Instanews #113: Back To Brass Tacks!

I’m back! I’m back!

Show notes and links:

Xbox One-80: Microsoft reverses Xbox One DRM features | Joystiq
Xbox Wire
Xbox One Eighty: Microsoft fails to sell the future, retreats to the past | Ars Technica
Microsoft addresses Xbox One Kinect privacy concerns | Joystiq
How To Murder Time
Xbox One at E3 – The Abridged Version (VideoGamer.com) – YouTube
PS4 Announcement – Abridged Version – YouTube
Apple – iOS 7
Lawsuit: “Happy Birthday” is not in copyright, and Warner owes the world hundreds of millions for improperly collected royalties – Boing Boing
Arnold Schwarzenegger confirms ‘Terminator 5’ role, shooting to start in January | The Verge
Genes No Longer Patentable … Kind of.
Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests – Facebook Newsroom
GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world’s communications | UK news | guardian.co.uk
Aided by WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden leaves Hong Kong to seek asylum in Ecuador | The Verge
WikiLeaks says NSA leaker Edward Snowden will seek asylum in Ecuador | Fox News

Instanews

Instanews was another one of Breki's attempts to create a tech news podcast in the long chain of iterative podcasts that includes Geek Positive, CSICON Radio, The Brainstorm and Geekdays. It ran for 129 episodes, initially co-hosted by Jack Marshall and, in the final run of episodes, by Teppo Tastic.

Both Petter Mårtensson and Arkenor Oakshadow featured as regular guests for a segment known as The Deathmatch of Death and More Death, a ladder-style competition that pit heroes and villains from popular culture against each other. Petter and Arkenor would argue the case for their randomly picked hero of the week, and listeners would vote via the website.

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