438 – Copilot Takeover

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First up in the news: Mozilla Reveals New Features Coming to Firefox, Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users, KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Released With Wayland Explicit Sync, Input Capture Portal & More, KDE Plasma 6.1 Lands Dynamic Triple Buffering Support, Btrfs Sends In Fixes For Linux 6.10 & Restores “norecovery” Mount Option, Turkey bans Distrowatch

In security and privacy: High-severity GitLab flaw lets attackers take over accounts, Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in, including one that is causing concern for a UK-based watchdog group.

Then in our Wanderings: Joe gets his shots, Bill endeavors to dual boot, Majid creates Frankensteins Ubuntu, and Eric dips his toe into the world of digital art pens and illustration as well as honing his Audacity skills.

Full Show Notes Here

• 00:00:00 – Intro
• 00:30:33 – Security And Privacy
• 00:34:08 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings
• 01:30:19 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts
• 01:31:08 – Wrap Up
• 01:33:48 – Outro

The News

Mozilla Reveals New Features Coming to Firefox

Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users

KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Released With Wayland Explicit Sync, Input Capture Portal & More

KDE Plasma 6.1 Lands Dynamic Triple Buffering Support

Btrfs Sends In Fixes For Linux 6.10 & Restores “norecovery” Mount Option

Turkey bans Distrowatch

Security and Privacy

High-severity GitLab flaw lets attackers take over accounts

The next two articles will actually be discussed during the innards (next episode) but we’ve linked them here anyway.

Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in

UK watchdog looking into Microsoft AI taking screenshots

Contact Info:

• Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, [e-mail], Buy Joe a coffee
• Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, [e-mail], Mastodon @[e-mail],
• Bill – [e-mail], Bill_H on Discord, @[e-mail] on Mastodon, also – checkout my other two podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers
• Majid – [e-mail] @[e-mail], AtypicalDr on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify and also Linux OTC.
• Eric – You can hear and see me on this and the Distrohoppers’ Digest and Linux OTC podcasts as well as the Linux Saloon and LinuxLUGCast streams. If you’d like to get in touch with me I can be reached by email at [e-mail],

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• Bill for our audio editing
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• Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
• Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
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• The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about