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Myna speech-to-text is now available as a technology preview

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, we’re making it available as a technology preview to the wider Ubuntu community.

Cut your debug time by reproducing production on demand

If a bug only shows up under real production conditions, the fastest path to a fix is removing the guesswork about those conditions, not layering on more debugging tools. This guide walks through what changes when every branch gets its own preview environment, a full clone of production available on demand, and what that actually looks like day to day.

The NSA said wildcard certificates are bad. Everyone uses them anyway.

In October 2021 the NSA published an advisory titled “Avoid Dangers of Wildcard TLS Certificates.” It reiterated what security consultants had been saying for years: don’t use wildcard certificates. Single-name certificates per host are safer. Five years later, we counted the certificates that are actually used. One in three domains has a wildcard on it. For.bank domains, where you need a security review just to register, it’s four in five. Operators aren’t careless.

Digital Sovereignty Panel: Who Really Controls Your Data? | Civo Navigate London

Your data sits in the UK. But who has the final say over it? As AI raises the stakes on where data lives and who controls it, digital sovereignty has moved from policy debate to boardroom priority. At Civo Navigate London, Lord Paul Drayson, Simon Hansford, Richard Woodfield of DataVita, Dan Chester of VAST Data and Ed Barker of Havishams explore what sovereignty really means for governments, businesses and the infrastructure behind them, and what it will take for the UK to adopt AI without giving up control.

Inside a DevOps Team Extension engagement: an infrastructure review and a Typesense architecture session

How Qovery assessed a growing B2B SaaS company's infrastructure across about 150 controls, what the review with their team changed, and why a Typesense high-availability project turned into a sharding plan. Romaric founded Qovery to make Kubernetes accessible to every engineering team. He writes about platform strategy, developer experience, and the future of cloud infrastructure.

Replacing ingress-nginx with Envoy Gateway on Hundreds of Clusters: What the Plan Missed

In February we planned to move every Qovery-managed cluster from ingress-nginx to Envoy Gateway by the end of March. It took until October. Here is the rollout model, every class of problem we hit, and what I would do differently. Benjamin is a staff engineer at Qovery focused on infrastructure automation, Kubernetes internals, and building the deployment engine that powers thousands of clusters.

DevOps Team Extension: Qovery engineers watching your infrastructure every month

DevOps Team Extension gives growing engineering teams a named Qovery engineer, a continuous infrastructure scan, and a monthly remediation plan, so they can scale reliability, security and compliance without hiring a DevOps team first. Romaric founded Qovery to make Kubernetes accessible to every engineering team. He writes about platform strategy, developer experience, and the future of cloud infrastructure.

The Citrix Security Crisis Exposed a Bigger Problem

Citrix was facing a major security crisis before its official warning even went out. Companies were already pulling critical network devices offline as attackers exploited serious vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway systems. In this ShipTalk clip, Adam, Martin, and Starr break down the Citrix zero-day vulnerabilities, the race to respond, and the impossible decision facing security teams: keep potentially compromised infrastructure running or rush to deploy a patch.

SecureBridge 12.1, EntityDAC 4.1, and dbExpress drivers: Support for RAD Studio 13 Florence Release 2, SQL Server 2025, and MySQL 9.7

New versions of SecureBridge, EntityDAC, and dbExpress drivers are out. All three now work with RAD Studio 13 Florence Release 2 and offer improved support for the Arm64EC target platform. Devart dbExpress drivers also add support for Microsoft SQL Server 2025 and MySQL 9.7, while SecureBridge gains SFTP upload resume, multipart/form-data support, and a new SSL/TLS demo.