On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, massive identity breaches for Starwood/Marriott and Quora, email leaks show Facebook punishes its rivals, a clever end to a runaway Tesla accident, a sulking AI torments an astronaut … and much, much more.

Podcast

Headlines

• Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
  • In a Catastrophically Bad Move, Tumblr Will Ban All Adult Content
  • Tumblr’s Porn Ban Reveals Who Controls What We See Online

• Ajit Pai admits Russia interfered in net neutrality process amid lawsuit
• How police stopped a speeding Tesla with a sleeping driver behind the wheel

Audible Book of the Week

• Click Here to Kill Everybody by Bruce Schneier
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Music Break: I’ll Tumble 4 Ya by Culture Club

Hot Topics

• Marriott says 500 million Starwood guest records stolen in massive data breach
• Quora says 100 million users hacked
• Facebook Wielded Data to Reward, Punish Rivals, Emails Show

Music Break: Yours Truly, 2095 by Electric Light Orchestra

Final Word

• There’s an AI robot sulking in the international space station

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• Nvidia has created the first video game demo using AI-generated graphics
  • Research at NVIDIA: The First Interactive AI Rendered Virtual World

• Tom Cruise’s impassioned plea against “motion smoothing” TVs

I’m taking a quick break from filming to tell you the best way to watch Mission: Impossible Fallout (or any movie you love) at home. pic.twitter.com/oW2eTm1IUA

— Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) December 4, 2018

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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.