Weekly output: Chrome for iOS/iPadOS, Google AI Overview clickthroughs, Trump “AI Action Plan,” Cricket Wireless

My schedule this week includes Nationals Park–not to see the home team find a new way to lose a game, but to attend a two-day conference about drone policy happening there that will feature a few drone-delivery demos.

Speaking of poor decisions in D.C., I wrote a post Friday for Patreon readers about the home clean-energy upgrades that I can’t push through before the early demise of the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax credits at the hands of Republicans in Congress.

7/21/2025: Google Adds Limited Multiple-Account Support to Chrome for iOS, iPadOS, PCMag

This is not a huge change to the experience of using Google’s browser on Apple’s mobile devices, but I used this post as an opportunity to point out how the major browsers all fail to offer a mobile equivalent to their desktop apps’ abilities to keep a browsing session isolated from the rest of your use over browser restarts.

7/23/2025: Few People Are Clicking Past Google’s ‘AI Overviews’ Search Results, PCMag

Google keeps denying that it’s seen any major dropoff in how often people follow links to sites in its AI Overview results even as news and other sites report that they’ve seen Google traffic plummet. I do not find those denials as persuasive as Google might hope.

7/24/2025: Trump’s ‘AI Action Plan’ Looks to Boost Data Center Buildouts, Ban ‘Woke’ AI, PCMag

I spent a chunk of Wednesday afternoon reading up on this plan, then spent a chunk of that evening watching Trump’s rambling, 50-minute speech that often wandered into completely unrelated topics. As a result, dinner was a little late Wednesday.

7/26/2025: Cricket Wireless Unwraps New Plans That Lower the Cost Of Mobile Hotspot Use, PCMag

I knew Cricket had stuck with its older plan lineup for a long time, but I didn’t realize the last comprehensive rewrite happened in 2017.

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