We’re pretty sure that both Lukin (in Computer Love) and the CIA are displaying a sense of humor this week, but frankly, it’s kind of hard to tell. WTF? Also, did the FCC really try to tell us that they don’t need wireless Net neutrality regulations because, um, Android is open? Wow. And NPR hands …

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On today’s show, our cogent analysis of the FCC’s Net neutrality regulation adoption (actually, I mean that), with surprisingly little argument. Also, the PlayStation phone and the Nintendo 3DS are planning to spoil our CES parade by announcing their cool gadgets after the big show. And Apple proves that it is Wiki-weak. Plus, our holiday …

Read the full post →"BOL 1375: Happy Holidays, rights-holders! Thanks for ruining everything!"

On today’s show, we get a brief appearance of Brian After Dentist, but it’s not as fun as we hoped, because the poor guy was actually in pain. So, Donald and I soldier on, discussing how Google TV is probably just plain done for, Net neutrality is under attack from all sides, and how college …

Read the full post →"BOL 1374: Zuckerberg pokes China"

On today’s show, the Internet revolts over Yahoo’s plans to shutter Delicious, the U.S. is looking into a privacy Bill of Rights, and Facebook suffers an embarrassing code leak.Plus, using augmented reality to translate information in real time, plus all the world’s information organized to show us how language has evolved over the last 200 …

Read the full post →"BOL 1373: The Singularity is knocking at the door"

Today’s show is more than a little off the rails, thanks to talk of the Sean Connery Jeopardy bot, a giant pancake maze visible from space, moochie friends, and air-groping. But there’s news here, too: Facebook adds facial recognition to photo tagging, the Mac App Store is coming, and the dangerous success of the Stuxnet …

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Our response to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg being named Time’s Person of the Year? Um, actually, that kind of makes sense. Also, Yahoo makes some deep cuts, but the tech community rallies with job offers and free beer. And Gawker’s password mess proves once again (as if you needed any proof) that you really, really, …

Read the full post →"BOL 1371: Zuckerberg: Man of the Year? Well, yeah, actually."

On today’s show, McDonald’s has a data breach, although it’s not as bad as the one from the Mesa County, CO, sheriff’s office, which apparently keeps its lists of victims, suspects, and informants in a nice, big, unprotected plain-text database. So, that’s a few informants running for safe houses, then. Also, the Comcast Death Star …

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Twitter’s top trending topics of 2010 sadly didn’t include #mollyontopgear, but it’s kind of a plus that Justin Bieber was only around No. 8. Also today, the 4Chan kids go crazy on Gawker and you know what? Innocent people are being caught in this hacker-gang crossfire, and it’s frankly just not all that funny anymore. …

Read the full post →"BOL 1369: If it Biebs, it leads"

The Stuxnet worm isn’t going away anytime soon, Julian Assange says No to WikiLeaks Cyber Attacks, and Michael Bay is re-writing the space landing…with Transformers. Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or correction has been done for SEO, clarification, or as a product of data migration. Please …

Read the full post →"BOL 1368: Iran is Stux"

It’s a shoestring-and-gum operation around here, and someone took our gum. But somehow, we’ve got another show for you today, and we’re talking more Wikileaks Web warring (WWW3, perhaps?), Google activating 300,000 phones a day, and Apple’s refusal to let you donate money via iPhone apps (and weirdly robotic response). –Molly Buzz Out Loud episodes …

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