### Issue 2191 - Wednesday 9th October, 2024

## In Today's Issue

- Cars on sale in Australia collect & share data with very little transparency
- Nobel Prize in Physics honours machine learning with artificial neural networks
- Red Dead Redemption coming to PC
- Mobile Phone Museum
- Cheap Brother laser printer, smart wi-fi plugs, Xbox 2TB expansion card, headphones, Adobe Creative Cloud, Nikon Z6III, Apple Pencil Pro, Shure SM7B, Logitech MX Creative Console & other Logitech MX stuff, UE Boom speaker, Ryzen CPUs

## The News

### Cars on sale in Australia collect & share data with very little transparency

CHOICE had a look at the privacy policies of the 10 most popular car brands in Australia and found that it's a goddamn mess. Kia, Hyundai and Tesla are the worst offenders, sharing voice recognition data - "sensitive data" under privacy law that requires explicit consent before it can be collected and shared - with third parties by default. CHOICE wants privacy law updated so data collection and sharing from vehicle connected services to be opt-in by default, not opt-out. Subaru, Mitsubishi and Isuzu cars don't have this problem because they don't offer connected services in Australia.

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### Nobel Prize in Physics honours machine learning with artificial neural networks

Ripped straight from the New York Times: "John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton received the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for discoveries that helped computers learn more in the way the human brain does, providing the building blocks for developments in artificial intelligence. The award is an acknowledgment of A.I.'s growing significance in the way people live and work. With their ability to make sense of vast amounts of data, artificial neural networks already have a major role in scientific research, the Nobel committee said, including in physics, where it is used to design new materials, crunch large amounts of data from particle accelerators and help survey the universe".

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### Red Dead Redemption coming to PC

Rockstar is releasing Red Dead Redemption for PC on October 29th. I could have sworn it was already on PC, but apparently not, just the more recent Red Dead Redemption 2! Not only are they bringing RDR to PC, they've giving it some love with "PC-specific enhancements including native 4K resolution at up to 144hz on compatible hardware, monitor support for both Ultrawide (21:9) and Super Ultrawide (32:9), HDR10 support, and full keyboard and mouse functionality" plus "support for NVIDIA DLSS 3.7 and AMD FSR 3.0 upscaling technologies, NVIDIA DLSS Frame Generation, adjustable draw distances, shadow quality settings, and more".

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## Something I Saw On The Internet

### Mobile Phone Museum

Ben Wood and Matt Chatterley over in the UK have a mobile phone museum. It consists of 2,800 unique devices, takes donations and puts a nice high quality image of all their phones up on a website. It makes me happy knowing there's someone out there collecting this stuff. I don't know what purpose it serves, but these devices are such a part of our lives it feels like it's worth the effort just to keep one of each for posterity or nostalgia at the very least.

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## Bargains

- Brother HL-L2445DW wireless mono laser printer - $139.31 from Amazon
- Meross Smart Wi-Fi Plug with Energy Monitor (4-pack) - $48.98 from Amazon
- Seagate 2TB Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S - $326.53 from Amazon
- Edifier WH700NB noise cancelling wireless headphones - $51.99 from Amazon
- Sennheiser HD 599 SE Open Back Headphones - $125 from Amazon
- Shure SM7B Cardioid Dynamic Vocal Microphone - $549 from Amazon
- Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps 1 Year - $652.73 from Amazon
- Samsung 4TB 990 Pro M.2 NVMe SSD - $424.58 from Amazon
- Nikon Z6III (Body Only) - $3514.05 from Amazon
- Pre-order the Logitech MX Creative Console and get a bonus MX Master 3S mouse - $349.95 at JB Hi-Fi
- Apple Pencil Pro - $167 at JB Hi-Fi & Officeworks
- Ultimate Ears Megaboom 3 Bluetooth speaker - $132 from Big W
- Detroit: Become Human for PC - $17.98 on Steam
- Logitech MX Keys S Keyboard & MX Master 3S Wireless Mouse - $250 at JB Hi-Fi
- Logitech MX Master 3S Wireless Mouse Graphite - $105 at Officeworks
- AMD Ryzen 7 5800X AM4 CPU - $220.98 from Amazon
- AMD Ryzen 9 5900X AM4 CPU - $312.62 from Amazon
- AMD Ryzen 9 5950X AM4 CPU - $411.16 from Amazon
- AMD Ryzen 5 7600X AM5 CPU - $280.28 from Amazon

## Image Of The Day

Apollo 17 Hasselblad image from film magazine 147/A - Rev12, EVA-1 (Project Apollo Archive)

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