### Issue 2094 - Thursday 23rd May, 2024

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## In Today's Issue

- Nvidia had another bumper financial quarter riding the AI wave
- Nissan's call centre to handle data breach has its own data breach
- OpenAI & News Corp do a deal, Bluesky gets DMs, ACMA sues Optus over 2022 data breach
- Oh Frick Go Back removes ads from Windows 11
- Cheap Sennheiser headphones, Pixel Watch 2, AirPods Pro 2, Logitech mech keeb, Belkin USB chager, Paramount+

## The News

### Nvidia had another bumper financial quarter riding the AI wave

What's that saying about gold rushes and selling shovels? Whatever it is and whoever said it, Nvidia is the 21st century example of it. They've announced a 262% increase in revenue for Q1 FY25 compared to Q1 FY24 and a whopping 690% increase in operating income (i.e: profit), raking in over US$26b of revenue and making a US$16.9b profit in just 3 months. During the earnings call, CEO Jensen Huang said Nvidia will speed up their AI chip releases from every 2 years to once a year, adding that "New CPUs, new GPUs, new networking NICs, new switches... a mountain of chips are coming". And why not? You're selling the thing everyone wants, give it to them! Tesla purchased 35,000 H100 GPUs and Meta plans to purchase 350,000 of them by the end of 2024. Nvidia is currently sitting at a US$2.35T market cap, about a trillion dollars less than Microsoft.

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### Nissan's call centre to handle data breach has its own data breach

Nissan Australia & NZ got popped late last year, with 100,000 customers details spewed on the dark web. Medicare cards, drivers licences, passports, tax file numbers - everything a potential fraudster needs in a neat little package. Anyways, Nissan thought it would be nice to set up a call centre to handle customer inquiries about the breach, so they paid OracleCMS (presumably) a lot of money to run that call centre. All was going well until that call centre got popped last month! It's not as bad as the original data breach, with "only" relatively basic info like "names, contact details, dates of birth and a summary description of the information in the Nissan cyber incident notification letters" contained, but still fucking hopeless.

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### OpenAI & News Corp do a deal, Bluesky gets DMs, ACMA sues Optus over 2022 data breach

- OpenAI and News Corp have done a deal worth around US$250m over 5 years so OpenAI won't be sued by News Corp for scraping all its content and spitting it out to ChatGPT's users. Garbage in, garbage out.
- Bluesky now has direct messages. They aren't encrypted and are stored on Bluesky's servers, so as usual, don't say anything in there you'd be embarrassed to be made public as anyone at Bluesky can read them.
- ACMA is taking Optus to Federal Court over that big ol' data breach back in 2022. I'm no expert in the Telecommunications Act, but are there any criminal things ACMA can throw at Optus management? That would be nice.

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## Something I Saw On The Internet

### Oh Frick Go Back removes ads from Windows 11

OFGB (Oh Frick Go Back) is a little app that "removes ads from various places around Windows 11". The fact this has to exist disappoints me. If you'll allow me to indulge in a little rant about PCs and operating systems, I think Microsoft and Apple should turn their desktop OSes into "professional" operating systems. Stop trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator and make macOS and Windows stripped down and lean tools to run the applications people need. The normies are doing everything on their smartphones or tablets anyways, they hate Mac & Windows or in the case of younger ones, don't even know how to use them. Get the fuck out of my way, do as little as possible, make the foundations super robust and provide a platform that makes it easy for software developers to create amazing native applications that leverage the incredible amount of computing power. I also believe Santa is real and that the tooth fairy owes me several hundred dollars.

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## Bargains

- Sennheiser Momentum 4 wireless noise cancelling headphones - $419 from Sennheiser
- Google Pixel Watch 2 - $274 from Qantas
- Apple AirPods Pro 2 (USB-C) - $339 at Lavatech (get Officeworks to price beat)
- Logitech MX Mechanical Mini wireless keyboard - $169 from Amazon
- Belkin BoostCharge Pro 4-port GaN 108W USB charger - $86.99 from Pop Phones AU
- 50% off Paramount+ annual plans - $44.99 for standard, $62.49 for premium

## Image Of The Day

Collection of posters from Australian Radio Advertising Bureau [POSTER 2022-2310]: There's nowhere radio isn't (National Library of Australia)

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