InfoWorld First Look
Expert articles on cloud, software development, and AI
June 30, 2025
Rewriting infrastructure as code for the AI data center
om experimental hacks to enterprise rollouts, generative AI is becoming a standard part of IaC workflowsâbringing speed, structure, and new risks.
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Are AI Models Really Deterministic? Here's Why They Often Arenât
When we say something is "deterministic", we mean it delivers the same outputs for the same inputs. In theory LLMs should do that, as they're just mathematical models. But we don't get consistent results from LLMs even with the same inputs â and there's a slew of reasons for that. In this video I dive into why LLMs are designed to introduce randomness into the results, and why even without that feature it's hard to get them to deliver the exact same results from the exact same prompts.
Synologyâs Active Protect Manager simplifies backup, restore processes
Synologyâs new ActiveProtect appliances are purpose-built data protection systems that combine centralized management with scalable architecture for backup and restore processes. Cody Hall, a product manager at Synology, demonstrates key features of the systemâs ActiveProtect Manager offering for enterprise use cases.
Cloud finally gets some new competition
Cloudflare and Oracle are coming for the Big Three, but theyâre doing it from different angles.
Three steps to boost Amazon S3 data security
Technical steps your organization can take to protect itself from the Codefinger ransomware attack and other modern exploits.
Rust-powered: Two new Python tools to watch
Pyrefly and Ty are so new they still smell like shrinkwrap, but we still took them both out for a spin. We also have a starter guide to Python's new type hints, a look ahead to what's on the horizon for free-threaded Python, a sneaky malware update, and more.
Google touts Python client library for Data Commons
The open source Data Commons platform organizes the worldâs publicly available statistical data.
