S09E22 – Guide to the Galaxy

It’s Episode Twenty-Two of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, Laura Cowen, and Martin Wimpress are here again.

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We’re here – all of us!

In this week’s show:

• We discuss the news
  • Microsoft has won a major privacy victory against the US gov for data held overseas
  • Microsoft ordered to fix ‘excessively intrusive, insecure’ Windows 10
  • The source code of the Apollo 11 guidance system that took the US to the moon in 1969 has been uploaded to GitHub
  • US telecoms giant Verizon is acquiring Yahoo! for $4.8bn
  • The EU-funded FOSSA project will audit the security of KeePass and Apache HTTP Server
  • Japanese technology company Softbank has made an offer to buy ARM
• We discuss the community news:
  • Improved Unity Desktop performance in low graphics mode coming
  • Ubuntu forums were hacked
  • Ubuntu Fairphone 2 port is coming along nicely
  • Unity Desktop can run on Windows 10 – kinda
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 45 has finally made it to the main Ubuntu Linux repositories
  • Skype announced a brand new Linux client, which is now in alpha
  • Alternative to Skype, Ring, is free software for universal communication which respects freedoms and privacy of its users
  • Chinese consortium buys Opera browser for $600m
  • Watch Netflix in Vivaldi web browser
• We mention some events:
  • Fedora Flock – 2-5 August – Krakow, Poland
  • FOSS Talk Live – 6 August – London, UK
  • Wuthering Bytes 2016 – 2-11 September – Hebden Bridge, W. Yorks, UK
  • UbuCon Europe – 18-20 November – Unperfekthaus, Essen, Germany
• We discuss going to Snappy Sprint in Germany and visiting nuclear power stations and the like around the South East of the UK.

• This week’s cover image is of Margaret Hamilton.

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