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April 09, 2026 | Read online
# Kindles cut off, NBN cost and new theory about who invented Bitcoin Plus: This OSX-to-Wii port gets extra points for style
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Mentioned in today’s edition: Meta, Theranos, NBN Co, Nvidia, MacBook Neo, VLC, Satoshi Nakamoto and Nintendo Wii. Plus, deals on Noble Audio headphones, MSI motherboards and Apple iPad Pros.
# The News
### Amazon is trying to kill off older Kindles
Early Kindle devices will be cut off from Amazon's book stores as the company sunsets its support (Verge). From May 20, Amazon will stop letting people with Kindle models launched in 2012 or before from borrowing, buying, or even downloading new content to the devices via its Kindle Store. Those devices will also be stopped from registering, which essentially bricks them. Users will be offered a small discount and credit towards a new Kindle and, crucially, can still manually download books from elsewhere and fang them to their Kindles.
The Sizzle: I was first tipped off to this by former colleague Katie Notopoulos who began to grieve the nerfing of her beloved Kindle 5, which has side buttons for turning pages rather than touch screens. Although she acknowledges you can still put epubs on there, usually by ripping DRM and uploading it, "for that amount of hassle I might as well read a physical book". eBook readers are the funny technology that feel like a completed product? You know I love a marginal increase on a gadget as much as anyone but the advances in displays, etc., really don't change the core appeal of being able to read books on the go. 14 years of support is pretty good, but, Amazon, do you really need people to buy a new Kindle? Is there so much back-end hassle with supporting this that isn't made up for by the amount you make on each purchase? It's stuff like this that reminds you about the unshakeable reliability of analogue stuff. Do you have an old Kindle, or another piece of tech, that just still works? Let me know!
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### How much are you willing to pay for a good NBN?
One of the most interesting subplots of the NBN, now that it's getting to its fully actualised state as a fibre network, is the ongoing cost and profitability of the government-owned company that's also just supposed to be basic infrastructure. The Australian consumer watchdog is considering hitting NBN Co over the knuckles for overly rosy forecasts of income that it's using to justify spending more on its rollout (The Oz, $). NBN Co has responded to this by saying that it's been good at forecasting revenue in the past and that it expects to squeeze more money from people over time. Obviously, I don't love the idea that we'll be spending more on internet -- but if it's a marginal increase for an increasingly improved product that is essential to modern life, that seems OK?
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### There's a new theory about the identity of Bitcoin's creator
Who's the fella behind Bitcoin? The real identity of the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto is a mystery but a few people have had a crack at solving — including, now, the New York Times' (and guy behind the Theranos story) John Carreyrou. He put out a long first person read that claims Satoshi is well-known British cryptographer-turned-Bitcoin guy Adam Back. I read the article, which largely relies on things like language analysis of an old mailing list, last night and came away convinced. But in the light of day today, I'm less sure. A lot of Carreyrou's evidence could be cherry-picking.
small tip: if the NYT asks to take photos of you, you’re probably not just a small part of a random article
Anyway! It's a good read and I'd be curious to hear what you think.
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# Leftovers
Australia:
Bendigo Bank to slash jobs after agreeing to tech outsourcing deals (The Australian Financial Review, $) Tech startups left waiting on $12m in quantum grants (InnovationAus, $) Firmus watch: Court finds Simon Raftery breached director ban imperilling his Firmus claim (The Australian, $) Firmus latest $730m raise puts Nvidia's circular AI financing deals in focus (Capital Brief, $)
Rest of World:
Apple is reportedly facing a 'massive dilemma' with the MacBook Neo (MacRumors) Dwindling Bay Area-based camera company cuts nearly a quarter of its workforce (SFGATE) OpenAI releases a new safety blueprint to address the rise in child sexual exploitation (TechCrunch) Meta debuts the Muse Spark model in a 'ground-up overhaul' of its AI (The Verge) AI Cybersecurity After Mythos: The Jagged Frontier (Aisle) interesting read! "We tested Anthropic Mythos's showcase vulnerabilities on small, cheap, open-weights models. They recovered much of the same analysis." WhatsApp starts rolling out usernames in beta, keeps your phone number private (9to5Google) VLC always works, unlike Copilot (Reddit) Anyone remembers their last burned data? (Reddit)
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# Oh, Also
### This OSX-to-Wii port gets extra points for style
One of the most appreciated art forms at the Sizzle HQ is "putting [software] on [device]" so, of course, I was always going to love Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii. But what I really love is the spirit behind this. Not only did the author do a great write-up of what appears to be a very technically sophisticated effort, it also appears they did part of it... on a plane.
let’s GO
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# Bargains
Electronics
Noble Audio FoKus Apollo Wireless Overhead Headphones - $549 at Addicted to Audio (Down from $999) Hifiman Arya Unveiled Open Back Planar Headphone - $1499 at Addicted to Audio (Down from $2449) AWOL Vision LTV-3000 Pro 4K 3D Ultra Short Throw Triple Laser Projector - $3299 at Vividstorm Australia (Down from $3999)
Computing
YUNZII MAD68 HE Rapid Trigger Wired 8K Magnetic Gaming Keyboard - $59 at EZPC Technology MSI MAG B850 Tomahawk WiFi AM5 Motherboard - $261 at Amazon (Down from $491) Apple iPad Pro 11" M5 Wi-Fi 256GB - $1585 at Mwave (Down from $2564)
Mobile
Google Pixel 9 Pro 256GB - $949 at amaysim (Down from $1029) Apple iPhone Air 256GB (Sky Blue) - $1297 at Amazon
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