The Password Starts to Disappear, Slowly and Unevenly
Passkeys work, are broadly supported, and are being adopted at a pace that has frustrated everyone who built them. The obstacles are almost entirely organizational.
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The Trillion-Dollar Rewrite Nobody Can Postpone
The systems running banks, insurers, states and hospitals are older than the people maintaining them. The modernization wave has finally started, forced by retirements rather than ambition.
Companies Start Moving Workloads Back Off the Cloud
Repatriation was dismissed for years as a vendor talking point. It is now a line item, driven less by ideology than by workloads whose usage stopped being unpredictable.
The API Economy Enters Its Utility Phase
The scramble of a thousand developer-tool startups is resolving into something duller and more durable: infrastructure priced, regulated and consolidated like the utility it always was.
Repairable Tech Goes Mainstream, and Profitable
Right-to-repair laws opened the door, but what pushed repairability into the mainstream was simpler: customers started paying for it.
Telehealth Finds Its Second Act in Specialty Care
The pandemic-era video visit flattened. What is growing instead is narrower and more durable: virtual clinics built around single conditions and long-term protocols.
The Checkout Is Disappearing, and Retailers Are Ambivalent
Stored credentials, agent-driven purchasing and pay-by-bank rails are dissolving the traditional checkout page, along with the merchant's last moment of control.