First up in the news: Linux Mint Monthly News, Google Is Dying News, Samsung defends GenAI, India bans Protonmail, NGINX Core Dev Quits and Forks In security and privacy: Critical bootkit vulnerability affects most Linux distros, BitLocker smashed in minutes with pico SBC, and Mozilla helps you wipe your data Then in our Wanderings: Joe plays games, Moss survives, and Majid finally “gets” Arch In our Innards section: we discuss the current mintCast infrastructure And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions New Feature: Now the links below open show notes to the specific section covered on the show! Try It! 00:00:00 – Intro 00:01:29 – News 00:29:27 – Security And Privacy 00:43:53 – Bi-Weekly Wanderings 01:06:54 – Innards 01:32:40 – Vibrations From The Ether 01:38:17 – Check This Out 01:38:37 – Housekeeping and Announcemnts 01:39:30 – Wrap Up 01:41:58 – Outro Full Show Notes Here The News Linux Mint Monthly News Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead “There is no such thing as a real picture”: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 Nginx core developer quits project in security dispute, starts “freenginx” fork Indian government moves to ban ProtonMail after bomb threat Security And Privacy Critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distros allows for bootkits BitLocker encryption broken in 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico — key can be sniffed when using an external TPM Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web Check This Out There is a really long, detailed, highly informative, and extremely well-written article explaining The Fediverse on The Verge. If you’re interested, you should check it out. Contact Info: Joe – Tllts.org,  linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, Distrohoppers’ Digest, bardmoss@pm.me, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, and my other contact information can be found at It’s Moss dot com Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also – checkout my other podcasts Linux OTC and 3 Fat Truckers Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypicaldr870on twitter, AtypicalDr on instagram and The Atypical Doctor Podcast on Spotify Eric – You can hear and see me on this and the 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 eric@mintcast.org, Discord (eric_adams), Telegram (https://t.me/ericadams), Matrix (@esa1975:matrix.org), and Mastodon (https://fosstodon.org/@ericadams). Links in the show notes. Special Thanks To: Bill Houser for our audio editing Archive.org for hosting our audio files Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions Bill Houser for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>