This week, Russian hackers read Obama’s emails, the internet responds to the Nepal quakes, Comcast loses Time Warner Cable, Skyrim gamers are steamed about paying for mods, and much much more…

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy: Next Car Game: Wreckfest
Dwayne: Apple Watch impressions/Tattoogate

Headlines

• Russian Hackers Read Obama’s Unclassified Emails, Officials Say
• Mark Zuckerberg: Today we announced the launch of Safety Check…
  • Nepal Earthquake 2015: Facebook ‘Safety Check’ Allows Users To Confirm Well-Being, Alert Friends
  • Google ‘person finder’ tool deployed to help relatives find loved ones in Nepal

Audible Book of the Week

• Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
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Music Break: Nephop Ko Bato by Laure

Hot Topics:

• “Today, We Move On”: Comcast Officially Kills Time Warner Cable Deal
• Google Attempts to Fight Patent Trolls with a Pretty Dubious Strategy

• Facebook Messenger adds free video calling to take on Skype

Microsoft Build Developers Conference 2015

• Huge news: Windows 10 can run reworked Android and iOS apps
• Microsoft HoloLens @ Microsoft Build 2015

Music Break: Dragonborn by Eric Calderone

Final Word: Skyrim Mods

• Explain Like I’m Five: Valve/Steam Mod controversy
  • Paid Steam Mods Are a Good Thing — But Valve Needs to Communicate Better
  • Valve Adding ‘Pay What You Want’ Option to Steam Workshop Mods
  • Valve CEO: ‘Pissing off the internet costs you a million bucks in just a couple of days’

The Drill Down Video of the Week

Obama’s Anger Translator Goes GEEK at the White House Correspondence Dinner

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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.