Weekly output: AT&T OneConnect, federal privacy fears, Artemis II, better inflight WiFi, 6G

This week started with me in Chicago for the Online News Association’s conference, then had a quick trip to Boston to see family for Easter, and tomorrow will have me off to San Francisco for the HumanX conference to lead two panels there. 

I wrote an extra post Tuesday for Patreon readers recapping some scenes from SXSW, including a not-yet-campaign appearance by California governor Gavin Newsom and a stemwinder of a speech by Patreon founder Jack Conte on how human creativity can endure through the rise of AI.

3/31/2026: AT&T OneConnect Bundles Fiber, Wireless, Doesn’t Say What Mobile Service You Get, PCMag

I had just enough spare time at ONA to field this story–even factoring in time to try, without success, to get AT&T to explain just what wireless plan subscribers would get with this new offering.

4/1/2026: The One Thing Americans Can Agree On: The Feds Collect Too Much Personal Data, PCMag

I wrote up this study by the Center for Democracy & Technology a day after it was published Tuesday in part because I had nearly no free time on day two of ONA.

4/1/2026: NASA Launches Artemis II, Its First Moonshot Since 1972, PCMag

I watched the launch Wednesday evening of Artemis II with fingers crossed through main engine cutoff, then followed the first few hours of the mission while writing up this post. I updated the story a day later after the translunar injection burn of the Orion spacecraft’s service module engine committed astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen on a flight around the Moon and then back to Earth. I can’t wait to see this American and Canadian crew’s Earthrise photos.

4/2/2026: Fast, Free Wi-Fi Now Arriving at These Airlines, AARP

I showed up at my occasional client’s site not as a writer but as a subject-matter expert, courtesy of AARP writer Berit Thorkelson quizzing me over e-mail for this piece about how low-Earth-orbit satellite constellations like SpaceX’s Starlink are upgrading inflight WiFi.

4/3/2026: Unfortunately, It’s Time to Talk About 6G. Here’s What You Need to Know, PCMag

I got most of my reporting for this done at MWC Barcelona, but then needed a little more time to collect some industry insight about the wireless industry’s curious rush to hype 6G when so many of its customers are still trying to discern how 5G is supposed to make a noticeable difference in their everyday phone experience.

Spreading inspiration, unity, and hope. 🚀🌙✨ Way to go Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen , Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Artemis II support team, NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Canadian Space Agency | Agence spatiale canadienne #Nasa #CSA #ArtemisII #moonshot

https://youtu.be/f81dxqUauuk?si=wslnpXJAQeUPPIsk

Deep Purple
Space Truckin'
(live in New York, 1973)

We got music in our Solar System,
We're space truckin' every day!

→11:30
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#Apollo8
#Apollo8Remade
#CanaveralMoonStop
#DeepPurple
#FridayMusic
#MoonShot

Gravity assist incoming!
NASA built an Artemis II tracker/visualizer in Unity, & it is COOL.

#artemisii #moonshot #gravityassist https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

🚀👨‍🚀Historickú misiu Artemis 2 môžete sledovať naživo.

#ArtemisII #moonshot #NASA

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FOTO a VIDEO z úspešného štartu misie Artemis 2. Astronauti mieria k Mesiacu po viac ako 50 rokoch.

#NASA #ArtemisII #Moonshot

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