S09E43 – Talk to the Hand

It’s Season Nine Episode Forty-Three of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Laura Cowen are connected and speaking to your brain. We are four once more and Laura is back! In this week’s show: We discuss… Read more ›

It’s Season Nine Episode Forty-Three of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Laura Cowen are connected and speaking to your brain.

We are four once more and Laura is back!

In this week’s show:

We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:

Giving the gift of games and watching Robot Wars recording in Glasgow.

We discuss the news:

The Mirai worm, which recruits devices for botnets, has been infecting TalkTalk routers in the UK
Windows 10 is coming to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile chips
French computer science student Florent Revest has released an open source smartwatch OS
The creators of defunct anonymous sharing app Secret have launched bold.io, an anonymous blogging platform
Google has revealed 8 requests for user data from the FBI
Amazon has begun trials of autonomous drone delivery in the UK
Yahoo has been hacked – again!
Virtuix’s adult babywalker cancels pre-orders outside the US

Presenters news picks we didn’t have time to discuss:

Google expects to run solely on renewable energy in 2017
Samsung victorious at Supreme Court fight with 8-0 opinion against Apple
Russian Parliament members claim FIFA 17 is gay propaganda
The “technosphere” now weighs 30 trillion tons
Fitbit acquisition will kill Pebble Time 2 and Core

Fitbit will keep Pebble’s services running through 2017

Amazon’s Music Unlimited family plan comes to the UK
RetroEngine Sigma Is a Linux-Powered Retro Games Console
AMD may license its Radeon graphics IP to Intel for use in desktops, high performance computing
Biggest names in VR band together to create industry standards
Playtime’s over: Internet-connected kids toys ‘fail miserably’ at privacy
Apple’s MacBook Pro with Touch Bar has some serious battery life problems
Internet of $@!%: Google API change triggers Epson printer revolt
Many of UK’s NHS trusts continue to rely on Windows XP
Sky receives takeover bid from 21st Century Fox
Amazon’s ‘Grand Tour’ is the most pirated show ever
Uber staffers reportedly spied on celebrities and ex-partners
The Google car is no more: Meet the Waymo
AMD unveils Ryzen brand for Zen processors, base clocks, and additional performance details
Donald Trump could get pal Putin to kick me out of Russia
Scientists copy climate change data in fear of a Trump crackdown
Evernote clarifies its ‘poorly communicated’ angst-rousing privacy policy update

Evernote defends access to your notes in its new privacy policy
Evernote will no longer change its privacy policy in January

Turkey blocks Tor’s anonymity network

We discuss the community news:

This $90 Kit Converts an ODROID board into a Touchscreen Ubuntu PC
Ubuntu Touch OTA-14 Released
How Do You Install Ubuntu: USB, or DVD?
What Is A VPN Connection? Why To Use VPN?
Lightworks 14 Introduces A Brand-New Look, New Pro Features
Nathan Haines: UbuCon Europe 2016
Dustin Kirkland: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Security: A Comprehensive Overview
The Best Linux App & Distro Releases in 2016
Jonathan Riddell: KDE neon User LTS Edition Out Now
Linux Mint lacks resources to maintain KDE Plasma version — turns to Kubuntu team for help
Linux Mint 18.1 Released
Leo Arias: Test a stable release update
6 Essential Ubuntu Snap Commands You Should Know
Protect yourself online with EFF’s updated Privacy Badger 2.0
Dimitri John Ledkov: Swapfiles by default in Ubuntu
Snapcraft 2.23 and snapd 2.20 are released.

We mention some events:

Chaos Communication Congress: 27th to 30th December 2016 – Hamburg, Germany

The Chaos Communication Congress is the annual symposium and hacker party of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). During four days between Christmas and New Years Eve, Thousands of hackers, technology freaks, artists, and utopians get together in Hamburg to communicate, learn from each other, and party together. The event focuses on topics such as information technology, digital security, and making and breaking.

BaDhack: 10th January 2016 – Basingstoke, England.

Basingstoke & Deane Makerspace is a new group looking to find like-minded people in the area of Basingstoke to form a new community and find a space in which we can meet and collaborate.

linux.conf.au 2017: 16 to 20 of January 2017 – Hobart, Australia.

linux.conf.au is a conference about the Linux operating system, and all aspects of the thriving ecosystem of Free and Open Source Software that has grown up around it.

FOSDEM 2017: 4 to 5 of February 2017 – Brussels, Belgium.

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

This weeks cover image is taken from Public Domain Pictures.

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