Tech Talk on ABC Radio - Apple goes low

This week on ABC Nightlife I spoke with Rod Quinn about Apple's new MacBook Neo, a sub-$1000 laptop that competes very well with Windows laptops in that price range. Apple has made some compromises but kept their quality standards up.

We discussed the US AI controversy where Antrhopic, makers of Claude, asked the Department of Defence to not use its products for widespread domestic suveillance or autonomous weapons. DOD would not agree to those limitations and has done a deal with OpenAI, who presumably are ok with that.

Finally, the ban on social media for Australians under 16 introduced in December seems to be spreading with Indonesia announcing they'll introduce it gradually from March. They join Denmark, France, Germany, Malaysia, Spain, the UK and Greece in either announcing or at least considering a ban.

Too early to know how effective it's been in Australia but we do see that VPNs are booming...

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/nightlife/nightlife-tech-talk-with-peter-marks/106439260