Rob PegoraroThis week treated me to the very Washington experience of going to two different tech-policy events in the same room in the same large facility–the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, one of my more frequent conference settings in the District.
Patreon subscribers got an extra post on Friday: more than a thousand words’ worth of outtakes from my early-August conversation with Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl at Mojave Air & Space Port.
9/24/2024: Internet Providers, Wi-Fi Router Vendors Can Now Ship Cloudflare’s DNS for Free, PCMag
I have been writing about broadband outages caused by failures at an Internet provider’s domain-name-system servers for a very long time, so the relevance of Cloudflare’s pitch was immediately relevant to me.
9/25/2024: White House 6G priorities: Openness and security, and the 6G part isn’t a prerequisite, Light Reading
The first of two stories that I wrote for my telecom trade-pub client from the 6G Symposium in Washington covered a panel in which experts spoke at length about the risks of China steering the development of 6G while saying the word “China” much less often than I would have expected.
9/26/2024: Could open RAN in orbit jumpstart the market for D2D services?, Light Reading
I needed a little more time to write up this longer and more in-the-weeds panel about the state of satellite-hosted connectivity for phones and other devices.
9/26/2024: NYC Mayor Adams’ Indictment Offers a Few Lessons in Smartphone Security, PCMag
Before I could finish laughing at the fanboy-esque devotion to Turkish Airlines recounted in the indictment of Eric Adams, I also had to laugh at its depiction of the mayor’s fortuitous forgetfulness of of the smartphone passcode he had just changed from four to six digits.
9/27/2024: X Blocks Links to Story on Leaked JD Vance Dossier, Suspends Author, PCMag
One angle to this story that I should have noted: This purported research report on the Republican Party’s vice-presidential candidate that journalist Ken Klippenstein shared on his newsletter in unredacted form Thursday (before posting a redacted version on Friday in what he later described as a test of X’s rules) does not even mention Vance’s house in Alexandria, much less include its street address. That does not speak well of the effort put into this document, if it really was a product of the Trump campaign and not something forged by Iranian hackers.
#5G #6G #8888 #Cloudflare #DNS #ElonMuskTwitter #EricAdams #JDVanceDossier #KenKlippenstein #satelliteToPhone #TurkishAirlines
Event-space review (second in a series): the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
My work-from-home job doesn’t provide me with a regular commute to an office, but it does allow an irregular commute to a handful of event spaces in the District for one conference or another…
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