### Issue 1378 - Wednesday 2nd June, 2021

## In Today's Issue

- Australian government still keen for porn & gambling age verification system
- World's largest meat producer stung by cryptolocker, Australian production impacted
- New Nvidia GPUs, IKEA & Sonos speakers, Nintendo museum, Apple TV for Shield & Firefox 89
- eSIM for the Apple Watch without the need for a high priced plan, but with a catch
- Cheap Huawei wi-fi 6 router, free shipping at MSY, $900 off phones on Telstra plans at JB, Logitech mouse, Pixel 5 5G, Bose NC700, Civ 6 Platinum, outright iPhones from Telstra

## The News

### Australian government still keen for porn & gambling age verification system

In Feb 2020 a government committee submitted a report into age verification for internet gambling and porn and one of the recommendations in that report was to get the DTA to extend its Digital Identity system (aka, myGov/Aus Post Digital iD) to those kinda sites. The government has now responded to the committee's report and said it supports the DTA implementing an age verification service for porn and gambling, "in principle" and that "the Digital Transformation Agency is well placed to explore extending the digital identity program". It'll be absolutely useless in practice of course for porn (turn on the VPN and a world of naked people awaits), but hey, the government can say they're doing something and that'll keep any vested interests happy until the next election.

### World's largest meat producer stung by cryptolocker, Australian production impacted

Another day, another ransomware attack - this time it's JBS, a Brazilian company that is the world's largest meat producer. The attack kicked off in the USA, by the usual suspects (Russian crims) but has impacted meat production worldwide, even Australia. JBS's local operations will be shut down for a few days according to the ABC, while it restores computer systems. The weird outcome of this attack is that the U.S. Department of Agriculture can't release accurate wholesale pricing for beef and pork because without JBS's data in the mix, "disclosures could potentially reveal proprietary information about JBS's competitors".

### New Nvidia GPUs, IKEA & Sonos speakers, Nintendo museum, Apple TV for Shield & Firefox 89

- Nvidia announced a new variant of graphics cards based on the Ampere GPU - the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti. They're on sale now, but who the fuck knows when stock will arrive.
- IKEA and Sonos are back with a new Symonisk product. This time it's a picture frame with interchangeable fronts that acts as a speaker in the Sonos ecosystem.
- Nintendo is gonna turn its old factory/service centre in Kyoto into a museum celebrating all things Nintendo. The "Nintendo Gallery" will open mid-2024.
- Apple TV+ is now available on the Nvidia Shield range of Android TV set top boxes and supports 4K with Dolby Atmos. Which is good as I have a Shield Pro and also have a free Apple TV+ subscription.
- Firefox 89 introduces a new UI they call "Proton". I think it looks nice, but the old interface was fine. The Mac version of Firefox 89 also includes native context menus, wide gamut colour support and Dark Mode.

## Something I Saw On The Internet

### eSIM for the Apple Watch without the need for a high priced plan, but with a catch

Truphone have eSIM plans available for the Apple Watch ($10/m or $100/yr with unlimited data) - but before you get excited that you can ditch your overpriced Optus/Telstra/Vodafone plan and move to a yearly pre-paid MVNO, there's a catch. The only way you can have separate numbers between your Apple Watch and iPhone is if you set up the watch via Family Sharing, which cuts down on the features available to you (i.e: the ECG feature isn't available on a watch set up via Family Sharing). Great if you have a kid or relative or whatever that you want to give an Apple Watch to so if they fall over they can get help or you wanna track them or something, but don't want to give them an iPhone. Truphone has a free 7-day trial if you wanna give it a crack anyways.

## Bargains

- Huawei Wi-Fi AX3 Quad-Core Wi-Fi 6 Plus router - $99.99 from Mobileciti's eBay store
- Free shipping on orders over $59 at MSY
- $900 off any smartphone at JB Hi-Fi if you go on a $99/m 12-month Telstra plan
- Logitech Triathlon M720 wireless mouse - $53.10 from Amazon
- Google Pixel 5 5G - $759.05 from JB Hi-Fi
- Bose Noise Cancelling Over-Ear Headphones 700 - $358.15 from JB Hi-Fi
- Civilization VI: Platinum Edition for PC/Mac on Steam - $16 from Humble Bundle
- $100 off iPhone 12 Pro or $200 off iPhone 12 & 12 Mini outright at Telstra

## The End

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