Rob PegoraroAfter a week of jet-lag-disrupted sleep in Vilnius, Lithuania–it’s hard to reset your head by getting a lot of daylight when you arrive on a cold, snowy day–sleeping in until past 7 a.m. Sunday felt like a real treat. As did the nap I took after lunch.
2/6/2024: Mozilla Monitor Plus Scrubs Your Info From Data-Broker Sites (for a Price), PCMag
Once again, writing about digital privacy required me to inform readers of the continued uselessness of Congress on that front.
2/6/2024: State Department to Spyware Abusers: No US Visits for You or Your Families, PCMag
The relatively light schedule of meetings with fintech startups arranged by my hosts–who covered most of my travel costs–left me time to write this during some downtime Tuesday.
2/7/2024: FCC to Halt Affordable Internet Program After Congress Fails to Fund It, PCMag
I opted to sacrifice some tourist time Wednesday to write this after I realized that PCMag hadn’t yet covered the impending demise of this broadband subsidy.
2/8/2024: Business Benefits of AI in Finance, Fintech Day 2024
My part of this daylong conference involved quizzing two fintech executives–Riaan Dreyer, chief digital and data officer at Íslandsbanki and Anton Vedešin, co-founder and chief technology officer at Vespia–about how they were putting AI to work at their firms. I chose to moderate this panel among two the organizers had offered because the topic lined up so well with the research I’d done writing about applications of AI in investing and personal finance for Worth last fall.
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