Geeks Interrupted

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: NBN fibre rollout was going to be cheaper, sooner, pilot results show [SMH] Village Roadshow's Submission To The Government's Copyright Crackdown Consultation Is Bonkers [Gizmodo Australia] iiNet Lets Fly In Submission To Govt. Copyright Discussion [Gizmodo Australia] iiNet buys stake in IT services provider [iTnews] Leaked nudes of Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton to be displayed at 'Fear Google' art show [The Verge] Apple blames 'very targeted attack' for hack of nude celebrity photos [The Guardian] 4 Things Movies Always Get Wrong About Computer Hackers [Cracked] Reddit Takes Down Groups Hosting Celebrity Nudes, Walks A Blurred Line On Free Speech [TechCrunch] Twitter trademark turmoil forces Twitpic to shut down [Engadget] Facebook's blue dinosaur is ready to help fix your privacy settings [The Verge] The Galaxy Note Edge is a flagship phone with an entirely new kind of curved display

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: Commit to Community Television [Commit to Community Television] Coalition's NBN cost-benefit study finds in favour of MTM [iTnews] Telstra blamed for high Australian internet prices [AFR] Facebook fights clickbait articles, you won't believe what happens next [Engadget] Amazon buys Twitch for $970 million [The Next Web] Google backed out of Twitch deal because of competition laws [Polygon] The Creatures (Kootra) got SWAT Raided (SWATTED) #FreeKootra2014 [YouTube] Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization (HBO) [YouTube] Google testing drones with Queensland farmers [iTWire] Nokia announces HERE maps for Android, launching exclusively for Samsung Galaxy smartphones with offline access [The Next Web] Porn more popular on Android than any other mobile platform [Cult of Android] Apple makes September 9 event official: 'Wish we could say more' [Cult of Mac] App

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: Geeks Interrupted - Episode 68 - TX Date: 07-07-2014 [YouTube] 5 Phone Charging Myths, Debunked [Mashable] Monkey selfies can't be copyrighted, federal office decides [LA Times] Malcolm Turnbull's piracy forum criticised by Village Roadshow chief [The Guardian] Village Roadshow Takes Piracy War To Print [Televised Revolution] Rantmodo: Village Roadshow's Open Letter, Doctor Who's Open Showing And Closed Doors For Fast Movie Pirates [Gizmodo Australia] Chloë Grace Moretz: 'I'm done with playing Hit-Girl' [Digital Spy] Anti-piracy investigator calls for dedicated Australian court to prosecute web pirates [The Age] PlayStation Network is down; hackers claim they did it [Polygon] Reddit, Twitch, and Imgur have created a research partnership called DERP [The Verge] DERP [Know Your Meme] Apple activates iPhone 5 battery replacement program, to swap out affected parts for free [AppleInsider] Mic

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: H. Jon Benjamin Is Getting In On The Kenny Loggins Kickstarter Action [Uproxx] Australian teen uncovers security flaw in PayPal [The Age] Minister believed to be Malcolm Turnbull 'gave demo to explain VPN' [The Guardian] That Time When Probably Malcolm Turnbull Showed Maybe The AFP What A VPN Was Because Data Retention [Gizmodo Australia] EFA and GetUp! join forces to battle Abbott's data retention plans [iTWire] Internet routers hitting 512K limit, some become unreliable [Ars Technica] Google Has To Wrap Its Underwater Cables In Kevlar To Protect Them From Shark Attacks [Business Insider] Here's why famous people are dumping ice water on their heads [The Verge] Samsung to acquire SmartThings, the open connected home platform [TechHive] Apple Releases Employee Diversity Report, 7 out of 10 Workers Are Male, 55% White [Mac Rumors] Apple Adds Five Vice Presidents, Including Two Women, to 'A

Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Special Guests: Katherine Carnell & Simon Nix. Show Notes: Quentin Tarantino, JJ Abrams help save old-fashioned film stock [The Age] Misogynist rants from Young Libs [The Age] George Brandis in 'car crash' interview over controversial data retention regime [SMH] JB Hi-Fi admits it has a bloke problem [The Age] Wikipedia refuses to delete photo as 'monkey owns it' [The Telegraph] Google gives secure, encrypted websites higher search ranking [CBC News] Apple Reportedly Planning iPhone Event on September 9 [The Next Web] Former Apple Employee Sam Sung Auctioning Business Card and Uniform for Charity [Mac Rumors] Ricky Gervais to return as David Brent in new movie [The Age] Will Arnett Confirms That Arrested Development Season 5 Is Happening [Vulture] Fans Petition for Weird Al Super Bowl Halftime Show, We Might Watch the Super Bowl [The Mary Sue] The Inside Story Of The 'Ghostbusters' Music Video [ScreenCrush] S

