It’s Episode Thirty-Five of Season-Nine of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and Paul Tansom are connected and speaking to your brain.

We are four, made whole by a new guest presenter.

In this week’s show:

• We discuss the news:
  • Security firm Bishop Fox have claimed that they successfully hijacked an implantable medical device
  • Mercedez-Benz has said that its driverless cars will prioritise safety of the occupants in an accident
  • The first commercial shipment has been made by a self-driving lorry
  • Microsoft has announced that it will raise business prices by up to 22% in the UK
  • Sweden has banned general use of cameras on drones
  • The iPod is 15 years old
• We discuss the community news:
  • Ubuntu 16.10 has been released, along with all the flavours
  • Ubuntu Budgie Remix 16.10 has been Released
  • Ubuntu 17.04 is named “Zesty Zapus”
  • A security vulnerability involving an unkempt bovine
  • Canonical has announced live kernel patching for Ubuntu
  • Happy 12th birthday to Ubuntu!
  • Happy 20th birthday to KDE!
  • Artist Mohamed A. Latheef has made an Ubuntu Timeline Wallpaper, showing the progression of Ubuntu’s default wallpaper throughout the years
  • The Prime Indicator Plus app indicator makes it easier to switch between Intel and Nvidia graphics and so will GNOME 3.24
• We mention some events:
  • Ubuntu Online Summit – November 15th – 16th 2016
  • Paris Open Source Summit 2016 – 16-17 November 2016 – Paris, France
  • UbuCon Europe – 18-20 November 2016 – Unperfekthaus, Essen, Germany
  • FOSDEM 2017 – 4-5 February 2017 – Brussels, Belgium
• We also discussed getting an Arduboy and getting a nextcloud box.

• This weeks cover image is taken from Flickr.

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