On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, Facebook protects its bottom line while secretly spying on you, a huge trove of leaked Russian documents, a possible cause — and cure — for Alzheimer’s, Tosin’s report from PAX South… and much, much more.

Podcast

PAX South report

• Overland

• REZPLZ

• Skellboy

• Unstable Unicorns

• Gunnar

Audible Book of the Week

• The Gamer’s Bucket List: The 50 Video Games to Play Before You Die by Chris Watters
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: The Last of Us by Gustavo Santaolalla

Hot Topics

• • Huawei Accused of Trade-Secret Theft, Defrauding Banks

• Huge Trove of Leaked Russian Documents Is Published by Transparency Advocates

• • The Facts About Facebook
    • Mark Zuckerberg’s WSJ op-ed was a message to would-be regulators: Hands off our ad business

• • Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger

• Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them
  • Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps

Final Word

• We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s – and how to stop it
• A brief word on our colleague Greg Davies, who passed away this week

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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.