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February 22, 2026TWiT 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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February 15, 2026TWiT 1071: Image Pickles - Are Social Platforms Addictive or Just Too Good?
Is social media addictive by design or just irresistible entertainment? The panel tackles the lawsuit that's dragging tech giants onto the witness stand and how surveillance tech is quietly expanding while lawmakers and users scramble to catch up.
Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial

Instagram Chief Says Social Media Is Not 'Clinically Addictive' in Landmark Trial

Section 230 turns 30 as it faces its biggest tests yet

Meta apparently thinks we're too distracted to care about facial recognition and Ray-Bans

Amazon Ring's Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app.

Discord backtracks on controversial age verification rollout...kind of

Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor that this man remotely accessed thousands of them

HP's laptop subscriptions are a great deal — for HP

FTC Ratchets Up Microsoft Probe, Queries Rivals on Cloud, AI

T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation

Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags

SpaceX Prioritizes Lunar 'Self-Growing City' Over Mars Project, Musk Says

Elon Musk declares victory with Medicaid data release

Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars

Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025

$1.8 million MST3K Kickstarter brings in (almost) everyone from the old show

OpenAI Is Nuking Its 4o Model. China's ChatGPT Fans Aren't OK

Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died

Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78

Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Wesley Faulkner, Stacey Higginbotham, and Thomas Germain

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February 08, 2026TWiT 1070: A Yacht for Your Yacht - Super Bowl LX Gets a Surge of AI Ads!
Will Elon Musk really launch a million data centers into orbit, and why is McDonald's so worried about you using "McNuggets" as your password? This week's tech roundtable takes on wild new frontiers and everyday security headaches with insight and a bit of irreverence.
More schools are banning phones so students can focus. Ohio's results show it's not that simple

After Australia, Which Countries Could Be Next to Ban Social Media for Children

EU says TikTok must disable 'addictive' features like infinite scroll, fix its recommendation engine

Anthropic and OpenAI release dueling AI models on the same day in an escalating rivalry

Sam Altman says Anthropic's Super Bowl spot is 'dishonest' about ChatGPT ads, but he agrees it's funny

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code

Alphabet reports Q4 2025 revenue of $113.8 billion

Amazon's blowout $200 billion AI spending plan stuns Wall Street

A New Gilded Age: Big Tech goes on a $600 billion AI spending splurge

Hidden Cameras in Chinese Hotels Are Livestreaming Guests To Thousands of Telegram Subscribers

AI-generated ads hit the Super Bowl

SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it

Russia suspected of intercepting EU satellites

Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors

New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer

Western Digital Plots a Path To 140 TB Hard Drives Using Vertical Lasers and 14-Platter Designs

A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words

The Wayback Machine debuts a new plug-in designed to fix the internet's broken links problem

Project Hail Mary is getting its own LEGO set

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Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Larry Magid, Mike Elgan, and Louis Maresca

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February 01, 2026TWiT 1069: In My Head I Have 3 Buckets - Moltbook Becomes a Surreal AI Agent Social Network
What happens when AI bots get their own social network, Silicon Valley execs cozy up to power, and Apple takes a cut from creators? This week's panel calls out the bold, bizarre, and often problematic ways tech's biggest players are reshaping everything from AI assistants to your everyday privacy.
There's a social network for AI agents, and it's getting weird

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now

Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site

Pentagon clashes with Anthropic over military AI use, sources say

Salesforce signs $5.6B deal to inject agentic AI into the US Army

Angry Norfolk residents lose lawsuit to stop Flock license plate scanners

SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit

Elon Musk reportedly wants a June SpaceX IPO to align with his birthday, the planets

Tesla hits a grim milestone: its second straight year of decline

Tesla says production-ready Optimus robot is coming soon

Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings in Q2 as gaming declines

What We Learned From Meta, Microsoft and Tesla

Apple tells Patreon to move creators to in-app purchase for subscriptions by November

Apple CEO Tim Cook 'heartbroken' after repeated ICE killings in Minneapolis

A rival smart glasses company is suing Meta over its Ray-Ban products

TikTok, YouTube, and Meta are headed to court for a landmark trial over social media addiction

The 'Social Media Addiction' Narrative May Be More Harmful Than Social Media Itself

TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection — here's what it means

