S09E25 – Golden Keys

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

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We’re here again!

In this week’s show:

• We discuss the news:
  • Google have begun developing a new operating system, dubbed “Fuchsia”
  • Chrome will de-emphasize Flash in favor of HTML5
  • Intel has demoed its Alloy “Merged Reality” headset
  • Microsoft has accidentally leaked “golden keys” that unlock every Windows device
  • Ryan Sipes, one of the founders of Mycroft, is leaving the company
  • Google is moving “Hangouts on air” from Google+ to Youtube Live
  • Seagate have announced they will be producing a 60TB SSD for datacentres
• We discuss the community news:
  • A converged Terminal app design is coming
  • Running X apps on Ubuntu devices
  • Mir interface landed in snapd!
  • A six-part series about Ubuntu-on-Windows
  • Linux kernels prior to 4.7 are susceptible to TCP session hijacking
  • Community vote to get ZTE to make an Ubuntu Phone
• We mention some events:
  • LinuxCon North America – 22 – 24 August 2016 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Wuthering Bytes 2016 – 2-11 September – Hebden Bridge, W. Yorks, UK
  • Barcamp Manchester – 24-25 September – CityLabs, Manchester, UK
  • Teletext and Digitiser Festival – 1 October – Cambridge, UK
  • CLSx Europe – 16 October – London, UK
• We also discuss using the command line and playing Pokémon GO, and flashing ‘new’ firmware on a Palm T|X to make it connect to a WAP-secured wifi network.

• This weeks cover image is taken from Wikimedia.

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