
9:34 - AI Trained on 4Chan Becomes ‘Hate Speech Machine’
10:38 - NASA’s new powerful space telescope gets hit by larger than expected micrometeoroid
11:39 - Dostarlimab: NYC Cancer Trial Delivers Unprecedented Result
12:42 - The 'Benjamin Button' effect: Scientists can reverse aging in mice. The goal is to do the same for humans
14:30 - Bees are ‘fish’ under Calif. Endangered Species Act – state court
15:44 - HBO Max canceled Raised by Wolves after two seasons
17:12 - Houston man raps about robbing ATM's on YouTube, later arrested after allegedly robbing an ATM
18:23 - GEICO to pay $5.2M to woman who says she caught STD in former partner’s car
19:39 - 2 people stuck in tank of chocolate at central Pa. M&M factory
21:58 - Sheriff's department in Michigan 'exhausted' funds budgeted for gas
23:52 - Paladino: Saying Hitler "kind of leader we need" was mistake
24:48 - Police Officer Fired For Getting "Pure Evil" Tattoo On His Hands
25:57 - New York woman finds lost dachshund — in Hilary Swank's lap
27:12 - Man Divorced Wife for Cooking Instant Noodles Every Day, Judge Says
29:17 - Man Praised for Taking Terminally Ill Friend's Virginity
30:23 - Parent finds urinal in girls bathroom at public middle school
33:34 - 30 animals found dead in animal rescue CEO's home
35:12 - Sacramento Approves Sale Of Up To 3 Billion Gallons of Water After Declaring ‘Water Alert’
36:32 - Ryanair boss suggests bringing in army to end airport travel chaos
37:29 - $5M in ancient art at Dallas Museum of Art destroyed by man 'mad at his girl,' police say
39:35 - Morbius Is So Bad That It's Coming Back to Theaters (No, Really)
40:43 - North Korea assumes leadership of top disarmament group
41:38 - Woman Is NYC Bar Hero After Calmly Grabbing, Removing Opossum That Wandered Inside
43:03 - Dog tests positive for drugs after neighborhood walk in SD

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Level1 Chats: Greg Kroah Hartman on the Steam Deck, His New Machine (that we built!), and more!

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ASRock Rack ROMED8-2T Review, proto-Build & Chat. What do you want to see?

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This is the board being used in the forbidden router!
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Level1 News June 1 2022: Get In Loser, We're Going Shipping

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0:00 - Intro
0:44 - AMD Ryzen 7000 Smokes Alder Lake At Computex Keynote As Zen 4 Excitement Builds
2:46 - It’s official: Broadcom to acquire VMware in massive $61B deal
3:54 - Samsung allegedly assembling a "dream team" to take down Apple's M1 in 2025
5:25 - Foxconn could leave Wisconsinites on the hook for $300m
6:56 - Apple shipped me a 79-pound iPhone repair kit to fix a 1.1-ounce battery
9:27 - Apple in talks to buy EA, Disney and Amazon potential suitors
10:50 - Amazon Style: Retailer opens its first physical clothing store
13:11 - Amazon's Regretted Attrition Rate More Than Doubled in the Past Year
14:08 - Amazon Shedding Warehouse Space as Sales Slow
14:38 - Amazon tests having drivers make deliveries from local malls
15:25 - ProtonMail Unifies Encrypted Mail, Calendar, VPN, and Storage Services Under New 'Proton' Brand
16:15 - Microsoft (MSFT) to Slow Hiring in Windows, Office, Teams Chat Groups
17:12 - Microsoft brings support for Arm-based AI chips to Windows
18:04 - Microsoft Dev Box will virtualize your Windows development PC in a browser window
18:45 - Microsoft will support third-party Windows 11 widgets later this year
20:11 - Windows 11 CPU usage reporting is apparently buggy, including on Task Manager
21:08 - Match Group and Google reach an interim compromise over app payments
21:55 - Epic Games points to Mac’s openness and security in its latest filing in App Store antitrust case
22:46 - Terra Will Split and Abandon Its Stablecoin After Losing Dollar Peg
23:22 - JPMorgan Chase tests blockchain technology for collateral settlement (NYSE:JPM)
24:11 - ‘Quantum Internet’ Inches Closer With Advance in Data Teleportation
25:31 - Solar Panels Will Be Sold at Ikea, Starting in California
26:34 - Walmart, CVS to Stop Filling Controlled-Substance Prescriptions for Cerebral, Done
27:28 - New Copyright Lawsuit Targets Uploaders of 10-Minute Movie Edits
28:37 - On-demand grocery app Gorillas lays off half its office workforce
30:43 - Airbnb is closing its domestic business in China, sources say
31:39 - Coinbase Tests App for Employees to Grade Each Other During Meetings
33:27 - GameStop now has its own wallet for crypto and NFTs
34:43 - At Wells Fargo, a Quest to Increase Diversity Leads to Fake Job Interviews

