Tooling7d ago
Alibaba Cloud opens a Netherlands region at its first international Apsara Conference, plans agentic AI services, and JetBrains explores Qwen for Junie
On Oct 29, Alibaba Cloud held its first international Apsara Conference in Amsterdam and launched its first public cloud region in the Netherlands, with two data centres, making it the company's fourth region in Europe. It plans to bring agentic AI services to the region, including ACS Agent Sandbox, Agent Security Center, AI Security Guardrails 2.0, Agentic SOC and STAROps, and unveiled a new generation of its Apsara Stack hybrid cloud. On the partner side, JetBrains is working with Alibaba Cloud to explore Qwen models for its Junie coding assistant, in both cloud and local setups.
Open Source27d ago
omdrop-owl: two-way AirDrop with iPhone on a Framework 13 Linux laptop via OWL, with Wi-Fi staying connected
On 2026-10-09 developer t4t5 open-sourced omdrop-owl, a radio backend for the Omarchy plugin omdrop that gives two-way AirDrop with an iPhone on the Framework 13's MediaTek MT7925 while Wi-Fi stays connected. It builds on Seemoo Lab's 2019 OWL/OpenDrop reverse engineering rather than a from-scratch effort. README self-tests: ~1.3 MB/s receive, ~490 kB/s send; the AP must be on channel 6/44/149.
Release42d ago
Alibaba Cloud Launches Qwen Book: First Native Agentic Computer with Skill Keyboard & Qwen Desktop OS
At the 2026 Apsara Conference, Alibaba Cloud's Wuying team officially launched Qwen Book, the industry's first native agentic personal computer. Featuring a detachable 2-in-1 magnetic form factor, a dedicated 'Skill Keyboard Array', a global hardware AI key, and the next-generation Qwen Desktop OS, Qwen Book pairs edge inference with cloud supercomputing to execute autonomous 7x24 multi-application workflows.
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