Joe Supan

6 days ago | cnet.com | Joe Supan

My sister had only been gone for a few hours and the AI afterlife had already devoured her. Jamie went into the hospital with stomach pain on a Friday last January. By Tuesday morning, she had passed away from an aggressive lymphoma at 36. Later that afternoon, my mom got a text about a suspicious obituary my aunt saw online. The errors jumped out immediately. Her cause of death was listed as autism. The obituary chronicled a funeral that hadn't happened yet.

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Joe Supan

1 hour agoNo, you're not a bad person. Here's what's really going on, according to science. A few weeks ago, a viral tweet perfectly captured a phenomenon familiar to many of us. The post ― a response to someone’s question “what’s your biggest ick about yourself?” ― read simply: “i can be really mean when i’m …

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Joe Supan

When the Affordable Connectivity Program ended in June 2024" target="_self, it left more than 10 million veterans and service members with much higher internet bills. According to a White House fact sheet (the press release has been removed by the Trump administration but is still available on the Internet Archive), military families made up nearly half of all ACP recipients.

1 week ago | cnet.com | Joe Supan

I like to think of myself as an expert when it comes to broadband -- after all, I've been writing about it for over 6 years. Yet, despite my expertise, I have carried around a shameful secret: I rented a Wi-Fi router from Xfinity for years. I know. I've always advised CNET readers to purchase their equipment, but my rented modem and router worked fine. That being said, I did know in the back of my mind, I was wasting money.

1 week ago | cnet.com | Joe Supan

After 10 days with only two members, the Senate confirmed Republican Olivia Trusty to the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday. That brings the total number of commissioners up to three, ending a brief period where the FCC didn’t meet the quorum threshold for what’s typically a five-person panel. In a one-week period at the beginning of June, Republican Nathan Simington and Democratic Commissioner Geoffrey Starks both resigned from the FCC. Trusty was previously a staffer for Sen.