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Securing Software Supply Chains: New Research Highlights Industry Vulnerabilities

New IDC study, co-sponsored by Canonical and Google Cloud, reveals the challenges and opportunities for organizations securing their software supply chains. Today, Canonical and Google Cloud released findings from a joint research project conducted by the International Data Corporation (IDC) that sheds light on the critical challenges organizations face in securing their software supply chains. The report, “The State of Software Supply Chains.

Charmed Kubeflow 1.10

Charmed Kubeflow 1.10 is almost here! Join the live stream with Canonical’s team to get the latest news about the changes, features and integrations available. Together with Stefano Fioravanzo, Manos Vlassis and Kimonas Sotirchos from the product engineering team, we will go live to: Talk about the features from Kubeflow 1.10 Analyze the main differences between the upstream release and Canonical’s distribution.

Open source enterprise application security remains a challenge despite greater patching efforts, IDC research reveals

The latest report from the International Data Corporation (IDC) co-sponsored by Canonical and Google Cloud indicates that 36% of organizations adopt open source to improve development velocity, and 7 in 10 organizations see open source as extremely important to run mission critical workloads. However as open source adoption grows, organizations face increasing difficulty in securing and maintaining their software supply chains.

What is Application Security (AppSec)?

The cybersecurity world has changed. Thanks to spreading risk of cyber attacks, malware, ransomware, and the intensifying pressure of new cybersecurity regulations and sky-high penalties for leaks and breaches, robust Application Security (AppSec) is non-negotiable. In this blog, you’ll learn how you can meet these challenges head on, and secure your operations and systems by focusing on the most fundamental aspects of your security posture.

Why industry leaders trust Canonical & Ubuntu #ubuntu #opensource #ai #shorts

Henri Parmentier, ADLINK: "We've worked with Canonical since 2019. Ubuntu gives us peace of mind with proactive maintenance, testing, and validation, ensuring stable, secure products." Thomas Kastner, Advantech: "Ubuntu combines the power of a vast open-source community with Canonical's rigorous testing to deliver a stable, production-ready product." How has Ubuntu helped you scale your IoT solutions?

Accelerating AI with open source machine learning infrastructure

The landscape of artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving, demanding robust and scalable infrastructure. To meet these challenges, we’ve developed a comprehensive reference architecture (RA) that leverages the power of open-source tools and cutting-edge hardware.

Anbox Cloud 1.25.0: new features, improvements and updates

In this video, Anbox team covers new features and changes in Anbox Cloud 1.25.0 release: What is Anbox Cloud? Anbox Cloud lets you run virtualized Android environments securely, at any scale, to any device letting you focus on your use case. Run Android in system containers, not emulators, on AWS, OCI, Azure, GCP or your private cloud with ultra low streaming latency. Chapters for Easy Navigation.

Unlocking Edge AI: a collaborative reference architecture with NVIDIA

The world of edge AI is rapidly transforming how devices and data centers work together. Imagine healthcare tools powered by AI, or self-driving vehicles making real-time decisions. These advancements rely on bringing AI directly to edge devices. However, building a robust architecture for diverse edge environments presents significant hurdles. This blog introduces our new reference architecture, designed to simplify edge AI deployment.

Building optimized LLM chatbots with Canonical and NVIDIA

The landscape of generative AI is rapidly evolving, and building robust, scalable large language model (LLM) applications is becoming a critical need for many organizations. Canonical, in collaboration with NVIDIA, is excited to introduce a reference architecture designed to streamline and optimize the creation of powerful LLM chatbots. This solution leverages the latest NVIDIA AI technology, offering a production-ready AI pipeline built on Kubernetes.

Introducing Charmed PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL, a proven and well-loved database trusted by IT sectors for over three decades, continues to evolve with modern enterprise needs. In this video, we introduce Charmed PostgreSQL — an advanced enterprise solution designed to secure and automate the deployment, maintenance, and upgrades of PostgreSQL databases across private and public clouds. Watch the video to explore more about Charmed PostgreSQL, its features and advantages: Security and compliance features Support and managed services Automation features Deployment options Pricing.

