12 Jun 2026

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A decade of Ubuntu on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE

This year we celebrate a decade of Ubuntu Server support on the s390x architecture: marking a long-standing collaboration between Canonical and IBM that began at LinuxCon 2015. The first release happened on April 21, 2016, bringing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) to IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE platforms. A first for Ubuntu on IBM That […]

12 Jun 2026 6:13pm GMT

11 Jun 2026

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AI at the edge: simplifying infrastructure with Cisco and Canonical

Legacy infrastructure was not designed for the requirements of the AI era. While large-scale model training remains centralized in data centers, test-time inference is rapidly shifting to the edge to reduce latency and bandwidth consumption. This shift creates a new frontier for enterprise AI, but deploying at the edge introduces significant manual complexity, interoperability issues, […]

11 Jun 2026 7:25pm GMT

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LibreOffice gives its Ribbon-style UI a pop of colour

You'll be able to customise the look of LibreOffice's Tabbed UI in the free office suite's next major release, which his due out in August 2026. LibreOffice 26.8's Tabbed UI (also known as the Notebookbar and modelled after the Ribbon in Microsoft Office) can show a colourful background when application theming is enabled under Tools > Options > Appearance. A blue shade is used by default but you can pick or set any colour you like. In the 'Customisations' section, first selected the Writer, Calc, Impress or Data Notebookbar value, then use the dropdown to chance the colour. Click apply […]

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11 Jun 2026 6:48pm GMT

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The next era of telco clouds: get open infrastructure choice with Sylva and Canonical Kubernetes

Achieving vendor neutrality in telco clouds requires an infrastructure layer that respects open standards, without wrapping them in rigid platform layers. By combining upstream alignment with up to 15 years of support longevity, Canonical's approach to Sylva is built around a requirement that matters deeply to telcos: follow upstream cloud-native innovation when developing and evolving platforms, then rely on long-term support to keep production environments stable, trusted, and operationally predictable.

11 Jun 2026 10:34am GMT

10 Jun 2026

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Microsoft brings Rust Coreutils to Windows – natively

Windows logo with a hand reaching out to grab the Coreutils logo.Microsoft has released Coreutils for Windows, allowing a stack of familiar "Linux-like" command-line utilities to run natively on Windows. The project is based on uutils, the Rust-based reimplementation of GNU coreutils that Ubuntu (mostly) has adopted in recent releases. Microsoft's package bundles uutils' coreutils and findutils as well as a GNU-compatible grep in a single binary. It offers tools like cat, cp, ls, mv and uptime. Commands that use POSIX-only features are excluded, meaning chmod, chown, kill and others aren't included. What's notable - *nix tools working their way into the Windows ecosystem is notable - is that this isn't […]

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10 Jun 2026 4:21pm GMT

09 Jun 2026

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Firefox for Android’s Play Integrity check hits custom ROMs

Cartoon sewer pipe leaking green toxic sludge with Mozilla logo emblem inside pipe opening.Mozilla has added support for Google's Play Integrity API, known for blocking users of custom ROMs from accessing banking apps, to Firefox for Android. Per a resolved issue in Mozilla's public tracker, a new lib-integrity-googleplay library was added to Firefox's Android codebase. It requests a Play Integrity token which is then passed to Mozilla's MLPA (Machine Learning Proxy) server. The token is used to access Firefox's server-side AI tools, like Smart Window, for rate-limiting purposes, ensuring only unmodified, Play-installed copies of Firefox on Google-certified devices use Mozilla's compute infra. Per documentation for the API, developers can: "…call the Integrity API […] to […]

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09 Jun 2026 8:55pm GMT