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9 votes
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Western Digital refused to answer our questions about its self-wiping SanDisk SSDs. Oh, and it’s also getting sued.
53 votes -
Potentially faulty data spotted in surveys of drug use and other behaviors among LGBQ youth
10 votes -
Optical media durability update
10 votes -
Report: Potential New York Times lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start over
75 votes -
US consumer protection agency announces plans to regulate sale of personal data
35 votes -
Power lines likely caused Maui’s first reported fire, video and data show
11 votes -
Windows Secure Time Seeding sometimes resets clocks months or years off the correct time
19 votes -
ProtonMail complied with 5,957 data requests in 2022 – still secure and private?
24 votes -
SanDisk’s silence deafens as high-profile users say Extreme SSDs still broken. SanDisk is ignoring lost data claims. It's time to ignore the company's SSDs.
71 votes -
New Saturn app says only students can see user data; this doesn’t seem true
19 votes -
On "bullshit" jobs - New data supports the idea that some jobs are "so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence"
66 votes -
Meta has long fought Europe's demands that it get people's consent before using their data for targeted ads – then a Norwegian regulator threatened daily fines
51 votes -
How to quickly get to the important truth inside any privacy policy
18 votes -
Lights could be the future of the internet and data transmission
9 votes -
Maternal deaths are expected to rise under US abortion bans, but the increase may be hard to measure
18 votes -
Berkeley Earth June 2023 temperature update
7 votes -
A fact-checked debate about euthanasia
21 votes -
What the data says about food stamps in the US
10 votes -
Sick of hearing about record heat? Scientists say those numbers paint the story of a warming world
19 votes -
AI often mangles African languages. A network of thousands of coders and researchers is working to develop translation tools that understand their native languages
17 votes -
Is Rasmus Højlund actually worth it for Manchester United?
4 votes -
‘Not for machines to harvest’: Data revolts break out against AI
40 votes -
Meta's social media platforms will be temporarily barred from behavioral advertising in Norway after a ruling from the Norwegian Data Protection Authority
13 votes -
The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
59 votes -
Downtown Recovery Rankings
17 votes -
Most patients using weight-loss drugs like Wegovy stop within a year, data show
10 votes -
Tax prep companies shared private taxpayer data with Google and Meta for years, congressional probe finds
45 votes -
European Commission adopts new adequacy decision for safe and trusted EU-US data flows
15 votes -
So how do social networks compare when it comes to capturing data in their app? A comparison
7 votes -
Permanent archival formats. Do they exist?
Recently, I've been thinking pretty hard about how to archive data. Optical media is out, due to my (possibly irrational?) fear of disc rot. HDDs just break with extended use, SSDs have been known...
Recently, I've been thinking pretty hard about how to archive data. Optical media is out, due to my (possibly irrational?) fear of disc rot. HDDs just break with extended use, SSDs have been known to die with either overuse or just existing for an extended period of time. What's left?
I have heard of tape (of some kind) being used for backup in some bigger operations, but with my experieces with VHS, and to a lesser extent, cassettes, they seem to be very susceptible to mould.
Any suggestions?
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Meta loses appeal on how it harvests data in Germany
26 votes -
Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it can use public data for training AI models
44 votes -
Why are these external SSDs so different in price?
I'm talking about this 2 TB LaCie Portable SSD and this Samsung T7 2 TB SSD. They both have the same ~1 GB/s read-write speed, the same 3-year limited warranty, and the same USB 3.2 Gen2...
I'm talking about this 2 TB LaCie Portable SSD and this Samsung T7 2 TB SSD. They both have the same ~1 GB/s read-write speed, the same 3-year limited warranty, and the same USB 3.2 Gen2 connector. But the LaCie drive is $369, while the Samsung drive is $130.
Am I missing something? Or is it just luxury tax?6 votes -
What data backup strategies do you use/recommend? How much do you invest in backing up your personal data?
I recently had an SSD fail on me, less than a year old. Nothing important was on it and I'll be getting a warranty replacement, but this got me thinking - I still don't have a proper backup...
I recently had an SSD fail on me, less than a year old. Nothing important was on it and I'll be getting a warranty replacement, but this got me thinking - I still don't have a proper backup strategy. If my boot drive failed with most of my documents on it, that'd be lost or be expensive to recover.
What do you do to back up your data? What do you recommend others do? We have things like cloud backups, disks that act as a full backup and a whole lot more. Personally, I want to be able to set something up and not worry about it going wrong.
26 votes -
Why millions of usable hard drives are being destroyed
18 votes -
Hackers threaten to leak 80GB of confidential data stolen from Reddit
20 votes -
US rent going up? One company’s algorithm could be why.
47 votes -
BlackCat claims to have hacked Reddit, and it is threatening to leak the data
75 votes -
Pour one out for HDDs because PC games are starting to require SSDs
59 votes -
The US is openly stockpiling dirt on all its citizens
25 votes -
Spotify fined in Sweden over GDPR data access complaint – coming more than four years after a complaint was lodged by noyb
9 votes -
Denmark aims to raise the age limit for the collection of personal data from children by tech giants
27 votes -
Stack Overflow disables the Creative Commons data dump
21 votes -
US FTC will require Microsoft to pay $20 million over charges it illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent
10 votes -
Microsoft to pay $20 million FTC settlement over improperly storing Xbox account data for US kids
6 votes -
The AI moment of truth for Chinese censorship
6 votes -
Why are US red states hiring so much faster than blue states?
7 votes -
Reflections on ten years past the Edward Snowden revelations
10 votes -
Some SanDisk Extreme SSDs are wiping people’s data
10 votes