Design a better customer experience with agentic AI
Whereas large language models (LLMs) attracted consumers well before enterprise users, SaaS platforms are driving the use of embedded AI agents to improve employee experience and productivity. AI agents are changing the future of work by helping HR le...
A developer’s guide to AI protocols: MCP, A2A, and ACP
Unlike traditional AI models that respond to single prompts (like ChatGPT’s basic Q&A mode), AI agents can plan, reason, and execute multi-step tasks by interacting with tools, data sources, APIs, or even other agents. Sounds abstract? That’s bec...
Navigating the rising costs of AI inferencing
In 2025, the worldwide expenditure on infrastructure as a service and platform as a service (IaaS and PaaS) reached $90.9 billion, a 21% rise from the previous year, according to Canalys. From I’m seeing, this surge is primarily driven by companies ...
Java 25 to change Windows file operation behaviors
As part of a quality outreach, some changes are coming in the planned Java 25 release with regard to file operations on Windows. The File.delete command will no longer delete read-only files on Windows, and file operations on a path with a trailing sp...
Ubuntu Adopts Chrony + NTS for Secure Network Time
Ubuntu 25.10 switches to Chrony with Network Time Security (NTS) for authenticated time sync, improving security over the existing setup. You're reading Ubuntu Adopts Chrony + NTS for Secure Network Time, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce ...
Canonical at HPE Discover Las Vegas 2025
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu and trusted open source solutions provider, is proud to sponsor HPE Discover Las Vegas 2025. Join us from June 23–26 to explore how our collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is transforming the ...
Join Canonical at HPE Discover Las Vegas 2025
Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu and trusted open source solutions provider, is proud to sponsor HPE Discover Las Vegas 2025. Join us from June 23–26 to explore how our collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is transforming the ...
Twin: a text-mode window environment
Wayland this, Liquid Glass that – but what if you just want a nice, comforting text-based environment? Sure, you can just boot straight into a terminal, or perhaps get fancy about it with Screen or whatever, but what if you want a text-based environm...
Making GNOME’s GdkPixbuf image loading safer
A new image loading machinery, called glycin, has been in the works for a while. It is already used by GNOME’s default Image Viewer (Loupe), as well as by a bunch of other apps. Glycin provides many security benefits over existing solutions due to th...
The Great British Bake Off’s Janusz on CakeTok and queer joy
Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we know the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for human connection, and lets everyone find where they belong — their cor...
Rethinking the dividing lines between containers and VMs
The technology industry loves to redraw boundary lines with new abstractions, then proclaim that prior approaches are obsolete. It happens in every major arena: application architectures (monoliths vs. microservices), programming languages (JVM langu...
Top 6 multicloud management solutions
Multicloud is increasingly common in today’s enterprises. The use of multiple public clouds, even spreading applications across clouds, can help with compliance, boost availability, reduce risk, or avoid vendor lock-in. Companies also adopt multiple...
The key to Oracle’s AI future
Oracle’s stock is finally catching up with its talk about cloud, fueled by surging infrastructure and AI demand. In its recent Q4 2025 earnings statement, the 46-year-old database giant surprised Wall Street with an 11% jump in revenue (to $15.9 bil...
Find ASCII Emoji Easily with this GNOME Shell Applet
A simple GNOME Shell extension that lets you search and copy ASCII emoji from your panel without needing to open a browser and hit up a website. You're reading Find ASCII Emoji Easily with this GNOME Shell Applet, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not r...
LibreOffice 25.8 removes support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1
Are you still using Windows 7, 8, 8.1, or a 32 bit version of Windows, relying on LibreOffice for your sexy office tasks of writing TPS reports and calculating and tabulating juicy, plump numbers? Bad news: the next version of LibreOffice will remove s...
An excuse to mention Void Linux: XBPS 0.60 released
Since Void Linux uses a rolling release model, there’s not much to report on in the form of new releases and major new features, so I’m taking the release of version 0.60 of XBPS, Void Linux’ package manager, to cheat my way into talking about th...
