Canonical is now offering up to 15 years of maintenance for its Kubernetes distributions — MicroK8s, Charmed Kubernetes, and Canonical Kubernetes — through its Ubuntu Pro and Legacy add-ons. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that this extended support is aimed at highly regulated sectors like banking and telecoms.

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• The ECMAScript 2026 update may deliver a number of new features as several major proposals are nearing Stage 4 approval. Technology journalist Mary Branscombe looks at the potential updates, including two critical, long-awaited additions that are likely to arrive in the new year.
• This week, AI researcher Stefania Druga warned that AI is eroding the technical apprenticeship ladder and the shared knowledge systems that sustain computing education in this piece. She contends the core problem is not AI replacing programmers but humans losing the ability to critically read and verify code.

Anthropic's Model Context Protocol is only a year old, but has quickly become the default for large language models (LLMs) to access data, tools and services in agentic loops. Now, Anthropic is moving it into a newly founded open source foundation under the Linux Foundation: the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). The...

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Live from AWS re:Invent, YUM! Brands and AWS, along with Spectro Cloud and TNS, examined how to enable centralized management and scalable, production-grade infrastructure to bring innovation closer to customers.