This week, we have a ton of Apple news, including revealing evidence uncovered in the ongoing Apple/Samsung trial, and how one tech reporter’s online identity was demolished as a result of a social engineering hack on Apple & Amazon tech support.

Plus, Starbucks invests $25 million — and their entire paypoint infrastructure — in Square payments.

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What We’re Playing With

Andy: Toasted Donut: Nuking Users with [Digg community manager] Dan Huard, OUYA update, The Stanley Parable
Devindra: Walking Dead game
Dwayne: Birdbox, Mac OS X

Headlines

• En Garde Amazon, eBay Rolling Out Same-Day Shipping Service “eBay Now”
• Windows 8 Releases Aug 1 – Online Available Oct 26
• Square Partners With Starbucks
• Google Search for iOS adds Siri-like voice-based answers

• Building the search engine of the future, one baby step at a time

Audible Book of the Week

• William F. Nolan’s Logan’s Run – Last Day: A Radio Dramatization by Paul J. Salamoff

Musical Interlude: You Got It by Roy Orbison

Apple Headlines

• Apple’s Secrets Revealed at Trial
  • Samsung’s 2010 Report Says its Galaxy Would Be Better If it Were Just More Like the iPhone
• Apple: YouTube app will not be included in iOS 6, Google working on standalone version
• Apple to roll new Dock connector out across entire iOS product lineup this fall
• Upcoming iOS 6 is scalable to taller, 640 x 1136 iPhone display, shows possible next-generation device user-interface
• How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking

• Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalist’s Devastating Hack
• After Epic Hack, Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password Resets

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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.