This week, The Drill Down team takes a look at April Fools’ Day on the web, Apple‘s upcoming revolutionary TV vs. existing console-based options, and further bad times for Yahoo, as Facebook strikes back, but first, this week’s hot tech headlines.

Instagram comes to Android, details on Sony‘s next-generation Playstation, Ashton Kutcher to play Steve Jobs, Apple addresses worker violations at Foxconn, an iPhone stalker app raises privacy concerns on Facebook, Amazon wins sales tax fight in Colorado, Google to sell tablets online, Google tests augmented reality goggles, and OMGPop‘s CEO gets catty.

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• Instagram Finally Comes To Android
• The Next PlayStation is Called Orbis, Sources Say. Here are the Details.
• Ashton Kutcher to play Steve Jobs
• Apple, Foxconn pledge to revamp worker conditions after “serious and pressing” violations
• < This Creepy App Isn’t Just Stalking Women Without Their Knowledge, It’s A Wake-Up Call about Facebook Privacy
• Creepy Girl-Stalking App Girls Around Me Has Been Yanked From The App Store
• Amazon wins in sales tax fight with states, Prime users rejoice.
• Google to Sell Tablets on Its Own This Year
• Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses

• OMGPop CEO Dan Porter: staffer who quit rather than join Zynga is a weak, selfish failure

Audible Book of the Week

• Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto by David Kushner

Musical Interlude #1

Hot Topics

• Visually Connected Future – Apple’s TV Set or the XBox Approach?
• Possible Apple Television Set in 2013

• Facebook Smacks Back at Yahoo With Patent Claims in Counter-Lawsuit
• Yahoo Cuts 14 Percent Of Workforce; 2,000 Given Pink Slips; Will Save $375M

Musical Interlude #2

Final Word

• A Round Up of ALL of Google’s April Fools Jokes.
• ThinkGeek April Fools’
• April Fools 2012: We Ruin Every (Tech-Related) Joke On The Internets
• Mind-boggling XKCD April Fools comic

Geeks of Doom April Fools’ links

• George Takei To Target That Explosion and Fire Again In Sulu Spinoff “˜Star Trek: Excelsior’
• GOP Seeks Headbanger For President; Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine Answers The Call
• DC ReRelaunch: DC Comics Announces “˜New New 52″²
• Bummer: “˜Mars Attacks’ Not Coming To Broadway

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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), VentureBeat editor Devindra Hardawar, marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Techmeme editor Lidija Davis.