S08E19 – The Creeping Terror - Ubuntu Podcast




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Summary: It's Episode Nineteen of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! <a href="https://twitter.com/marxjohnson" title="Mark on Twitter">Mark Johnson</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/lauracowen" title="Laura on Twitter">Laura Cowen</a>, and <a href="https://flexion.org/" title="Martin Wimpress' website">Martin Wimpress</a> are together with guest presenter <a href="https://twitter.com/joeressington" title="Joe on Twitter">Joe Ressington</a> and speaking to your brain. In this week's show: * We look at what's been going on in the news: * <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-33409311">BBC Micro Bit computer's final design revealed...</a> * <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/2943968/data-breach/hacking-team-hacked-attackers-claim-400gb-in-dumped-data.html">Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data...</a> * <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/590061/WhatsApp-UK-Ban-Weeks-Snoopers-Charter">WhatsApp faces UK ban within weeks...</a> * <a href="https://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressrelease/oracle-vm-virtualbox-5-070915.html">Oracle VirtualBox 5.0 now available...</a> * <a href="http://www.itworld.com/article/2946814/open-source-tools/microsoft-becomes-first-2015-gold-contributor-to-openbsd-foundation.html">Microsoft becomes first 2015 Gold contributor to openBSD Foundation</a> * <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/14/google-accidentally-reveals-right-to-be-forgotten-requests">95% of Google privacy requests are from citizens - not criminals, politicians and public figures</a> * <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=Xbox-Wireless-Linux-4.2">Valve has contributed a patch to Linux kernel 4.2 which fixes the LEDs on Wireless Xbox controllers</a> * We also take a look at what's been going on in the community: * <a href="http://piwars.org/">Pi Wars</a> - 5th December - Cambridge Computer Laboratory (William Gates Building) * <a href="http://www.ubucontest.eu/">Ubucontest</a> - 16th July to 18th September 2015 * <a href="https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/07/02/intel-compute-stick-now-comes-with-ubuntu/">Intel Compute stick is soon to be available with Ubuntu preinstalled</a> That's all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: show@ubuntupodcast.org Join us on IRC in <a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-podcast" title="#ubuntu-podcast on IRC">#ubuntu-podcast</a> on <a href="http://freenode.net/" title="Freenode network">Freenode</a> Follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/ubuntupodcast" title="Ubuntu Podcast on Twitter">Twitter</a> Find our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/UbuntuUKPodcast" title="Ubuntu Podcast on Facebook">Facebook Fan Page</a> Follow us on <a href="https://plus.google.com/107381207738558467919/posts" title="UUPC on Google+">Google+</a>