This Week in Tech 1072: The Devil's Advocate
23 February 2026

This Week in Tech 1072: The Devil's Advocate

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What do jailbreaking fighter jets, lost Amazon vans, and swapping your phone's smart features for a handful of mud have in common? TWiT dives into the wild, occasionally absurd future of tech, where yesterday's sci-fi is tomorrow's supply-chain headache.


    Mark Zuckerberg and his Ray-Ban entourage have their day in court
    Instagram Boss Says 16 Hours of Daily Use Is Not Addiction
    Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push To Advance AI Agenda - Slashdot
    Australia's Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned
    Google I/O 2026 set for May 19-20
    Pixel 10A hands-on: More like a slightly better Pixel 9A than a slightly worse Pixel 10
    Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro, says it's better at complex problem-solving
    Tucson Daily Brief
    Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs
    A $10K+ bounty is waiting for anyone who can unplug Ring doorbells from Amazon’s cloud
    Amazon delivery van accidentally gets stuck in the sea in Britain
    Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans
    Government Docs Reveal New Details About Tesla and Waymo Robotaxis' Human Babysitters
    The Supreme Court's Tariff Ruling Won't Bring Car Prices Back to Earth
    A flood of cheap used EVs is coming
    Signal guide for everyday folks
    PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months
    Federal ban on TP-Link routers shelved, but Texas fights on
    You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised
    Mississippi health system shuts down clinics statewide after ransomware attack
    Fake Job Recruiters Hid Malware In Developer Coding Challenges
    F-35 Software Could Be Jailbreaked Like an IPhone: Dutch Defense Minister - Slashdot
    In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator | Tom's Hardware
    Lab-Grown Meat Exists (But Nobody Wants To Eat It)
    CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989

Host: Leo Laporte


Guests: Sam Abuelsamid, Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, and Nicholas De Leon


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