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

In this week’s show:

* We look at what’s been going on in the news:

* Matthias Clasen has started a discussion on the GNOME release team mailing list seeking to revive the development of GNOME 3’s apps…

* 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…

* Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Open Technologies will be absorbed into its parent company, Microsoft…

* 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 kickstarter campaign has been launched for Endless Computers, a desktop computer designed with and for users in developing countries…

* Twitter has announced new policies and tools to help combat abuse on its microblogging service…

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We also discuss some community news:

* Locally integrated menus have been made non-default in Ubuntu Vivid which will be 15.04 this week…

* Łukasz Zemczak announced the availability of the latest Over The Air (OTA) update to Ubuntu phones…

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And we mention an event:

* Ubuntu Online Summit – 5th to 7th May – online

That’s all for this week, please send your comments and suggestions to: [email protected]

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