Geeks Interrupted

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  • 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]
    1 hr 37 min
  • 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...
    1 hr 40 min
  • 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]
    1 hr 42 min
  • 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]
    1 hr 41 min
  • 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...
    1 hr 41 min
  • 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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    1 hr 40 min
  • 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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    1 hr 41 min
  • 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]
    1 hr 43 min
  • 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]
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    1 hr 42 min
  • 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]
    1 hr 45 min

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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…