This week, Microsoft lays off thousands, the FCC hears from a million, Amazon follows the Netflix model, Facebook forces mobile users to switch to chat, OKCupid may have tricked people into falling in love, and does your Apple device hide a backdoor? All that and much more below.

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What We’re Playing With

Andy: San Diego Comic-Con 2014; Extant

Headlines

• Microsoft cutting 18,000 jobs, 14% of company, in largest layoffs in its history
• The FCC has officially received 1 million net neutrality comments
• Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited offers all-you-can-eat e-books for $10 a month
• Apple to Buy Radio App Swell for $30 Million
• Twitter Doubles Revenue In Second Quarter Thanks To World Cup, Stock Soars

Audible Book of the Week

• 100th Anniversary: World War I
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Music Break: Over There by The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra

Hot Topics

• Forensic scientist identifies suspicious ‘back doors’ running on every iOS device
  • Apple denies iOS ‘backdoor’ claims, says it’s not working with the NSA
• Facebook Forces Users Worldwide To Download Messenger For Mobile Chat
• OKCupid Admits To Purposely Giving Users Bad Matches In Site ‘Experiment’

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• “˜Mad Max: Fury Road’ Comic-Con Trailer Unleashes A World Of Fire and Blood

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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.