For the fourth weekend in a row, I went on a long bike ride–this time, out the C&O Canal trail to Great Falls. That was one of the first destinations I visited on two wheels after I bought a bike in 1994, and the sight of the Potomac crashing over rocks has not gotten old over the 29 years since. It’s also nice to confirm that my aging body is not, in fact, too old for this.
Patreon readers got a bonus post in which I unpacked how I’m dealing with a handful of new features on that site.
10/24/2023: Telcos ask for spectrum specifics as feds say ‘stay tuned’, Light Reading
This post was originally going to recap the spectrum-policy discussions at a pair of conferences in D.C. two weeks ago, but after getting some more good quotes at the Competitive Carriers Association’s conference in Atlanta last week, I made it a three-event recap.
10/24/2023: Qualcomm Unveils ‘Snapdragon Seamless’ Device-to-Device Connectivity, PCMag
After two years of covering Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii in person (with Qualcomm covering my airfare and lodging), I spent this week at home and filed this report from my own desk about a new file- and peripheral-sharing platform developed by the company behind the chips in most Android phones.
10/25/2023: Security Expert: Apple’s Lockdown Mode Still Defeats Commercial Spyware, PCMag
With Maui not in my schedule this week, I had a much shorter trip to an event Tuesday: Metro to McLean, where Mitre hosted its ATT&CK security conference. I thought the opening keynote might yield a good post, and Runa Sandvik’s talk did not disappoint.
10/26/2023: Sen. Schumer: AI Needs Govt Guardrails, and They Can’t Be Made in China, PCMag
I was going to take Metro downtown to attend this event at the Washington Post, but having a contractor doing work on a closet made it wiser to watch online in case the project downstairs needed any snap decisions from me.
10/28/2023: SmartTechCheck Podcast S03 E6828/10/2023, Mark Vena
If you watch the video version of this podcast, you can see me demonstrate the Reactions feature of macOS Sonoma–which works even in non-Apple video services.
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