AI-powered robotics in action: Canonical & @qualcomm #ubuntu #opensource #iot #tech #shorts

At Canonical, we are working with Qualcomm to bring the power of Ubuntu to the latest robotics and systems: RB3 Gen2 Robotics Vision Kit – Running AI inference for body part detection Qualcomm’s new IQ9 – A high-performance system delivering 100 TOPS DSP performance By enabling Ubuntu on these systems, we simplify development and deployment, making it easier for engineers and researchers to optimize their applications across multiple hardware platforms.

European Space Agency: Modernizing data and IT infrastructure to advancespace exploration with AI

The European Space Agency (ESA) leads some of the most exciting and impactful space missions, from the Billion Star Survey to Euclid’s exploration of dark matter and energy. None of these missions would be possible without infrastructure. To expand its space mission capacity, ESA embarked on a journey to modernise its IT infrastructure and adopt an integrated set of data management capabilities. Using this new infrastructure will enable the agency to reach new frontiers and adopt new AI-driven technologies, such as anomaly detection and long-term satellite health forecasting.

AI at the Edge with #ubuntu & @RenesasPresents ! #Ubuntu #Renesas #ew25 #embeddedworld #iot

At Embedded World 2025, we demonstrated how Ubuntu enables secure, scalable, and high-performance edge AI solutions. With Secure Boot, full disk encryption, and inference running directly on a CPU in kiosk mode, this setup showcases the future of embedded intelligence. How do you see AI at the edge transforming industries?

Effortless observability for Django applications

Observability is critical for web operations to ensure that the application is working as expected and to identify any potential issues. However, setting up observability has traditionally been challenging because it can take hours to set up all the infrastructure, instrument your code and enable observability in production. But now there is a better way using native support for Django in Charmcraft and Rockcraft which has observability built in and ready to go!

How does AI-powered computing keep a ball balanced? #canonical #intel #embeddedworld #shorts

At Embedded World 2025 at Canonical's booth 4-160, lntel is showcasing an amazing balancing ball demo, powered by. It demonstrates the power of Intel’s cutting-edge processors, combined with the flexibility and reliability of Ubuntu, handle complex physics in milliseconds, ensuring smooth, dynamic balance with precision. A perfect example of how real-time control can be applied to, automation, and industrial AI!

Among the waves: Plucky Puffin

Not to be confused with the titular Linux mascot and seabird cousin, the penguin, puffins are another distinctively colorful and whimsical nautical avian. Over the centuries, these beaky birds have been given numerous nicknames and monikers like the “sea parrot” and the harlequinesque appearance of their facial feathers has earned them the distinction of “Clown of the Sea”.

How to deploy Kubeflow on Azure

Kubeflow is a cloud-native, open source machine learning operations (MLOps) platform designed for developing and deploying ML models on Kubernetes. Kubeflow helps data scientists and machine learning engineers run the entire ML lifecycle within one tool. Charmed Kubeflow is Canonical’s official distribution of Kubeflow. The key benefits of Charmed Kubeflow include security maintenance of container images, enterprise support, and further tooling integration with Spark, Feast, MLFlow, and others.

Google Authd broker: authenticate to Ubuntu Desktop/Server with your Google account

Today we are announcing the introduction of Authd support for Google IAM, allowing all Ubuntu users to use their Google account to authenticate to their desktop and servers. The Google broker snap for Authd is available for free on Ubuntu Desktop and Server 24.04 and it works with both personal and Workspace Google accounts.

Install FreePBX and Asterisk on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for security patches until 2036

Deploying FreePBX and Asterisk on a single Ubuntu virtual machine in a public cloud is an ideal solution for personal users and small to medium-sized businesses with voice over IP (VoIP) and fax over IP (FoIP) needs. This setup costs nothing, is scalable and secure, and has daily recovery points with a recovery time measured in minutes.

How to debug an Android application using Anbox Cloud?

In this video, the Anbox team demonstrates how to debug an Android application with Android studio in Anbox Cloud. What is Anbox Cloud? Anbox Cloud lets you run virtualized Android environments securely, at any scale, to any device letting you focus on your use case. Run Android in system containers, not emulators, on AWS, OCI, Azure, GCP or your private cloud with ultra low streaming latency. Trademark notice Android is a trademark of Google LLC. Anbox Cloud uses assets available through the Android Open Source Project.