Our view
From the editor’s desk
A back issue from a week that tested trust in certificate chains, in governments and in old software. The one bright spot is a diagnostic agent that went through peer review before the press release.
From the Stacksessays worth rereading
The rise of few-maintainer projects
Nadia Eghbal's essay explains how much critical software rests on one or two people, and why the old model of open-source community doesn't fit them. It is worth rereading in a month when PHP, with one full-time foundation staffer, nearly broke the web, and a lot of maintainers are asking who pays for the fixes.
IncrementTomorrow's power grid
David J. Lumb's tour of a grid shifting toward distributed, flexible resources reads differently once Google is buying a gigawatt of demand response so its data centres can keep growing. The virtual power plant he described as the future is now how AI companies get electricity.
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