This Week in Tech (Audio) TWiT 1072: The Devil's Advocate - Jailbreaking Fighter Jets, Social Media Addiction, and Self-Driving Snafus
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Feb 23, 2026 
Nicholas De Leon, Senior electronics reporter and local tech builder. Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ, the Digital Jesuit offering ethics and culture from Rome. Sam Abuelsamid, automotive analyst focused on vehicle tech. They riff on jailbreaking fighter jets, social media addiction and legal fallout, AI hype vs hardware, GPS-led delivery fails, robo-taxi crash data, Ring surveillance worries, and weird tech oddities.
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Tucson Daily Brief Shows Practical Local AI Pipeline
- Nicholas De Leon built Tucson Daily Brief that scrapes local RSS, summarizes top 10 headlines with Sonnet 4.6, and delivers text and TTS to Telegram and podcast feeds.
- His pipeline uses cloud LLMs plus 11Labs voice cloning and costs about $20/month to run.
Experiment Now But Watch Long Term Costs
- Learn and experiment with LLM tools now while costs are low and offerings are accessible.
- Fr. Robert and Nicholas urged tinkering locally or in the cloud but warned of false economies since providers price at a loss today.
Local TTS Enables Scaryly Convincing Voice Phishing
- Local offline TTS models can mimic a host convincingly in minutes, exposing voice phishing risk.
- Leo played a QN-generated clip of his own voice and described it as terrifyingly convincing for scams.