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

We are four once more and Laura is back!

In this week’s show:

* We discuss what we’ve been upto recently:

* Giving the gift of games and watching Robot Wars recording in Glasgow.

* We discuss the news:

* The Mirai worm, which recruits devices for botnets, has been infecting TalkTalk routers in the UK

* Windows 10 is coming to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon mobile chips

* French computer science student Florent Revest has released an open source smartwatch OS

* The creators of defunct anonymous sharing app Secret have launched bold.io, an anonymous blogging platform

* Google has revealed 8 requests for user data from the FBI

* Amazon has begun trials of autonomous drone delivery in the UK

* Yahoo has been hacked – again!

* Virtuix’s adult babywalker cancels pre-orders outside the US

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

* Google expects to run solely on renewable energy in 2017

* Samsung victorious at Supreme Court fight with 8-0 opinion against Apple

* Russian Parliament members claim FIFA 17 is gay propaganda

* The “technosphere” now weighs 30 trillion tons

* Fitbit acquisition will kill Pebble Time 2 and Core

* Fitbit will keep Pebble’s services running through 2017

* Amazon’s Music Unlimited family plan comes to the UK

* RetroEngine Sigma Is a Linux-Powered Retro Games Console

* AMD may license its Radeon graphics IP to Intel for use in desktops, high performance computing

* Biggest names in VR band together to create industry standards

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