This week on The Drill Down, more blowback on Bloomberg‘s Chinese spy chip story, Saudi Twitter trolls, a new Tesla Model 3, the President’s leaky iPhone, electronic arousal sensors… and much, much more.

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What We’re Playing With

Andy: Zyxel NAS320 (repair)

Headlines

• Apple CEO Tim Cook Is Calling For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story
  • Amazon exec and Super Micro CEO call for retraction of spy chip story
• Tim Cook warns of “˜data-industrial complex’ in call for comprehensive US privacy laws
• iPhone XR released

Audible Book of the Week

• How the Internet Happened by Brian McCullough
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Music Break: Ayo Technology by 50 Cent (ft. Justin Timberlake)

Hot Topics:

• Saudis’ Image Makers: A Troll Army and a Twitter Insider
• When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese and the Russians Listen and Learn
• Tesla introduces a $45,000 Model 3 variant with a 260-mile range
  • Tesla’s fabled $35,000 Model 3 on target for first half of 2019
  • Tesla removes “˜Full Self-Driving Capability’ package from its options due to “˜confusion’

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• SHE BON: Sensing the Sensual

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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 Vudu product manager Tosin Onafowokan.