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S08E33 – Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues


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It’s Episode Thirty-three of Season Eight of the Ubuntu Podcast! With Mark Johnson, Laura Cowen, Martin Wimpress, and Alan Pope!
In this week’s show:
We look at what’s been going on in the news:

* In recent days the have been reports that people’s systems are not merely downloading the Windows 10 installer but actually starting it up…
* Someone uploaded a malicious app to the Ubuntu Click store, that got past the automated testing…
* Chrome 46 will dump the “OK Google” extension because nobody actually uses it, although it will remain in ChromeOS/Chromebooks…
* Ubuntu Mobile OTA-7 released…
* Facebook will start sending notifications to people that it believes have had their accounts hacked by governments…
* The Free Software Foundation have announced the first version of criteria for evaluating services that host free software source code repositories for distribution and collaborative development…
* CIA Director’s personal email allegedly hacked

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

* 11 years ago Ubuntu 4.10 was released
* Ubuntu 15.10 has been released along with Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, and Xubuntu
* Mozilla has announced their plan to drop NPAPI support for everything but Flash at the end of 2016…
* A small book has been created to help others learn the BQ Aquaris E4.5…
* Find-a-Task is the Ubuntu community’s job board for volunteers…
* Richard Collins, product manager from Canonical, has blogged about the ‘path to convergence’
* Mark Shuttleworth has announced that the next release of Ubuntu will be named xenial xerus
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