Geeks Interrupted

Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Special Guest: Nathan Littel.Show Notes:Govt to introduce legislation for broadband tax [iTnews]Telstra and Optus off the hook as ACCC recommends no change to mobile roaming [ABC News]Victorian government pledges AU$25m for mobile, broadband, Wi-Fi coverage [ZDNet]'Revenge porn': one in five report they have been victims in Australian survey [The Guardian]Facebook hiring 3000 to stop murders and violence being streamed live [The Age]Microsoft unveils $999 Surface Laptop running Windows 10 S [The Verge]Window 10 S devices can be upgraded to Windows 10 Pro for $49 [The Verge]Amazon Prime Video may finally be coming to Apple TV [iLounge]Major apps abandoning Apple Watch, including Google Maps, Amazon & eBay [AppleInsider]Gymaholic - Your workout and progress tracker [iTunes]'Flying Doctors' star Val Jellay dies from pneumonia, aged 89 [The Age]Collingwood great Lou Richards dies [ABC News]Foxtel launches new round

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:The Australian Federal Police Accessed Journalist's Metadata Without A Warrant [Gizmodo Australia]Telcos slammed for selling $200-a-month phone plans to people on welfare [SMH]Reddit is putting limits on subreddit customization, and users are worried [The Verge]Facebook and Google Are Testing Tools to Fight Fake News [Adweek]Apple Music's Original TV Plans Now Include Potential Shows and Videos From J.J. Abrams and R. Kelly [MacRumors]Musical.ly syncs up with Apple Music [Recode]Netflix Is Spending Some Serious Money On Scorsese's Latest Gangster Epic [Esquire UK]'Orange Is The New Black': Hacker Says He Stole New Season, Demands Ransom From Netflix [Deadline]Netflix Hacker Also Claims Theft From ABC, Fox, IFC, National Geographic [Variety]'Roseanne' Revival in the Works With Roseanne Barr, John Goodman, Sara Gilbert [Variety]Richard Wilkins celebrates 30 Years at Nine [TV Tonight]Something

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:This $400 appliance that squeezes juice out of a bag appears unnecessary [Ars Technica]TPG savaged in $1b sell-off after mobile network plans revealed [The Canberra Times]Volkswagen just got slapped with the largest fine for automakers [NBC News]eBay threatens to block Australian shoppers over GST [The Age]IT'S OFFICIAL: Amazon is taking on retailing in Australia with a 'vast selection' and 'fast delivery' [Business Insider Australia]Plastc swiped $9 million from backers and just completely vanished [The Verge]Facebook releases timeline of Cleveland shooting videos [TechCrunch]Apple apologizes to users for mistakenly saying their paid iCloud subscription was cancelled [AppleInsider]Apple Hires Top Google Satellite Executives for New Hardware Team [Bloomberg]iTunes Podcasts Now Called Apple Podcasts [The Mac Observer]The latest iPhone 8 leak suggests Apple might make a big change to the finge

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Special Guest: David Johnson.Show Notes:TPG takes on Telstra, Optus, Vodafone as Australia's fourth mobile network operator with $1.26b spectrum acquisition [CRN]Happy 'National Get a VPN Day' — data retention is official [CNET Australia]Samsung Pay comes to Westpac customers [iTnews]Burger King ad to activate Google Home backfires [Sky News]Instagram Stories hits 200M users, surpassing Snapchat as it copies its AR stickers [TechCrunch]Could Apple Buy Disney? Wall Street Revives Rumor of Mega-Deal [Variety]Apple Receives Permit From California DMV to Test Self-Driving Cars [MacRumors]Qantas store mistakenly sells Apple computer at $4000 discount [9News]Did Qantas have the right to cancel orders on Apple computers after its pricing blunder? [9News]Guitarist J. Geils Dead at 71 [Rolling Stone]'Chappelle's Show' Comedian Charlie Murphy Dies at 57 [Entertainment Weekly]Star Wars: The Last Jedi: a breakdow

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Fake blogger Belle Gibson faces jail if she fails to pay $30k [ABC News]ACCC takes action against Apple over alleged misleading consumer guarantee representations [ACCC]ACCC to monitor Australia's broadband performance [ACCC]NBN cable rollout delayed as HFC 'false activations' leave homes offline for months [The Age]Cracking The Code [Four Corners]Facebook takes new steps to stop 'revenge porn' images from spreading [The Age]IoT garage door opener maker bricks customer's product after bad review [Ars Technica]New Pebble update allows watches to keep working once online servers go dark [The Verge]Hackers Can Easily Hijack This Dildo Camera and Livestream the Inside of Your Vagina (Or Butt) [Motherboard]Apple pushes the reset button on the Mac Pro [TechCrunch]Apple ditching Imagination Technologies GPU technology, moving design in-house [AppleInsider]Don Rickles, Legendary Comic With a Gift fo

