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On boxing, tabletop exercises and threat models

By joemcmanus, 10 March 2020

‘Everybody has a plan until they get hit. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.’ Mike Tyson At Canonical we have recently performed a series of...

Interana uses ESM to maintain system security while upgrading its customers to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS across public clouds

By Alex Cattle, 10 March 2020

Interana, an analytics software provider, enables users to run advanced big data queries on raw customer data and delivers answers in seconds. Their customers...

Safely Backup Google Photos

By Alan Pope, 8 March 2020

With a smart phones in their pocket, most people don’t bother carrying a traditional camera anymore. For most, the single, double or even triple cameras on...

ROS Development with LXD

By Ted Kern, 6 March 2020

Linux containers allow for easy isolation of developer environments. If you’re often working with a bunch of different ROS versions, it’s a lot easier to do...

ROS 2 CI with GitHub Actions

By Ted Kern, 6 March 2020

The ROS 2 Tooling Working Group (chaired by AWS RoboMaker) has been hard at work producing a neat set of GitHub Actions for building and testing ROS packages...

Hosted private cloud infrastructure: a cost analysis

By Alex Cattle, 6 March 2020

Private cloud infrastructure remains an essential part of every enterprise nowadays. However, due to the increasing number of workloads and data, the overhead...

The State of Robotics – February 2020

By Rhys Davies, 6 March 2020

In 2020 we are already seeing the world of robotics hit the ground running. So far this year new and exciting things have been cropping up in every industry....

Design and Web team summary – 5 March 2020

By Anthony Dillon, 5 March 2020

This is the final week before the team is all off the Frankfurt for co-located sprinting on some features and products. So, watch this space. This was a...

WSLConf: The first conference dedicated to Windows Subsystem for Linux goes virtual

By Sohini Bianka Roy, 5 March 2020

On March 10th and 11th, WSLConf – a conference dedicated to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) – will go 100% virtual and be live-streamed for all its...

Creating real-time ready systems with ACRN and Ubuntu

By alfonsosanchezbeato, 3 March 2020

Sometimes you really need a deterministic response time in your system. For example, a robotic arm that needs to be at the right place at exactly the right...

Anbox Cloud – An introduction

By Alex Cattle, 3 March 2020

Anbox Cloud, Canonical’s recently launched platform, delivers Android at scale in the cloud. Leveraging Android as a guest operating system to virtualise...