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Researchers say they have found an iPhone exploit Apple cannot patch, a man in the UK was just criminally convicted in 2026 for burning and selling pirated CDs, and a high school student in India just cracked open Apple's AirPods walled garden. This week, John and Logan break down ten stories covering AI, Apple, healthcare breaches, wireless plans, and one genuinely bizarre medical study.
Stories in this episode:
Unpatchable iPhone exploit. Researchers disclosed a boot-level vulnerability affecting Apple's A12 and A13 chips inside the iPhone XS, XR, and the entire iPhone 11 lineup. Because the flaw lives in code burned into the chip at the factory, Apple cannot push a fix. The exploit could open the door to new jailbreaks on hardware many believed had become unjailbreakable.
CD pirate convicted in 2026. A 47-year-old UK DJ was criminally convicted for selling burned pirated CDs over five years, generating more than £220,000 through eBay and Facebook. Not torrents. Physical CDs. In 2026. The judge called it "hypocrisy of the highest order."
LibrePods cracks AirPods open. An open-source project just reverse-engineered Apple's AirPods protocols to bring noise cancellation, transparency mode, adaptive audio, and ear detection to Android and Linux. Built by a high school student in India. Proof that most of Apple's lock-in is software, not hardware.
Verizon blows up its lineup. The new Simplicity plans drop the 36-month financing trap, simplify pricing, and add annual upgrades. The catch: the old plans still exist, multiline families may save more on the old structure, and the headline $30 price is mostly a switcher promotion.
Plus the alleged 8.8TB Amazon One Medical breach attributed to ShinyHunters, Sakana AI's evolutionary approach to building models instead of bigger ones, AMD restoring a memory encryption security feature after community pushback, Apple's new Hide My Email domain that may make the feature easier to block, a retrospective study claiming 96% remission of tick-borne red meat allergy after ear acupuncture, and new Jon Prosser renders of what may be Apple's first foldable iPhone.
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