About this episode

The episode discusses recent news in technology, including updates on Mint, Ubuntu, and Firefox, as well as security improvements in Flatpak.

First up in the news: Mint 23 is named, Ubuntu 26.04 coming up and its already causing controversy, Firefox gets more features, big tech making some changes, and the governments of the world are meddling, in good and bad ways… and we welcome another host! In security and privacy: Flatpak getting more secure allegedly

Topics covered

• news
• technology
• security
• privacy
• software updates
• big tech

Keywords

• Mint 23
• Ubuntu 26.04
• Firefox features
• Flatpak security
• big tech changes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mint, Ubuntu, Firefox, Flatpak

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