Google’s Pixel 7a is here (as is Google I/O), but is the Pixel 7a a worthwhile phone? How is Australia's Federal budget fighting scammers and cybercrime? Are blue skies already turning grey at Bluesky Social? I was on this week's Vertical Hold: Behind The Tech News and this is an updated version.

"Australian technology news podcast Vertical Hold dives into the big stories of the week. Joined by Australia's leading tech journalists every Friday, co-hosts @adam_turner and @alexkidman channel-surf through the headlines in search of the big picture," they write.

Google’s I/O brought us lots of AI, no Pixel Fold down under and… Time Travel?

Well, no, Google didn’t bring us time travel, but in this week’s show, we’re using the power of time travel to tell the story of the Pixel 7a, discuss the Pixel Tablet and more with EFTM’s Dan Tyson and Review.org’s Adam Smith!

It’s also budget week, and the tech side of the budget wanted to talk all about the criminals. No, not the ones we may or may not have elected*, but instead criminals of the cyber kind.

So Stilgherrian dropped by the Vertical Hold studios to talk all things Cyber, as well as why the skies over at Bluesky might not be that blue…

*Allegedly, in case you’re a lawyer reading this.

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The 9pm Extra: Vertical Hold episode 428

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Ninja Tracks - New Horizon 
Röyksopp - What Else Is There? 
Porter Robinson - Divinity ft. Amy Millan
Confidential Music - Rebirth 
Lorde - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Fitz and The Tantrums - The Walker 
The Antlers - Kettering 
Ásgeir - Torrent

00:00 MH730
00:44 #BringBackOurGirls 
01:08 Peter Greste #JournalismIsNotACrime
01:26 Manus Island + Reza Barati
01:49 Craig Thomson
01:56 Eddie Obeid
02:06 New State Leaders
02:21 Carbon Tax Gone
02:36 2014 Budget 
02:50 New Senate
03:00 Gammy
03:21 ISIS Islamic State
04:09 Gaza
04:47 MH17, Ukraine, Crimea & Russia
05:55 Shirtfronting & G20
07:05 Rabbitohs Win
07:19 Philae Comet Landing 
07:27 Malala Yousafzai Nobel Prize
07:41 Ice Bucket Challenge
07:47 Rolf Harris Guilty
07:51 Oscar Pistorious Guilty
08:00 Ferguson, Missouri
08:12 Hong Kong Occupy Central
08:20 Ebola
08:31 Phillip Hughes 
09:03 Stella Young
09:21 Phillip Seymour Hoffman
09:28 Gough Whitlam
09:53 Robin Williams


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Bravo - Paddee [demo] (2013)

Charlie - Paddee [demo] (2013)

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