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Why we brought hardware-optimized GenAI inference to Ubuntu

Oct 30, 2025 By Edoardo Barbieri In Canonical
On October 23rd, we announced the beta availability of silicon-optimized AI models in Ubuntu. Developers can locally install DeepSeek R1 and Qwen 2.5 VL with a single command, benefiting from maximized hardware performance and automated dependency management. Application developers can access the local API of a quantized generative AI (GenAI) model with runtime optimizations for efficient performance on their CPU, GPU, or NPU.
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Android COSU: Unlocking Efficiency for Business Device Management

Oct 30, 2025 By AirDroidOfficial In AirDroid
Struggling to lock down your Android fleet? This video breaks down Android COSU (Corporate-Owned, Single-Use) mode! Learn what COSU is, why industries like retail, healthcare, and logistics use dedicated devices (kiosks, tracking terminals, etc.), and how Kiosk Mode makes it all happen. We dive into the key features powered by UEM/MDM solutions—from App Management and Device Restrictions to essential Security Features. If you need to manage a fleet of single-purpose Android devices reliably, this overview is for you!
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cortex

Cortex and Sonar Announce Partnership to Drive Code Quality and Security at Scale

Oct 30, 2025 By Tony Marino In Cortex
At Cortex, our mission is to empower engineering organizations to ship reliable, secure, and efficient software, faster. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a formalized partnership with Sonar, the leader in code quality and security. For years, Sonar has been one of the most popular integrations in Cortex. Teams rely on Sonar’s deep code insights to identify vulnerabilities, ensure coverage, and raise the bar for clean, secure code.
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puppet

Running Ansible Playbooks from Puppet Edge

Oct 30, 2025 By Puppet In Puppet
When thinking about imperative infrastructure commands and Day 0 tasks for provisioning infrastructure, Ansible is an oft-mentioned tool that has been popular among practitioners for its easy YAML syntax and agentless architecture. You might have used Ansible to get your infrastructure started or for other “one-and-done” infrastructure automation scenarios.
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civo

Decoding cloud credits: Are "free" credits locking you in?

Oct 30, 2025 By Emma Kinsey-Coates In Civo
“Free" cloud credits, they sound like a gift, but they often come with hidden costs and an agenda: lock-in. The illusion of a cost-saving measure can quickly become a vendor-specific trap, forcing costly migrations or leaving your business overpaying for cloud services. This issue, which the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) estimates contributes to £430M of annual over-payments in the UK alone, is what we call the "cloud credit trap.".
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Galileo

FinOps for Hybrid IT: Extending Visibility Beyond the Cloud

Oct 29, 2025 By Marie Ashway In Galileo
Controlling IT spend used to mean managing cloud invoices. Today, it’s far more complex. Modern enterprises run workloads across multiple platforms — cloud, virtualized, and on-premises — each with its own cost structures and dependencies. That’s why FinOps for hybrid IT has become essential. Extending FinOps principles beyond cloud services enables organizations to see how every part of the infrastructure contributes to cost, efficiency, and business value.
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last9

Sidecar or Agent for OpenTelemetry: How to Decide

Oct 29, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Getting telemetry out of a distributed system isn’t the hard part. Getting it out cleanly, without noise, drop-offs, or odd performance side-effects — that’s where things get interesting. Before you worry about processors or storage costs, you need a clear plan for where the OTel Collector should run. Most teams narrow this down to two options: a sidecar that sits next to each service, or a node-level agent that handles data for everything running on the node. Both patterns are solid.
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Setting Up the GitKraken MCP Server with GitLens

Oct 29, 2025 By GitKraken In GitKraken
GitKraken MCP (Model Context Protocol) brings repository intelligence directly into VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and other AI-powered IDEs so your agent stops guessing and starts understanding your actual workflow. Instead of manually explaining your branch structure or digging through issues in your browser, MCP connects your AI agent to the actual state of your repositories. It understands your branches, your issue tracker, your pull requests, and your commit history—then helps you start work, resolve conflicts, and review code without leaving your editor.
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civo

Sovereignty over silence: Why Microsoft's data opacity is the real lock-in

Oct 29, 2025 By Emma Kinsey-Coates In Civo
The refusal by Microsoft to detail data flows to Police Scotland confirms the real price of hyperscale: control is an illusion. This incident isn't the problem. It’s the proof. It proves the need for a new standard in cloud computing, one that prioritizes true digital sovereignty and architectural transparency. Sovereignty, after all, is all about the customer being able to exercise control over the IT resources they use.
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