Weekly output: next-gen philanthropy, new FCC priorities

If you’re reading this somewhere around the greater Washington area and a) want to say hi in person and b) want to come home with some of the tech-event swag I’ve accumulated over the last two years, head out to Fairfax Saturday afternoon for the joint meeting of the Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society, Washington Apple Pi, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Personal Computer User Group. The event starts at 1 p.m., and my talk unpacking 2025’s tech plot twists begins at 2 p.m.

5/6/2025: Millennials Are Shifting What Counts as Philanthropy, Worth

I wrote my first piece for this publication in more than a year. I shouldn’t have taken that long, but it seems I needed to run into one of Worth’s editors at an AI conference in Vegas to renew those ties.

5/7/2025: In Setting Priorities, New FCC Chair Happy to Be ‘Moving on Trump Time’, PCMag

I spent Tuesday afternoon at the wireless-industry trade group CTIA’s conference in D.C. and decided that FCC chairman Brendan Carr’s friendly conversation with CTIA CEO and president (and former FCC chair) Ajit Pai was the newsiest bit for PCMag readers.

5/12/2025: Updated this post to add a mention of the other host of Saturday’s event, the longstanding Apple users group Washington Apple Pi.

#AjitPai #BrendanCarr #charity #CTIA #donations #GenZ #millennials #philanthropy #spectrumPolicy

Even for somebody who does as much to prop up the commercial-aviation industry as I do, going to London and back in a sub-five-day span was a bit of a head-spinning experience.

10/8/2024: 6G experts find that the map for a new ‘G’ is still downloading, Light Reading

I needed an extra couple of days to write this report from the Spectrum Americans telecom-policy conference because of the very on-brand reason that I spent the next two days at a different telecom-policy conference.

10/8/2024: Uber Charges Up Vehicle Electrification Efforts, PCMag

I wrote this report from Uber’s Go-Get Zero event in London a few hours afterwards, in between some napping that I desperately needed to cope with jet lag and an annoying head cold that’s still around. Reminder: Uber covered my airfare and lodging at this event.

10/10/2024: Intel Unveils Next-Gen ‘Arrow Lake’ Desktop CPUs: They’re All About Efficiency, PCMag

My work for this began a month earlier at IFA in Berlin, when Intel staged a presentation covering its next desktop-processor architecture with an embargo date more than a month in the future.

10/13/2024: Starship Scores a Booster Catch on Its Fifth Flight Test, PCMag

Normal people don’t wake up early on a Sunday to watch a livestream of a rocket launch, but this was no normal rocket launch either.

10/13/2024: Vast Space Unveils Its Plan to Replace the International Space Station, PCMag

NASA’s intention to replace the International Space Station with a privately-built space station now has another possible station builder.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/10/13/weekly-output-6g-ubers-electrification-ambitions-intels-new-desktop-cpu-designs-spacexs-starship-booster-catch-vast-spaces-iss-replacement-proposal/

#6G #electrification #GoGetZero #Haven2 #IFA #London #spaceStation #SpaceX #SpaceXChopsticks #SpaceXStarship #SpectrumAmericas #spectrumPolicy #Uber #VastSpace

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.

https://robpegoraro.com/2023/10/29/weekly-output-spectrum-policy-snapdragon-seamless-spyware-defenses-ai-guardrails-mark-vena-podcast/

#5GSpectrum #AIRegulation #AmericasSpectrumManagementConference #AppleLockdownMode #ChuckSchumer #CompetitiveCarriersAssociation #ForumGlobal #MarkVena #PegasusSpyware #PredatorSpyware #Qualcomm #RunaSandvik #SHLBAnchorNets #SnapdragonSeamless #spectrumPolicy