It’s Season Nine Episode Thirty-Nine of Ubuntu AU! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Dan Kermac are connected and speaking to your brain.

We are four once more, thank you Australia!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been up to recently:

* Alan and Martin went to UbuCon Europe

* We discuss the news:

* The UK parliament enacts extreme surveillance laws, and no-one seems to notice

* openSUSE community Linux moves ahead of Fedora

* Thanks to a report from BackBlaze Seagate’s 8TB disks seem to be solid

* A long-standing major flaw in Linux security has been found

* Google has “Strongly recommended” OEM against using proprietary fast charging methods in phones

* Spotify’s desktop app writes tons of data to storage drives

* Samsung has launched a Tizen app incentive program

* Apple reinvent the book

* Presenters news picks we didn’t have time to discuss:

* Kids Win the Right to Sue the US Government Over Climate Change

* SpaceX has filed for a massive constellation of satellites

* Windows 10’s virtual trackpad turns tablets into mice

* You don’t need to sign in to use Skype anymore

* It’s 1989 again! WHSmith will sell video games again with GAME’s help

* VW says Audi software can distort emissions during tests

* Facebook halts WhatsApp data sharing across Europe

* Domino’s starts delivering pizza by drone, but only in New Zealand

* Bogus claims by homeopathic drug makers will now face wrath of FTC

* Amazon Prime Now delivers Morrisons products in an hour

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