Welcome to the first edition of What You Missed In Technology, for the week ending February 15th, 2025! What You Missed covers interesting bits of technology news from around the industry that you may have missed over the week.
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Here’s what you missed in…
AI
- Larry Ellison says AI can help governments deliver services to citizens
- Andreas Møller says AI does not represent a threat to software engineers.
- Snowflake launched a public preview of Cortex Agents, for big data analysis
- Sam Altman says OpenAI is working to simplify the ChatGPT model picker for a better user experience
- Nomic announced Nomic Embed Text V2
- Cong Lu, Shengran Hu, and Jeff Clune published a paper demonstrating Automated Capability Discovery for foundation models
Applications
- LibreOffice, 40 years old, now has browser-based real-time collaboration
- Kurt Catti-Schmidt and Patrick Brosset shared some insight into the work done to improve text rendering in Chromium-based browsers
- Google published a proposal to mask IP addresses in Chrome for privacy purposes
Cloud
Cybersecurity
Development
- Python 3.14 alpha 05 shipped, including updates to python’s new tail-call based interpreter
- Google Lighthouse recommends using facades instead of loading media immediately on page load
- Bucket posted advocating trunk-based development
Hardware
- TSMC explores cooperation options with the U.S. Government
- According to Passmark, average PC/notebook CPU performance fell for the first time ever
Networks
- IEEE Spectrum says it’s time to rethink 6G
- Weigao Su and Vishal Shrivastav published a paper describing EDM, an ultra-low latency ethernet fabric intended to enable memory disaggregation in the datacenter
Operating Systems
