478: Playing by Facebook's Rules

This week, hope for WannaCry victims, FCC starts to scrap Net Neutrality, bad news for patent trolls, Facebook’s rulebook, Google's AI beats human gameplayers on their own turf,  plus much, much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: Twin Peaks on Showtime; Disney Research Science Fair

Dwayne: Empire of the Dead, by Phil Tucker

Headlines

• More people infected by recent WCry worm can unlock PCs without paying ransom
• FCC moves ahead with plan to scrap net neutrality rules
  • There be dragons? Why net neutrality groups won't go to Congress
• The US Supreme Court just made life much harder for patent trolls

Audible Book of the Week

• The Boy on the Bridge by M. R. Carey
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Music Break: Dance of the Dream Man from 'Twin Peaks' by Angelo Badalamenti

Hot Topics

• Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence
  • At Facebook we get things wrong – but we take our safety role seriously
• Wikipedia can pursue NSA surveillance lawsuit: U.S. appeals court

Music Break: Principal's Office from 'Wargames' by Arthur B. Rubenstein

Final Word

• Google’s AlphaGo Defeats Chinese Go Master in Win for A.I.
  • This is what the world’s top StarCraft players think of a potential contest with advanced AI

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Disney Research Hub on YouTube

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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 product manager Tosin Onafowokan.