#### Issue 1709 - Monday 10th October, 2022

Today's issue of The Sizzle looks different than usual, doesn't it? I've moved off from ActiveCampaign to MailerLite and had to tweak the issue template due to how MailerLite handles "raw" HTML emails. It's a work in progress so will probably look slightly different tomorrow and maybe even the day after that while I do HTML email design by trial and error.

## In Today's Issue

- Hacker mints half a billion dollars worth of Binance cryptocurrency
- Lufthansa banned AirTags from flights, kinda, maybe, I dunno
- MyGov review to include possibility of it acting as an ID verification service
- Automagically remove awkward silences in videos with Recut
- Cheap UniFi U6-Pro, Dell TB4 dock, LG 38" monitor, Fallout games, MacBook Pros, Belkin MagSafe charging stand, Samsung S22, Fire TV & Echo Dots, Foxtel Now box, Samsung Tab S8, Nvidia Shield TV Pro, TP-Link energy monitoring smart plugs, Philips 34" monitor, Edifier speakers, PreSonus speakers, Anker GaN USB-C charger, Crucial SSD

## The News

### Hacker mints half a billion dollars worth of Binance cryptocurrency

Binance, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges was hacked and 2 million "Binance Coins" (BNB) were minted out of thin air, worth up to US$550m. It seems that the hacker just generated their own money. Like someone breaking into the Note Printing Australia factory in Craigieburn and doing a cheeky print run of some $100 notes. Binance is now asking stakeholders (i.e: people that own BNB) if they should freeze the stolen tokens and if they should implement a bug bounty. Also in cryptocurrency land, the infamous Celsius Network exposed the names, home addresses, email addresses and recent transactions of all its customers in a court filing. Big brained geniuses.

### Lufthansa banned AirTags from flights, kinda, maybe, I dunno

Lufthansa has banned AirTags from their flights. I think. News spread around German media, then English media, that the airline has classified AirTags as "dangerous goods" according to the International Civil Aviation Organization, backed up by this tweet from Lufthansa's official account. However, when Airways magazine reached out to Lufthansa, they were told the airline has "not banned airtags and there is no guideline or regulation by Lufthansa to ban airtags. There is a standing ICAO regulation on such devices, but this has nothing to do with Lufthansa or any other carrier". Okay then, that cleared things up, thanks Lufthansa.

### MyGov review to include possibility of it acting as an ID verification service

In the wake of Optus getting cyberowned, the government is thinking about turning myGov or myGovID into a "single digital identification service". They've told former Telstra CEO David Thodey to include this possibility in his massive review of myGov. The goal of such a system would be for businesses to check if a customer is who they say they are via myGov who hold this information securely (lol), instead of customers having to give this info to multiple companies each time they want to interact with them. It all sounds sensible at face value but you just know that in practice it'll be a shitshow.

## Something I Saw On The Internet

### Automagically remove awkward silences in videos with Recut

There's probably a few of you reading this that record videos for work, most likely demos or tutorials on how to use something computer related. You might like an app called Recut. It automatically removes all the pauses in your videos. You can tell it how long of a silence to cut out and how much padding to add between the clips. Then you can import the edits into Davinci Resolve/Premiere/Final Cut Pro. I don't record or edit these types of videos but I thought it would be useful for those that do. It costs US$99 (once-off, but only 1 year of updates) and is on Mac and Windows.

## Bargains

- Ubiquiti Unifi U6-Pro Wi-Fi 6 Access Point - $239 from Wireless1
- Dell WD22TB4 Thunderbolt 4 Dock - $360 from RonaRigs
- LG 38WN95C 38" 3840x1600 USB-C ultrawide curved monitor - $1599 from Amazon
- Fallout 1, Fallout 2 or Fallout 4 for PC via Steam - $3.18/$3.18/$11.68 from Green Man Gaming
- 12-13% off 14" and 16" Apple MacBook Pros at Amazon
- Belkin Boost Charge Pro 3-in-1 MagSafe wireless charger - $154.36 from digiDirect's eBay store
- Samsung Galaxy S22 128GB 5G - $949 from Amazon
- Fire TV Stick 4K Max or 2x Echo Dots (2nd-gen) - $59 each from Amazon
- Foxtel Now Box (C027) - $24.99 + shipping from Kogan
- Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 WiFi 128GB - $819 from Amazon
- NVIDIA Shield TV Pro 4K Media Player - $249 from Amazon
- TP-Link Kasa KP115 smart wi-fi plug with energy monitoring - $23.20 from Amazon
- Philips 345M2R 34" 3440x1440 curved monitor - $489 from Centrecom
- Edifier S2000MKIII Speakers - $412.80 from Amazon
- PreSonus Eris E3.5 BT Bluetooth Speakers - $161.46 from Amazon
- Anker 715 (Nano II 65W) GaN USB-C Charger - $68 from Amazon
- Crucial P2 1TB M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD - $99 from Shopping Express

## The End

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