It’s Episode Nineteen of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, and Martin Wimpress are together with guest presenter Joe Ressington and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

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

* BBC Micro Bit computer’s final design revealed…

* Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data…

* WhatsApp faces UK ban within weeks…

* Oracle VirtualBox 5.0 now available…

* Microsoft becomes first 2015 Gold contributor to openBSD Foundation

* 95% of Google privacy requests are from citizens – not criminals, politicians and public figures

* Valve has contributed a patch to Linux kernel 4.2 which fixes the LEDs on Wireless Xbox controllers

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We also take a look at what’s been going on in the community:

* Pi Wars – 5th December – Cambridge Computer Laboratory (William Gates Building)

* Ubucontest – 16th July to 18th September 2015

* Intel Compute stick is soon to be available with Ubuntu preinstalled

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

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