ACCC tells NBN and EB Games (separately) to sort their mess out
Zuck tries to justify Facebook’s lack of action on Trump’s posts
Old-ish news I never mentioned but it’s a slow news day so I’m digging them out
What’s it like using hearing aids with an iPhone?
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The ACCC has found that NBN mislead customers connected to TransACT's VDSL2 network in the ACT by sending them letters saying their internet and phones will be cut off if they don't move to the NBN. 20,000 people were told this despite the fact TransACT's network isn't being replaced by the NBN and is actually going to compete with the NBN. It wasn't an oops, once off letter either, it was sent multiple times. Now NBN has to reimburse people who got stung by early termination costs from TransACT and also hook people back up to TransACT's VDSL network if they want to go back. Also in ACCC news, EB has to give people refunds for Fallout 76 because it was a crap game full of bugs. Never deny an angry gamer!
Mark Zuckerberg held a town hall video conference chat thingy with Facebook's employees to address the Trump issue. It did not go well. He tried to justify ignoring Trump's posts as "just because that was a painful thing to see that that somehow wasn't a good thing to allow on there", using the video of George Floyd's neck getting squashed as an example. However, if the United States saw a "prolonged period of civil unrest" he might change his mind. That didn't sit well with Timothy J. Aveni, who quit his job developing "misinformation transparency" software at Facebook after hearing his boss try to have his cake (suck up to Trump to avoid regulation) and eat it too (accept responsibility for the dumpster fire he created). Hopefully more Facebook employees follow Timothy's lead.
A Senate committee's report on changes to the R&D Tax Incentive has been delayed, so any changes won't come into effect until the 2021-22 financial year at the earliest.
Tile has joined Spotify in complaining to the European Commissioner for Competition about Apple's anti-competitive business practices.
Google decided not to release a beta of Google 11 as planned due to the civil unrest taking place in the USA right now. Probably a good idea.
OpenSSH will no longer sign SHA-1 encryption keys because SHA-1 is too easy to crack now. Upgrade legacy systems otherwise you won't be able to log in to them!
Woolworths is testing out a "digital reflection" on some of their self-serve checkouts as a way to keep people honest when scanning groceries.
I've seen Made for iPhone hearing devices, but not having busted ears myself (for now anyways, a decade of almost 24/7 iPod use will catch up with me) I haven't had ears-on experience with them. Klaus Wirtz has and wrote a nice article about his experience using hearing aids designed to work with an iPhone. You can have phone calls automatically routed to your hearing device instead of the speaker, just like any other audio output device. Same as music, just appears as a normal audio output. It's not perfect (a few small omissions Apple could easily fix) but overall it seems Apple did a great job here.
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