This week we’re joined by Greg Davies, host of Blendover & Heavy Metal Historian podcasts (and of course the TARDISBlend podcast hosted here at Geeks of Doom) as we discuss escalating developments in the Ashley Madison hack, Twitter cuts off deleted political tweets, Facebook launches its own virtual assistant, YouTube takes on Twitch, ILM‘s experimental lab… and much much more.

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What We’re Playing With

Greg: social media aspects of the VA shooting

Headlines

• Ashley Madison hackers post new 20GB archive that appears to include company emails and internal documents
  • Leaked AshleyMadison Emails Suggest Execs Hacked Competitors
  • Ashley Madison offers C$500K reward as police investigate reports of two suicides possibly connected to leak
  • Ashley Madison’s $19 ‘Full Delete’ Option Made The Company Millions – And May Not Have Even Worked!

Audible Book of the Week

• The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey
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Music Break: Dirty Little Secret by The All-American Rejects

More Headlines

• Twitter cuts off Diplotwoops and Politwoops in all remaining 30 countries
• Microsoft releases Cortana for Android beta
• Facebook Launches M, Its Bold Answer to Siri and Cortana

Music Break: Please Ask For Help by Telekinesis

Final Word

• Meet YouTube Gaming, Twitch’s Archenemy

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Inside Industrial Light & Magic’s secret Star Wars VR lab

• Real Life First Person Shooter (Chatroulette version)

• Behind the scenes

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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.