This week we’re joined by Greg Davies, host of Blendover & Heavy Metal Historian podcasts (and of course the TARDISBlend podcast hosted here at Geeks of Doom) as we discuss escalating developments in the Ashley Madison hack, Twitter cuts off deleted political tweets, Facebook launches its own virtual assistant, YouTube takes on Twitch, ILM’s experimental lab... and much much more. Podcast [display_podcast]

What We're Playing With Greg: social media aspects of the VA shooting Headlines

• Ashley Madison hackers post new 20GB archive that appears to include company emails and internal documents
  • Leaked AshleyMadison Emails Suggest Execs Hacked Competitors
  • Ashley Madison offers C$500K reward as police investigate reports of two suicides possibly connected to leak
  • Ashley Madison's $19 'Full Delete' Option Made The Company Millions - And May Not Have Even Worked!

Audible Book of the Week

• The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
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Music Break: Dirty Little Secret by The All-American Rejects More Headlines

• Twitter cuts off Diplotwoops and Politwoops in all remaining 30 countries
• Microsoft releases Cortana for Android beta
• Facebook Launches M, Its Bold Answer to Siri and Cortana

Music Break: Please Ask For Help by Telekinesis Final Word

• Meet YouTube Gaming, Twitch’s Archenemy

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Inside Industrial Light & Magic's secret Star Wars VR lab

• Real Life First Person Shooter (Chatroulette version)

• Behind the scenes

Subscribe! The Drill Down on iTunes (Subscribe now!) Add us on Stitcher! The Drill Down on Facebook The Drill Down on Twitter 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.

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.

This week, a whistleblower gets blown off on 4Chan, Tinder and Vanity Fair are not a match, Tesla charges itself, Google teaches us a new Alphabet ... and much much more!

What We're Playing With

Andy: Humans on AMC

Dwayne: GoPro Hero 4 Black

Headlines

• Apple Music has 11M trial subscribers with 2M on family plan; App Store has record month in July with $1.7B in transactions
• Spy agency whistle-blower posts top secret report to 4chan but users dismiss it as 'fake and gay'
• Inside the hookup culture accelerated by the rapid rise of Tinder
  • Tinder's PR just went ballistic on Twitter over a Vanity Fair exposé

Audible Book of the Week

• I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 by Douglas Edwards
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Music Break: ABC by The Jackson 5

Hot Topic

• Google Announces Plans for New Operating Structure
  • Google to reorganize into new company called Alphabet
  • A,B,C as Easy as 1,2,3 — Follow the Money in the Google Renaming
  • There's an Easter Egg in Larry Page's Alphabet Letter

Music Break: Electric Feel by MGMT

Final Word

• Anti-Piracy Group Hits Indie Creators For Using the Word 'Pixels'
  • Columbia Pictures copyright claim results in own Pixels trailer being taken down

The Drill Down Video of the Week

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This week, Windows 10 is blowing up, a killer Mac exploit, Yahoo is attacked, What does an engineer look like?, the end of Hitchbot, and the hoverboard is back, yes, again...but this time it really works (kinda)... and much much more

What We're Playing With

Andy: Windows 10 Headlines

• Microsoft Windows 10 installed on 14m devices in first 24 hours
• Windows 10 spying: How to opt out of Microsoft's intrusive terms of use
  • How To Stop Windows 10's Spying Ads
• Researchers Create First Firmware Worm That Attacks Macs
• Hackers Exploit 'Flash' Vulnerability in Yahoo Ads

Audible Book of the Week

• How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil
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Music Break: Hitchin' A Ride by Green Day

More Headlines

• Apple in talks to launch an MVNO in the US and Europe
  • Apple denies that it has discussed or plans to launch an MVNO
• #ILookLikeAnEngineer challenges stereotypes
• Netflix Announces Its New ‘Unlimited’ Maternity And Paternity Leave Program
• America proves too tough for hitchhiking robot after vandals end cross-country trip

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

The Lexus Hoverboard: It's here

The Lexus Hoverboard: The Story

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