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:April Fools 2017: All The Online Gags And Pranks [Gizmodo Australia]AFP raid on Conroy's office was 'improper interference' [ABC News]Virgin Australia to begin inflight wi-fi trial in April [iTnews]World's biggest solar + battery storage plant ready to build in SA [Renew Economy]NBN Co brings 100/40Mbps speed tier to fixed wireless [iTnews]YouTube ad boycott could cost Google parent Alphabet $US750m [ABC News]This is the Samsung Galaxy S8 [The Next Web]The Galaxy S8's facial scanner can, unsurprisingly, be tricked with a photo [The Verge]It's over: Banks lose Apple Pay fight [iTnews]Apple's iOS 10.3 update can reclaim as much as 7.8GB of available storage [AppleInsider]Wi-Fi Calling and VoLTE Expand to O2 and Other Carriers on iOS 10.3 [MacRumors]Apple seemingly ends support for 32-bit devices with iOS 10.3.2 [AppleInsider]'Star Trek: Discovery' Casts Rainn Wilson as Original Series Characte

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Google called in to scrub politicians' mobile numbers from the internet [The Age]Qantas cancels launch of free inflight wi-fi [iTnews]Equity crowdfunding bill passed, but proprietary companies still excluded [AFR]UK minister says encryption on messaging services is unacceptable [Reuters]Twitter considers paid membership option [BBC News]Apple Unveils Special Edition (PRODUCT)RED iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus [MacRumors]Apple Debuts New 9.7-Inch iPad With A9 Chip to Replace iPad Air 2, Starting at $329 [MacRumors]Apple's iPhone 8 Said to Feature 'Water Drop Design' in Homage to Original iPhone [MacRumors]Man dies after charging his iPhone while using it in the bath [9to5Mac]Sesame Street introduces new muppet with autism [ABC News]Reality TV Contestants Isolated For A Year Found Their Show Was Axed [Uproxx]Disney Chief On The Future Of "Star Wars" [Dark Horizons]Something we mentioned in the sho

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Aussie telcos need to rein in their call centre liars [SMH]Blogger Belle Gibson may have been delusional when faking brain cancer: court [ABC News]ATM use hits 15-year low as tap-and-go payments surge [iTnews]Silicon Valley accelerator 500 Startups launches in Melbourne [ZDNet]Qantas launches start-up accelerator programme [iTWire]Russian hackers targeted just one Yahoo employee in order to breach 500M accounts [BGR]Vibrator Maker To Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use [NPR]Mobile bill shock declining, but consumers still pay hundreds for excess charges [The Age]Six Months After Launch, Developer Excitement Over iMessage Apps is 'Fading' [MacRumors]Apple gives indie gamers a permanent home on the App Store [TechCrunch]Rock 'n' Roll Legend Chuck Berry Has Died at 90 [Slate]Nine looks to podcasting for new revenue source [DeciderTV]Patrick Stewart admits using marijuana every day

Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Special Guest: Nathan Littel.Show Notes:2STP Authenticator [Apple App Store]Census chiefs unprepared for website crash, FOI documents show [ABC News]Amazon shares data with Arkansas prosecutor in murder case [The Big Story]Elon Musk: 'I'll fix South Australia's power in 100 days or its free' [Yahoo News]Optus threatens disconnection to sign up NBN customers and fast-track HFC cable shutdown [The Age]Theatregoers fleeced by invalid Book of Mormon tickets on resale website [ABC News]WikiLeaks releases thousands of 'Vault 7' documents, reveals CIA's 'entire hacking capacity' [ABC News]Facebook 'fails' to remove sexual images of children and reports BBC to police for raising issue [The Telegraph]Tinder is testing a secret version of the app for the rich, famous and hot [Mashable]Study reveals whopping 48M Twitter accounts are actually bots [CBS News]A python breeder made an Emoji snake [Business Insider Australia]Apple

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Cloudbleed data leak flaw wasn't exploited: Cloudflare [iTnews]The Australian Government Introduces 'Carly's Law' To Protect Children Online [Gizmodo Australia]Coding typo caused massive AWS outage [iTnews]Snap surges in its stock market debut — and its 20-something founders are multibillionaires [Business Insider Australia]Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Loses Bonus And Stock Award Over Security Breach [NPR]iPhone 8 probably won't ditch Lightning for USB-C after all [Cult of Mac]TiVo issues death warrant for Aussie personal video recorders [SMH]YouTube unveils YouTube TV, its live TV streaming service [TechCrunch]Cheeky 'Deadpool 2' teaser offers nothing butt fun [CNET Australia]Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome.Website - http://geeksinterrupted.fmFacebook - https://www.fac

