NHTSA's sabotage of RIght to Repair discussed with coalition leader, Tommy Hickey

NHTSA's sabotage of RIght to Repair discussed with coalition leader, Tommy Hickey

My upcoming work week only has about three and a half days’ worth of time available for my usual work. The entirety of Tuesday, meaning from 5 a.m. to about 9 p.m., has me serving as a poll worker, the seventh time I will have worked as an Arlington election officer. And then I’ll have to set business aside by mid-afternoon Friday to start my journey to Lisbon for Web Summit.
10/30/2023: President Biden Issues Executive Order on AI: Here’s What It Does, PCMag
I had to write this off the White House’s announcement early Monday of this executive order instead of the actual text of the EO on AI, because that nearly 20,000-word document did not get posted to the White House’s site until late Monday afternoon.
10/31/2023: Lightning Lives On in Apple’s Input Devices, Most of Its Headphones, PCMag
Yes, you saw this post last month. I offered to write a new top for it once Apple failed to update its gruesomely obsolete Lightning-required input devices after announcing a new iMac lineup, then my editor and I settled on doing a more comprehensive rewrite of that Sept. 13 post.
10/31/2023: Senators: We Need a New Agency, Not Just an Executive Order, to Rein in AI, PCMag
I bikeshared over to the Brookings Institution to see this panel discussion advocating a bill that would set up a Digital Platform Commission to oversee large tech firms. That easy commute got me the added reward of some second-breakfast pastries and professional banter afterwards.
11/2/2023: Intuit to Scrap Mint and Move Its Users To Credit Karma, PCMag
I had seen discussions of this impending forced migration on Reddit, and then Intuit announced it in a post on its Mint blog on the afternoon of Halloween. Because I flew up to New York the next morning to cover the Brooklyn 6G Summit, I had to pluck out some free time between panels at that telecom event to quiz Intuit and then write this post.
11/4/2023: AI Pros: We’re on the Right Track (If You Ignore Some Companies), PCMag
My second flight of the week took me to Boston for the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ AI Governance event. Although I had to miss the first day’s lineup of talks, thanks to the first-world problem of having a surplus of conferences to cover, the last day’s panels yielded more than enough material for this post.
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