### Issue 2054 - Monday 25th March, 2024

## In Today's Issue

- FoI reveals anti-doxxing law a political brain fart
- Tritium gets 2nd Nasdaq delist warning
- Mozilla wants Meta to keep CrowdTangle alive at least until the US election is over
- The Financial Times makes their own AI-chatbot and it's kinda useful
- Cheap PS5, Lenovo tablet, SSD enclosures, Grand Theft Autos, Red Dead Redemption 2, Bose soundbar & Bluetooth speaker, Boost Mobile SIMs, 2.5gig NIC, Elgato streamer gear, EPOS headset, MG4 EV, handheld emulation consoles, Pixel 8

## The News

### FoI reveals anti-doxxing law a political brain fart

Crikey has revealed that the expedited "anti-doxxing" law announcement was basically a brain fart by the PM and Attorney-General after their influential buddies had a sook at being outed for their bad takes, with the Office of eSafety Commissioner's head honchos asking each other if anyone reached out to them "regarding the doxxing announcements this morning" and that "I got the impression that the announcement may have caught the department by surprise" - i.e: nobody bothered to tell the department responsible for regulating doxxing that there's a law coming about doxxing. A nice glimpse at how the rich and powerful have the ear of our politicians so much more than the rest of us, so whatever's bothering them gets bumped up the legislative queue ahead of real reform on things that impact all of us.

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### Tritium gets 2nd Nasdaq delist warning

Australian EV charger manufacturer Tritium continues to circle the drain after the Nasdaq issued it a second delisting notice. The first one was a warning that it has 180 days to get its share price above US$1 for at least 10 straight days, now its got a heads up that the market plans to "begin the process to delist" as Tritium has been trading below US$0.10 for 10 straight days. The company is now planning to consolidate stock (the reverse of a stock split) so the share price can remain above Nasdaq's minimums. Not a good sign considering they've already announced they're gonna shut down the Brisbane factory and consolidate its manufacturing in the USA. What else is there left to do in order for Tritium to turn a profit?

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### Mozilla wants Meta to keep CrowdTangle alive at least until the US election is over

Mozilla has published an open letter to Meta, begging them to keep CrowdTangle active beyond August 14th. If you're unfamiliar with CrowdTangle, it's an analytics tool Meta acquired a few years ago and it's the only way to get stats of what's popular on Facebook as Meta doesn't provide any other way to do it. Mozilla is worried that by shutting down CrowdTangle "will effectively prohibit the outside world, including election integrity experts, from seeing what's happening on Facebook and Instagram — during the biggest election year on record. This means almost all outside efforts to identify and prevent political disinformation, incitements to violence, and online harassment of women and minorities will be silenced".

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## Something I Saw On The Internet

### The Financial Times makes their own AI-chatbot and it's kinda useful

The Financial Times has unleashed Anthropic's Claude LLM on its massive back-catalog of news stories and made a chatbot available to some FT Professional subscribers. You can ask it questions and it will answer based on the FT's reporting over the years. Kinda like a fancy search engine. Not a bad idea as you'd expect it to give accurate results based on the FT's relatively solid reporting rather than some random unverified bullshit on the wider internet. The Verge had a poke and found it answered a question about Microsoft accurately and provided a link to the article it got the answer from, but it was also wrong about some politics stuff. Seems typical of AI-stuff, sometimes good, sometimes useless.

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The Australian Apple Review - August 1986 (Jongleur / Internet Archive)

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