312: Delicious, Creamy Sochi

This week, Microsoft has a new CEO, Facebook turns ten and releases a new app, the NSA plays favorites with Yahoo, and journalists in Sochi are getting insta-hacked.

What We're Playing With
Dwayne: Nest

Headlines

• Microsoft names Satya Nadella to replace Steve Ballmer
  • Gates will spend a third of time at Microsoft, ‘substantially increasing’ role
• Yahoo leads NSA-FBI account content data demands
• The New Snowden Revelation Is Dangerous for Anonymous — And for All of Us

Audible Book of the Week

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Primary Phase by Douglas Adams
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Music Break: Soviet Connection by Michael Hunter

Hot Topics

• Journalists at Sochi are live-tweeting their hilarious and gross hotel experiences
  • @SochiProblems
  • Visitors to Sochi Olympics should expect to be hacked
• Meet “Paper,” Facebook’s New Answer for Browsing — And Creating — Mobile Media
  • FiftyThree Files Trademark For “Paper”
• On Its 10th Anniversary, Facebook Isn't Cool Anymore And That's Okay

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.