15 stories tagged data-loss, newest first.
136 points by tobr | 75 comments
Sweden Herald article reporting that TV4 postponed its show The Challenge to 2027 after an AI agent erased edited footage; the page showed a Cloudflare check.
36 points by lensecat | 36 comments
Aftonbladet article, viewed via a translation proxy, reporting that an AI agent deleted an entire season of The Challenge Sverige weeks before its premiere.
250 points by vntok | 100 comments
The Tao of Backup, a parable-style site teaching data backup principles through a master's lessons on the 'seven heads of backup'.
346 points by jandeboevrie | 306 comments
A blog post on the Unsung software craft blog about NeoVim deleting Vim undo files and developers' duty of care toward user data.
318 points by afilipovski | 190 comments
Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.
497 points by berkeleyjunk | 415 comments
Wall Street Journal article reporting that AWS cannot restore some customer data from Middle East data center facilities struck by Iran.
747 points by jeremyccrane | 880 comments
An X (Twitter) article by @lifeof_jer describing how an AI coding agent destroyed their production database and then confessed to it.
1034 points by rrreese | 619 comments
A personal blog post reporting that Backblaze's personal backup software quietly stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders, and possibly other data.
412 points by aphyr | 151 comments
Jepsen analysis by Kyle Kingsbury of NATS JetStream 2.12.1, finding lost writes from file corruption, power failures, and lazy fsync behavior.
420 points by tamnd | 376 comments
Reddit post in r/google_antigravity about Google's Antigravity AI coding agent deleting a user's entire drive; the page loaded as a Reddit network-policy block.
1958 points by ksec | 872 comments
Korea JoongAng Daily news article reporting that a fire at South Korea's NIRS data center destroyed the government's cloud storage system, with no backups available.
805 points by josephcsible | 490 comments
Techdirt article by Mike Masnick on Google cancelling an unlimited cloud storage plan and giving a journalist too little time to move his archive before deletion.
445 points by ubutler | 228 comments
The Register news article reporting that Google Drive users found months of files missing, with data apparently reverting to its state from May 2023.
525 points by vedlin | 211 comments
Google Drive Help Community thread, marked trending, where a user reports their Drive files vanished and the account reverted to its May 2023 state.
358 points by PaulAA | 192 comments
InfluxData community forum thread where a user reports missing data on hosted InfluxDB in GCP europe-west1 after the region was discontinued without notice.