This week, it’s cyberwar, as Syrian hackers attack the NYT, Steve Ballmer’s out at Microsoft, Google takes design of the self-driving car into its own hands, Kevin Spacey dresses down traditional media, and the internet goes into a tizzy over casting the next Batman.

What We're Playing With
Andy: Oculus VR
Dwayne: Pebble

Headlines

• Syrian Electronic Army Apparently Hacks DNS Records Of Twitter, NYT
• Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
  • Ballmer Departure From Microsoft Was More Sudden Than Portrayed
  • Ballmer on his biggest regret, the next CEO and more
• Google Designing Its Own Self-Driving Car, Considers ‘Robo Taxi’
• Apple’s iPhone ‘Reuse and Recycle’ trade-in program detailed, begins rolling out August 30th
• First impressions: Hands-on with Nintendo 2DS

Audible Book of the Week

• The Distraction Addiction by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
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Music Break: Hold Me, Thrill me, Kiss Me, Kill Me by U2

Hot Topic: Ben Affleck is Batman

• Ben Affleck Is Batman
  • Ben Affleck as Batman casting in 'Man of Steel' sequel sparks fan jeers, Hollywood cheers
  • Patton Oswalt defends Batman casting
  • More Details on Ben Affleck in Snyder's Superman/Batman
  • Rumor: ‘Breaking Bad’ Star Bryan Cranston To Play Lex Luthor In ‘Batman vs. Superman’

Music Break: Spiritual High (Part III) by Moodswings

Final Word

• 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Kevin Spacey urges TV channels to give control to viewers

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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 Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.

This week, The man behind the biggest black market on the dark web, the biggest crowdfunding campaign ever, Mark Zuckerberg wants to give the entire world internet access, the iPhone in gold?, the Tesla Model S beats all safety records, our ongoing NSA surveillance coverage, and more...

Headlines

• Meet The Dread Pirate Roberts, The Man Behind Booming Black Market Drug Website Silk Road
  • Collected Quotations Of The Dread Pirate Roberts
• Canonical beats Pebble as the biggest crowdfunding campaign ever
• iPhone 5S will come in gold & likely sport fingerprint sensor
• iTunes Radio to Debut in September
• Zuckerberg launches Internet.org to help bring web access to the whole world
• Tesla Model S Achieves Best Safety Rating of Any Car Ever Tested

Audible Book of the Week

• Lexicon by Max Barry
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Music Break: I Fought the Law by The Clash

Hot Topic

• NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds
• New Details Show NSA Surveillance Covers 75% of Nation's Traffic, Can Snare Emails
• Glenn Greenwald's partner detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours
  • David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face
• Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison
• Groklaw shuts down rather than risk feds snooping through e-mail

Music Break: Misfits (End Credit Theme) by Vince Pope

Final Word

• The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Streaming Blocked Content Overseas

The Drill Down Video of the Week

Geico Hump Day

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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 Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.

This week, no silver lining for cloud services in the wake of NSA leaks, Blackberry looks for a buyer, Bitcoin gets subpoenaed, Tesla’s Elon Musk wants us all to be in the loop, and more...

Headlines

• Circle September 10 on Your Calendar for Apple's Big iPhone Event
• BlackBerry Says It’s Looking For A Buyer
  • How Blackberry Fell
• Elon Musk Explains the Hyperloop, the Solar-Powered High-Speed Future of Inter-City Transportation
  • SpaceX: Hyperloop
• John Carmack Joins Oculus as CTO

Audible Book of the Week

• The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World by Marti Olsen Laney, PsyD
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Music Break: Quake (Main Theme) by Nine Inch Nails

Hot Topic: The Snowden Effect

• Snowden effect silences 2 e-mail providers
  • Lavabit founder, under gag order, speaks out about shutdown decision
  • NSA spying may cost cloud companies $35 billion
• N.S.A. Leaks Make Plan for Cyberdefense Unlikely
• N.S.A. Said to Search Content of Messages to and From U.S.
  • NSA loophole allows warrantless search for US citizens' emails and phone calls
• Apple’s Tim Cook, tech executives meet with Barack Obama to talk surveillance
  • President Moves to Ease Worries on Surveillance

Music Break: Mo' Money Mo' Problems by Notorious B.I.G.

Final Word: Bitcoin

• Every Important Person In Bitcoin Just Got Subpoenaed By New York's Financial Regulator

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Millennials in the Workplace

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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 Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.

This week, the launch of the Moto X, the first phone built from the ground up by Google, The Tor anonymity network may have been hacked...by the FBI, Apple gets slapped for e-book price fixing, President Obama bails them out, and your Amazon Gold Box deal of the day... one Washignton Post, slightly used...

Headlines

• Google introduces customizable Moto X smartphone
• Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA
• Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity

Audible Book of the Week

• Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad by Brett Martin
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Music Break

Hot Topic

• U.S. Proposes Solutions for Apple's E-Book Price-Fixing
• White House overrules ITC trade ban on Apple iPhones, iPads
  • Veto of Apple Ruling Likely to Upend Big Patent Battles
• Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos
  • Jeff Bezos on Washington Post purchase
  • Why The Washington Post isn’t a charity case for Jeff Bezos

The Drill Down Video of the Week

The Camp Gyno

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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 Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.

This week, Greg Davies from the BlendoveR podcast and frequent Geeks of Doom contributor (including the Tardisblend podcast) joins us to discuss the ruling for WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning, how the NSA collects nearly everything a user does on the net, Feds want user passwords, the UK wants to ban porn, and more...

Headlines

• Bradley Manning Found Not Guilty of Aiding the Enemy, Guilty of Lesser Charges
• NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
  • I am Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of the Guardian - Ask Me (Almost) Anything
• Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords
  • Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'
• UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal

Audible Book of the Week

• Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
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Music Break: You've Got Time by Regina Spektor

The Drill Down Video of the Week (NSFW)

• Making a boob of herself! Amanda Palmer's breast escapes her bra...
• Amanda Palmer delivers riposte to Daily Mail bra story – in 3/4 time

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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 Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.