### Issue 1815 - Wednesday 29th March, 2023

I have stuff to do on Thursday & Friday that means I can't pay attention to the internet, so Josh will keep you informed with the latest tech stuff until I return on Monday the 3rd of April.

## In Today's Issue

- SBF's bail conditions tightened and Binance cops a big lawsuit from US government
- eSafety Commissioner to force content scanning on practically every Australian internet platform
- CSIRO's Renewable Energy Storage Roadmap, EU locks 2035 as the end of CO2 emitting cars, wind turbines will not make you vomit
- Real lawyers give their opinions on Privacy Act reform
- Cheap B&O Bluetooth speaker, Elgato mic arm & Stream Deck, Jabra earbuds, EV charging cable, Sennheiser open back headphones, Bluetti battery, Cygnett USB powerbank, board games, Surface Pro 7+, 20x EDR points on Apple gift cards next week, Wyze IP camera

## The News

### SBF's bail conditions tightened and Binance cops a big lawsuit from US government

Old mate Sam Bankman-Fried's bail conditions have changed. SBF now has to "use a non-smartphone provided by the court with no internet capability", "a laptop with a limited software suite that can only access pre-approved websites" and is not "allowed on any video game that would allow him to use voice chat". He also had a new criminal charged added to his plate - "authorized and directed a bribe of at least $40 million to one or more Chinese government officials". Meanwhile, Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange has been sued by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission for "willful evasion of federal law and operating an illegal digital asset derivatives exchange".

### eSafety Commissioner to force content scanning on practically every Australian internet platform

The eSafety Commissioner said yesterday that while the updated Online Safety Codes devised by industry have "come some way" since the first draft, there are still some "red line issues" that if they aren't addressed to her satisfaction by the 31st of March, will result in the Commissioner making the codes themselves and industry having no input. That "red line" issue is for "designated internet services" and "relevant electronic services" (i.e: basically every platform on the internet) "are proactively seeking out child sexual abuse materials and terrorist content". I'll leave you to come up with your own theories as to why eSafety didn't simply make these codes themselves when developing the Online Safety Act.

### CSIRO's Renewable Energy Storage Roadmap, EU locks 2035 as the end of CO2 emitting cars, wind turbines will not make you vomit

- CSIRO has released a Renewable Energy Storage Roadmap and it says that the NEM (i.e: the power grid in South & East Australia) will need a 10 to 14-fold increase in its electricity storage capacity between 2025-2050. The full report is an interesting read for the nerds into this stuff.
- EU countries have given "final approval" to implement laws that'll ban the sale of new CO2 emitting cars by 2035. Initially Germany was on board but then they changed their mind, so to get this passed an exemption was added for "e-fuels" that don't really exist (and may never exist) in any scale right now.
- Remember when a bunch of NIMBYs claimed they had "wind turbine syndrome", saying that "infrasound" was making them ill and therefore, we should never install wind turbines? We all knew it was bullshit, but a new study by the University of Sydney has confirmed (again) that it is bullshit.

## Something I Saw On The Internet

### Real lawyers give their opinions on Privacy Act reform

Law firm Salinger Privacy has a great article going into detail about the proposed Privacy Act reforms and outlined six things they want to see in the draft legislation. Get rid of small business exemptions, details for direct marketing have to be collected directly from the individual or if purchased the person has to give explicit consent again, a "fair and reasonable" test to determine if a company really needs that data to operate, consent to collect and use data is only valid if the individual has a way to say no to a specific request, trading personal info can't be the reason the data is collected and the definition of personal information includes any info that allows someone to be singled out and acted upon. All common sense, smart stuff I reckon.

## Bargains

- Bang & Olufsen Beosound Explore portable Bluetooth speaker - $149.50 + delivery from Catch
- Elgato Stream Deck Mk.2 - $169 from Amazon
- Elgato Wave Mic Arm LP - $105 from Amazon
- Jabra Elite 7 Pro wireless earbuds - $159.20 from The Good Guys
- 5.4m 22kW type 2 EV charging cable - $217.49 from Amazon
- Sennheiser HD 599 SE open back headphones - $169 from Amazon
- BLUETTI EB70 portable battery & inverter with solar input - $745.34 from Bluetti's eBay store
- Cygnett ChargeUp Pro USB-C battery with 60W output - $81.60 from Cygnett
- Board game sale (various titles, never heard of em, maybe some of you nerds have) at Board Game Master
- Microsoft Surface Pro 7+ (12.3" screen, i5-1135G7, 128GB SSD, 8GB RAM) - $662.34 from Microsoft's eBay store
- 20x Everyday Rewards points on Apple gift cards at Big W (in 8 days time)
- Wyze Cam Pan V3 - $69.99 from Amazon

## Image Of The Day

A golden telephone presented in 1962 to the Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs to commemorate the first telephone designed and manufactured in Australia. I took this photo at the Victorian Telecommunications Museum in 2019. It's supposed to re-open any day now as the National Telecommunications Museum.

## The End

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