Welcome to this week’s edition of What You Missed In Technology! What You Missed covers interesting bits of technology news from around the industry that you may have missed over the last seven days.
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Here’s what you missed in…
AI
- DataRobot acquired Agnostiq and plans to integrate it with their machine learning operations framework
- Perplexity announced Perplexity Deep Research, a tool for ‘conducting in-depth research and analysis on your behalf’
- Researchers introduce a new set of AI benchmarks called EnigmaEval
- Researchers announce Magma, the first foundational model for Multimodal AI Agents
Applications
Cybersecurity
- North Korean State threat actors are implementing software supply chain attacks targeting NPM
- The BBC reports that DeepSeek shared user data with TikTok owner Bytedance
Development
- A proposal for escaping regular expressions in JavaScript has been accepted
- Go 1.24 was released
- PHP 8.4.4 was released
Hardware
- Reuters reports that Broadcom and TSMC are considering deals to acquire and split up Intel’s chip design and manufacturing businesses
- New information is coming out about AMD’s new Strix Halo APU chips, after the end of a review embargo
- Microsoft announced Majorana 1, the first quantum processor
Infrastructure
- Jenkins 2.498 was released
- Gitea 1.23.4 was released
- Opsmaru writes about a new monitoring architecture they have developed for the platform using Elixir
Operating Systems
- Kalle Valo stepped down as the Linux Wireless/Wifi driver maintainer after 17 years
- Researchers announced a new technique for performance-aware CPU scheduling and memory management on non-uniform memory access (NUMA) systems
- Greg Kroah-Hartman discussed his desire to see Linux driver development shift legacy C implementations to Rust
