• Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit | Ars Technica: Google has indicated that it is ready to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2020 over its Chrome browser's Incognito mode. Arising in the Northern District of California, the lawsuit accused Google of continuing to "track, collect, and identify [users'] browsing data in real time" even when they had opened a new Incognito window.
• A national crackdown on disposable vapes begins today. How will it work? - ABC News. Vape not-exactly-a-ban has started. I hope it works, and I will not miss the stink of cherry-mint fart any more than I miss the smell of stale cigarettes.
• Morrison government failed to give Howard-era national security cabinet papers to national archives | Cabinet papers | The Guardian. As is so common with the Morrison government... whether it was incompetence or malice, the result is the same.
• RTO Policies Don't Improve Employee Performance or Company Value: Ma compared each firm's financial performance on the stock market before and after implementing return-to-office mandates and found no significant change in either the financial performance or the stock market value. [...] "We found that return-to-office mandates are more common among firms with poor stock performance and stock returns," Ma said
• Should government step in to help Australians quit their big car habit? - ABC News: Australians didn't just wake up and decide they wanted bigger cars, rather "our tax system makes it attractive to do so".
• 'Impossible' to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says | OpenAI | The Guardian: The developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material ...what they mean is it's impossible if they have to pay for that copyrighted material.
• Woolworths and Big W Australia Day decision prompts Peter Dutton to call for boycott - ABC News. I mean. Do we start with the fact they just aren't stocking stuff that wasn't selling? Or do we talk about how Dutton and his cronies lose their shit when other people call for boycotts? Or just once again observe Dutton has the imagination of a potato?
• How the humble stink bug helped Australia miss a major EV milestone | Australia news | The Guardian: ship carrying a bunch of EVs was turned around due to the detection of stinkbugs. The organisation estimates invasive alien species in Australia cost about $25bn each year in agricultural losses and pest management. ...so hopefully people won't whinge too much about a few cars being delayed.
• Lego worth thousands of dollars seized as police arrest alleged Melbourne drug trafficker | Victoria | The Guardian. When you have an expensive habit, and also sell drugs.
• End of an era, as Tom Scott stops doing weekly videos.

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