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First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – November, and a variety of other items In security and privacy: Cloudfare goes down and Charles finds out that Shai-Hulud returns from Arrakis And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions Link To Full Show Notes The News: Mint Monthly News – November 2025 Mozilla Unveils Plans for New ‘AI Window’ Browsing Mode in Firefox, Opens Signups KDE Plasma 6.8 Desktop Environment to Drop the X11 Session and Go Wayland-Only Windows 11 Growth Slows As Millions Stick With Windows 10 FreeBSD 15 trims legacy fat and revamps how OS is built Ownership of Digital Content Is an Illusion Unless You Self‑Host The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library Jellyfin does hardware transcoding for free, and Plex wants $250 to match it Mad Men’s 4K debut botched by HBO Max streaming episode with visible crewmembers Netflix Buys Warner Bros. including HBO & HBO Max for $83 Billion Cloudflare blames Friday outage on borked React2shell fix Emulating PC games on Android is easier than ever, and you can thank Valve Security And Privacy: Shai-Hulud worm returns, belches secrets to 25K GitHub repos Twins who hacked State Dept hired to work for gov again, now charged with deleting databases (And then they asked an AI to help cover their tracks) Check This Out: Clone like a boss – Veronica Explains Contact Info: Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, jb@mintcast.org, Buy Joe a coffee Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, moss@bodhilinux.com, Mastodon @zaivala@hostux.social, occasionally on HPR Bill – bill@mintcast.org, Bill_H on Discord, @wchouser3@fosstodon.org on Mastodon, also checkout the other podcast I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid). Majid – drmajid@mintcast.org @atypical_doctor@mastodon.social, Atypical.doctor on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC. Eric – I can be reached by email at eric@mintcast.org. Charles – charles@mintcast.org, Mr PDX on Discord Jim– jim@mintcast.org, GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube Special Thanks To: Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio 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 The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>