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Level1 News May 31 2022: Farewell, Mr.Dorsey

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0:00 - Intro
7:20 - In private, vulnerable Senate Dems back off tech bill
8:34 - Why the government is unprepared to stop ransomware attacks
9:42 - Twitter will pay a $150 million fine over accusations it improperly sold user data
10:22 - Court: Foreign Torrent Site Operator Can Be Sued in the US
11:33 - SEC weighs crackdown on phony environmental and social justice funds
13:18 - U.S. issues charges in first criminal cryptocurrency sanctions case
14:17 - Navy Ships Swarmed By Drones, Not UFOs, Defense Officials Confirm
15:11 - California parents could soon sue for social media addiction
16:41 - Google 'private browsing' mode not really private, Texas lawsuit says
17:34 - DC attorney general sues Mark Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica data breach
18:23 - Appeals court: Florida law on social media unconstitutional
19:59 - Spain to invest $13 billion to build microchip industry
20:35 - Dutch police create deepfake video of murdered boy, 13, in hope of new leads
21:33 - China Is 3D Printing a Dam
23:11 - Mysterious firm seeks to buy majority stake in Arm China
23:45 - Jack Dorsey steps down from Twitter’s board
24:24 - Twitter Shareholders Sue Elon Musk For Sowing Confusion To Tank Deal
26:57 - Mark Zuckerberg: Metaverse to Lose ‘Significant’ Money in Near Term
27:49 - Facebook opens political ad data vaults to researchers
29:37 - Facebook Slammed for Spreading Vladimir Putin’s Propaganda in NATO’s East
30:12 - Female avatar sexually assaulted in Meta VR platform, campaigners say
32:31 - Apple's Headset Said to Feature 14 Cameras Enabling Lifelike Avatars, Jony Ive Has Remained Involved With Design
34:26 - Exclusive: Russian hackers are linked to new Brexit leak website, Google says
35:35 - “Tough to forge” digital driver’s license is… easy to forge
36:47 - DuckDuckGo Isn’t as Private as You Thought
37:54 - Hackers compromised some Zola user accounts to buy gift cards
39:05 - CrateDepression | Rust Supply-Chain Attack Infects Cloud CI Pipelines with Go Malware
40:17 - Rash of parts thefts is leaving Freightliner trucks inoperable
42:56 - Hacker Steals Database of Hundreds of Verizon Employees

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Level1 News May 25 2022: My TikTok Is Straight Fire, Bruh