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: Hydraulic fracturing [Wikipedia] Listen to Geeks Interrupted [Omny] Melbourne comic book store voted world's best [The Age] Malcolm Turnbull Has The Answer To Online Piracy [Gizmodo Australia] Japan wants to see robot competitions in 2020 Olympics [Digital Trends] Coub is Russia's answer to the GIF, and it's coming to America [The Verge] Prolific Smartphone Leaker @Evleaks Has Retired [The Next Web] Some Guy Wants Your Money For A Private Kenny Loggins Concert [Uproxx] Does Apple deliberately slow its old iPhones before a new release? [Daily Mail] Sousveillance [Wikipedia] Apple taps Beats Music CEO to run iTunes Radio [Cult of Mac] Apple pares 200 jobs from Beats [New York Post] Guardians of the Galaxy Lands $94 Million [Collider] One Theater's Guardians of the Galaxy Mistake [/Film] Big Bang hoping to settle contract negotiations by Wednesday [TV Tonight] 'Ghostbusters' reboot will repo

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: Catch of the Day failed to inform AFP on data breach [ZDNet] HP and musician Chubby Checker settle lawsuit over penis-measurement app [The Verge] Leaked discussion paper reveals Australian online piracy crackdown in full swing [The Age] Leaked: Australian Government Plan To Deal With Piracy [Gizmodo Australia] Watching TV in Australia: The Australian Delay Under The Microscope [Reckoner] Microsoft will merge separate versions of Windows into one unified operating system [The Verge] Microsoft made a terrible parody of 'Sexy and I Know It' to promote Surface Pro 3 and OneNote [The Verge] Apple's $425 million spike in R&D spending points to new products in pipeline [Cult Of Mac] Apple Close to Acquiring Radio Streaming Service Swell for $30 Million [Mac Rumors] Bose sues Beats 'to protect' noise-canceling headphone technology [The Verge] Apple makes its new OS X Yosemite available for fr

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: Ingress. The Game. [Ingress] Catch of the Day waits 3 years to reveal data breach [ZDNet] Rupert Murdoch calls NBN 'ridiculous' [iTWire] Moon Webcasts Celebrate Apollo 11 Lunar Landing [Yahoo News] NASA's iconic moon boots are now a sick pair of sneakers you can buy [The Verge] Telstra Just Tweeted About The Moon Landing...But They Got The Date Wrong [BuzzFeed] Twitter Acquires CardSpring To Power In-Tweet Commerce And Offers [TechCrunch] Kim Kardashian could make $85M from her mobile game this year [Polygon] Rob Lloyd - Who, Me. [Facebook] Microsoft announces biggest-ever job cuts: 18,000 in the next year [The Verge] Apple and IBM Partner to Sell iPads, iPhones to Businesses [The Next Web] Apple and IBM partner for Enterprise mobility [The Loop] Apple hits back at China over privacy fears [iTWire] Apple May Part Ways With Ad Agency TBWA, Plans to Tap Beats' Jimmy Iovine for Marketing Rev

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: ASIO's bid for internet data retention on hold [SMH] NBN: Lengthy wait for outcomes of FTTB, FTTN trials [Computerworld] Don't hold back: Angry contestants label Jeep contest a 'scam' [Drive] JEEP -The World's Most Remote Dealership [Whirlpool] New Zealand ISP admits its free VPN exists just so people can watch Netflix [Engadget] Google's Australian ad revenues exposed [iTWire] FCC has received over 647,000 net neutrality comments as deadline approaches [The Verge] Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Net Neutrality [YouTube] Elon Musk pledges $1 million to help build Nikola Tesla Museum [Engadget] Man Fined $2,700 In Unprecedented Facebook 'Fraping' Case [VICE] Samsung factory robbed at gunpoint, $36 million in smartphones, tablets and laptops stolen [9to5Google] Big changes and possible cuts prompt Microsoft to publicly air Nadella memo [Computerworld] Satya Nadella's email to employees:

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: New Victorian taxi rules are Uber cool [iTWire] Watchdog takes on Spreets [iTWire] WTF Story of the Week: Eat Pray Tweet [#eatpraytweet] Facebook tinkered with users' feeds for a massive psychology experiment [The A.V. Club] Sheryl Sandberg apologizes for Facebook's News Feed experiment: 'we never meant to upset you' [The Verge] Facebook emotion study breached ethical guidelines, researchers say [The Age] Former exec sues dating app Tinder for sexual harassment [SMH] Google Buys Songza [TechCrunch] Google Is Shutting Down Orkut, Its First Effort at Social Networking [WSJ] Emojli, the first emoji-only social network (smiley face?) [CNET] Apple to cease development, support of pro photo app Aperture [Ars Technica] Hi-res image of Photos for OS X [ApertureExpert] Apple hires Patrick Pruniaux, VP of Tag Heuer Sales and Retail, for iWatch marketing [9to5Mac] 'Community' to Return for Season 6

