315: The Fall of the Mountain King

This week, is this the end of Bitcoin? a massive security flaw for Apple, Comcast strongarms Netflix, Google maps everything with a cellphone, Facebook’s WhatsApp gets VOIP,  and the internet is fucked (but is there anything we can do about it?)

Headlines

• “This could be the end of Bitcoin”: leak shows massive theft at Mt. Gox, price falls below $500 amid pleas for calm
  • Mt.Gox's violation of trust doesn't reflect the resilience of the greater Bitcoin industry
  • Senator Calls For Bitcoin Ban In Letter To Financial Regulators
• WhatsApp to Start Offering Internet Phone Calls
• Apple security flaw makes iPhones, iPads, Macs vulnerable to attack.

Audible Book of the Week

• The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku
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Music Break: For the Love of Moneyby The O'Jays

Hot Topic

• Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam
  • Inside The Netflix/Comcast Deal and What The Media Is Getting Very Wrong
• Apple Building Out Their Own CDN To Deliver Content To Consumers
• The internet is fucked (but we can fix it)

Music Break: Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Final Word

• Google Launches Project Tango Smartphone To Experiment With Computer Vision And 3D Sensors

The Drill Down Video of the Week

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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.