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eslerm
19 November 2024

Needrestart local privilege escalation vulnerability fixes available

Ubuntu Article

Qualys discovered vulnerabilities which allow a local attacker to gain root privileges in the needrestart package (CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, and CVE-2024-11003) and a related issue in libmodule-scandeps-perl (CVE-2024-10224). The vulnerabilities affect Debian, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. Canonical’s securit ...


Philip Williams
19 November 2024

Meet the Canonical Ceph team at Cephalocon 2024

Ceph Article

Date: December 4-5th, 2024 Location: Geneva, Switzerland In just a few weeks, Cephalocon will be held at CERN in Geneva. After last year’s successful Cephalocon in Amsterdam, which was the first live event held since the pandemic, it is great to return to regular community gatherings . Canonical Ubuntu is proud to be sponsoring the ...


Bertrand Boisseau
19 November 2024

The transition to in-house software development in the automotive industry

Automotive Article

Who will win the race to the perfect SDV? The automotive industry is experiencing a major transformation, driven by the integration of advanced software systems into vehicles. As cars become smarter and more connected, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are moving away from depending on third-party software suppliers and are looking ...


sergiodj
18 November 2024

Profile-guided optimization: A case study

Ubuntu Article

Software developers spend a huge amount of effort working on optimization – extracting more speed and better performance from their algorithms and programs. This work usually involves a lot of time-consuming manual investigation, making automatic performance optimization a hot topic in the world of software development. Profile-guided opt ...


Canonical
15 November 2024

Canonical announces the first MicroCloud LTS release 

Cloud and server Article

Canonical announces the first MicroCloud LTS release. MicroCloud 2.1.0 LTS features support for single-node deployments, improved security posture, and more flexibility during the initialization process. ...


Felipe Vanni
13 November 2024

Join Canonical in Paris at Dell Technologies Forum

AI Article

Canonical is thrilled to be joining forces with Dell Technologies at the upcoming Dell Technologies Forum – Paris, taking place on 19 November. This premier event brings together industry leaders and technology enthusiasts to explore the latest advancements and solutions shaping the digital landscape. Register to Dell Technologies Forum – ...


Serdar Vural
12 November 2024

Bringing automation to open source 5G software at Ubuntu Summit 2024

5G Article

In today’s massive private mobile network (PMN) market, one of the most common approaches to PMN software and infrastructure are proprietary private business solutions. However, as our recent demonstrations at the October 2024 Ubuntu Summit in the Hague showed, open source software with enterprise-grade support is a cost-effective alterna ...


Amir Abdel Baki
7 November 2024

Life at Canonical: Freyja Cooper’s perspective as a new joiner in Communications

Ubuntu Article

Canonical has developed a unique onboarding process that enables new hires to quickly settle and establish themselves in our globally distributed environment. In this series, we interview team members who joined the company within the last year to ask them about their experience so far. In an earlier article, we heard from Amy Song, a ...


Maximilian Blazek
6 November 2024

Designing Canonical’s Figma libraries for performance and structure

Design Article

How Canonical’s Design team rebuilt their Figma libraries, with practical guidelines on structure, performance, and maintenance processes. ...


Mohamed Wadie Nsiri
6 November 2024

Charmed MySQL enters General Availability

Ubuntu Article

Nov 6th, 2024:  Today Canonical announced the release of Charmed MySQL, an enterprise solution that helps you secure and automate the deployment, maintenance and upgrades of your MySQL databases across private and public clouds. MySQL is one of the world’s most popular databases. MySQL’s simple deployment model and ease of use make it the ...


Mita Bhattacharya
6 November 2024

Meet Canonical at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024

Cloud and server Article

We are ready to connect with the pioneers of open-source innovation! Canonical, the force behind Ubuntu, is returning as a gold sponsor at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024.  This premier event, hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, brings together the brightest minds in open source and cloud-native technologies. From ...