TAME YOUR TECH By Susan Bradley Are you still using your original email address and account from your Internet service provider? Is that ISP notifying you that it wants to get out of the email business?  In years past, you signed with an Internet provider. and as part of that service. they handed you an […]

On several nights for the last few weeks my Internet dropped out. Early on, it was just enough to make the remote connection to the office momentarily freeze. Now the freezes are enough to disrupt me from working at home. I called Xfinity; the line and modem were replaced but the service still drops. There […]

PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston With copper hitting an all-time high of $14,527 per metric ton intraday on January 29, 2026 — almost triple its $5,058 price as recently as 2020 — vandals are increasingly tearing out entire runs of telecom wiring for metal they can sell to shady scrap dealers. In the US alone, […]

ISSUE 23.02 • 2026-01-12 PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston One of the biggest frustrations of tech life is when your Internet service provider (ISP) goes down at random intervals — or there’s no ISP anywhere near your home or office. You may live or work in an urban area where your ISP stops delivering reliable […]