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0:00 - Intro
1:05 - Netflix customers canceling service increasingly includes long-term subscribers
4:37 - Why Tesla was kicked out of the S&P 500's ESG index
7:45 - Apple gave mixed-reality headset demo to board of directors
9:58 - Apple reportedly testing E Ink outer display for upcoming foldable
10:44 - Apple Now Letting Developers Automatically Charge for Some Subscription Price Increases
11:50 - Apple Reverses Remote Work Policy, Exec Goes To Alphabet
13:07 - Microsoft will boost pay and stock compensation to retain employees
13:49 - Sony readies for metaverse revolution with cross-platform push
14:26 - Napster gets bought again, this time with a web3 pivot in the works
14:51 - Spotify experiments with musician NFT galleries
16:50 - Netflix Exploring Live Streaming For First Time; Unscripted & Comedy
17:15 - ‘Twisted Metal’: Neve Campbell Cast In Peacock’s Live-Action Video Game Adaptation
18:10 - Nvidia's LHR Limiter Has Fallen, But Gamers Shouldn't Worry
19:09 - NYC Now Has More Airbnb Listings Than Apartments for Rent
20:30 - Grubhub's NYC Free Lunch Promo Didn't Go Smoothly
23:27 - Sources: Hyundai to set $7B Georgia plant during Biden visit
23:58 - Software Freedom Conservancy wins big step forward for open-source rights
25:06 - Telehealth startup Cerebral halts controlled substance prescriptions
26:15 - Coinbase slows hiring to help weather market downturn
26:54 - Mastercard launches biometric 'wave to pay' programme
27:54 - China chipmaker SMIC says phone, PC demand has dropped 'like a rock'
28:59 - No cars were sold in Shanghai in April as zero-Covid policy hammers activity
30:20 - Free Lord of the Rings Mobile Game in the Works From Electronic Arts
31:11 - TikTok reportedly plans a ‘major push’ into gaming and games livestreamers could play with viewers
32:21 - TikTokers Are Accused of Starting Forest Fires For Views
33:54 - Older people using TikTok to defy ageist stereotypes, research finds
34:56 - A Pile of New Bikes in a Target Dumpster Goes Viral on TikTok
37:06 - Twitter will hide tweets that share false info during a crisis
38:06 - New York attorney general launches probe of Twitch and Discord after Buffalo shooting

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Checking Out The FSP Twins Pro Dual 930w PSU!

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Level1 News May 11 2022: The Sweet Space Serenades of Spaghettification

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0:00 - Intro
1:04 - AMD promises ‘extreme gaming laptops’ in 2023 with new Dragon Range CPU
1:54 - AMD doubles the number of CPU cores it offers to Chromebooks
3:19 - Microsoft Edge Overtakes Safari as World's Second Most Popular Desktop Browser
4:22 - Paramount Plus subscriber count has grown to nearly 40 million
6:17 - Alibaba Cloud gets more of Android working on RISC-V silicon
6:58 - Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open letter
8:36 - Apple lawsuit says 'stealth' startup Rivos poached engineers to steal secrets
11:28 - Apple Reaches Settlement to Pay $15 to Some iPhone 4S Owners Who Experienced Buggy Performance After iOS 9 Update
12:23 - Intuit to pay $141M settlement over 'free' TurboTax ads
13:39 - Square Enix sells all of its Western game studios—and their games—to Embracer
15:08 - New York Bill Would Force Amazon to Limit Grueling Warehouse Quotas
15:55 - Amazon Kindle E-Readers Will Now Convert EPUB to Kindle Format
17:01 - Amazon pledges $20 billion in exports from India by 2025
20:19 - Starbucks to launch NFTs this year, offering access to ‘unique experiences and benefits’
21:27 - NY Times says Wordle drove “tens of millions” of new users, record growth
22:59 - All 2023 Volvos Will Have Hybrid or Fully Electric Powertrains
23:22 - Google Overhauls Performance Review System After Employee Criticism
24:15 - A major Patreon survey shows that most creators don’t want crypto payments
24:59 - 1 Billion Cryptocurrency Users in a Decade, Predicts Coinbase CEO
26:05 - iPhone users complain Apple Music is installing itself to the dock, booting out their other apps
27:31 - Sonos is about to introduce its own voice assistant
28:41 - SpaceX engineer says NASA should plan for Starship’s “significant” capability
29:46 - NASA Is Sending Artificial Female Bodies to the Moon to Study Radiation Risks
31:32 - NASA's James Webb Space Telescope completely aligned and fully focused
32:08 - Rocket Lab catches falling rocket with a helicopter — then drops it in the ocean
34:53 - Japan firm develops AI system to catch shrine box donations thieves
36:08 - Hear the Sound of a Black Hole ‘Echo’

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What's Up With Sysmon and the Windows Event Viewer?

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SwiftOnSecurity's Sysmon XML Config file: https://github.com/SwiftOnSecurity/sysmon-config

Remote desktop tracking article: http://woshub.com/rdp-connection-logs-forensics-windows/

Forum thread coming soon!

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