• Linux Smartphone Librem 5 Will Ship With GNOME 3.32

• Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 Is Out for Ubuntu Phones with New Morph Browser, Improvements

• Google’s Test For Censored Chinese Search Engine Impressive: Sundar Pichai

• Firefox Browser Will Soon Block All Web Trackers By Default

• UBports Releases Ubuntu Touch OTA-4 for Ubuntu Phones, Based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

• Ubuntu and CentOS Are Undoing a GNOME Security Feature

• Atari VCS RAM Doubled To 8GB; Will Ship With Linux-based Distro “AtariOS”

• Forbes writer falls in love with Ubuntu after two decades of Windows updates

• Pinguy OS Puts On a Happier GNOME 3 Face

A bumper episode for you this week!

• You know that silly fear about Alexa recording everything and leaking it online? It just happened

• GNU Emacs 26.1 released

• Firefox And Chrome Bug Leaked Facebook Profile Details For Almost A Year

• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver “Final Beta” Released

• Should Ubuntu Linux Replace Alpha/Beta Release Model With “Testing Weeks”?

• System76 becomes GNOME Foundation Advisory Board member

• KDE Connect has a Nautilus Connection

• [Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Operating System Reaches End of Life on July 20, 2017](Yakkety Yak)

• Ubuntu Developer Shares His Thoughts on the Unity to GNOME Shell Transition

• Linux Mint 18.2 ‘Sonya’ Released

• Linux kernel 4.11 released

• Linux Mint terrorist jailed for 8 years

• Post Unity 8 Ubuntu shock? Relax, Linux has been here before

• Assembly line robots vulnerable to hacking

• Don’t click that Google Docs link! Gmail hijack mail spreads like wildfire

• [Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark) Hits the Streets on October 19, with GNOME 3.26](Artful Aardvark)

• Canonical Shuts Down Support For Ubuntu Phone, Updates Ending In June

• Hackers uncork experimental Linux-targeting malware

• Ubuntu 17.10 To Have Wayland Display Server As Default

• Ubuntu might retire Thunderbird

• Red Hat and Fedora Teams Welcome Ubuntu to GNOME and Wayland with Open Arms

• Tails 2.12 Anonymous Live OS Is Out, Drops I2P as Alternative Anonymity Network

• Canonical abandons Unity, Mir, and Ubuntu Touch

• Ubuntu Touch and Unity 8 Are Not Dead, UBports Community Will Keep Them Alive

• Google’s First Machine Learning Chip (TPU) Is 30x Faster Than CPUs And GPUs

• Ubuntu 17.04 inches closer to production

• Linux Kernels 4.10.6, 4.9.18 LTS and 4.4.57 LTS Released with Updated Drivers

• Google Launches New Open Source Website

• IXmaps: This Map Tells If Your Web Traffic Is Being Spied On By The NSA

• Meizu PRO 5 comes to China and Europe

• Debian 6.0 LTS to Reach End-of-Life in February this year

• Google’s VR headset won’t need a smartphone or PC

• Tails Will Keep You Anonymous Online