Geeks Interrupted

By 94.1FM 3WBC

Geeks Interrupted is a weekly 2-hour tech show broadcasting live from the studios of 94.1FM 3WBC in Box Hill near Melbourne, Australia. Phil Edwards, Andy Blume and Mark Macdowell discuss the latest n... more

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The podcast currently has 344 episodes available.

Geeks Interrupted episodes:

February 27, 2017 Village Roadshow's Piracy Crackdown, CloudBleed Data Leak & A Golden Girls Cafe Opens | Episode 186
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]
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1h 37min
February 20, 2017 Nokia 3310 Making A Comeback, Apple Debuts First TV Shows & ABC Fact Check Is Back | Episode 185
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...
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1h 40min
February 13, 2017 ACCC Tackles Broadband Speed Claims, Twitter Continues Efforts To Curb Abuse & The Grammys 2017 | Episode 184
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]
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1h 42min
February 06, 2017 Selfie Pay Coming To Australia, Apple Breaks IPhone Sales Record & Goodbye Good Game | Episode 183
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]
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1h 41min
January 30, 2017 Scamwatch Figures Reviewed, World's First Digital Ambassador & Rogue One Hits $1 Billion Worldwide | Episode 182
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...
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1h 41min
January 23, 2017 Telstra Wins Metadata Case, Samsung Reveals Cause Of Note 7 Explosions & Seinfeld Ditches Crackle For Netflix | Episode 181
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 know via our Contact Page.
Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome.
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1h 40min
December 05, 2016 Optus Trade Ads For Data, Grim Level Of Global Computer Proficiency & New Aussie Radio Streaming App | Episode 180
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.
Questions, Comments, Feedback and Suggestions are all welcome.
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1h 41min
November 28, 2016 Aussie MPs To Attend Cyber Bootcamp, Top 10 Tech Flops Of 2016 & SCA Launch PodcastOne Australia | Episode 179
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]
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1h 43min
November 21, 2016 EB Games' Mini NES Site Crash, Facebook To Fight Fake News & Amazon Prime Video In Australia | Episode 178
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...
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1h 42min
November 14, 2016 NSW Launch Digital Licences, Trump's Tech Agenda & Slenderman HBO Documentary | Episode 177
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]
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1h 45min

FAQs about Geeks Interrupted:

How many episodes does Geeks Interrupted have?

The podcast currently has 344 episodes available.