I’m headed across the Atlantic for the first time this year–to Vilnius, Lithuania, where I’m moderating a panel on AI in finance at the Fintech Day 2024 conference. In the bargain, my hosts are covering most of my travel expenses and also have set up a series of meetings with local fintech startups. I hope that some of these conversations will help me understand why international SWIFT payments can be anything but swift.
1/31/2024: TikTok Use Soars, X Slumps, But an Old Favorite Dominates Social Media, PCMag
I got an advance copy of the Pew Research Center’s latest findings on how many Americans have ever used major social-media platforms–as opposed to how often they use them regularly. The Pew report included some interesting details about the dollar-bill incentives Pew’s survey firm used to coax people to answer survey invitations sent in the mail, so I used the last paragraph to enlighten readers about them.
2/1/2024: Passkeys Are Here: We Just Have to Convince People to Use Them, PCMag
I covered the Identity, Authentication, and the Road Ahead Policy Forum in D.C. two Thursdays ago and had an enlightening conversation there with FIDO Alliance executive director Andrew Shikiar. Turning that interview into a story took a few more days, in part because of my own subpar time management and in part because of what became a fruitless effort to get more details about the Air New Zealand rollout of passkeys that Shikiar had cited in his keynote and in our conversation.
2/2/2024: Comcast Agrees to Back Off ’10G’ Branding a Little, PCMag
I thought this would be a simple story to write, but grasping the difference between “Xfinity 10G Network,” which Comcast says it won’t use in its marketin, and “Xfinity 10G” required a call and follow-up e-mail thread with a Comcast publication. And then understanding Comcast’s definition of 10-gigabit availability required some time browsing through its customer-support forums.
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