This week, Greg Davies from the Blendover podcast joins Dwayne and Andrew as we discuss: Chinese hackers break into U.S. gov’t employee records, Hulu gets South Park, a shakeup at Microsoft, Apple and IBM join forces, a new vehicle from Tesla, and…Worst. Con. Ever. All this and much more…

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What We’re Playing With

Andy: iTunes Extras on Apple TV; Video Games: The Movie

Greg: Soundscape 8 by photive
Dwayne: Google Drive

Headlines

• Chinese hackers accessed personal details of US federal employees, targeted applicants for top-secret security clearances
• Google grappling with 70,000 ‘right to be forgotten’ requests
• Hulu receives exclusive rights to stream South Park immediately after broadcast and entire back catalog in deal worth $80M+
• Call to cancel Comcast service descends into desperate, hysterical fireworks

Audible Book of the Week

• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Novelization by Alex Irvine
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: You’ll Never Make a Monkey out of Me from The Simpsons

More Headlines

• Microsoft CEO readies big shakeup, drops devices and services focus
  • Microsoft to Announce Job Cuts as Soon as This Week
• Apple-IBM Partnership is a Direct Challenge to Microsoft
• Novartis and Google connect on contacts
• Tesla announces new, smaller electric vehicle named Model 3

Music Break: Tacky by “Weird Al” Yankovic

Final Word

• Over the course of a weekend, DashCon 2014 descended into chaos
• http://www.dashcon.org/

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• “Weird Al” releases 8 new videos in 8 days
• WeirdAl.com (All videos posted here)

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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.