Topic: data preservation
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Audit Your Local Services Ads Before Migrating to Performance Max
Advertisers must proactively audit their accounts and download historical LSA data before migration, as these metrics do not transfer to the new Performance Max system. The transition consolidates management into Google Ads with daily budgets and automated bidding, requiring a strategic review of...
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OpenAI's Deleted Chats Policy Change Leaves Some Users Impacted
OpenAI will no longer preserve most deleted and temporary ChatGPT conversations, following a legal dispute and a court's reversal of an earlier mandate for indefinite retention. The change resulted from a lawsuit by media organizations, including The New York Times, which argued users exploited C...
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PBS station risks losing 50TB as cloud provider vanishes
Nine PBS, a St. Louis PBS affiliate, is suing Iron Mountain Data Centers to recover ~50 terabytes of irreplaceable archival footage (including pandemic coverage and 1993 flood documentaries) after its cloud vendor, Open Source Storage, shut down and Iron Mountain refused to release the files. A c...
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Microsoft Data Loss Wiped Out 170,000 Nonprofits
Microsoft's retirement of its legacy nonprofit software grant in early 2025 caused catastrophic data loss for roughly 170,000 organizations, erasing donor records, files, and operational documents when they failed to migrate before the deadline. Smaller nonprofits without IT staff were hit hardes...
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New Ransomware Strain .rrerp0_p2k Mimics Pay2Key
A new ransomware variant based on the Pay2Key strain has emerged, identified by the extension .rrerp0_p2k, which encrypts files with a session key held exclusively by attackers, making recovery currently impossible without their master private key. Victims are advised to back up all encrypted dat...
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ICE Pursues Cyber Upgrades to Monitor and Investigate Staff
ICE is upgrading its cybersecurity contract to enable extensive internal surveillance, funneling network protection data directly into employee misconduct and law enforcement investigations. The system enhances collection and storage of digital logs from devices, allowing investigators to reconst...
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Google Ads Will Permanently Delete Inactive Accounts
Google Ads will permanently delete canceled accounts after six months of inactivity, ending the previous policy of indefinite storage and requiring advertisers to proactively save their data. This change means advertisers risk losing all historical campaign data, performance metrics, and template...
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Apple Discontinues Clips Video App Support
Apple has discontinued its Clips video editing app, removing it from the App Store and ending updates as of October 10, 2025. The app, launched in 2017, was designed for creating short, shareable videos with features like music, text, filters, and augmented reality. Current users are advised to b...
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Microsoft Recovers Player's Hacked 25-Year-Old Account With Son's Baby Photos
Microsoft restored a streamer's 25-year-old account after it was hacked, recovering both his son's baby photos and thousands in digital purchases, though initial support had deemed the suspension irreversible. The streamer criticized Microsoft for only restoring the account after public outcry, h...
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PBS Station Sues to Restore Access to 70 Years of TV Archives
Nine PBS is suing Iron Mountain Data Centers to recover over 50 terabytes of archival footage, after its cloud provider OSS ceased operations and Iron Mountain refused to release the data, citing OSS's ownership of the physical servers. The legal dispute arose from a chain of custody breakdown: O...
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Europe’s digital ID wallet receives first official standards
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has published the first official technical standards for the European Digital Identity Wallet, a single app that will unify identity verification and document sharing across government, banking, healthcare, and travel. The wallet prioriti...
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Windows 11 'Cloud Rebuild' lets you reinstall OS and drivers without a USB drive
Microsoft's new Cloud Rebuild feature allows Windows 11 users to fully reinstall the operating system via the cloud, downloading both the OS and device drivers from Windows Update without needing a USB drive. Unlike the existing Reset this PC tool, Cloud Rebuild works even when the OS is unbootab...
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Logitech Mice Glitched Due to Expired Security Certificate
A widespread issue disabled customization for Logitech mice on Macs due to an expired security certificate in Logitech's configuration software, specifically affecting the Logi Options Plus and G Hub apps. The problem, isolated to macOS because of its strict security protocols, caused apps to fai...
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