Phil Edwards and Andy Blume are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Piracy crackdown: Village Roadshow launches legal action to block 41 websites [Computerworld]Optus switches on 1Gbps '4.5G' network in Sydney [iTnews]Holden prepares to launch connected cars in Australia [iTnews]Major Cloudflare bug leaked sensitive data from customers' websites [TechCrunch]List of Sites possibly affected by Cloudflare's #Cloudbleed HTTPS Traffic Leak [GitHub]Nokia 3310 mobile phone resurrected at MWC 2017 [BBC News]MWC 2017: everything you need to know [AndroidPIT]Amazon refusing to hand over data on whether Alexa overheard a murder [Ars Technica]NBN Co reinstates fixed-line tech type in rollout maps [iTnews]Apple's 'spaceship' Campus 2 to officially be known as Apple Park, 175-acre HQ to open in April [AppleInsider]Apple looking into video of exploding iPhone 7 Plus [The Guardian]Report: 5.8 inch OLED iPhone 8 to include 3 GB RAM, available in 64 GB and 256 GB storage sizes [9to5Mac]Bill P

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:How Good Game ran out of lives [Media Watch]Australia will have unlimited data mobile plans within 12 months [WhistleOut]Qantas serves up live sport, Foxtel, Netflix and Spotify on board [AdNews]Aviation app to help operators drone on [PS News]YouTube and Disney sever ties with PewDiePie over anti-Semitic videos [ABC News]HMD Global will launch the Nokia 3, 5, and 6 at MWC, plus a 3310 homage [VentureBeat]WWDC 2017 kicks off June 5 at San Jos's McEnery Convention Center [Cult of Mac]Apple fans and employees are 'ashamed' of Apple's new reality show, 'Planet of the Apps' [Business Insider Australia]Viewers furious at shrunken AFL stream screen on iPad [The Age]ABC returning Fact Check with RMIT partnership [TV Tonight]Star Wars' Cantina Band song is named Australia's favourite sex jam [NME]The ABC Captioned 'Media Watch' With A Doco On Porn Stars And It Was Incredible [Junkee]Something we men

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Watch Player [App Store]Faulty batteries cause fire at Samsung factory [SMH]ACCC publishes guidelines on how ISPs should convey broadband speed information [CRN]Demand 'still not there' for 1Gbps: NBN Co [iTnews]Australia finally has mandatory data breach notification [iTnews]Twitter begins filtering abusive tweets out of your replies [The Verge]Mass defacements hit unpatched WordPress sites [iTnews]Millions of apps could soon be purged from Google Play Store [The Next Web]Apple Pay to support cards from ING, Macquarie in Australia next month [AppleInsider]Apple's Jennifer Bailey Says Customers Are Willing to Switch Banks to Use Apple Pay [MacRumors]Australia's retailers join the banks in their battle with Apple Pay [NFC World]David Bowie's 'Blackstar' Wins All Five Nominated Categories at 2017 Grammys [Variety]'SNL' Hits 6-Year Ratings High With Melissa McCarthy, Alec Baldwin [Variety]Newsp

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:NBN defends transparency criticisms [News.com.au]Fire erupts at core Telstra Chatswood exchange [iTnews]Telstra glitch sends personal SMS messages to random recipients after fire at exchange [The Age]Fresh ATO outage as hardware struggles continue [iTnews]MasterCard 'Selfie Pay' coming to Australia in 2017 [The Age]#DeleteUber reportedly led 200,000 people to delete their accounts [The Verge]Snapchat Is Likely the Most Expensive Tech IPO Ever [Fortune]Strong iPhone sales, Note7 disaster sees Apple back on top [The Age]Apple will start building iPhones in India by April, says IT minister [The Verge]ABC's Good Game Has Been Cancelled [Press Start Australia]Good Game presenters joining rival show on Seven [TV Tonight]Foxtel threatens to sue as Facebook pirates plunder Mundine vs Green fight [Mumbrella]Stormy new evil looms in 'Stranger Things 2' trailer [CNET Australia]Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Ambulance Victoria phone app to send Victorians to medical emergencies [The Age]Over 55s hardest hit by 'invasive' identity theft, Scamwatch figures show [ABC News]NBN Co will no longer tell you what type of fixed connection you're getting [iTnews]You can finally say 'Computer' to your Echo to command it [The Verge]Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked out of rooms [The Local]In world first, Denmark to name a 'digital ambassador' [The Local]Apple is releasing a Find My AirPods feature [The Verge]Apple's Night Shift Is Finally Coming To MacOS [Gizmodo Australia]Apple will eventually require apps to use the new iOS 10.3 API for App Store rating popups [9to5Mac]Television icon Mary Tyler Moore dead at 80 [The Ages]'Allo 'Allo! actor Gorden Kaye dies aged 75 [ABC News]British actor John Hurt dead at 77 [SMH]'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' Hits $1 Billion at Worldwide Box Office [Variety]Some

