This week, no silver lining for cloud services in the wake of NSA leaks, Blackberry looks for a buyer, Bitcoin gets subpoenaed, Tesla‘s Elon Musk wants us all to be in the loop, and more…

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• Circle September 10 on Your Calendar for Apple’s Big iPhone Event
• BlackBerry Says It’s Looking For A Buyer
  • How Blackberry Fell
• Elon Musk Explains the Hyperloop, the Solar-Powered High-Speed Future of Inter-City Transportation
  • SpaceX: Hyperloop
• John Carmack Joins Oculus as CTO

Audible Book of the Week

• The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World by Marti Olsen Laney, PsyD
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Music Break: Quake (Main Theme) by Nine Inch Nails

Hot Topic: The Snowden Effect

• Snowden effect silences 2 e-mail providers
  • Lavabit founder, under gag order, speaks out about shutdown decision
  • NSA spying may cost cloud companies $35 billion
• N.S.A. Leaks Make Plan for Cyberdefense Unlikely
• N.S.A. Said to Search Content of Messages to and From U.S.
  • NSA loophole allows warrantless search for US citizens’ emails and phone calls
• Apple’s Tim Cook, tech executives meet with Barack Obama to talk surveillance
  • President Moves to Ease Worries on Surveillance

Music Break: Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems by Notorious B.I.G.

Final Word: Bitcoin

• Every Important Person In Bitcoin Just Got Subpoenaed By New York’s Financial Regulator

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Millennials in the Workplace

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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.