390: The Cost of Convenience

This week, Gigaom columnist Tom Cheredar is our guest as we discuss hackers posting personal data from infidelity site Ashley Madison, the NSA’s best friend is AT&T, Does Amazon overwork its employees, selections from POTUS’s playlist, giant robots!... and much much more.

What We're Playing With

Andy: The Last of Us

Tom: Jawbone Up

Headlines

• Samsung unveils jumbo phones to compete with iPhone
• Android M's name is Marshmallow, and it's version 6.0
• NSA Spying Relies on AT&T’s ‘Extreme Willingness to Help’
• Hackers Finally Post Stolen Ashley Madison Data
  • Don’t gloat about the Ashley Madison leak. It’s about way more than infidelity
  • Everything you say and do is public: five rules for living with the internet

Audible Book of the Week

• You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir by Felicia Day
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Music Break: Good Day by Nappy Roots

Hot Topics

• Comcast to launch digital-video platform Watchable
• Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace
  • ​NYT report says it's tough (often brutal) working for Amazon
  • Silicon Valley Thinks Amazon Sounds Like a Great Place to Work
  • Jeff Bezos responds to brutal NYT story, says it doesn’t represent the Amazon he leads
  • Don’t be surprised at how Amazon treats its workers

Music Break: My Favorite Things by John Coltrane

Final Word

• Obama releases a Spotify #POTUSPlaylist

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• MegaBots adds Grant Imahara, BattleBots founders, X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis, NASA, Autodesk, & more to Giant Robot challenge

• Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Tested Outside

Intro/Outro: Live It Up by The Isley Brothers

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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.