On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, we review Black Panther and “˜Afrofuturism’, the Parkland, FL school shooting victims take their anger to Twitter, U.S. charges Russia with election interference, FCC‘s chairman is under investigation, North Korea’s hacker army, using CG to mimic real celebrities without their permission… and much, much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy, Dwayne & Tosin: Black Panther (and “˜Afrofuturism’)

Headlines

• F.C.C. Watchdog Looks Into Changes That Benefited Sinclair
• Special counsel Mueller: Russians conducted ‘information warfare’ against US to help Trump win
  • Ex-Workers at Russian Troll Factory Say Mueller Indictments Are True
  • Fact-Checking a Facebook Executive’s Comments on Russian Interference

Audible Book of the Week

• Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
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Music Break: Ancestral Plane from ‘Black Panther’ by Ludwig Göransson

Hot Topic

• The Righteous Anger of the Parkland Shooting’s Teen Survivors

Music Break: Wakanda from ‘Black Panther’ by Ludwig Göransson

Final Word: Korean Tech

• THE TOOLSET OF AN ELITE NORTH KOREAN HACKER GROUP ON THE RISE
• South Korean Cryptocurrency Regulator Found Dead at Home

The Drill Down Video of the Week: Deepfakes

• Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump becomes…Donald Trump as Donald Trump

• A guide to ‘deepfakes,’ the internet’s latest moral crisis
• AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We’re All Fucked
• Looker (1981) Michael Crichton predicts “˜deepfakes’ technology

• • The Congress (2013) explores replacing actors with CG

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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 product manager Tosin Onafowokan.