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:Telstra is fastest, but a big surprise for Vodafone coverage [The Age]Samsung Pay just launched in Australia [Business Insider Australia]Etihad Stadium takes fan experience to the next level with Smart Seats [Tech Guide]What Kogan paid for Dick Smith [CRN]The 13 biggest announcements from Apple WWDC 2016 [The Verge]New Apple File System promises more speed, flexibility, reliability [ZDNet]Apple Explains Why iMessage Hasn't Expanded to Android [MacRumors]How a Nine-Year-Old Australian Landed a Coveted WWDC Apple Scholarship [MacRumors]Apple introduces Swift Playgrounds app that teaches kids to code [The Verge]Twitter Has Invested $70 Million in SoundCloud [Yahoo!]Why Is Twitter Investing In The Online Music Platform SoundCloud? [Forbes]New Barbie could 'see more girls enter world of gaming' [ABC News]Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 billion [The Verge]Manners maketh Nan: Google praises

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts hacked, LinkedIn password dump likely to blame [VentureBeat]Pirate Party Australia [Pirate Party Australia]Flux Party [Flux]PUNT [iTunes]Telstra customers hit by another major outage [The Age]Woman trolls Telstra with cat pictures after being disconnected for weeks [SMH]Twitter locks millions of accounts after passwords posted for sale [The Guardian]PayPal Refuses to Refund Twitch Troll Who Donated $50,000 [eTeknix]Gawker Media files for bankruptcy after Hulk Hogan sex tape case [The Age]Singapore is taking the internet away from all of its 140,000 public servants [Quartz]Apple Rumored to Be Debuting iMessage for Android at WWDC [MacRumors]What Apple's App Store changes mean for you [TechRadar]New Apple Store shirts may have helped thieves pose as staff to steal $66k's worth of iPhones [9to5Mac]Apple creates a new company to sell solar energy 

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Web chaos mostly over after Amazon Web Services hit by power outage during Sydney storm [The Age]Telstra's 'prolific inventor' was no doctor [The Age]ATO kills off e-Tax [News.com.au]Labor to 'deliver fibre-based broadband', says Albanese [Computerworld Australia]Wall Street loans Uber $1 billion to offer subprime auto leases [The Verge]Tony Fadell Quits Nest After A Load Of Problems [Gizmodo Australia]With Touch ID rumored for Apple's new MacBook Pros, PC makers prep trackpad fingerprint readers [AppleInsider]Microsoft's drastic upgrade tactic pays off with boost to Windows 10 share [ARN]WWDC 2016 rumor roundup: What to expect at Apple's June 13 keynote [AppleInsider]Apple iOS update fixes bricked iPad Pros [iTnews]R.I.P. Muhammad Ali [Dark Horizons]Labor commits to keeping community radio [CBAA]DC confirms next year's Justice League movie is indeed titled 'Justice League' [The Verge]The wr

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Bertram Poppingstock: Problem Solver [ABC3]ISPs and rights holders quietly ditch three-strikes piracy scheme [CNET Australia]Telstra internet outage was caused by a faulty 'software update' [The Age]Telstra CEO Andy Penn acknowledges his company has problems [SMH]New Telstra Bundle Includes Five Free Outages A Month [The Shovel]Vodafone to splash $9m on 32 new regional mobile sites [iTnews]MySpace breach potentially the largest ever [iTnews]Hackers Stole 65 Million Passwords From Tumblr, New Analysis Reveals [Motherboard]The average age for a child getting their first smartphone is now 10.3 years [TechCrunch]Turn off your phone or we'll do it for you: venues wrestle with legalities of blocking [The Age]Microsoft bans stupid passwords in wake of LinkedIn leak [TechSpot]Microsoft is giving up on consumer smartphones, too [Recode]McCarthy Responds To "Ghostbusters" Haters [Dark Horizons]New Top

