It’s Season Nine Episode Forty-One of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Joe Ressington are connected and speaking to your brain.

We are four once more, thanks to some help from our mate Joe!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:

* Playing with Amazon Echo dot and driving “up north” and back and using lots of mobile data.

* We discuss the news:

* The UK’s contentious surveillance bill has become law

* PINE64 has launched the Pinebook, a low-cost Linux laptop

* Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Canonical is launching a case against a cloud provider using Ubuntu branding on unoffical images

* San Francisco transit stations have fallen victim to a hack, but the hacker got hacked… twice

* An Indiegogo has launched for the “First True Linux x86 and x64 Tablet” for “TECHNO-GEEKS!”

* Telegram is Launching Telegraph, a blogging platform for the impatient

* Want a Death Star? That’ll be $7.7 octillion per day

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

* New battery tech lasts for days, charges in seconds

* Everybody is 4K streaming.

* Netflix 4K streaming comes to the PC—but it needs Kaby Lake CPU

* 4K Netflix is finally coming to PCs, but you probably still can’t watch it

* Hulu is now offering its originals and Bond in 4K

* YouTube adds 4K support for livestreams

* Foxconn exec faces 10 years for stealing 5,700 iPhones

* Trump’s new tech adviser wants to gut the FCC

* Trump’s FCC advisor wants to eliminate most of the FCC

* Trump hires two net neutrality opponents to oversee FCC transition