A power surge mid-show knocked us, Donald’s birthday celebration, and the rest of the episode offline. Here’s what we managed to salvage from the wreckage … at least you can read the stories and emails for yourselves! See you tomorrow! Buzz Out Loud episodes are released in their original audio form. Some metadata supplementation and/or …

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CNET’s Declan McCullagh reports that Google’s access point sniffing ways may also be slurping up Mac address information on mobile phones and laptops … and can be used to track your information. This is sewious. Also, Pandora’s IPO is bubblicious, we go deep inside the psychology of Apple’s retail experience, and smell-o-vision coming to a …

Read the full post →“BOL 1490: Generate odor at will”

The most common iPhone passcodes are revealed on today’s show (no, not by LulzSec), but Tong has a pager-callback suggestion for all of us. A proposal in Congress would force U.S. companies to actually tell us when they’re hacked and our data is stolen (yes, please), and Rojadirecta becomes the people’s hero in challenging the …

Read the full post →“BOL 1489: 7073, people, keep it simple”

On today’s show, it’s the Summer of Hackers: Anonymous hits the Spanish police website and threatens the Federal Reserve (which, frankly, we find to be a target that’s probably worthy of a little DDoS action). Plus, a nation-state may have hacked IMF, but they’re not saying much, and the Bitcoin market crashes (buy low!). Plus, …

Read the full post →“BOL 1488: Sharks with frickin’ lasers on their heads”

Carriers are freaking out because they might not be able to keep charging you exorbitant rates to send tiny little data bits over the same network all the other data goes over–i.e., texting is dead. Hurry up and die, testing. Also, how Windows Phone 7 might catch up to iPhone by 2015 (we’re skeptical) and …

Read the full post →“BOL 1487: What, you don’t Beluga?”

On today’s show, scientists discover that shocking tiny artificial brains with electricity produces the equivalent of short-term memory. Apocalypse nigh. Also, the Supreme Court rules against Microsoft in the i4i patent case, Apple goes Calvinball with a NEW RULE that says they won’t take a cut of in-app subscriptions. Plus, Citibank got hacked … a …

Read the full post →“BOL 1486: Franken-mouse and up-skirting Roombas”

Steve Jobs pitches the city of Cupertino on a gigantic, circular office complex with its own power supply and, of course, a totally gorgeous design. Our question: does it come with its own Arc reactor? Also, World IPv6 Day is actually about preventing riots in the streets. Now do you care? And we found out …

Read the full post →“BOL 1485: Steve Jobs building the mothership?”

Brian Tong joins us live from the E3 show floor to try to explain this cool-looking new Wii U console/controller thing. Even Cooley seems at least slightly impressed. Also, Sony delivers an apology but kind of a snoozefest of a press conference, 25% of U.S. hackers may be informants (including Antuan Goodwin) and reasoned discussion …

Read the full post →“BOL 1484: The Wii U explained (kind of)”

On today’s show, an exhausted Molly and Brian Cooley wrap up the longest Apple keynote in years, and try to make sense of the things you can and can’t accomplish with iCloud. Plus, the latest from Microsoft at E3, a little bit of cursory science news, and finally time for pizza. Phew. Buzz Out Loud …

Read the full post →“BOL 1483: Apple’s iCloud is really iSync”

On today’s show, we discover that Sony may have stored more than 1 million user emails and passwords in clear text, which LulzSec happily took advantage of. Also, the Gmail hack may have targeted White House employees who were using their Gmail accounts for official off-books government business. And iCloud might only stream iTunes purchases …

Read the full post →“BOL 1482: iCloud details, LulzSec strikes again, and USA rules at cupcakes”