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:AFP raid ALP offices in Melbourne over NBN 'leaks' [SMH]Shorten questions whether Fifield told PM about NBN leak probe [ABC News]Two NBN staff stood down in AFP leak investigation [iTnews]The AFP is investigating theft, not leaking - Let's get real about the NBN & AFP [EFTM]Over 40 Australian startups and global giants launch TechSydney [ZDNet]TechSydney criticised for a lack of a diversity [StartupSmart]Court overturns Uber driver's fine effectively legalising UberX in Victoria [SBS News]Google I/O 2016: A recap of everything you need to know [The Next Web]YouTube Red and YouTube Music now available in Australia [CNET]A hacker is selling 117 million LinkedIn logins on the Dark Web [The Next Web]ANZ's Apple Pay exclusivity drives credit card applications, other Australian banks take notice [AppleInsider]Apple's Tim Cook to meet with Indian PM Narendra Modi this week [AppleInsider]Siri fo

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:#Lizzies: All The 2016 IT Journalism Awards Winners [Gusworld]Cancer cheat Belle Gibson facing legal action [ABC News]Telstra customers lose NBN services in NSW [iTnews]Telstra DNS outage causes customer grief [iTnews]CommSec analysis shows ATM use declining as shoppers shift to cashless [The Canberra Times]Vic opposition threatens to refer Myki tender to audit office [iTnews]The new Instagram logo gets panned by social media [9 News]Google plans to start blocking Flash in Chrome this year [The Verge]'Dangerous' payday loans join guns and drugs on Google's banned ad list [The Guardian]Microsoft warns free Windows 10 offer expires soon [CRN]Amazon launches competitor to YouTube [CRN]Apple confirms reports of potential bug in iTunes; safeguard patch expected next week [iMore]Apple invests $1 billion in Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Chuxing [Reuters]Apple's $1 Billion Investment in Didi Chu

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Finalists announced for 14th annual MasterCard IT Journalism Awards [Influencing]'Boaty McBoatface' polar ship named after Attenborough [BBC News]There's now a petition to have David Attenborough re-named 'Boaty McBoatface' [The Independent]Budget 2016: Which govt departments won tech money to burn? [CRN]Budget 2016: NBN Co is running out of money [Delimiter]Vodafone launches build-your-own Prepaid recharges with MyMix [EFTM]Kogan relaunches Dick Smith brand online [iTnews]World Password Day: Here are 4 tips for staying safe online [CNET]Apple Meets With Podcasters to Hear Wide-Ranging Community Grievances [MacRumors]Apple's actual role in podcasting: be careful what you wish for [Marco.org]Vale: Reg Grundy [TV Tonight]YouTube now bigger than TV among advertisers' target audience [Los Angeles Times]Time Warner Cable Media Pushes Back After YouTube's Bold Claim About Audience Reach [Adweek]'T

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Consumers should be able to bypass geoblocking: Government agency [ABC News]NBN Sky Muster satellite service goes live [The Age]Competition to name icebreaker will 'avoid Boaty McBoatface situation', minister says [ABC News]Seniors targeted in Ararat tax scam [The Ararat Advertiser]Hackers steal Gumtree users' personal details [The Age]Windows 10 interrupts a live TV broadcast with an unwanted upgrade [BetaNews]Original Shapes biscuits on sale for $50 because everyone hates the new recipe [Mashable]Teen causes road accident taking Snapchat photos, now victim is suing Snapchat [The Age]Sign language gloves 'to empower the deaf community' [ABC News]ANZ Bank Switches On Apple Pay [Gizmodo Australia]Quickflix appoints voluntary administrator [The Age]'Ghostbusters' Remake the Most Disliked Trailer of All Time [ScreenCrush]Aussies top list of Game of Thrones pirates [The Age]Getflix Lifetime Subs

