@aslmx @backupbear #CellBroadcast is a #2G-only functionality AFAICT...

Weekly output: USPS NGDV, spectrum policy, Pixel Drop, Uber’s robotaxi hopes, AI + cybersecurity, Tesla Files, Cerebras, New Glenn launch and landing, Cory Doctorow

Friday afternoon’s landing at Dulles and subsequent Metro ride home put this year’s business travel in the books–unless somebody else is prepared to pay for an additional work trip in 2025, and not even I want that to happen.

11/10/2025: I Took America’s Goofiest-Looking EV for a Spin. It Might Swing by Your Mailbox Soon, PCMag

My mid-October trip to Wisconsin (with Oshkosh Corp. paying for the airfare and lodging) yielded this report about the U.S. Postal Service’s NextGen Delivery Vehicle that I have yet to see in operation near me.

11/11/2025: It’s easy to reassign spectrum if you’re not the one using it, Light Reading

I rounded out this recap of a spectrum-policy conference I’d attended at the end of October with some quotes from a broadband expert whose insight I’ve been borrowing for the last 15 years or so.

11/11/2025: Google’s Latest Pixel Drop Adds Messaging Tricks And Tweaks, PCMag

The time-zone spread between the 2 p.m. Eastern embargo time for this item and my Western European local time for most of last week made this easy to file between other Web Summit schedule commitments.

11/12/2025: Cybersecurity at the pace of AI, Web Summit

The first of three panels I moderated at this conference in Lisbon had me quizzing Rob Daly, CTO of the security-training firm SoSafe, about how AI has complicated the work of people like him. As in previous years, Web Summit’s organizers paid for my lodging and are reimbursing me for my airfare.

11/12/2025: The Tesla Files: Leaks, power, and control, Web Summit

Later that Wednesday, I interviewed Sönke Iwersen, head of investigative research at Handelsblatt, about that German newspaper’s groundbreaking reporting on Tesla’s secretive and often careless approach to safety. Iwersen brought up a part of this story that hadn’t emerged in my pre-conference banter over e-mail with him: the steep personal price the paper’s informant has paid.

11/13/2025: The startups taking on Nvidia, Web Summit

Where my onstage interview of Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman at Web Summit Qatar in February had me running out of questions in my hand-written outline, this chat Thursday afternoon with that AI-processor startup’s chief strategy officer Andy Hock required me to cross out some queries in my notes because he answered the others at such length.

11/13/2025: Uber COO on Robotaxis: The Economics Don’t Work…Yet, PCMag

This panel happened late Tuesday afternoon, right before a crowded evening schedule; having to moderate two panels of my own on Wednesday pushed my filing time to Wednesday afternoon.

11/14/2025: Blue Origin Lands Its Giant Rocket’s Booster for the First Time, PCMag

A hold late in the countdown pushed the second launch of New Glenn to around dinnertime in Lisbon. So I didn’t get to watch any part of this mission on a screen larger than my phone’s until after I got back to my hotel–with fewer hours left than I would have liked before I had to head to Lisbon’s airport to fly back to the States.

11/14/2025: Cory Doctorow’s Plan for a Better Internet: Legalize Jailbreaking, Modding, and Tinkering, PCMag

I did not plan on my Web Summit coverage giving me a chance to put the neologism “enshittogenic” into the opening paragraphs of a story, but sometimes life comes at you fast.

 

#AIProcessors #AndroidUpdate #antiCircumventionLaws #BlueOrigin #Cerebras #CoryDoctor #Handelsblatt #jailbreaking #NewGlenn #newspace #NGDV #Nvidia #Oshkosh #PixelDrop #SoSafe #SpectrumAmericas #spectrumAuction #sprectrumReallocation #TeslaFiles #UberRobotaxi #UberWaymo #USPSElectricTruck #whistleblowing

A ride decades in the making: Metro from Dulles

Arriving at Washington Dulles International Airport early Saturday morning was nothing like any of the dozens, maybe hundreds of times I’ve landed at IAD over the past 30 years and change: I …

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Ông Lê Văn Tuấn, Cục trưởng Cục Tần số vô tuyến điện, cho biết mức chi đấu giá tần số tại Việt Nam dưới 5% doanh thu hàng năm của nhà mạng sẽ khuyến khích đầu tư mạnh mẽ, từ đó nâng cao chất lượng dịch vụ viễn thông. Đây là mức hợp lý để phát triển ngành công nghệ! #TầnSố #ViễnThông #SpectrumAuction #CôngNghệ #VietNamTech #ĐấuGiáTầnSố

https://vietnamnet.vn/muc-chi-cho-dau-gia-tan-so-cua-viet-nam-duoi-5-doanh-thu-hang-nam-cua-nha-mang-2448885.html

Mức chi cho đấu giá tần số của Việt Nam dưới 5% doanh thu hằng năm của nhà mạng

Ông Lê Văn Tuấn, Cục trưởng Cục Tần số vô tuyến điện, cho biết khi chi phí tần số duy trì dưới 5%, các nhà khai thác tiếp tục đầu tư mạnh dẫn đến chất lượng dịch vụ được cải thiện.

Vietnamnet.vn
Trump and Congress finalize law that could hurt your Wi-Fi https://arstechni.ca/MaUn #SpectrumAuction #Policy #wi-fi
Trump and Congress finalize law that could hurt your Wi-Fi

FCC to auction spectrum that could include 6 GHz band used for next-gen Wi-Fi.

Ars Technica
Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi https://arstechni.ca/FRyG #SpectrumAuction #Policy #wi-fi
Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi

Cruz bill could take 6 GHz spectrum away from Wi-Fi, give it to mobile carriers.

Ars Technica

Senate GOP budget bill has a "little-noticed" provision to reallocate Wi-Fi spectrum to wireless carriers. Cruz's plan could slow your home Wi-Fi to benefit AT&T, Verizon & T-Mobile. Nothing suspicious about burying spectrum grabs in budget legislation! 🕵️‍♂️📡

https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/06/30/2011219/senate-gop-budget-bill-has-little-noticed-provision-that-could-hurt-your-wi-fi

#WiFi #SpectrumAuction #ATT

Senate GOP Budget Bill Has Little-Noticed Provision That Could Hurt Your Wi-Fi - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a plan for spectrum auctions that could take frequencies away from Wi-Fi and reallocate them for the exclusive use of wireless carriers. The plan would benefit AT&T, which is based in Cruz's home state, along with Verizon and T-Mob...

With Bill C-11 behind us (for now) our Standing Senate Committee on Transportation and Communications holding hearings today on Bill S-242, a bill created by CSG Senator Dennis Patterson, designed to reduce spectrum squatting. https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/44-1/bill/S-242/first-reading #CRTC #TRCM #SenCa #SenateofCanada #Canada #cdnpoli #spectrum #SpectrumAuction
Public Bill (Senate) S-242 (44-1) - First Reading - An Act to amend the Radiocommunication Act - Parliament of Canada

Public Bill (Senate) S-242 (44-1) - First Reading - An Act to amend the Radiocommunication Act - Parliament of Canada