This week, the heart of internet security is bleeding, stock traders game the system, a Twitter to destabilize Cuba, Game of Thrones pushes piracy to a new high, and are we at 3D printing’s tipping point? All this and more…

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Andy: Monument Valley, Silicon Valley

Headlines

• Mozilla Co-Founder Brendan Eich Resigns as CEO, Leaves Foundation Board
  • Brendan Eich resignation: Politics necessarily creates divisions
• The Heartbleed Bug, explained
  • Bruce Schneier: Heartbleed is a ‘catastrophic’ bug
  • Heartbleed vulnerable websites on the Alexa top 10000
  • The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now
• Attorney general announces investigation into high-speed stock trades
  • On A ‘Rigged’ Wall Street, Milliseconds Make All The Difference

Audible Book of the Week

• Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
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Music Break: Chan Chan by Buena Vista Social Club

Hot Topics

• US secretly created ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest
• Microsoft Goes Hollywood in Amazon-Like Programming Push
• Game of Thrones Premiere Triggers Piracy Craze
• Micro 3D printer Kickstarter funding: $1 million in just one day
• Uber announces UberRUSH, a bicycle courier service, launching first in Manhattan

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Silicon Valley, Season 1, Episode 1

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