PBS loses 70 years of TV history after cloud storage vendor goes defunct(tomshardware.com)

42 points by doener 2 months ago | 10 comments

Firm boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100k up to staggering $4.5M(tomshardware.com)

130 points by MaximilianEmel 6 months ago | 55 comments

20% of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed(tomshardware.com)

3 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 0 comments

Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours(tomshardware.com)

309 points by 6581 1 year ago | 187 comments

TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'(tomshardware.com)

412 points by WithinReason 2 years ago | 423 comments

Tom's Hardware news article reporting that TSMC executives allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as a 'podcasting bro' over his request for 36 fabs costing $7 trillion.

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months(tomshardware.com)

594 points by haunter 2 months ago | 482 comments

Tom's Hardware news article reporting that RAM prices have risen about 500% in a year, with 128GB of DDR5 now costing $3,399.

Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets(404media.co)

722 points by johnneville 1 year ago | 212 comments

A 404 Media article on archivists working to identify and preserve thousands of datasets disappearing from the US government's data.gov portal.

Court Records Should Be Free(eff.org)

430 points by hn_acker 4 months ago | 99 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Joe Mullin arguing that federal court records should be freely accessible to the public.

Republican data center support collapses locally when sites are in GOP counties(pressaudit.org)

30 points by SLHamlet 17 days ago | 1 comments

A PressAudit report by Paul Renshaw on how Republican support for data centers drops locally as proposed sites move into more Republican counties.

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die(arstechnica.com)

411 points by randycupertino 9 months ago | 240 comments

Ars Technica article on a murder-suicide lawsuit accusing OpenAI of withholding full ChatGPT logs and selectively hiding data after users die.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations(cpb.org)

505 points by coloneltcb 1 year ago | 469 comments

CPB press release announcing an orderly wind-down of operations after Congress rescinded federal funding and the FY2026 Labor-H bill excluded CPB funding.

Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public(time.com)

347 points by binning 11 months ago | 146 comments

TIME article reporting on court filings alleging Meta downplayed risks its platforms posed to children and misled the public.