TWiT 1072: The Devil's Advocate - Jailbreaking Fighter Jets, Social Media Addiction, and Self-Driving Snafus
This Week in Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2026
⏱️ 184 minutes
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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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| 0:00.0 | It's time for twit this week in tech. Nicholas DeLeon is here from Consumer Reports. Father Robert |
| 0:04.8 | Balliser from the Vatican. And my car guy, Sam Abul Sam Ed. We'll talk about one Amazon delivery driver |
| 0:12.1 | whose name is mud. Why, you might want to use mud for speaker wires and jail breaking a jet. |
| 0:18.7 | All that coming up this week on Twit next. |
| 0:23.9 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:25.8 | From people you trust. |
| 0:28.3 | This is Twit. |
| 0:34.9 | This is Twit. |
| 0:36.4 | This Week in Tech. |
| 0:37.6 | Episode 172, recorded Sunday, February 22nd, 2026. |
| 0:43.4 | The Devil's Advocate. |
| 0:46.8 | It's time for Twit this week in tech, the show we cover the week's tech news. |
| 0:50.7 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:51.4 | Glad you're here on a snowy Sunday for many of you. |
| 0:56.7 | It is not snowy in Rome. It is a little chilly, though, because it's late at night, |
| 1:01.2 | Father Romer Balasier, the digital Jesuit joins us. |
| 1:04.6 | Yeah, we've got a little bit of a chill. It's different than when I was in Vegas for, |
| 1:08.6 | what, seven weeks because we were in the high, 70s, low 80s. Now I'm back down into the single digits. Oh, man. Yeah, last time we talked, you were in Vegas. That's right. I forgot. You're back from CES, settled in. Good. Well, it's great to see you. Also with us from Tucson, where I don't believe it's snowing. Nicholas de Leon. |
| 1:30.9 | Hello, Leo. How are you? I, Nicholas, senior electronics reporter for Consumer Reports. Good to see you. |
| 1:36.7 | Since last we talked, you tied the knot. Congratulations. A Christmas wedding. Yes, thank you. Very nice. Yes, yes. |
| 1:43.3 | And I know your wife well, and my wife and your wife talk behind our backs. |
| 1:49.0 | They're the best of friends, they're besties. |
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