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Supporting more identity providers on Ubuntu with the new Authd OIDC broker

Today we are announcing the general availability of the new generic OpenID Connect (OIDC) broker for Authd. With enterprises needing to centralise access...

Cloud-native Android™ infotainment: your CI pipeline shouldn’t depend on hardware

More and more often, infotainment systems are being developed and delivered like software, yet often they are still tested and validated using...

Meet the wildlife conservation AI 5G hotspot at MWC Barcelona 2026

From March 2-5 in Barcelona, Canonical will present a working wildlife conservation platform that combines open source 5G, AI, and cloud-native infrastructure...

Canonical and Ubuntu RISC-V: a 2025 retro and looking forward to 2026

2025: From RISC-V enablement to real execution  2025 was the year that RISC-V readiness gave way to RISC-V adoption. It’s been quite a journey. What began...

Unmasking the Resolute Raccoon

You’ve almost certainly seen them… In the forest, rummaging through a dumpster, in poorly aging millennial memes. Raccoons are ubiquitous and endlessly...

Building quantum-safe telecom infrastructure for 5G and beyond

coRAN Labs and Canonical at MWC Barcelona 2026 At MWC Barcelona 2026, coRAN Labs and Canonical are presenting a working demonstration of a cloud-native,...

Predict, compare, and reduce costs with our S3 cost calculator

Previously I have written about how useful public cloud storage can be when starting a new project without knowing how much data you will need to store....

A year of documentation-driven development

For many software teams, documentation is written after features are built and design decisions have already been made. When that happens, questions about how...


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Announcing FIPS 140-3 for Ubuntu Core22

FIPS compliance for IoT use cases in Federal space. In this article, we’ll explore what Ubuntu Core is, and how to use it with FIPS.

The foundations of software: open source libraries and their maintainers

Open source libraries are repositories of code that developers can use and, depending on the license, contribute to, modify, and redistribute. Open source...

From inspiration to impact: design students from Regent’s University London explore open design for their dissertation projects

Last year, we had the opportunity to speak at Regent’s UX Conference (Regent’s University London’s conference to showcase UX work by staff, students, and...

When an upstream change broke smartcard FIPS authentication – and how we fixed it

This is the story of how Canonical’s Support team provided bug-fix support: we tracked down an upstream change in OpenSC that inadvertently broke FIPS...

Open platforms, edge AI, and sovereign telco clouds: Ecrio & Canonical at MWC Barcelona

Building telco clouds with open source At MWC Barcelona 2026, Canonical is demonstrating how telecommunications operators and enterprises can design and...

What is RDMA?

Modern data centres are hitting a wall that faster CPUs alone cannot fix. As workloads scale out and latency budgets shrink, the impact of moving data between...

Building new revenue streams: 3 strategic cloud opportunities for telcos in 2026

PWC claimed the ‘fundamental challenge’ behind slowing growth is that telecom’s ‘core products and services’ are ‘becoming commodities.’ The way forward lies...

SQL Server 2025 is generally available on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Microsoft has announced the General Availability of SQL Server 2025 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Learn about the new CU1 features, including OS-level observability,...


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