This week, the launch of the Moto X, the first phone built from the ground up by Google, The Tor anonymity network may have been hacked…by the FBI, Apple gets slapped for e-book price fixing, President Obama bails them out, and your Amazon Gold Box deal of the day… one Washington Post, slightly used…

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Headlines

• Google introduces customizable Moto X smartphone
• Members of Congress denied access to basic information about NSA
• Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity

Audible Book of the Week

• Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad by Brett Martin
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Hot Topic

• U.S. Proposes Solutions for Apple’s E-Book Price-Fixing
• White House overrules ITC trade ban on Apple iPhones, iPads
  • Veto of Apple Ruling Likely to Upend Big Patent Battles
• Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos
  • Jeff Bezos on Washington Post purchase
  • Why The Washington Post isn’t a charity case for Jeff Bezos

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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 Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor. Occasionally joining them is Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.