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Join Canonical at the first-ever African OpenInfra Days
By Sharon Koech, 2 September 2025
For the second time, and in less than one month, Canonical is coming to East Africa! Three weeks ago, we had the first-ever UbuCon Africa, which was...
Unlocking Edge AI: a collaborative reference architecture with NVIDIA
By Andreea Munteanu, 19 March 2025
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...
Canonical at India Mobile Congress 2024 – a retrospective
By Serdar Vural, 28 October 2024
With an ambition to become Asia’s technology hub for telecommunications in the 5G/6G era, India hosts the annual India Mobile Congress (IMC) in Pragati...
Empowering Australian government innovation: a secure path to open source excellence
By Canonical, 5 September 2023
The Australian Federal Government is not alone in dealing with challenges like natural disasters, global pandemics and economic uncertainty. Like many...
The Evolution of the Smart Home: How it Started [Part 1]
By Nathan Hart, 24 March 2022
A brief history Smart home technology has long been the subject for futurists predicting robot butlers and the like. While we may not have “The Jetsons” style...
Announcing OpenJDK 11 packages in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
By Canonical, 19 April 2019
OpenJDK 11 is the default JRE/JDK for 18.04 LTS and is covered under LTS upstream security support. OpenJDK 11 will be the default package for the upcoming...
Clarification on IP Rights Policy
By Jane Silber, 15 July 2015
We are updating our Intellectual Property Rights Policy to clarify the relationship between this policy and the licences of the constituent works in Ubuntu. ...
Ubuntu Security Update on VENOM (CVE-2015-3456) [UPDATED]
By Robbie, 13 May 2015
A buffer overflow in the virtual floppy disk controller of QEMU has been discovered. An attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash or execute...
Ten years of Ubuntu
By Jane Silber, 23 October 2014
Today marks 10 years of Ubuntu and the release of the 21st version. That is an incredible milestone and one which is worthy of reflection and celebration. I...
Ubuntu Security Update on Poodle (CVE-2014-3566) and SSLv3 Downgrade Attack
By Robbie, 16 October 2014
The following is an update on Ubuntu’s response to the latest Internet emergency security issue, POODLE (CVE-2014-3566), in combination with an SSLv3...
Supporting net neutrality and the Internet Slowdown
By Robin Winslow, 9 September 2014
On 10th September 2014, Canonical are joining in with Internet Slowdown day to support the fight for net neutrality. Along with Reddit, Tumblr, Boing Boing,...