Rob Pegoraro
Journalist at Freelance
Journalist covering/vexed by computers, gadgets, other things that beep. He/him. Read: @pcmag, @fastcompany, etc. Write: [email protected].
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3 days ago |
pcmag.com | Rob Pegoraro
A large language model is as free to read as you and me, a federal judge held Tuesday—unless that LLM's creators didn't pay for the books used to train that AI system. Judge William Alsup's Tuesday order turns aside part of a class-action lawsuit filed by book authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson against the AI firm Anthropic but agrees with one of their key claims.
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3 days ago |
pcmag.com | Rob Pegoraro
Verizon Wireless would prefer you call its customer-service line less often—but only because it hopes to make repeated calls about the same, still-unresolved problem unnecessary. Verizon says new customer-support changes announced Tuesday are "designed to empower customers with easier, more personalized support." They start with having a "Customer Champion" field your query until it's resolved, updating you on their progress via your choice of calls, texts, or notifications in the My Verizon app.
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5 days ago |
robpegoraro.com | Rob Pegoraro
I spent this week in a different federal district–Mexico City, where I traveled to cover the Electronics Home Mexico tech trade show as a guest of the show’s organizers. (As in, they’re covering my travel expenses.) I now have no business travel planned until early August, and I’m fine with that.
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6 days ago |
robpegoraro.com | Rob Pegoraro
You can’t sign up for a credit card without signing up for some math–not unless you enjoy paying steep interest rates after spending more on the card than you can pay off in full each in month. But over the past three months, the three cards we use with the highest annual fees and the highest potential rewards have begun requiring some advanced arithmetic.
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6 days ago |
pcmag.com | Rob Pegoraro
MEXICO CITY—Some two years after Huawei shipped one of the weirder gadget-fusion concepts we’ve seen—a smartwatch that carries and charges its own wireless earbuds in an interior compartment—a Reebok-branded smartwatch on display here at the Electronics Home Mexico expo offers the same idea at a much lower price.
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1) Yes, I'm going to CES. 2) No, I won't be posting about it here. This platform's operation and ownership continue to leave me with no business or ethical interest in supporting it with free writing. 3) You will find me posting about CES on Bluesky: https://t.co/wC91wAJ7bZ
As this platform continues to decay into Elon's propaganda playground, I remain uninterested in supporting it with free writing. Instead, look me up on Bluesky. Not sure who else to follow there? Try this starter pack of tech journalists: https://t.co/9yfbS4mLSW
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