📰 Ubuntu Snap Prompting Improvements
If you haven’t tried Ubuntu’s ‘Permission Prompting’ feature for a while, there’s more reason to do so in the latest release. Canonical’s Oliver Calder has shared an update on recent improvements to the security feature, which sets out to “empower users” by letting them decide what software can access on the rest of the system at runtime rather than retrospectively.
🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/ubuntu-snap-prompting-client-improved
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#UK responds to shrinking press freedom in #Ethiopia
In a conversation on The Standard Signal, Episode 13, Luke Bullock, the UK’s Deputy Ambassador to Ethiopia, outlines the UK government’s position on the importance of independent media, press freedom, and professional journalism in fostering stability, economic growth, and investment in Ethiopia.
What do these positions mean for the future of media freedom in the country?
🎙 Watch the full discussion on The Standard Signal
https://youtu.be/4b1tL5G-h2g
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Premiering now: The Standard Signal | Ep.14: Tigray on the Brink: Survival, Famine Risks, and the Shadow of Renewed War in Ethiopia.
Click here to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDjUomfsWnA
Tigray is facing fragile recovery, deepening humanitarian strain, and growing fears of renewed war.
In this episode of The Standard Signal, Duke Burbridge shares what he witnessed on the ground — from survival and displacement to aid challenges and famine risks.
#StandardSignal#EthiopiaPolitics#ONLF#Ogaden#PeaceAgreement#PoliticalRepression#ShrinkingCivicSpace#ResourcePolitics#OilAndGas#Federalism#DemocracyInEthiopia#HornOfAfrica#Accountability#PoliticalDialogue#Tigray