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Turnbull launches government's cyber security strategy [Computerworld Australia]Turnbull's $230M Cyber Security Strategy: Four Industry Experts Respond [Lifehacker Australia]Music industry jumps on Aussie piracy site blocking law [iTnews]auDA to introduce .au direct registrations [ZDNet]Intel announces "evolution" away from PC industry, "up to 12,000" layoffs [Ars Technica]Microsoft Discontinues Xbox 360, Servers Staying Online [GameSpot]Rumoured PlayStation 4 'NEO' upgrades power and aims for 4K [CNET Australia]Pornhub Now Lets You Choose Porn With Emojis [Gizmodo Australia]Apple confirms WWDC 2016 will begin June 13th [The Verge]WWDC Rumor Roundup: Everything Apple could announce at its upcoming event [9to5Mac]Apple's MacBook refresh brings better specs and Rose Gold [The Next Web]Infighting at Apple leads to manager's resignation, more 'likely' to follow [The Next Web]Doris Roberts, Star

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Boaty McBoatface Has Won The Boat-Naming Contest, But Organisers Are Already Backing Out [Junkee]Racehorse named Horsey McHorseface in Boaty McBoatface homage [BBC News]Telstra hit by customer backlash over marriage equality position [SMH]Telstra CEO Andy Penn admits telco wrong to not support same sex marriage [mUmBRELLA]Church told gay CEOs at Qantas, SBS to stop supporting marriage equality [The Age]KFC Australia tried to make a dick joke. It backfired. [Mashable]Friends' attempt to find Woolworths 'dream girl' spotted in mushroom aisle attracts backlash [9 News]Australia Post trials parcel delivery by drone [iTnews]Sydney to trial bank card tapping on Opal network [iTnews]The 3 biggest announcements from Facebook's F8 conference [BGR]Everything Facebook announced at F8 2016 [The Next Web]BuzzFeed Slashes Revenue Forecast: Is This the Beginning of the End of the Millennial Media Bubble? [

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Telstra's 'free data guy' is getting to test its 'world first' 1Gbps hotspot [SMH]Watch Waleed Aly Tackle Prime Minister Turnbull On The NBN [Gizmodo Australia]Labor hints at FTTdp NBN election policy [iTnews]Telstra gets $1.6bn to help deliver NBN's HFC rollout [iTnews]Panama Papers and Mossack Fonseca explained [ABC News]HP's world's thinnest laptop is as thick as a AAA battery [VentureBeat]Mashable cuts staff as it shifts focus from politics and world news [TechCrunch]AP Style alert: Don't capitalize internet and web anymore [Poynter]Erik Bauersfeld Dead: Admiral Ackbar Voice Actor Was 93 [The Hollywood Reporter]First Trailer: "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" [Dark Horizons]Star Wars: Rogue One - breaking down the first trailer [Den Of Geek]Twitter lines up with the NFL to stream Thursday Night Football [CNET]Quickflix to axe Sydney and Auckland offices and staff as founder gives himself a

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Microsoft's Tay AI bot returns to Twitter, immediately goes off the rails again [The Age]Telstra's free data day didn't turn out that well [The Age]Telstra Customers Downloaded 2686 TB Of Data Yesterday [Gizmodo Australia]Here's Precisely Why Valve Lost To The ACCC In Federal Court [Kotaku Australia]Internode sets up first ever offshore call centre [Delimiter]Google cops backlash over Gmail Mic Drop April Fool's Day prank [The Age]Reddit deletes surveillance 'warrant canary' in transparency report [Reuters]An insane amount of people have ordered the Tesla Model 3 [The Independent]Apple hangs pirate flag over Infinite Loop HQ on its 40th birthday [9to5Mac]Disney Infinity and the problem with Apple TV's gaming ambitions [Ars Technica]Ronnie Corbett, 'true great' of British TV comedy, dies aged 85 [The Guardian]Journalist Bob Ellis dies, aged 73 [The Age]Logie Awards 2016: nominations [TV Tonig