A Waymo hit a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

Samsung's TriFold phone will cost $2,899 in the US

Groundhogs are bad at predicting weather, but they're valuable animal engineers\

Satellites encased in wood are in the works

Belkin reminds users that its Wemo smart home products are shutting down this week

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Gary Rivlin, Devindra Hardawar, and Victoria Song

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January 25, 2026TWiT 1068: Toto's Electrostatic Chuck - Is TikTok's New Privacy Policy Cause for Alarm?
Microsoft quietly hands over BitLocker keys to the government, TikTok's new privacy terms spark a user panic, and Europe's secret tech backups reveal anxious prep for digital fallout. Plus, how gambling platforms are changing the future of news and sports.
You can bet on how much snow will fall in New York City this weekend

Europe Prepares for a Nightmare Scenario: The U.S. Blocking Access to Tech

China, US sign off on TikTok US spinoff

TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection -- here's what it means

Elon Musk's Grok A.I. Chatbot Made Millions of Sexualized Images, New Estimates Show

Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw - Forbes

House of Lords votes to ban social media for Brits under 16

Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"

Route leak incident on January 22, 2026

149 Million Usernames and Passwords Exposed by Unsecured Database

Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS

Anthropic revises Claude's 'Constitution,' and hints at chatbot consciousness

The new Siri chatbot may run on Google servers, not Apple's

A Wikipedia Group Made a Guide to Detect AI Writing. Now a Plug-In Uses It to 'Humanize' Chatbots

GitHub - anthropics/original_performance_takehome: Anthropic's original performance take-home, now open for you to try!

Telly's "free" ad-based TVs make notable revenue—when they're actually delivered - Ars Technica

Toilet Maker Toto's Shares Get Unlikely Boost From AI Rush - Slashdot

Dr. Gladys West, whose mathematical models inspired GPS, dies at 95

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Alex Stamos, Doc Rock, and Patrick Beja

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January 18, 2026TWiT 1067: Short Vertical Content - Is Claude the New King of AI Coding?
Claude isn't just the hottest name in AI right now—it's quietly ushering in a wave of ultra-personalized, vibe-coded software that could transform how we build and use tech in 2026. Find out why coders and normies alike are obsessed and what's coming next.
Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files

Behind the Curtain: The AI future has arrived

Our Algorithmic Grey-Beige World

Musk wants up to $134B in OpenAI lawsuit, despite $700B fortune

Elon Musk's Grok 'Undressing' Problem Isn't Fixed

I asked Grok's AI to undress me after X's new limits. It's still easy on the app.

Senate passes Defiance Act for a second time to address Grok deepfakes

Instagram says it fixed the issue that sent password reset emails

Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities With Sex Scandals

French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition

Nearly 5 Million Accounts Removed Under Australia's New Social Media Ban

TikTok has quietly launched a new micro drama app called PineDrama as the category picks up steam in the US

Creator income inequality is rising as top influencers rake in big paydays from brands

Managers on alert for "launch fever" as pressure builds for NASA's Moon mission

Senate passes minibus bill funding NASA, rejecting Trump's proposed cuts

Pentagon Device Linked To Havana Syndrome

Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it

Amazon is buying copper harvested by bacteria for its data centers

'Are You Dead?' is now the top paid App Store app in China

Danish dev delights kid by turning floppy drive into easy TV remote

Cinemark will fill almost anything with popcorn this weekend—but there's a catch

Happy Birthday, Wikipedia: We need you now more than ever

Pluralistic: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification (17 Jan 2026)

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Harper Reed and Abrar Al-Heeti

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January 11, 2026TWiT 1066: A Supercomputer in Your Pocket - CES & the Next Leap for On-Device AI Power
Is putting a camera in your toilet the future of health, or have tech companies lost the plot? This episode's panel digs into what's truly innovative versus what's just over the top, as industry leaders spar over privacy concerns and the real impact of AI in everyday devices.
We tried to get humanoid robots to do the laundry

Boston Dynamics unveils production-ready version of Atlas robot at CES 2026

Hair Drying Robot

Jensen Huang Says Nvidia's New Vera Rubin Chips Are in 'Full Production'

AMD's Ryzen AI 400 series includes the first Copilot+ desktop CPU — Team Red refreshes Zen 5 APUs and Strix Halo

