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Fifield out as Communications Minister as Fletcher fills role and gains cyber

Long serving Coalition Minister for Communications, Mitch Fifield, is out of the ministry, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday afternoon, with former Optus director of corporate affairs Paul Fletcher to move into the role.
Fletcher will take on an expanded portfolio that is now labelled as Communications, Cyber Safety, and the Arts.
“As the National Broadband Network nears full roll out and social media becomes an even more prominent front in the fight to keep Australians safe, Paul Fletcher, as Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts brings extensive experience and insight to the task,” Morrison said.
Senator Fifield became Communications Minister in September 2015 following the elevation of its former occupier, Malcolm Turnbull, becoming Prime Minister.
Fifield is set to be recommended to the Governor-General to become Australia’s Ambassador to the United Nations. The Prime Minister did not provide a timeline on when this recommendation would occur.
The Prime Minister said Fifield chose not to be part of the ministry.
“I would have been very happy for Mitch to continue to serve in Communications and the Arts,” Morrison said. “I think Mitch has done an outstanding job in what has been a very difficult task in the NBN, and Paul Fletcher comes to this role [as] no stranger to these issues.
“He has a deep experience when it comes to ICT in this country.”
Among other changes to the ministry are the inclusion of Senator Jane Hume as Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services, and Financial Technology, and Stuart Robert as Minister for Government Services, as the federal government looks to adopt the Service NSW delivery model.
The new ministry will be sworn in on Wednesday.
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Today’s Wordle Answer #649 – March 30, 2023 Solution And Hints

If you’re still unsure, the solution you seek is bread. Certainly, the word needs no introduction, but its origins might be unfamiliar to you. Etymonline reports that its specific roots are uncertain, but one prominent position is that it is from Proto-Germanic “brautham,” itself from the Proto-Indo-European root “bhreu-,: which means to boil, burn, or bubble, a reference to the rising or leavening of the dough used for bread.
The same source notes that the Oxford English Dictionary maintains that the word derives from Proto-Germanic “braudsmon-,” which means fragments or bits, in the sense of meaning “piece of food.” Fun fact, the Old English word for bread was “hlaf,” which is the root from which the modern word “loaf” is derived.
Since “great” worked, well … great as a starting word yesterday, we repeated it today as well, and it delivered. There were only eight possible answers after it, and we made a lucky and correct second guess. We hope you finish just as fast, and if you’re in the mood for more puzzles, check out these other Wordle-like games.
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Microsoft Is Already Exploring Ads For Bing Chat

In a blog post published on March 29, Microsoft discussed the topics of boosting traffic and overall “value” for publishers in relation to Bing Chat. The company acknowledged the role that publishers play in creating content and the vital importance of advertisements, which fund the paychecks for those behind the websites. The company says that it has made it a “top goal” to “drive more traffic to publishers in this new world of search.”
Revenue is a key concern, of course, which is where the second goal comes in. Microsoft says that it is working on “pioneering the future of advertising” as it relates to an AI-dominated internet. How will it do that? Two possibilities were shared: displaying multiple links from publishers when the user hovers over a reference, and a revenue-sharing arrangement with publishers that could, among other things, involve putting ads in the chatbot. In the example provided by Microsoft — which is simply referred to as an idea at this time — the revenue would be shared with the publishers whose content was used to generate the answer for the user.
Of course, Bing Chat is only one player in the arena, with its most notable competition being Google Bard — though the latter is still very much in its infancy and was, by all accounts, a rushed project spurred out of desperation to stay competitive. It seems likely that Google will eventually embrace some sort of revenue-sharing arrangement of its own, but only time will tell how that works out.
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The 2024 Porsche Cayenne Debuts A Dramatic Dashboard Upgrade

For infotainment, the main screen is a 12.3-inch display that shows your navigation and music, similar to the screen used by the Taycan. Below that, Porsche put the climate controls. In a move that will make plenty of old-school gearheads happy, Porsche used physical buttons to control the A/C and heat.
Front-seat riders can enjoy an optional 10.9-inch feature on the passenger side of the cabin. That screen can stream media or allow the passenger to act as the vessel’s navigator. According to Porsche, a filter on the screen prevents the driver from getting distracted. Onboard Siri functionality can also bear the load if necessary. The interior also features a litany of USB-C chargers that can keep devices topped up and a wireless and cooled charging pad that can deliver up to 15 watts.
According to Porsche, the 2024 Cayenne will be fully revealed on April 18th.
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