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S09E22 – Guide to the Galaxy


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It’s Episode Twenty-Two of Season Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Mark Johnson, Alan Pope, Laura Cowen, and Martin Wimpress are here again.
We’re here – all of us!
In this week’s show:

* We discuss the news

* Microsoft has won a major privacy victory against the US gov for data held overseas
* Microsoft ordered to fix ‘excessively intrusive, insecure’ Windows 10
* The source code of the Apollo 11 guidance system that took the US to the moon in 1969 has been uploaded to GitHub
* US telecoms giant Verizon is acquiring Yahoo! for $4.8bn
* The EU-funded FOSSA project will audit the security of KeePass and Apache HTTP Server
* Japanese technology company Softbank has made an offer to buy ARM


* We discuss the community news:

* Improved Unity Desktop performance in low graphics mode coming
* Ubuntu forums were hacked
* Ubuntu Fairphone 2 port is coming along nicely
* Unity Desktop can run on Windows 10 – kinda
* Mozilla Thunderbird 45 has finally made it to the main Ubuntu Linux repositories
* Skype announced a brand new Linux client, which is now in alpha
* Alternative to Skype, Ring, is free software for universal communication which respects freedoms and privacy of its users
* Chinese consortium buys Opera browser for $600m
* Watch Netflix in Vivaldi web browser


* We mention some events:

* Fedora Flock – 2-5 August – Krakow, Poland
* FOSS Talk Live – 6 August – London, UK
* Wuthering Bytes 2016 – 2-11 September – Hebden Bridge, W. Yorks, UK
* UbuCon Europe – 18-20 November – Unperfekthaus, Essen, Germany


* We discuss going to Snappy Sprint in Germany and visiting nuclear power stations and the like around the South East of the UK.

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This week’s cover image is of Margaret Hamilton.


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