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This is the official tech podcast of geekactually.com. The tech show by geeks for geeks and non-geeks. Accessible tech for everyone is the motto we live by. This week on Tech Actually we talk about the possible new owner of Facebook Paul Ceglia, broken iPhone 4 glass, Microsoft’s out of cycle patch to fix the icon flaw, iOS’s newly discovered security flaw, Blackberry’s woes in the Middle East and the death of Labor’s Internet Censorship Filter.
Now, if you are new to Geek Actually you are probably wondering why this episode of Tech Actually is numbered 96. No, we are not insane, Tech Actually and Film Actually (our movie podcast) used to be one show called The Geek Actually Podcast and this week we split them into two shows. We kept the numbering continuity across all three of our shows (this includes Geek Actually After Show). All the information on the re-structuring of the shows can be found here at geekactually.com.
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Tech News
Congratulations to Natali Del Conte who is a new mom.
http://www.thetechnewsblog.com/2010/07/28/natali-del-conte-becomes-mom/
If Paul Ceglia wins ownership of Facebook, he’ll hire Zuckerberg – LOL
http://www.news.com.au/technology/paul-ceglia-says-he-would-rehire-mark-zuckerberg-if-he-wins-control-of-facebook/story-e6frfro0-1225900510181
It is official, the coalition will block the filter – The Internet Filter is Dead
http://www.news.com.au/features/federal-election/coalition-to-block-conroys-internet-filter/story-e6frfllr-1225901950463
Microsoft has issued an out of cycle patch to fix icon flaw
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/security/microsoft-patches-critical-crack-in-windows-operating-system-20100803-114az.html
The government is trying to distance themselves from the web spying policy
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/government-backs-away-from-web-snooping-plans-20100803-115c1.html
Claims of broken glass on iPhone 4 just crap! Here’s a thought, don’t drop it on concrete!
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/iphone/im-shattered-cracks-emerge-in-`iphone-4-20100804-11cg9.html
Major security flaw discovered in iOS
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20012305-37.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20012511-260.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
How serious is this?
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/iphone/apple-to-fix-security-hole-in-ipad-iphone-and-ipod-touch-software-20100806-11lc5.html
Topic of the week
Blackberry Security in the Middle East
A collection of Arabic countries are blocking Blackberry because it is too secure and they want to be able to hack in and spy on their people. The official claim is that it breaches the National Security standards of their countries.
Articles to help figure this mess out:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20012582-94.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20012749-94.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
As always this episode carries an explicit tag due to some bad language.
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