S11E15 – Fifteen Minutes

This week we get the Hades Canyon NUC fully working and play Pillars of Eternity II. We discuss the falling value of BitCoin, backdoored Docker images and Microsoft getting into hot water over their work with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Plus we round up the community news.

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It’s Season 11 Episode 15 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

• We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:
  • Martin has got his Hades Canyon NUC working properly with Ubuntu MATE 18.04.
  • Mark has been playing Pillars of Eternity II.
• We discuss the news:
  • Bitcoin has lost more than half its value since last year’s all-time high
  • Backdoored images downloaded 5 million times finally removed from Docker Hub
  • Microsoft are recieving flak for celebrating work with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
• We discuss the community news:
  • Chromium as a snap using Mir
  • A Complete Look At Spectre V1/V2/V4 & Meltdown
  • Ubuntu Touch RC OTA-4 is Here
  • Bitfolk ask their users how to deal with overage notifications
  • Timo Aaltonen posted about the Status of Ubuntu Mesa backports
• Image credit: Victoria Palacios

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