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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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