Meta's EMG wristband is moving beyond its AR glasses

Lego's Smart Brick Gives the Iconic Analog Toy a New Digital Brain

The Alexa Plus website is now available to everyone in early access

Throne, from the co-founder of Whoop, uses computer vision to study your poop

The Verge Awards at CES 2026

These are the smart home gadgets that impressed me at CES 2026

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, and Jason Hiner

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January 04, 2026TWiT 1065: AI Action Park - DeepSeek's mHC Model Training Breakthrough!
Happy New Year! NVIDIA just spent $20 billion to hollow out an AI company for its brains, while Meta and Google scramble to scoop up fresh talent before AI gets "too weird to manage." Who's winning, who's left behind, and what do these backroom deals mean for the future of artificial intelligence?
Andrej Karpathy admits programmers cannot keep pace with AI advances

Economic uncertainty in AI despite massive stock market influence

Google, Anthropic, and Microsoft drive AI productization for business and consumers

OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini battle for consumer AI dominance

Journalism struggles to keep up with AI realities and misinformation tools

Concerns mount over AI energy, water, and environmental impact narratives

Meta buys Manus, expands AI agent ambitions with Llama model

OpenAI posts high-stress "Head of Preparedness" job worth $555K+

Training breakthroughs: DeepSeek's mHC and comparisons to Action Park

U.S. lawmakers push broad, controversial internet censorship bills

Age verification and bans spark state laws, VPN workaround explosion

U.S. drone ban labeled protectionist as industry faces tech shortages

FCC security initiatives falter; Cyber Trust Mark program scrapped

Waymo robotaxis stall in blackouts, raising AV urban planning issues

School cellphone bans expose kids' struggle with analog clocks

MetroCard era ends in NYC as tap-to-pay takes over subway access

RAM, VRAM, and GPU prices soar as AI and gaming squeeze supply

CES preview: Samsung QD-OLED TV, Sony AFEELA car, gadget show hype

Remembering Stewart Cheifet and Computer Chronicles' legacy

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Dan Patterson and Joey de Villa

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December 28, 2025TWiT 1064: TWiT Best 0f 2025 - 2025's Best Moments on TWiT
AI video generation

TWiT turns 20

Harper Reed on vibe-coding

Job loss and AI

Apple's iPhone 16 event

Amy Webb's crazy husband talks about his anonymous computer

Host: Leo Laporte

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December 21, 2025TWiT 1063: The Year's End - Top Stories of 2025
After a year tangled in political drama, AI hype, and regulation battles, the TWiT crew explains how many of tech's "biggest stories" simply fizzled into nothing or left us with new headaches by year's end.
Year-end tech trends: AI, politics, and security dominated 2025

Major stories faded fast: TikTok saga, political tech drama, DOGE scandal

TikTok's ownership battle—Oracle, Trump donors, and US-China tensions

China tech fears: banned drones, IoT vulnerabilities, secret radios in buses

Rising political pressure for internet privacy and media literacy reform

Surveillance and kill switch concerns in US grid and port infrastructure

Convenience vs. privacy: Americans trade data for discounts and ease

Age verification, surveillance, and flawed facial recognition across countries

Discord's ID leak highlights risks of rushed compliance with privacy laws

Social media's impact on kids pushes age-gating and verification laws

ISPs monetize customer data, VPNs pitched for personal privacy

Global government crackdowns: UK bans VPN advertising, mandates age checks

The illusion of absolute privacy: flawed age gates and persistent tracking

AI takes over: explosive growth, but profits elusive for big players

Arms race in LLMs: DeepSeek's breakthrough, OpenAI/Meta talent bidding war

Ad-driven models still rule; Amazon's playbook repeated in AI

Humanoid robots and AGI hype: skepticism vs. Silicon Valley optimism

AI-generated art, media, and the challenge of deepfake detection

Social platforms falter: Instagram and X swamped by fake or low-value content

Google's legal, regulatory, and technical woes: ad tech trial, Manifest V3 backlash

RAM price spikes and hardware shortages blamed on AI data center demand

YouTube overtakes mobile for podcast and video viewing, Oscars move online

The internet's growth: Cloudflare stats, X vs. Reddit, spam domain trends

Weird tech stories: hacked crosswalks, Nintendo Switch 2 Staplegate, LEGO theft ring

Sad farewell: Lamar Wilson's passing and mental health awareness in tech

Reflections on the year's turbulence and hopes for a better 2026

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Mikah Sargent, Paris Martineau, and Steve Gibson

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