This week, The Drill Down co-host emeritus Tom Cheredar joins us for our rundown of Apple‘s September 7th event, including a new Apple Watch and the iPhone 7. Also, Sony‘s new Playstation 4 Pro, YouTubers freak out about censorship & monetization, SpaceX destroys Facebook‘s satellite, and much, much more.

On this week’s The Drill Down podcast, the Russians hack the DNC?, Instagram out-Snapchats Snapchat, Uber bows to China, the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, a real-world tribute to Pikachu, who’s the most tech-savvy Presidential candidate? … and much, much more.

This week, Gigaom columnist Tom Cheredar is our guest as we discuss hackers posting personal data from infidelity site Ashley Madison, the NSA‘s best friend is AT&T, does Amazon overwork its employees, selections from POTUS’s playlist, giant robots!… and much much more.

This week, Google‘s secret drones, Apple‘s upcoming event includes a massive building under wraps, celebs naked selfies get hacked, and the first look at the Apple spaceship.

Amongst this week’s headlines, an iconic torrent tracking site is dismantled, Google punishes pirate sites, Anonymous & Wikileaks uncover a secret U.S. surveillance system, and Apple rumors: are we so easily misled by them because we so desperately want to believe?