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April 02, 2026 | Read online
# We're going back to the moon, SpaceX IPO to make Musk a trillionaire, councils oppose data centres Plus: Microsoft seriously, actually, really, says Copilot is a joke
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Folks, have a bloody ripper long weekend. Drive safe if you're hitting the road, enjoy some quality time with friends and family, and treat yourself to a couple of choccy eggs!!!!!!!!
Mentioned in today’s edition: Gabe Newell, Copilot, Baidu, Atlassian, Sora, Optus, Artemis II and Telstra. Plus, deals on Bose headphones, Lenovo Legion laptops and Apple Watches.
# The News
### We're going back to the bloody moon
The first moon-bound crewed space rocket in more than fifty years has launched this morning, with the Artemis II successfully entering into orbit (BBC). The four astronauts will spend 24 hours going around the Earth twice as they do tests and decide whether to continue on. If all goes to plan — well, other than the toilet problem that's emerged — the Artemis II will take about four days to get to the moon and then trundle back without actually landing.
NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast)
The Sizzle: USA! USA! USA! I love being able to learn about a tech story that fills me with the feeling of stretching what's possible. Maybe it's just coming of age in the late 2000s, but it feels like the last 15+ years of tech has involved funnelling all the money and attention towards "making app that traps you inside, shows you ads and takes a cut of every transaction". It's funny to think we, as a species, figured out how to get to the moon and then just, well, stopped for a half century. Who knows what broader benefit there will be to this, I just think it's neat. Let people enjoy things.
After a brief 54-year intermission, NASA is back in the business of sending astronauts to the Moon
NASA administrator Jared Isaacman saying the thing that makes all the lads holler
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### SpaceX going public will probably make Elon Musk a trillionaire
Not coincidentally, Elon Musk's megacorp SpaceX has reportedly filed papers to go public at the predicted but still whopping valuation AU$2.5 trillion (Guardian). As soon as June, the company will seek to raise up to AU$110 billion by selling a small portion of the overall company, which now includes the rockets, the AI company and the Nazi social media app (WSJ, gift). Notably, none of the company — not even the successful space part of it — is really worth that much. But companies led by Musk get an aura buff and, as a result, the world's richest man may become our first trillionaire.
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### Local councils are the first to call for a freeze on Australian data centre construction
Local councils have begun to oppose data centre construction in Australia, as they call for building freezes and restrictions for this digital infrastructure (Crikey, $). Three NSW councils have told a state inquiry into data centres that they already have concerns about the impact of unco-ordinated data centre growth in places like Western Sydney, which already struggles with heat, and Ryde, the state's data centre capital. Industry group Data Centres Australia says that many of the fears about resources are overblown.
A counter view: Data centres are Australia’s chance to shape AI’s future (ASPI)
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# Leftovers
Australia:
ACCC drafts stricter standards and faster speeds for NBN Co (ARN) Optus follows Telstra in raising mobile prices (The Australian Financial Review, $) EV registrations surge 50 pct in March as Australians go electric amid fuel crisis (The Driven) Atlassian disputes union demand for bigger stock redundancy payouts (The Australian Financial Review, $) Dual-screen gaming laptop lands in Australia for nearly $13k (GadgetGuy) go on... treat yourself!
Rest of World:
Hmm no one wants to buy OpenAI's stock on the secondary market (Bloomberg, $) Gabe Newell stepped back from making games at Valve after Portal 2 because everyone kept agreeing with him when he wanted to be part of the team and come up with ideas (GamesRadar) Baidu robotaxis freeze in Wuhan sparking flurry of police calls (Bloomberg, $) Eep Google shades OpenAI for ditching Sora, announces Veo 3.1 Lite (9to5Google) Lil finder guy is the cutest thing Apple has made in its 50-year history and it has a secret (TechRadar) Google questions family's X-rated Gemini account-ban story: it doesn't work that way (Android Authority) The AI marketing BS index (Bastian Rieck) this will come in handy
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# Oh, Also
### Microsoft seriously, actually, really, says Copilot is a joke
I've been very mean to M̶i̶c̶r̶o̶s̶l̶o̶p̶ Microsoft lately, but it's not my fault. They're giving me so much material. Like yesterday, when I saw screenshots circulating showing that Microsoft's T&Cs for its god-awful-even-by-AI-standards Copilot declares that it is for "entertainment purposes only". But when I looked it up, it was real. And it's not even an April Fool's joke.
So if the position of one of the biggest companies in the world is that legally we shouldn't take their flagship AI product seriously, I think we should take their advice.
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# Bargains
Electronics
Crest 8K HDMI Cable With Ethernet 1.5m - $4 at The Good Guys (Down from $37) Reolink RLC-1212A, Smart 12MP PoE Spotlight Camera With Color Night Vision - $143 at Reolink AU (Down from $190) Rayneo Air 4 Pro XR Glasses 1080p, 1200nits - $361 at TimRig Shop Aliexpress (Down from $429) Apple Watch Series 11 at Amazon 42mm GPS for $497 46mm GPS for $547 (Down from $799) Google Pixel Watch 4 LTE 41mm - $599 at Telstra (Down from $749) Bose QuietComfort Ultra Noise Cancelling Headphones - Black - $399 at JB Hi-Fi (Down from $649) Roborock Saros 10R - $1434 at JB Hi-Fi (Down from $1688) TCL 98" C7K Premium QD Mini LED Google TV 2025 98C7K - $3247 at JB Hi-Fi (Down from $3821)
Computing
SteelSeries Arctis Nova 7P Wireless Gaming Headset, White - $175 at Amazon (Down from $399) Hyper X Cloud Alpha Wireless Gaming Headset - $176 at HP eBay (Down from $299) Microsoft Surface Laptop 4: Intel i7-1185G7, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Win11 Pro (Refurbished) - $580 at Computer & Laptop Sales Lenovo Legion 5 Gen 10 (15.1'' OLED 165Hz, AMD Ryzen 7 260, Nvidia RTX 5060, 32GB, 1TB) - $2099 at Emporium Electronics MacBook Pro M5 (Refurbished) - $2159 at Apple
Mobile
OnePass Mobile 365-Day Prepaid SIM Plan at OnePass Mobile 200GB for $149 360GB for $179
# The End
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