This week, Kim DotCom is back with Mega, FCC wants gigabit broadband nationwide, Steve Jobs hated poaching, a sneak peek at the new Blackberry OS, Firefox phones, game deveolper THQ calls it quits, and more.

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Headlines

• Wikileaks claims Aaron Swartz was an ally and possible source, breaking anonymity
• Kim DotCom’s ‘Mega’ goes live
  • Mega hits 1 million users after one day
• FCC pushes for gigabit broadband in all 50 states by 2015
• The no-hire paper trail Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt didn’t want you to see

Audible Book of the Week

• Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright

Musical Interlude: Tom Cruise Crazy by Jonathan Coulton

More Headlines

• Mozilla debuts two Firefox OS developer preview phones
• BlackBerry 10 exposed in full detail thanks to leaked screenshots
• The end of THQ
• Why this jilted Kickstarter backer decided to sue “” & why he was right

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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 Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.