• Ubuntu 18.10 “Cosmic Cuttlefish” Beta Released: Download All Flavors Here

• Emmabuntüs Releases Debian Edition 2 1.03

• Solid: Web inventor launches free web platform

• XCOM 2: War of the Chosen - Tactical Legacy Pack Is Coming to Linux and macOS

• Major Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” Linux Kernel Patch Fixes 18 Security Flaws

• Arch Linux’s October 2018 ISO Snapshot Released with Linux Kernel 4.18.9

• DARPA introduces ‘third wave’ of artificial intelligence

• Israel to end licensing agreement with Microsoft

• Ubuntu-based elementary OS 5.0 ‘Juno’ Beta 2 Linux distro now available

• Solus 3.9999 ISO Refresh Released

• New SparkyLinux 5.5 “Nibiru” ISOs Released with Latest Debian Buster Updates

• New Firefox browser bug causes crashes on Windows, Mac and Linux

• Linux Developers Threaten to Pull “Kill Switch”

• Concerns about the behavioral guidelines of Linux kernel developers

• ‘Mutagen Astronomy’ Linux kernel vulnerability sighted

• KDE Plasma 5.13 Desktop Reaches End of Life, KDE Plasma 5.14 Arrives October 9

• Unity8 on Arch Source

• Nitrux 1.0.15 brings Kernel 4.18.5 and Plasma 5.13.4 for Most Secure and Integrated Performance Yet

• Canonical Outs New Linux Kernel Live Patch for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS

• Linus Torvalds Is Taking A Break From Linux, Here’s Why?

• Google changed a battery setting on Android phones by mistake

• GNU Nano 3.0 claims to read files 70% better with improved ASCII text handling

• Dell Precision 5530 mobile workstation now available with Ubuntu

• Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish WON’T Ship With Android Integration

• ZeroPhone Is “Coming Soon”: A Raspberry Pi-Based, Linux-Powered Phone For Just $50

• Librem 5 Linux Smartphone’s Release Date Pushed Back To April 2019

• Linux Creator On Intel CPU Bugs: “It’s Unfair. We Have To Fix Someone Else’s Problems”

• Linux Kernel 4.20 to drop NSA-developed Speck Algorithm

• Tails Anonymous OS Gets Its Biggest Update Yet with VeraCrypt Integration

• New AI capability helps empower DevSecOps teams

• Bodhi Linux 5.0.0 now available with Ubuntu 18.04 base

• Valve’s new Steam Play beta boosts Linux as a rival to Windows PCs for gamers

• Flatpak 1.0 released, aims to simplify installation of Linux apps

• Canonical Apologizes for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Linux Kernel Regression, Releases Fix

• Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” Receives L1 Terminal Fault Mitigations, Update Now

• AMDGPU-PRO 18.30 Linux Graphics Driver Released with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and RHEL / CentOS Support

• Debian GNU/Linux project to mark 25th birthday on Thursday

• Hands-on with Linux Mint Debian Edition 3 Beta

• Valve seems to be working on tools to get Windows games running on Linux

• Lenovo launches its thinnest and lightest pro laptop – ThinkPad P1 Source

• UBports Releases Ubuntu Touch OTA-4

• Linux 4.18 And Zorin OS 12.4 Released With Big Changes

• New round of 64-bit ARM Patches Merged into Linux 4.19 Kernel, Includes GCC Stackleak Plugin Support

• New Linux kernel debuts, adds more suspect NSA-sourced crypto

• Dropbox makes the cloud rain poop on Linux users

• Ubuntu Linux 18.04.1 LTS Bionic Beaver available for download

• Future Lubuntu Releases Won’t Focus on Old PCs, Will Offer a Modular Linux OS

• Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 3 ‘Cindy’ BETA available for download

• Opera is available in a Snap on Linux

• UK cyber security boffins dispense Ubuntu 18.04 wisdom

• MySQL Updates for Ubuntu Resolve Server Data Manipulation and DoS Vulnerabilities

• SegmentSmack: TCP Flaw In Linux Kernel Could Trigger A Remote Denial Of Service

• Drink this potion, Linux kernel, and tomorrow you’ll wake up with a WireGuard VPN driver

• Linux kernel 4.18 delayed: Bug ate my rc7, says Linus Torvalds

• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Gets First Kernel Update with Patch for Spectre Variant 4 Flaw

• 500,000 Routers In 54 Countries Hacked To Create Massive Botnet Army

• Parrot 4.0 Ethical Hacking Linux Distro Released

• Bodhi Linux 5.0 Enters Development Based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, First Alpha Is Out

• Hands-On with First Lubuntu 18.10 Build Featuring the LXQt Desktop by Default

• LibreOffice 6.1 Beta Arrives Next Week for Second Bug Hunting Session on May 28

• Kali Linux 2018.2 Ethical Hacking Distro Is Here

• Major Debian Linux Kernel Patch Fixes 8-Year-Old Privilege Escalation Flaw

• Twitter Wants 336 Million Users To Change Passwords, Bug Exposed Them In Plain Text

• Linux Apps Are Coming to Chromebooks and You Can Try Them Right Now

• Linux Lite 4.0 OS Enters Beta with New Look and Feel, Based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

• Pop!_OS 18.04 Released — Get System76’s Beautiful Ubuntu-based Linux Distro

• Huawei could be working on its own OS as an Android alternative

• Linux Kernel 4.15 Reached End of Life, Users Urged to Move to Linux 4.16 Now

• Linux developers: Kernel community will collapse under its own bureaucracy

• ONNX: the Open Neural Network Exchange Format

• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) Is Now Available to Download

• Ubuntu Linux Replaces Alpha/Beta Release Model With “Testing Weeks”

• Librem 5 Linux smartphone will support Ubuntu Touch, PureOS, or PureOS with KDE Plasma Mobile

• “Safespaces” Is The First Open Source VR Desktop Environment For Linux

• Mozilla Just Announced An Open Source Virtual Reality Browser: “Firefox Reality”

• MIT Researchers Create ‘AlterEgo’ Headset That Interprets User’s Thoughts

• Valve insists there’s still life in Steam Machines and Linux gaming

• Linus Torvalds Releases Linux Kernel 4.16

• Linux 4.17 Shredding 500,000 Lines Of Code, Killing Support For Older CPUs

• Facebook Now Says Data Leak Affected 87 Million Users, Not 50 Million

Some changes to the Full Circle Weekly News.

We have Wayne and Joe taking over as hosts of the FCWN. Big thanks to them for taking over as I (Ronnie) was finding it difficult to record a show each week.