"Several social media companies are suing California over the new social media infinite scroll laws. We also look at stories related to social media and data."
"Windows is starting to optimize now that people can't afford PCs and new models are coming with less RAM."
"Run a resilient, low-spec Linux daily driver to fight planned obsolescence! We show options to use older hardware and lightweight software for long-lasting productivity."
"Fedora released a new round of distros and here we look at Fedora 45 with the Plasma desktop."
"If the recent freezer warnings were not enough, another wave of hackers strike more freezers including at blood banks. Hackers also pay patients involved in a separate hack."
"Google fights schools over AI while DuckDuckGo flies in for a solution. How will schools respond?"
"We talk about how a big tech bro tells us to stop selfishly hording RAM and now Microsoft is prioritizing lower-spec computers."
"We reported on the Danish trial with Collabora office to test independence from Microsoft. Was this really a failure? We look into what happened."
"The latest Linux Mint update gives us new upcoming features to the next Linux Mint release."
"A humanist receives a religious exemption from using AI at work. We see this and an update to replacing Microsoft Office with Collabora and other stories in technology, security, and privacy."
"Every company wants all data, and often the government requires it. Then scammers steal it to target you."
"Ubuntu is dedicating more staff to the immutable Core distro."
"We look at another place Windows put service connections, and we talk about what this means."
"Firefox is calling people back, but the browser is not as private as many alternatives, while they are announcing privacy. Firefox needs to do better."
"Essora OS is a distro using devuan as a base and Xlibre, and this edition uses Sonic DE."
"Police now have access to a service that can identify your house from inside pictures and Google is linking all your accounts to your phone number on Android. Also, Meta wants to scrape all your data if you use their products. How else do you feel your data is being used abusively."
"Technology is increasingly phoning home and passing up data. An AI robot collects our data and stores it in China on servers that are not secure. We also struggle with televisions collecting information for advertising and streaming services looking to monetizing our entertainment."
"Microsoft silently removed more ways to setup a computer with a local account, but why are they doing it?"
"Today we look at the Chinese version of Ubuntu to see what the custom DE looks like."
"Today we talk about a collaboration of open source software with an aim to compete with Google and Microsoft software."
"Hackers breached internet connected freezers to spoil food and the company blames freezers without security updates. We look at this and other privacy, security, and business tech stories."
"One AI CEO suggests we will all soon have our own AI assistant at home, but AI is constantly used for scamming, and agents are highly susceptible."
"Data collection is getting out of control as McDonalds collects 515 pages of data on customers while Amazon data AI is crazy. We also look at problems with handing everything over to AI and look at freezers hacked and spoiled food."
"Linux Mint released the new codename and announced a new feature in the upcoming anticipated release."
"We look at Photocraft, which is competent, but still lacking."
"We look at the new fork of Plasma which aims to keep Xorg in Plasma and remove encroaching SystemD dependence. Here we show how to install SonicDE on Arch Linux."
"LibreOffice is still committed to no AI in the software. Chick-fil-a also commits the same for ordering. We look at these articles and other stories related to privacy, security, and business technology."
"A federal judge calls ALPR cameras an illegal search network as laws are being introduced to regulate or ban the cameras. We look at this and other articles about privacy, security, and business technology headlines."
"I talk about how passkeys confused the non-techy owner of a company. We had to fight for access to a system because someone unknown passkeys got registered."
"I speculate on why DigitalOcean ended the Open Source Credits Program. Is this for more money or because of AI nonsense?"
"We look at the new release of the F-Droid FOSS Android app store."
"We look at how AI is raising health care costs among other stories related to privacy, security, and business tech news."
"AI is being used by hackers, but the agents themselves are also becoming hackers. What does this mean for our future going forward?"
"Today we look at the beta release for Ubuntu 26.10"
"I received a spam email from an AI agent...and then went deep down the rabbit hole to see just how far this might go...DEEP."
"I had issues with connecting an OpenVPN connection on Linux Mint, and others reported the same. There is a simple fix."
"A firmware update prevents Raspberry Pis from memory upgrades or swaps, like those which could repair a broken board. We look at this and other articles relating to privacy, security, business, and technology."
"People are defending AI by saying it can't possibly hurt us, but plenty of evidence shows that AI can indeed harm society in general and even specific people."
"Flock cameras were hacked and the data shows that these cameras are photographing people as well as cars. What are the greater dangers in systems like flock?"
"Today we talk about PeppermintOS adding XLibre to the distro and why this is probably good after a little backlash because of politics around XLibre."
"\*\*PLEASE NOTE: Throughout the video I said "PROtainer", not "PORtainer" - Yep, I know I made that mistake!! I caught it in post. Sorry\* Today we look at Portainer ending the active development of the open source community edition. We look at this and how it happened."
"Today we look at how you can get your new CD collection into digital format."
"Google hides real link locations in search results, which is a huge security risk. We look at this and other articles related to business, privacy, security, and technology."
"This video look at the new Spaced Linux based on Devuan with Sysvinit and flatpak for software."
"AI is getting more dangerous as companies strive to reign it back in. But is it too late? We look at this and other articles related to privacy, security, and business tech news."
"We look at the first time we see commentary on the ads Windows places on the Bing Wallpaper app. And boy did it cause some controversy. But it was expected."
Greetings and welcome to CRAFTQuest, a podcast series produced and published by Teh AnKorage, a supporter, moderator and stream assistant to Switched To Linux!
This podcast series focuses on segments of the Weekly News Roundup and various video topics that are released throughout the week. We hope you enjoy the content!
Thank you!
This podcast series focuses on segments of the Weekly News Roundup and various video topics that are released throughout the week. We hope you enjoy the content!
Thank you!