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I love that Google Fiber is bringing 5-gig internet to... three cities. (I’m genuinely happy for the people of Kansas City, West Des Moines, and Salt Lake City.) Meanwhile, we can’t rely on the FCC, which has had an empty seat for more than a year because of a weird right-wing smear campaign against the extraordinarily qualified Biden nominee, Gigi Sohn.

AP reports that Comcast service is down in Philly — the cable company’s own backyard — during the most important night of the year for the Eagles. Go Birds?

Let Sean’s calming voice guide you through this unpackaging and setup experience. Ahhh.

Welcome to another Friday on the internet. If you’re about to go off-roading this weekend, definitely don’t do it in the new GMC Hummer EV. Here are some alternate headlines we discussed in the newsroom that almost made it onto the review:

During today’s circus show featuring former Twitter execs and Hunter Biden’s laptop, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) held up this sign. I wouldn’t personally brag about being banned from Twitter for being a horrible troll, but then, I wasn’t elected by Georgia’s 14th district.

Flappy Birdle is a sadistic experiment in word games. You will not survive. You will fail. Over and over again. It’s terrible. Good luck.

Microsoft just announced a surprise event for tomorrow, and we expect AI to be a big part of it. But not before Google went up with its own announcement about a ChatGPT competitor.

The Pentagon says the high-altitude balloon currently flying over the US is spying on us. China says it’s just a weather balloon.

At least, that’s how Apple designer Bill Atkinson did things when he made the Lisa.