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The Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies released “More for Less: Broadband Price and Quality Trends, 2020–2026”

My Take?

Is Broadband really unaffordable?

In 2020, the flagship tier was 100 Mbps. By 2026, it's 1Gbps. Same rough price point at around $100/month..

That's a 10x speed increase at the same price.

Three numbers from the data..

→ The 100 Mbps tier held 30.8% market share in 2020. It's down to 9.2% now. Everyone moved on. The slower tiers are getting retired.

→ Every single speed tier from 25 Mbps to 1,000 Mbps saw real prices fall. Average decline: 48.6% over six years.

→ Consumers who kept their budget fixed in the $50–74.99 range got a 389.5% speed increase for the same money, from 51.6 Mbps to 252.4 Mbps (on average..)

But, you say, average broadband bills have gone up over this period. People say this is proof that prices are rising.

It's the composition problem. Average bills go up when customers voluntarily upgrade (i.e., succumb to marketing) to faster, supposedly better tiers, not because the cheap tiers disappeared or became more expensive.

The real story in the data is that broadband is doubling speed roughly every 2.8 years at any fixed price point. (Loose reference, Edholm's Law predicts that telecommunication and internet bandwidth doubles roughly every 18 months)

Anyone modelling a connectivity pricing strategy should work from tier-level data, not the average bill. The average bill clearly measures the wrong thing.

See the original LinkedIn post for a reference to the full report, and some image captures.

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APTelecom and FiberSense Expand Subsea Monitoring Partnership, the two companies are scaling up their work bringing FiberSense's distributed acoustic sensing technology to subsea cable operators across Europe and the Pacific, building on earlier successes detecting threats and environmental conditions along cable routes.

My Take: Subsea cables carry almost all global data traffic and have almost no real-time monitoring. Sensing technology like this should have been standard a decade ago, and the fact that it's only scaling now tells you how much catching up the industry still has to do.

Fiber Broadband Association Paper Highlights How Convergence of Fiber Broadband and Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Economic Infrastructure - Report explores fiber infrastructure as the “nervous system” of a thinking economy, enabling the transformation of intelligence and data into action   

My Take: It’s missing any reference to subsea. “Subsea cables terminating at roughly 160 US landing points participate in a global system that carries around 95–99% of international internet traffic”. Certainly worth including.

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Midjourney Announces Full-Body Medical Scanner and Spa, the AI image generation company is building an ultrasound scanner it says can image the whole body in about 60 seconds, with the first "Midjourney Spa" featuring the technology planned for San Francisco at the end of 2027.

My Take: Going from AI image generation to medical hardware is about as far a pivot as a company can make. Radiologists are already pointing out that ultrasound can't see through bone or deep tissue the way marketing suggests.

Amazon Workers Face Discipline After Supporting Data Centre Limits, three Amazon employees were called into investigatory meetings and warned of possible termination after testifying in favour of a Seattle data centre moratorium, prompting a discrimination complaint under a city law protecting workers' political speech.

My Take: They testified on their own time, didn't mention their employer, and got called into HR within a week of the moratorium passing. Seattle's protections for political speech exist for exactly this situation.

NASA's Daring Plan to Save a Falling Space Telescope, NASA's Swift Observatory is losing altitude faster than expected, and a commercial spacecraft built by Katalyst Space Technologies in just nine months will attempt to dock with it and boost it to a safer orbit, something never before attempted with a science satellite.

My Take: Building a working rescue spacecraft in nine months on a $30 million budget is the kind of timeline NASA almost never operates on. If it works, it changes the calculus on whether ageing satellites get rescued or replaced.

The Running List: Major Tech Layoffs in 2026 Where Employers Cited AI, Oracle disclosed cutting 21,000 jobs over 12 months even as quarterly net income rose 27%, joining GitLab, Block, Meta, and Cisco among companies pointing to AI as a factor in layoffs announced this year.

My Take: AI is becoming less of a tool companies add and more of a reason to redesign the company itself. Some of these cuts may be real productivity gains, but AI is also giving executives cover to remove jobs before they’ve proven that smaller teams can deliver the same quality, safety and growth.

Meta Announces New Range of Smart Glasses Starting at $299, Meta and EssilorLuxottica unveiled a cheaper line of AI smart glasses, undercutting the Ray-Ban Meta lineup by at least $80, as Meta pushes to own a hardware platform for the AI era and fend off rising competition from Google, Samsung, and Snap.

My Take: Meta already has about 80% of the AI glasses market and is still cutting the entry price. They’re trying to lock in the category before anyone else gets a foothold.

🇨🇦 Expert Warns Individuals' Lives at Risk Following Crime Stoppers Data Breach, a US data breach at P3 Global Intel, the platform powering Crime Stoppers tip lines, may have exposed Canadian tipster information, and the Canadian Crime Stoppers Association still hasn't confirmed three months later whether anonymous reporters' identities were compromised.

My Take: The entire value of Crime Stoppers is the promise of anonymity. Three months without confirmation is long enough for someone who reported organized crime to wonder if that promise was ever real. And Anthorpic wants your ID…

Hubble Images Galaxy Scientists Thought Was Impossible to Find, Hubble detected ultraviolet light from a tiny galaxy that existed 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, capturing direct evidence of the bursts of star formation that helped clear the fog of neutral hydrogen filling the early universe.

My Take: Researchers expected the hydrogen fog to be too thick for this kind of light to get through at all. Hubble found it anyway, on a telescope most people assume has been surpassed by Webb.

🇨🇦 Nearly 50 Fired Bell Workers Suing Over "Swipe and Go" Dismissals, 46 former Bell employees filed suit claiming over $6 million in damages, alleging the company's "swipe and go" attendance terminations were really a cost-cutting strategy with written instructions to dismiss roughly 30 employees per office.

My Take: The case is really about whether Bell enforced a clear rule or used a policy crackdown to reduce headcount cheaply.

Korean Battery Makers Accelerate Push Into US Energy Storage Market, LG Energy Solution, Samsung SDI, and SK On are converting EV battery production lines in the US to energy storage systems, with LG aiming for 60 GWh of global ESS capacity this year as tighter restrictions on Chinese battery components push developers toward North American supply.

My Take: The EV slowdown could have been a disaster for Korean battery makers. Instead, they're converting the same factories to feed the data centre power boom, which is the kind of pivot that only works if you already have the manufacturing base in place.

What happens when you ask ChatGPT to erase your entire digital footprint off the internet? - I tried this, and it wiped my identity off hundreds of sites!

My Take: Sabrina’s content never disappoints

My Take: No surprise with Land Rover. Buick? Really?

IMDb: 6.9/10

JMDb: 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿/10 (Very entertaining with a low cognitive load..)

Jerry & Marge Go Large (2022) is a comfort-food crowd-pleaser anchored by Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening as the title characters, a retired Michigan couple who discover a flaw in a lottery game and rally their small town into a profitable, lighthearted scheme. Director David Frankel leans into gentle humour and Midwestern charm rather than heist-movie tension, trusting the true story's inherent appeal to carry the runtime.

Cranston plays Jerry's analytical curiosity with warmth, and Bening gives Marge a steady, grounded presence that keeps the film from tipping into whimsy for its own sake. The supporting cast, full of quirky townsfolk, adds texture without overstaying its welcome. It's a slight film, low on stakes and conflict, but pleasant company.

Streaming on Paramount+, it's an easy, feel-good watch best suited for a relaxed evening rather than a memorable cinematic event.

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