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Landmark Australian ruling on what counts as 'personal information' [iTnews]Samsung Explains Why The Galaxy Note7 Kept Exploding [Gizmodo Australia]Samsung says two separate battery issues were to blame for all of its Galaxy Note 7 problems [Recode]Meitu denies selling collected user data, blames China [CNET]NHTSA's full final investigation into Tesla's Autopilot shows 40% crash rate reduction [TechCrunch]Apple files $1 billion lawsuit against major iPhone partner [Mashable]Qualcomm fires back against Apple over lawsuit and FTC action [TechCrunch]ING preparing to launch Apple Pay in Australia [EFTM]Jerry Seinfeld Ditches Crackle for Netflix, New 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee' Coming Late 2017 [Variety]Sony May Sell Off Columbia Pictures? [Dark Horizons]Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia to premiere on TEN [DeciderTV]Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:San Francisco Muni hacker gets hacked back [TechCrunch]Telcos will cut off Samsung Galaxy Note 7 users [Business Insider Australia]Optus Xtra wants to pay you in data for watching ads [CNET Australia]Competition watchdog takes MSY Technology to court [ARN]People really, really suck at using computers [Boing Boing]Fitbit is buying troubled smartwatch maker Pebble for around $40 million [TechCrunch]ACCC blocks banks' bid to collectively bargain over Apple Pay [AFR]Apple once again supports (RED) for World AIDS Day [9to5Mac]Stop using that cheap Apple charger [Mashable]Andrew Sachs, the much loved Fawlty Towers actor, dies aged 86 [The Telegraph]Radio Industry Unveils New Streaming App [B&T]Nintendo to Bring Mario to Universal Studios Theme Parks in Orlando and Hollywood [Entertainment Weekly]Something we mentioned in the show but missing in the Show Notes? Let us know via our Contact Page.

Phil Edwards and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Special Guest: Mark Macdowell.Show Notes:Teenager charged over Melbourne airport radio hacks [The Age]Ministers to be sent to 'cyber bootcamp' after damning review into #CensusFail [The Age]Census debacle: Govt and IBM reach confidential settlement [Computerworld Australia] Queensland Police floats use of drones to fight crime [ZDNet]NBN Co moved an FTTN cabinet after users asked to connect [iTnews]Reddit's CEO edited comments that criticized him [The Verge]Twitter bans own CEO Jack Dorsey from Twitter [The Register]Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back Into China [The New York Times]'Cards Against Humanity' hole is a crowdfunding metaphor [Engadget]Hackers are holding San Francisco's light-rail system for ransom [The Verge]The top 10 tech flops of 2016: falling drones, non-existent flying cameras [The Age]Apple stops making wireless routers and shuts division [The Guardian]iPhone Generated Record-B

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Thousands spurned as Nintendo's Classic Mini NES is sold out everywhere [The Age]EB Games Explains Why The Nintendo Mini NES Broke Its Website [Kotaku Australia]Compulsory coding classes coming to Queensland schools [ABC News]Australian banks dismiss Android NFC past in Apple Pay negotiations [ZDNet]Snapchat just filed for its IPO [The Verge]US election shines light on fake news as the new reality [SMH]Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg outlines steps to fight fake news [ABC News]Apple's $50m bid to build store in Melbourne's Federation Square [The Age]Apple releases $300 book containing 450 photos of Apple products [The Verge]Amazon Prime Video starts streaming in Australia [AFR]'Mythbusters' Spin-Off Reveals Explosive First Trailer [Entertainment Weekly]Jackie Chan finally receives an Oscar, after all those years of broken bones [Mashable]Troy Hunt's Weekly Update Podcast [iTunes]Something we ment

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Lone-wolf radio hoaxer hacks Melbourne air traffic control [The Age]Train chaos warning as watchdog finds rail networks wide open to cyber attack [The Age]Capgemini exposes millions of recruitment firm clients [iTnews]Digital licences are coming to NSW next year, state government announces [SMH]What does a Trump presidency mean for tech? [CNET]AdultFriendFinder network hack exposes 412 million accounts [ZDNet]Facebook is telling everyone that they're dead [The Verge]Zuckerberg promises Facebook action over fake news [BBC News]31 More Aussie Banks Just Signed Up To Apple Pay [Gizmodo Australia]Sunbury man faces huge fine for using a drone to collect his lunch from Bunnings [3AW]National Community Radio Awards Winners Announced [CBAA]Robert Vaughn, star of Man from UNCLE, dead at 83 [The Age]Leonard Cohen dead at 82 [ABC News]Box Office: 'Doctor Strange' Stays on Top With $43 Million, 'Arrival