Summary: It's Episode Seven of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! <a href="https://twitter.com/popey" title="popey on Twitter">Alan Pope</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/lauracowen" title="Laura on Twitter">Laura Cowen</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/marxjohnson" title="Mark on Twitter">Mark Johnson</a>, and <a href="https://flexion.org/" title="Martin Wimpress">Martin Wimpress</a> are connected and speaking to your brain. In this week's show: * We look at what's been going on in the news: * <a href="https://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2015-April/msg00025.html">Matthias Clasen has started a discussion on the GNOME release team mailing list seeking to revive the development of GNOME 3's apps...</a> * <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/16/microsoft-apps-cyanogen-android/">Tech news sites including engadet and forwardgeek have published an apparently sourceless story that Microsoft will be bundling its Android apps with future releases of CyanogenMod...</a> * <a href="https://msopentech.com/blog/2015/04/17/nextchapter/">Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Open Technologies will be absorbed into its parent company, Microsoft...</a> * <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/united-airlines-stops-researcher-who-tweeted-about-airplane-network-security">The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a report that Chris Roberts, a security researcher recently detained by the FBI for tweeting about compromising an aeroplane's internal communication systems, has been banned from flying with the airline...</a> * <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1381437927/endless-computers">A kickstarter campaign has been launched for Endless Computers, a desktop computer designed with and for users in developing countries...</a> * <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/2015/policy-and-product-updates-aimed-at-combating-abuse">Twitter has announced new policies and tools to help combat abuse on its microblogging service...</a> * We also discuss some community news: * <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1446256">Locally integrated menus have been made non-default in Ubuntu Vivid which will be 15.04 this week...</a> * <a href="https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg12158.html">Łukasz Zemczak announced the availability of the latest Over The Air (OTA) update to Ubuntu phones...</a> * And we mention an event: * <a href="http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1505/">Ubuntu Online Summit - 5th to 7th May - online</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>
