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Why we brought hardware-optimized GenAI inference to Ubuntu

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.

Ubuntu Pro Containers on AWS: Secure Your Workloads

‎‎ Subscribe and join the Ubuntu community. ‎ ‎‎ Learn how to build and run Ubuntu Pro containers on AWS with enhanced security coverage. In this step-by-step walkthrough, we demonstrate how Ubuntu Pro enhances protection for third-party open-source libraries, enabling you to patch CVEs more quickly and maintain secure workloads. You’ll see how to: · Launch an Ubuntu Pro server on AWS· Create and attach Pro containers using tokens· Build a simple PHP container with Pro security updates enabled· Verify security patches with ESM repositories· Run and test your container on AWS.

Fortifying security for Ubuntu on Azure with Metadata Security Protocol (MSP)

We’re pleased to share a security enhancement for Ubuntu workloads on Microsoft Azure. In collaboration with Microsoft, Ubuntu now supports Azure’s Metadata Security Protocol (MSP)—a feature that hardens access to the Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) and WireServer. On Ubuntu, MSP is enabled by the azure-proxy-agent package, Canonical’s integration of Microsoft’s Guest Proxy Agent (GPA).