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

In this week’s show:

* We basically just take a long look at what’s been going on in the news:

* The High Court ruled that five of the UK’s biggest broadband providers begin blocking five websites offering Popcorn Time for download…

* Microsoft has released its free new Visual Studio Code editor, not only on Windows but also on Linux and OSX…

* After more than seven years in development, GNU Mailman 3 has been released…

* Anonymous messaging service Secret, at one stage thought to be valued at more than $100m (£66.5m), is shutting down…

* On April 30th Mozilla announced their intent to phase out non-secure HTTP in order to encourage web developers to be secure…

* Tomeu Vizoso has been working on the kernel to bring some ChromeOS features to upstream, including the ability of performing work while the machine is in a low power state such as suspend…

* Launchpad will host git repositories…

* Steam for Linux usage drops below 1%…

* Debian GNU/Hurd 2015 released!

* E-buyer in the UK have just started selling AMD-based HP laptops pre-loaded with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS…

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

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