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Hulk Hogan awarded another $25M from Gawker and its founder [The Verge]Melbourne's public transport routes are finally on Google Maps [Mashable]Telstra suffers another outage [CRN]Vodafone offers free month for customers switching networks [Delimiter]Andrew S. Grove Dies at 79; Intel Chief Spurred Semiconductor Revolution [The New York Times]Wrong house gets torn down based on a Google Maps error [Engadget]Microsoft deletes 'teen girl' AI after it became a Hitler-loving sex robot within 24 hours [The Telegraph]iPhone launch: Roundup and key points of all the news from the Apple event [The Telegraph]FBI enlists Israeli firm to unlock encrypted iPhone [VentureBeat]Apple's First Foray Into Original TV Is a Series About Apps [The New York Times]Garry Shandling Dies at 66 [Variety]Conan O'Brien Remembers Garry Shandling - CONAN on TBS [YouTube]Batman v Superman Makes $424 Million, Destroys the Bo

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:How Foxtel Killed Yournet: The ISP With Inbuilt US Netflix [Lifehacker Australia]Nationwide outage hits Telstra's mobile network [iTnews]Dick Smith brand to be resurrected by Kogan [The Age]Can Dick Smith take out one more victim? [News.com.au]Customers wary of Dick Smith home brand stock [The Age]Is this the best ever name for a ship? RRS Boaty McBoatface is leading the vote as public name new polar vessel [Irish Examiner]Prosecutors find that 'Fappening' celebrity nudes leak was not Apple's fault [TechCrunch]Twitter is turning 10 years old — here's a look at how the social network is celebrating [Business Insider Australia]Comic: the long, slow death of Twitter [The Guardian]What to expect from Apple's March 21 'let us loop you in' event [AppleInsider]Apple Inks Deal to Use Google Cloud Platform for Some iCloud Services [MacRumors]Frank Sinatra Jr. dies at 72 [The Washington Times]Steven S

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Malware hijacks big four Australian banks' apps, steals two-factor SMS codes [The Canberra Times]Hackers could be reading your social media profile to lure you into a scam [SMH]Square's card reader coming to Apple, Officeworks, Bunnings [CRN]Google tries to get jump on Apple with early release of new Android — sort of [CNET]Android N features: everything confirmed, rumored and expected [Android Authority]The founder of the world's most controversial website has gone to work at Google+ [The Independent]Meerkat Is Ditching the Livestream — And Chasing a Video Social Network Instead [Re/code]Facebook to become world's biggest virtual graveyard by 2098, predict researchers [ViewStorm]Apple's March 21 event promises to 'Loop you in' [Cult of Mac]Coming at Apple's March 21st event: 4-inch iPhone SE, 9.7-inch iPad Pro & new Apple Watch models [9to5Mac]The spaceship rises: A first look at Apple'

Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Special Guest: Anthony Agius.Show Notes:Dick Smith receiver puts customer databases up for sale [iTnews]Former ABC tech editor Nick Ross appointed editor of IDG's PC World and Good Gear Guide [mUmBRELLA]Telstra outage affected 490,000 pre-paid customers [iTWire]MyGov to feel the audit blowtorch [The Age]NBN to deploy skinnier fibre to lower build costs [iTnews]Gasbuddy bringing crowdsourced cheap fuel app to Australia [The Age]7-Eleven has launched a 'Lowest Price' app [Ausdroid]Former Anonymous member handed suspended sentence for hacking [ABC News]Email pioneer Ray Tomlinson dead at 74 [The Age]Twitter launches Moments in Australia to collect tweets around specific events [SMH]MasterCard Allowing Payment Verification With The Snap Of A Selfie [Reality POD]Apple's Genius Bar takes to Twitter with @AppleSupport [The Age]First known OS X ransomware spotted in Mac torrenting app [The Verge]iOS 9.3 will tell you loud

Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Special Guest: Mark Macdowell.Show Notes:Dick Smith to shut down for good [iTnews]Flight Centre throws Dick Smith employees a lifeline with fast-tracked job offers [SmartCompany]GoCatch Announces Australian Uber Rival: GoCar, Says No To Surge Pricing [Gizmodo Australia]NBN: Malcolm Turnbull's 'faster, cheaper' roll-out falters [SMH]NBN hits back, denies report it is failing to meet rollout targets [iTWire]Qantas to launch free inflight Internet for Australian flights [AusBT]Facebook officially expands beyond the Like with Reactions [Engadget]ABC World News Tonight with David Muir [iTunes]US trying to force Apple to unlock 'about a dozen' other iPhones, says WSJ [The Verge]Bill Gates Is Backing the FBI in Its Case Against Apple [Re/code]Apple Is Said to Be Trying to Make It Harder to Hack iPhones [The New York Times](Re)Mark Your Calendars: Apple's Product Event Will Be Held the Week of March 21 [Re/code]Apple to la

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Village Roadshow and Hollywood studios move to block piracy website [WA Today]'Three strikes' scheme for Aussie pirates scrapped: report [The Age]Thousands of Australian families 'can't afford home internet' [ABC News]UK carrier Three to block ads at the network level [Engadget]Bus crashes in South Melbourne, trapping passengers [The Age]Mobile phone replaces car key [Drive]Netflix tightens geo-blocking crackdown over weekend, geo-dodgers fight back [The Age]Samsung Unveils Waterproof Galaxy S7 Handsets [Sky News]Apple apologises for Error 53 iPhone malfunction, releases update to fix bricked phones [The Age]US slams Apple CEO Tim Cook's refusal in FBI standoff over terrorist iPhone [SMH]Facebook, Twitter and Google join Apple in encryption fight against the FBI [The USB Port]On the San Bernardino Suspect's Apple ID Password Reset [Daring Fireball]Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird,

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek.Show Notes:Twitter has a new timeline for you — if you want it [CNET]ACCC to pursue Apple for bricking iPhones [CRN]Telstra outage: manager connecting customers to faulty node in 'embarrassing error' [SMH]Telstra gave users a free data day, so they downloaded 1,841 terabytes [ABC News]Dallas Buyers Club Throws In The Towel On iiNet Piracy Case [Gizmodo Australia]What Are Gravitational Waves And Why Do They Matter? [Australian Popular Science]Wired Is Launching an Ad-Free Website to Appease Ad Blockers [Bloomberg]MySpace: site that once could have bought Facebook acquired by Time Inc [The Guardian]Ten tips to declutter your digital life [SMH]Lawrence Mooney harasses 'deadshit' female journalist for Adelaide Fringe review [SMH]Setting the date to 1 January 1970 will brick your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch [The Guardian]Dr. Dre Filming Apple's First Scripted Television Series [The Hollywood Reporter]U.S. Ap

Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Daniel Olivares are back in the studio with this week's look at all things Geek. Special Guest: Mark Macdowell.Show Notes:Popular YouTubers Stop Trying To Trademark 'Reacts,' Apologise [Kotaku]Volkswagen to offer generous compensation for U.S. customers [Reuters]Centrelink investigators nab welfare cheats via social media [The Age]Facebook 'Friends Day' video falls flat [The Age]PayPal Starts Banning VPN and SmartDNS Services [TorrentFreak]Here's how Twitter's new algorithmic timeline is going to work [The Verge]Jack Dorsey responds to #RIPTwitter: No plan to reorder timelines next week [The Next Web]Ohlala, An Uber For Escorts, Launches Its 'Paid Dating' Service In NYC [TechCrunch]Microsoft starts downloading Windows 10 automatically through Windows Update [The Guardian]iOS 9 Update Kills Every iPhone Repaired with Unofficial Parts [Softpedia]The iPhone Error 53 explained [The Age]Apple eyes March 15 event for iPhone 5se, iPad Air 3 & Apple Watch updates [9to5mac]Archer vs Ma