This week, Chinese hackers infiltrate U.S. newspaper networks, Twitter also gets hacked, Oreo takes advantage of the Super Bowl blackout, is Netflix‘s full season release schedule the future of television…or a big mistake, will your body be the next unlimited storage device, and if you thought J.J. Abrams hit the motherlode last week for helming both Star Trek and Star Wars franchises, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet!

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• CES tells CNET: You’re fired!
• Chinese hackers infiltrated NYT’s computers for Last 4 Months
  • Wall Street Journal Announces That It, Too, Was Hacked by the Chinese
• Twitter hacked, 25K user accounts potentially compromised
• How Oreo Culture-Jacked The Super Bowl
• ‘Star Wars Episode 7′ Director J.J. Abrams Developing “˜Half-Life,’ “˜Portal’ Movies

Audible Book of the Week

• Robopocalypse by Daniel Wilson

Musical Interlude: Cara Mia Addio from “Portal 2” by GLaDOS (Ellen McClain)

Hot Topic: Binge Viewing: The Future of TV?

• Is Netflix’s Full Season Release Strategy a Smart Business Model?
  • Interview with Slashfilm editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta
• How Will We Know If Netflix’s House of Cards Was a Hit or a Failure?

Musical Interlude: Science is Fun from “Portal 2” by Mike Morasky

Last Word: Convergence of Man and Technology

• British scientists use man-made DNA speck to store 739kB of digital data

Viral Video of the Week

We’re trying out a new segment on The Drill Down, where we’ll be featuring a different viral video each week. Here’s this week’s video:

Outro: Want You Gone from “Portal 2” by Jonathan Coulton (feat. GLaDOS)

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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.