TWiT 1072: The Devil's Advocate - Jailbreaking Fighter Jets, Social Media Addiction, and Self-Driving Snafus

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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