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: Vodafone customers break download record after weekend of unmetered data [SMH] Telstra, Optus and Vodafone slash Apple iPhone, Samsung Galaxy S5 prices [The Age] RSVP, Oasis find their perfect matches with online dating merger [The Age] Bar, restaurant and cafe owners outraged over PIN-only law [SMH] Todd Carney sacked by Cronulla Sharks over picture showing him performing a lewd act at a urinal [ABC News] Tax Office confirms myGov accounts mandatory for electronic tax returns [SMH] Microsoft Offers MacBook Air Owners $650 Trade-In Value Towards Surface Pro 3 [Mac Rumors] Google Begins Testing Domain Registrations [The Next Web] Google strikes back at the big screen with Android TV [Engadget] Adventure Time - Lemongrab [YouTube] You can now literally have sex with your iPad [The Verge] USB charger is prime suspect in death of Australian woman [The Register] Second knock-off USB charger ex

Phil Edwards and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: NSW cracks down on Uber ride-sharing [The Age] iiNet's Steve Dalby To Village Roadshow: 'It's Not Our Job To Stop Online Infringers' [Gizmodo Australia] How one cable in remote WA brought down Vodafone and a system error crashed Optus [SMH] System error brought down Optus network [TechGeek] Vodafone makes it right - free data all weekend [TechGeek] Delimiter is closing: Founder LeMay joins the Greens [The Vine] Facebook "back up to 100 per cent" after half-hour outage [CNET] This Video Shows A Day In The Life Of DDOS Cyber Attacks [TechCrunch] China attack Facebook [YouTube] Amazon Announces 'Fire Phone' With 3D 'Dynamic Perspective' Interface, 'Firefly' Object Recognition Engine [MacRumors] Amazon Fire Phone hands-on [YouTube] iOS 8 beta 2 comes with native Podcasts app, brings QuickType keyboard to iPad, more [Appleinsider] Your keyboard is about to get 250 new emoji [Cult of Mac] Apple Is Reported

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: Kids swear live on air during community radio station break-in at Fitzroy Crossing [ABC News] iiNet lashes out at online piracy crackdown [The Age] Woolworths smashes Windows and switches to Chrome OS [iTWire] Rejoice! Facebook has freed the nipple [Essential Baby] Google Wants To Collect Your Health Data With 'Google Fit' [Forbes] Google to Buy Skybox Imaging for its Satellites [The Next Web] Happy Picard Day! [Star Trek] Ransom-taking iPhone hackers busted by Russian authorities [Naked Security] Apple turns up its advertising push with plans for 1,000-person internal agency [Engadget] Apple Begins Rejecting Apps That Offer Rewards For Video Views, Social Sharing [TechCrunch] Apple Cracking Down on Fake App Store Reviews [Mac Rumors] Rik Mayall: British comedy actor, famed for hit sitcom The Young Ones, dies aged 56 [ABC News] Jim Keays of Masters Apprentices has died, aged 67 [The Age]

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: Paid a visit to the team at Geeks Interrupted at 94.1 FM 3WBC [YouTube] Winning the mobile data war [The New Daily] Big banks stare down senior police over tap-and-go [The Age] Desktop disaster: So bad Vic Police use home PCs [Delimiter] Queensland paedophiles to reveal Facebook and Twitter details to police [Brisbane Times] 'Super computer' first to pass Turing Test, convince judges it's alive [The Age] IPv6 2nd Launchiversary [World IPv6 Launch] 8 huge new features in iOS 8 that Apple didn't talk about today [The Verge] Apple's latest acquisition could make Maps more social [Cult of Mac] Apple Introduces Lightning Cable MFi Specifications for Headphones [Mac Rumors] RIP Doc Neeson, Legendary Frontman Of The Angels [Pedestrian TV] Louis CK Talks Piracy In Australia: "The Whole Country Does It!" [CraveOnline] Got A Spare $20k? George RR Martin Will Write Your Grisly, Grisly Death [Pedestr

Phil Edwards and Andy Blume are back in the studio with a roundup of the WWDC 2014 Keynote which unveiled OS X Yosemite with continuity features, iOS 8 with iCloud Photo Library, HealthKit, HomeKit & Swift. Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome. Website - http://geeksinterrupted.fm Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GeeksInterrupted Twitter - https://twitter.com/GeeksOnAir Voicemail - http://www.speakpipe.com/GeeksInterrupted If you enjoyed this episode head on over to iTunes and kindly leave us a rating, a review and subscribe.

