EU's ditches Google Search, Brave's Paid browser, Ubuntu makes big moves

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Jun 06, 2026•29 min•Season 3Ep. 72

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Links: 02:08 EU parliament ditches Google for Qwant https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-ditches-google-for-french-search-engine/

03:34 EU unveils their plan to ditch Big Tech https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-plots-long-game-against-us-digital-supremacy/

06:59 Brave launches debloated version for $60USD https://brave.com/blog/brave-origin/

09:20 Canonical takes over the maintenance of Flutter on Desktop https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/flutter-desktop-canonical-maintained

10:55 Ubuntu wants to add speech to text to all text fields https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/ubuntu-speech-to-text-ai

12:40 X11 disappears in 5 months on Plasma https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/596/

14:36 New solution to run Windows on Linux with full integration https://itsfoss.com/winpodx/

16:43 Cosmic shares screenshots of their blurred translucent interface https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Frosted-Glass

18:07 Acer launches Debian based handheld https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/acer-nitro-blaze-link-remote-play-handheld-acers-computex-launches/ https://www.pcmag.com/news/acer-launching-streaming-only-handheld-gaming-pc

19:27 Microsoft adds the Linux core utilities to Windows https://itsfoss.com/news/windows-coreutils/

20:45 /e/OS grows a lot, and has some great stuff planned https://gaelduval.com/joining-the-wave-murena-e-os-2026-roadmap/

23:01 Microsoft will de-activate older Office suites people bought https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Microsoft_Office_2019_and_2021_for_Mac_view-only_conversion_(2026)#cite_note-ms-learn-cert-1

24:36 Steam machine and Frame planned for summer release https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/716780409378048028

25:53 UK orders Google to have attribution and opt-outs for AI summaries https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/google-ordered-to-put-clearer-links-in-ai-search-and-let-uk-publishers-opt-out/