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23.10.2026 03:00 Introduction Two critical security vulnerabilities affecting PHP have been identified that result in unauthenticated remote code execution for any PHP application. The vulnerabilities have been assigned the CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 identifiers, but are also referred to using the php2shell nickname. Ubuntu has released fixes for the affected packages for all supported releases. The two

22.10.2026 20:11 Introduction The private keys of the eMudhra Certificate Authority have been demonstrated on 20 October 2026 to have been compromised. The Ubuntu Security Team has released updates to the system PKI root CA store in the ca-certificates package. While the eMudhra CA is not directly trusted as a root on Ubuntu,

22.10.2026 13:40 As an Android developer, you’ll almost always have access to a device. However, when handling hardware, the device that you actually need often happens to be already in use, set up incorrectly, stored in another lab, or simply waiting to be reset. That’s when Android development costs start to increase. Because it’s not just the

22.10.2026 07:11 The latest interim release of Ubuntu previews privacy conscious speech-to-text, enables post-quantum package signing, completes the rollout of Rust coreutils, and improves enterprise identity integration. October 15, 2026 Today Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed “Stonking Stingray,” available to download and install from ubuntu.com/download. Building on previous releases, Ubuntu 26.10 advances enterprise security

22.10.2026 00:30 Introduction On 7 October 2026, Daniel Stenberg published a blog post describing a plan to release a new version of curl on 14 October 2026 in order to address 22 known security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities have varying severities, with a single vulnerability assessed as high , while the others have a low or medium severity.

21.10.2026 11:10 A few months ago, we introduced Myna, our project to bring private, local speech-to-text dictation to Ubuntu Desktop. Named after the speech-mimicking myna bird, Myna is an optional Ubuntu 26.10 feature that offers real-time visual feedback during speech recognition. Since then, Myna has grown into something you can install and use on your desktop. Today,

21.10.2026 04:33 Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” arrives at a time when AI tools are accelerating vulnerability discovery. Patching faster is essential, but the resilience of the underlying operating system must also limit what an attacker can achieve before a fix is available. To respond to this new threat landscape, Ubuntu 26.10 continues the work of previous releases

08.10.2026 07:00 One of the best things about Rust is how easy it is to get started. It takes just a second to snap install rustup; rustup default stable, and from there you have a whole toolchain ready to compile Rust code. But with this ease of use comes a giant ecosystem, and with this giant ecosystem

07.10.2026 04:20 Confidential computing is essential when an organization needs to process sensitive data on infrastructure where the operators should not have access to it. You might have seen this requirement before: it appears commonly in public cloud deployments , but also when hospitals evaluate proprietary AI models

03.10.2026 01:01 How on-demand Android environments turn validation into a repeatable pipeline stage In the first article, we looked at automation: how Android environments can be created and managed programmatically. In the second, we looked at scaling: how shared infrastructure can make those environments available to more developers, tests, and workloads. This third article looks at the

01.10.2026 15:50 Conversational AI with a chatbot is great for drafting emails or debugging code, but it’s less ideal for real-time application middleware. If you’re trying to inspect a financial transaction for potential fraud in the middle of a checkout loop, you don’t need an LLM to write you an essay about why a credit card transaction

01.10.2026 09:21 Whether you’re a first-time Linux user, experienced developer, academic researcher, or enterprise administrator, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is the best way to benefit from the latest advancements in the Linux ecosystem on a stable foundation. As with all LTS releases of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS represents the consolidation of fixes and improvements identified during