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Canonical/Ubuntu: Snapdragon X2, Slop, and Huawei’s Ubuntu/Kunpeng Collaboration
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu 26.10 adds early support for Snapdragon X2 laptops
Canonical has released a test build of Ubuntu 26.10 with early support for laptops using Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 chips. The new preview ISO is built on the Ubuntu 26.10 Beta and Canonical’s Tobias Heider says the aim is to find bugs in the upcoming release early and get feedback from users. He expects ‘most’ of the work will be present in the final release, out 15 October. Among new X2-powered devices able to run the Ubuntu 26.10 Snapdragon Concept image are the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 (gen 11), HP EliteBook X G2q and the ASUS Zenbook A14/A16.
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Ubuntu ☛ Realtime transaction fraud detection – with an LLM? [Ed: Canonical peddling LLM slop again]
To this end, TypeSafe AI recently released Jev, a cloud-based service that uses modified generative AI models for classification tasks. Naturally, the open weight model community has responded with similar, publicly accessible models that you can run yourself. Instead of generating natural language, these AI large language models bypass text generation entirely. They read the context you provide them with, evaluate all your typed questions in a single parallel pass, and report back the probabilities.
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Canonical and Huawei’s Ubuntu/Kunpeng Collaboration
Ivan Ramos Garza, VP at Canonical says that Huawei and Canonical will work together to drive overseas adoption of the Ubuntu OS and the Kunpeng platform
At the recent Huawei Connect Kungpeng Summit in Shanghai, Ivan Ramos Garza, Vice President at Canonical announced a deep new open source strategic partnership between his company’s Ubuntu open-source operating system and Huawei’s Kunpeng open source computing platform.