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Cybersecurity in the automotive world isn’t just a best practice anymore – it’s a regulatory imperative. With vehicles becoming software-defined platforms, connected to everything from mobile phones to cloud services, the attack surface has expanded dramatically. The cybersecurity risk is serious, and concrete. And with regulations like UNECE R155 making cybersecurity compliance mandatory, the automotive industry needs suppliers it can trust.

Ubuntu Pro isn’t just for enterprises – it’s for the passionate community that powers and supports open source every day. From secure remote access to homelab hardening, Ubuntu Pro helps users get more from their systems, whether at work or at home. In this series, we talk to real users about how they use Ubuntu Pro in their personal and professional lives. We begin with Marc Grondin, a longtime Linux user and Ubuntu Pro subscriber based in Quebec, Canada.

The apt package manager is responsible for installing.deb packages on Ubuntu LTS (long-term support) and interim releases, including the.deb package for the Linux kernel. Updating the kernel package requires a system restart, leaving systems vulnerable between the moment the Linux kernel package is installed and when the machine is rebooted.

Today we are announcing chiseled containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21 (Open Java Runtime Environment), coming from the OpenJDK project. These images are highly optimized for size and security, containing only the dependencies that are strictly necessary. They are available for both AMD64 and ARM64 architectures and benefit from 12 years of security support.

Co-authored with Julie Muzina A year ago, during our Madrid Engineering Sprint, we challenged ourselves to dramatically reduce, or even eliminate, the need for constant design involvement in the day-to-day creation of web pages. Our strategy for achieving this is based on a smarter, more structured approach to content.

Today, managing a data center requires striking a balance between cost, security, and performance. Long-term costs are a different matter, even though upfront capital expenditures (CapEx) like real estate and hardware are well-known and reasonably predictable. According to industry surveys, operational expenses (OpEx), which include system provisioning, patching, compliance, and troubleshooting, steadily increase over time and frequently exceed 50% of total cost of ownership (TCO) by the third year.