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: Which Geeks Interrupted Host Are You? [Online Quiz Creator] Australian Apple iDevices hijacked, held to ransom [The Age] Queensland Likes Uber... No Wait, They Hate Uber [Reckoner] Mr Squiggle creator Norman Hetherington honoured with Google doodle [SMH] Cards Against Humanity is coming to Australia, seeking submissions for local edition [TechGeek] Google Chromecast Finally Lands In Australian Stores [Gizmodo Australia] Melbourne gets its first bitcoin ATM [The Australian] A Dogecoin Mercedes Might Race In Aussie-Rules NASCAR [Jalopnik] Advertising executive and Gruen Transfer panellist Todd Sampson joins Fairfax Media board [The Age] Google Reveals Its Self-Driving Cars [The Next Web] Apple buys Beats for $3 billion [Cult of Mac] 'Beats Music' to Remain on Android and Windows Smartphones [Mac Rumors] Apple to Bolster iTunes Radio With Localized Ads, Content [Mac Rumors] Apple to live str

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: Uber pledges to pay $1700 ride-sharing driver fines in Victoria [The Age] Telstra to create one of the world's largest Wi-Fi networks [Telstra] Telstra to launch public wi-fi network [ITNews] EBay hit by cyber attack, urges users to change passwords [SMH] Facebook Adds TV and Music Identification to its Mobile Apps [The Next Web] Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 3: A 12-inch tablet that replaces your laptop [VentureBeat] Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Announced, Aims To Replace Your Laptop [Reckoner] Google overtakes Apple as world's most valuable brand for 2014 [The Verge] Apple neglects to renew SSL certificate, breaks Software Update in the process [Macworld] Apple to fix iMessage bug that causes ex-iPhone users to lose their texts [Engadget] After jury verdict, Apple seeks Samsung sales ban and retrial for more damages [The Verge] Apple's Beats buyout may be delayed by complicated negotia

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: Hilarious Retro Game Lets You Play As Glorious Leader! Kim Jong-un [Gizmodo Australia] Relevant To My Interests: How Budget 2014 Impacts Australian Tech [Reckoner] Video game funding axed in federal budget [SMH] Australian Community TV And Radio Dodges The Budget Bullet [Gizmodo Australia] Thousands of pensioners left without home phone services [The Age] Hello kitty: Australia's first cat café to launch in Melbourne [SmartCompany] CAT CAFES in Japan! 猫カフェに行ってみました♥ [YouTube] The joke that kept Rocky Horror fans waiting for five years [The Independent] Australia Post will deliver your online purchases six days a week in 2015 [MMGN.com] ANZ customers left in the lurch as goMoney app goes down [The Age] Optus left customers' mobile voicemail accounts exposed [The Age] Apple and Motorola agree to drop lawsuits against each other, work on patent reform [Engadget] Apple Being Sued Over Phone-Sw

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: A message from the Head of Virgin Mobile, David Scribner [Virgin Mobile] UberX Drivers Fined In Melbourne [Gizmodo Australia] Community radio 'will die a slow death' if audit cuts adopted [The Age] Australia needs community radio [The Guardian] Optus IT Journalism Award finalists announced [The Lizzies] TuneIn tries reinventing itself as a social network for audio [Engadget] iClarified - Apple News - Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee Suffers Major Heart Attack [iClarified] Web host gives FCC a 28.8Kbps slow lane in net neutrality protest [Ars Technica] Man Tried To Marry His MacBook In Apparent Effort To Discredit Same-Sex Marriage Proponents [The Huffington Post] Faking a leak: How some dude on a toilet crapped out last week's hottest Apple rumor [Cult of Mac] Apple in Talks to Acquire Beats Electronics for $3.2 Billion [Mac Rumors] Dr.Dre & Tyrese Announce Apple Buying Beats For $3.2 Bil

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Show Notes: Community Broadcasting Program identified for abolition within National Commission of Audit Report recommendations [CBAA] Virgin Mobile outage leaves customers without phone service [The Age] Thousands of people have phone and internet cut [The Age] Optus Now Supports Direct Billing For Google Play [Gizmodo Australia] Brazil passes an Internet 'Bill of Rights' [San Jose Mercury News] Snapchat adds Video Calls and Instant Messaging [9to5Mac] Samsung ordered to pay Apple $128.9 million over infringed patents [The Age] Wild Rumor of Apple EarPods with Biometric Sensors Has Roots in Apple's Research [Mac Rumors] OS X 10.10 emphasis planned for WWDC, iOS 8 features pushed to iOS 8.1, new Apple TV still in the works [9to5Mac] Bob Hoskins dies of pneumonia aged 71 [BBC News] Is Back to the Future returning to Universal Studios Hollywood? [Theme Park Insider] Craig Ferguson Quits Late Late Show,