Americans Are Losing Patience With Their Internet, and These States Are Complaining the Most

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://cordcuttersnews.com/americans-are-losing-patience-with-their-internet-and-these-states-are-complaining-the-most/

Mint Mobile is now carving up to $900 OFF the Galaxy S26 — here is why it's one of the best Samsung deals on the web today

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/mint-mobile/mint-mobile-is-now-carving-up-to-usd900-off-the-galaxy-s26-here-is-why-its-one-of-the-best-samsung-deals-on-the-web-today

Weekly output: AI compliance risks, Mint Mobile bundle, AI vulnerability detection, AI driving logistics, Al Gore on AI

I was in the Bay Area for work this week… and I’ll be back there starting Tuesday for NTT Research’s Upgrade conference (as like last year, the organizers are covering my travel expenses). I did not set out to spend this much of April propping up commercial aviation, but once again multiple travel opportunities lined up.

Patreon readers got a bonus post from me Thursday about one of those trips: my brief visit to Chicago for the Online News Association’s conference.

If you’re reading this somewhere near Fairfax County, you can quiz me in person Saturday afternoon at a joint meeting of the Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Personal Computer User Group. I will be showing up with a bag of tech-event swag that I don’t plan on driving home with.

4/7/2026: Building for Security, Compliance, and Real-World Risk, HumanX

My first panel at this year’s edition of the AI conference that took me to Vegas last March had me quizzing Spencer Schaefer, founder and CTO of the healthcare-delivery firm Lunar Analytics; Galina Antova, CEO of the information-security startup Kai; and Campbell Brown, co-founder and CEO of the AI-evaluation company Forum AI, about how their companies are leveraging AI in ways that they hope will not lead to hostile headlines.

4/7/2026: Mint Mobile Launches $45 Bundle of Home and Mobile 5G Broadband, PCMag

I had just enough free time at HumanX to pick up this story about T-Mobile’s most popular prepaid brand offering a bundle of fixed and mobile 5G for much less than what T-Mobile charges.

4/8/2026: Anthropic: Our New Model Is So Powerful, Only a Few Partners Can Try It Out, PCMag

After seeing that my colleague James Peckham was writing about Anthropic’s automated vulnerability-finding model Mythos, I contributed a writeup from a talk that old-head security expert Alex Stamos had given the day before at HumanX about “the coming AI bug-pocalypse.”

4/8/2026: The AI Engines Driving the Future of Logistics, HumanX

My second HumanX panel featured one person I’d already interviewed (Aurora Innovation president Ossa Fischer, whom I talked to at Web Summit Vancouver last year for a Fast Company story) and one I did not meet IRL until backstage (Shoaib Makani, CEO and co-founder of Motive).

4/9/2026: Former VP Al Gore: AI Models Are Probably Aware of Their Existence, PCMag

For the second year in a row, HumanX’s opening-night programming featured a former vice president who had been unable to win a promotion from American voters. Seeing Gore get all wonky in front of this tech crowd reminded me of what I liked about him in 2000… and what George W. Bush was able to run against with a plainspoken approach that hid how bad he would prove at so many tasks.

Mint Mobile’s New Bundle Packs 5G Home Internet & Unlimited Wireless Into One Simple Deal

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://cordcuttersnews.com/mint-mobiles-new-bundle-packs-5g-home-internet-unlimited-wireless-into-one-simple-deal/

New Mint Mobile deal gets you a full year of 5G internet AND unlimited wireless for only 45 bucks per month — this isn't a joke

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/mint-mobile/new-mint-mobile-deal-gets-you-a-full-year-of-5g-internet-and-unlimited-wireless-for-only-45-bucks-per-month-this-isnt-a-joke

Anybody using 5G for their home internet? My girlfriend has terribly slow and horribly over-priced AT&T but it doesn't look like she has any other wired option...

She can get T-Mobile 5G home internet here (I'd probably do it through my Mint Mobile account, slightly cheaper), and even the minimum advertised download bandwidth would be 10x (yes, 10x) what she currently has, and it would be SO much more inexpensive.

I assume you run into some congestion at times? How does it work, I assume it's like a bunch of 5G cell phones in a box? 😆

I'd prefer something wired but looks like there's just no other option in her apartment complex.

#internet #5gInternet #mintmobile #tmobile

Mint Mobile slashes $500 OFF the Google Pixel 10 in new deal, plus get 50% off your phone bill for a year — I'm serious

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/mint-mobile/mint-mobile-slashes-usd500-off-the-google-pixel-10-in-new-deal-plus-get-50-percent-off-your-phone-bill-for-a-year-im-serious

Ah, #MintMobile's "Home MINTernet" deal is only $30/mo for the first three months, and then goes up to $40/mo for the next 12.

Still, not nearly as grubby as other providers more than doubling their rates after 12 months. Good grief.

I'll probably keep T-mo at home, as it's only $10 more.

Hey #AskFedi / #HiveMind,

Anyone got any pointers for setting up #VisualVoicemail on #Android #AOSP or #LineageOS-derived dialers with #MintMobile, or #TMobile or other T-mobile #MVNOs?

I called the number, set up my PIN and greeting, but I just keep getting "Can't activate visual voicemail" in the dialer, even after going to Voicemail in the settings, turning off Visual voicemail, and turning it on again.

When I was on AT&T, it would occasionally be able to fetch the VMs, but often fail. I'm hoping it might work better with Mint/Tmo. XD

I'm on #IodéOS (based on Lineage).

It's nice of #MintMobile to send a SIM ejector tool with their SIM cards, as I can never locate one when I need one XD

(Obviously #NotSponsored, do your own homework, YMMV, maybe harmful if consumed subdermally ;)