InfoWorld

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has quickly become the enterprise default for grounding generative AI in internal knowledge. It promises less hallucination, more accuracy, and a way to unlock value from decades of documents, policies, tickets, and institutional memory. Yet while nearly every enterprise can build a proof of concept, very few can run RAG reliably in production. This gap has no…

For more than a decade, many considered cloud outages a theoretical risk, something to address on a whiteboard and then quietly deprioritize during cost cuts. In 2025, this risk became real. A major Google Cloud outage in June caused hours-long disruptions to popular consumer and enterprise services, with ripple effects into providers that depend on Google’s infrastructure. Microsoft 365 and Outl…

5 things you need to know about AI-native cloud AI is the core technology: In a traditional cloud, AI is an add-on. In an AI-native cloud, every layer—from storage to networking — is designed to handle the high-throughput, low-latency demands of large models. GPU-first orchestration: AI-native clouds prioritize GPUs and TPUs. This requires advanced orchestration tools like Kubernetes for AI to ma…

The React 19 library for building application interfaces was hit with a remote code vulnerability, React2Shell, about a month ago. However, as researchers delve deeper into the bug, the larger picture gradually unravels. The vulnerability enables unauthenticated remote code execution through React Server Components, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected servers via a crafted re…

It has been a dramatic and challenging year for developers and engineers working in devops organizations. More companies are using AI and automation for both development and IT operations, including for writing requirements , maintaining documentation , and vibe coding . Responsibilities have also increased, as organizations expect devops teams to improve data quality , automate AI agent testing …

Andrej Karpathy is one of the few people in this industry who has earned the right to be listened to without a filter. As a founding member of OpenAI and the former director of AI at Tesla, he sits at the summit of AI and its possibilities. In a recent post , he shared a view that is equally inspiring and terrifying: “I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become…

Document database vendor MongoDB has advised customers to update immediately following the discovery of a flaw that could allow unauthenticated users to read uninitialized heap memory. Designated CVE-2025-14847 , the bug, mismatched length fields in zlib compressed protocol headers, could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code and potentially seize control of a device. The flaw affects the f…

Python 3.14 was the star of the show in 2025, bringing official support for free-threaded builds, a new all-in-one installation manager for Windows, and subtler perks like the new template strings feature. Other great updates this year included a growing toolkit of Rust-backed Python tools, several new options for packaging and distributing Python applications, and a sweet little trove of third-p…

Large language models (LLMs) have grabbed the world’s attention for their seemingly magical ability to instantaneously sift through endless data, generate responses, and even create visual content from simple prompts. But their “small” counterparts aren’t far behind. And as questions swirl about whether AI can actually generate meaningful returns (ROI), organizations should take notice. Because, …

A job posting by a Microsoft engineer sparked excitement about a project “to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030”, replacing it with Rust — but alas for fans of the memory-safe programming language , it turns out this is a personal goal, not a corporate one, and Rust isn’t necessarily even the final target. Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt posted about his ambitiou…

The command line has always been the bedrock of the developer’s world. Since time immemorial, the CLI was a static place defined by the REPL (read-evaluate-print-loop). But now modern AI tools are changing that. The CLI tells you in spartan terms what is happening with your program, and it does exactly what you tell it to. The lack of frivolity and handholding is both the command-line’s power and…

JITing, or “just-in-time” compilation, can make relatively slow interpreted languages much faster. Until recently, JITting was available for Python only in the form of specialized third-party libraries, like Numba , or alternate versions of the Python interpreter, like PyPy . A native JIT compiler has been added to Python over its last few releases. At first it didn’t provide any significant spee…

Deno 2.6, the latest version of the TypeScript , JavaScript , and WebAssembly runtime, adds a tool, called dx , to run binaries from NPM and JSR (JavaScript Registry) packages. The update to the Node.js rival was announced December 10 ; installation instructions can be found at docs.deno.com . Current users can upgrade by running the deno upgrade command in their terminal. In Deno 2.6, dx is an e…

To help the Rust language continue scaling across domains and usage levels, the Rust Vision Doc group recommends enumerating the design goals for evolving the language while also improving the crates package system. These suggestions were made in a December 19 blog post titled, “What do people love about Rust?” The group made the following specific recommendations: Enumerate and describe Rust des…

Security researchers have uncovered a malicious npm package that poses as a legitimate WhatsApp Web API library while quietly stealing messages, credentials, and contact data from developer environments. The package, identified as “lotusbail,” operates as a trojanized wrapper around a genuine WhatsApp client library and had accumulated more than 50k downloads by the time it was flagged by Koi Sec…