It’s Episode Eleven 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 look at what’s been going on in the news:

* Canonical and GE’s FirstBuild collaborate on a smart refrigerator, ChillHub

* Meizu have announced the availability of the MX4 Ubuntu Edition in China

* 23 years remaining until 2038’s version of Y2K

* Security vulnerability in the virtual floppy drive code used by many computer virtualization platforms

* Firefox 38 arrives with tab-based preferences, responsive image support and content decryption module

* Official Syncthing Debian/Ubuntu repository released

* Interplanetary Society has launched a kickstarter to explore the universe with a spacecraft whose locomotion is light-powered

* Shutting down pirate sites is ineffective, European Commission finds

* MAME games emulator is going open-source

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We mention some community events:

* OpenTech – London, UK – Saturday 13th June

* PyCon UK – Coventry University Technology Centre, UK – Friday 18th – Monday 21st September

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

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