### Issue 2050 - Tuesday 19th March, 2024

## In Today's Issue

- eSafety sends legal notices to social media companies asking how they handle terrorist content
- macOS 14.4 update riddled with bugs, Microsoft forcing Bing ads on Chrome users now
- Intel's 6.2GHz CPU is a power hog, Apple might add Google's Gemini to iOS, Black Mirror gets renewed
- Behind The Bastards highlights how awful Steve Jobs was
- Cheap 12TB refurb Seagate HDDs, Hue smart switch, 27" 5K Samsung monitor, Steelcase chairs, Bose headphones

## The News

### eSafety sends legal notices to social media companies asking how they handle terrorist content

eSafety has issued legal notices to Google, Meta, Twitter/X, WhatsApp, Telegram and Reddit. The notices issued via powers given to eSafety under the Online Safety act demand they "report on steps they are taking to protect Australians from terrorist and violent extremist material and activity" and "answer a series of detailed questions about how they are tackling the issue". eSafety will also be asking Telegram and Reddit about measures they have in place to detect and remove child sexual exploitation and abuse. The eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, was also in the news today having a whinge that more companies aren't using Microsoft's Photo DNA or Google's CSAI Match, not even Microsoft or Google themselves. Could it be, perhaps, that these auto-detection systems suck and aren't worth the massive amounts of false matches? If you think the software is so good, why don't use you use the very powerful Online Safety Act to force its use or shut down the online services that refuse to use it???

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### macOS 14.4 update riddled with bugs, Microsoft forcing Bing ads on Chrome users now

Might wanna hold off upgrading to macOS 14.4 as it appears to have a long list of deal breaker issues for many people. MacRumors has compiled the main ones, which appear to be lots of USB hubs no longer being detected, Java processes "terminating unexpectedly" which breaks many important apps, HP printer drivers shitting the bed and a couple more, like this one that could delete all your iCloud Drive data. Meanwhile, Microsoft has randomly enabled "a one-time notification giving people the choice to set Bing as their default search engine on Chrome" in Windows 10 and Windows 11, with many people thinking it was malware due to the "quality of the pixelated ads". Microsoft confirmed it is legit and that it happens when you are using Chrome with the default search engine set to Google. Gross behaviour to go around injecting ads into your competitors product!

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### Intel's 6.2GHz CPU is a power hog, Apple might add Google's Gemini to iOS, Black Mirror gets renewed

- Intel's new Core i9-14900KS is the fastest consumer CPU they've ever sold, able to ramp up its clock speed to 6.2GHz with two cores - 2004 me would be very impressed, but in 2024 we all know that clock speed doesn't mean much on its own. In benchmarks it's not even that much faster than the Ryzen 9 7950X but uses a shitload more electricity.
- Bloomberg reckons Apple is in "active negotiations" with Google to put Gemini, their generative-AI tech, on the iPhone. The article elaborates that iOS 18 will feature a mix of Apple's own AI developments and 3rd-parties like Google and OpenAI. Apple's cold war with Google is over? We shall see what happens at WWDC in just 3 months time.
- Black Mirror, one of my all time favourite TV shows has been renewed by Netflix and will return in 2025. I really hope it's better than the last season which in my humble opinion, was shite. Also on Netflix and relevant to nerds, the Three-Body Problem kicks off on the 21st of March.

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## Something I Saw On The Internet

### Behind The Bastards highlights how awful Steve Jobs was

I'm not a big podcast guy, but I have been listening to Behind The Bastards lately as they cover how much of a fuckwit Steve Jobs was. We all knew he was an arsehole, but there's a rich vein of stories, confirmed by multiple people, of how he didn't shower for years so stunk constantly, yelled at children regularly, would cry whenever he didn't get his way to manipulate people to do what he wants, regularly gaslit Steve Wozniak and treated his daughter like a piece of shit - and I'm only up to episode 3 out of 4! Jobs was an absolute prick but at least we got the Mac, iPod and iPhone out of it.

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## Bargains

- Recertified Seagate 12TB HDDs - $190 + delivery from East Digital HK
- Philips Hue Smart Wireless Dimmer Switch - $29.60 from Amazon
- Samsung Viewfinity S9 27" 5K Monitor (S90PC) - $1599 from Amazon
- 25% off Steelcase Series 2 office chairs - $703.50 starting price from Steelcase
- Bose QuietComfort SE wireless noise cancelling headphones - $238 from Amazon

## Image Of The Day

Multi-channel prototype (Computer Print). Eduardo Paolozzi, 1970. (National Gallery of Australia)

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