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Ubuntu Pro in-place upgrades for Virtual Machine Scale Sets on Azure

You can now upgrade Ubuntu Server Virtual Machine Scale Sets on Azure to Ubuntu Pro without rebuilding the set. Your instances keep serving traffic. The change is a license update, not a new image. Users could already perform in-place upgrades to Ubuntu Pro for individual VMs. Now, we’re extending the feature to scale sets – groups of load balanced virtual machines that you can manage as a single unit.

How AI and Digital Transformation Are Changing the Way Consumers Shop for Eyewear Online

The way people buy eyewear has changed significantly in recent years. A process that once required visiting multiple optical stores can now happen from a smartphone or computer. Digital platforms have made it easier for consumers to browse styles, compare options, and make informed purchasing decisions without leaving home.

Moving Your Business Website: How to Avoid Email and Hosting Disruption

Website migration from one host to another is more than copying a few files to another server. A website might depend on databases, e-mail accounts, DNS records, SSL certificates, sub-domains, and other external applications that should continue to function after migration. Proper planning ensures the safety of the information and eliminates any risk of losing access to emails or having people visit a partially transferred website. This can be achieved by preparing the new hosting in advance.

How The Medical Industry Has Evolved Over The Years

The medical industry today bears little resemblance to what it looked like just a few decades ago. What was once a field defined by paper charts, in-person-only consultations, and rigid hierarchies of care has transformed into a dynamic, technology-driven ecosystem that touches nearly every aspect of daily life. From the way patients access information to how providers diagnose and treat illness, medicine has undergone a quiet revolution that continues to accelerate.

RISE with SAP: Successfully Managing SAP Operations During the Transition

RISE with SAP is SAP’s methodology and commercial program for implementation and migration to SAP Cloud ERP Private. The product is SAP Cloud ERP Private, renamed in July 2025. Like RISE, GROW also transitioned from product to program, and the product parallel is SAP Cloud ERP Public.

Top tips: How to become invisible to your own algorithms

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and share practical ways to stay ahead. This week, let’s look at a few simple ways to take back control of your recommendations, and stop your algorithm from deciding who you are. Let's say you search for a video about running—not because you're planning to run a marathon, but because you just saw someone mention it and wondered what the hype was about. You watch one video. Then another.

How to Manage Shadow IT in 2026: Detection, Policy And Control

Shadow IT is any hardware, software or IT resource running inside your organization that the IT department never approved, never configured and, in most cases, does not know exists. It covers the file sharing account someone opened with a departmental card, the personal laptop plugged into the office network, and the AI assistant installed on a work machine last Tuesday. None of it is necessarily malicious, and all of it sits outside every control you have.

Megaport Collaborates With NVIDIA to Boost AI in Australia

Australia’s home-grown global automated infrastructure platform is part of a cohort of companies with Australian operations that will provide regional businesses and institutions access to NVIDIA accelerated computing and NVIDIA Nemotron open models. It’s a point of pride for all of us at Megaport that we’ve built a global automated infrastructure platform while maintaining our deep Australian roots.

How to right-size the handoff between two agents

model-right-sizer-schema is a Claude Code skill that designs the typed contract between one agent and the controller that dispatches it. Point it at an agent plus its controller and it returns a JSON prescription with typed in/out fields, an exclusion list that keeps raw logs out of the reply, a before/after size delta, then writes the contract into the agent's own file. It picks from nine portable output-shape families, or your repo's own.

Custom labels in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring: New updates for consistency and ease-of-use

Labels are a powerful way to organize telemetry and define policies across Grafana Cloud, helping to streamline alerting, attribution, access control, and more. But traditionally, custom labels in Synthetic Monitoring have worked a little differently: they only lived on a single sm_check_info metric, and Grafana Cloud prefixed each one with label_.