Automating your Visual Studio extension builds with GitHub Actions

If you’re building and maintaining Visual Studio extensions, you’ve probably ended up with some sort of build and publishing workflow – whether it’s manual, scripted, or stitched together over time. This post is for extension authors who want a simple, repeatable way to build, version, and publish their VSIX files using GitHub Actions. I’m going […]
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29 Jun 2026

What is AI search optimization? (& why marketers should care)




AI search optimization is the practice of improving brands’ odds of being cited and mentioned by answer engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and AI Overviews. The traffic it earns is small but high-intent. Across more than 1,200 publisher and news sites, visitors referred by AI tools signed up at roughly 11 times the rate of search visitors, according to a Microsoft Clarity study.
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Digital Marketing
29 Jun 2026

Scrunch vs Semrush: AI visibility or traditional SEO?




Scrunch vs Semrush comes down to one question: Do you need a dedicated AI visibility tool, or a full SEO suite that now tracks AI answers too? Scrunch is an AEO specialist built to monitor how your brand appears in AI-generated answers, while Semrush is a traditional SEO platform that added an AI Visibility Toolkit to a stack marketers already use for keyword research, rank tracking, and backlinks.
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Digital Marketing
29 Jun 2026

11 Ways to Automate SEO with Agent A

All of this needs someone in the room, reliably, on a schedule, doing the same diligent checks every time. But it doesn’t need you particularly. It just needs to ping you when something’s worth your attention. This is the part…Read more ›
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Digital Marketing
18 Jun 2026

Validating real-world skills through Canonical Academy

In an increasingly volatile job market, standing out from the competition is vital. For many in the open source community, formal recognition for self-taught skills is a significant challenge. These skills are often built through hands-on hobbies, side projects, and deep community contributions. While the market is flooded with certificates and certifications, most fail to […]
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Desktop & Laptop
17 Jun 2026

Virtualized Android comes to Anbox Cloud

With our latest 1.30.0 Anbox Cloud release, available today, we are introducing one of the most significant evolutions of the platform to date: support for virtualized Android.  For the first time, Anbox Cloud can launch complete Android system images inside lightweight virtual machines, managed and orchestrated through the same Anbox APIs our users already rely […]
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Desktop & Laptop
17 Jun 2026

Template: Streamlining open source design contributions

As designers working at Canonical, we’re always thinking about open source. We believe that encouraging more designers to contribute to open source  benefits everyone, from the project maintainers to the end users themselves.   In the 2025 edition of FOSSBackstage conference, we presented our research findings on  why designers don’t get involved in open source projects […]
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Desktop & Laptop
16 Jun 2026

Beyond Mythos: responding to a new threat landscape

Canonical’s security philosophy has always been built on the premise that vulnerabilities exist and will be discovered. Our response relies on defense-in-depth architecture, rapid patch deployment, and strict adherence to Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD). AI changes vulnerability discovery volume and speed. We have a robust vulnerability management process that is backed by rigorous compliance certifications. […]
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Desktop & Laptop
16 Jun 2026

Make Visual Studio look the way you want

Themes are personal. Some of us live in dark mode, some swear by high contrast, and some of us have very strong opinions about that one shade of blue from years ago. The new themes in Visual Studio 2026 are built on Fluent, which gives us a much more consistent and accessible foundation, but we […]
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15 Jun 2026

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 […]
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Desktop & Laptop
13 Jun 2026

June Patches for Azure DevOps Server

We are releasing new patches for our self‑hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly recommend that all customers stay up to date with the latest, most secure version of Azure DevOps Server. The most recent release, Azure DevOps Server, is available on the download page. The following versions have been patched. For more details on […]
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12 Jun 2026