Topic: data storage
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Microsoft's Glass Data Storage: Project Silica Explained
Microsoft's Project Silica uses femtosecond lasers to inscribe data into glass, creating an extremely durable archival medium capable of preserving information for potentially over 10,000 years. The technology encodes data as microscopic 3D voxels, achieving high storage density where a single sm...
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The Most Underrated Laptop Accessory: My SSD Enclosure Hack
The HyperDrive Next USB4 M.2 PCIe enclosure is a high-performance, portable accessory that transforms an NVMe SSD into an external drive, delivering internal-like speeds over Thunderbolt for professionals like creators and developers. In real-world testing with a high-end SSD, it achieved excepti...
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Inside the Secret Bunkers and Mines Becoming Data Centers
A decommissioned Cold War nuclear bunker in the Kent countryside has been repurposed into a high-tech, ultra-secure cloud computing facility, reflecting a trend of using subterranean sites for data centers. Operated by the Cyberfort Group, this facility exemplifies the modern practice of safeguar...
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Distributed Storage Startup Challenges Cloud Giants
The AI boom is driving demand for specialized computing providers, but most businesses still rely on major cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure for storage, which are not optimized for distributed AI workloads. Tigris Data is addressing this gap by building a decentralized ...
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Iraq Launches First Commercial Government Data Centers
Iraq has launched its first government-operated commercial data centers, marking a major step in modernizing its digital infrastructure for both public and private sectors. A partnership between Iraq's General Communications and Information Company and Nokia International will establish advanced ...
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Progress Software Warns of External Security Threat to ShareFile
Progress Software has issued an urgent security advisory for its ShareFile platform, directing all customers to immediately shut down the server running the Storage Zone Controller due to a critical vulnerability. The flaw could allow unauthorized access to sensitive data, potentially leading to ...
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VAST Data Aims to Capture Global Data
VAST Data aims to build a global AI infrastructure system that captures, contextualizes, and activates all data, transforming it into actionable outcomes through AI agents. The company is partnering with Sharon AI to deploy its AI OS and Insight Engine in Australia, showcasing practical AI applic...
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Hitachi, Supermicro Partner to Boost AI and Enterprise App Performance
Hitachi Vantara and Supermicro have formed a strategic partnership to deliver high-performance infrastructure solutions optimized for AI and enterprise applications, combining Supermicro's computing systems with Hitachi's VSP One storage platform. The collaboration addresses challenges like disco...
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Pure Storage Boosts Cyber Resilience with New Innovations & Partnerships
Pure Storage is enhancing cybersecurity by embedding native threat detection into its storage platform and forming strategic partnerships to proactively identify threats and enable faster recovery. The company is integrating with security leaders like CrowdStrike and Superna to provide real-time ...
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Hitachi Vantara Names Dave Wardrop as ANZ CTO and Solutions Leader
Dave Wardrop has been appointed as the new Chief Technology Officer and Director of Solution Consulting for Australia and New Zealand at Hitachi Vantara, reporting to APAC CTO Matthew Hardman. In his role, he will lead technical sales strategy, focusing on data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid...
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Seagate Drives Data Storage Innovation to Boost Northern Ireland Economy
Seagate is investing £115 million in Northern Ireland to advance next-generation hard drive development, driven by AI and data center demand. The investment will focus on R&D for high-capacity drives like 60TB models, supported by public-private funding and aimed at job creation. This initiative ...
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Signal Launches First Paid Feature: Encrypted Backups
Signal has launched its first paid service, offering encrypted backups for media older than 45 days and full text message history at $1.99 per month, aligning with its nonprofit, ad-free model. The subscription helps cover infrastructure costs for data storage, while a free tier allows limited ba...
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How Your Period Tracker Exposes Private Data
Many period tracking apps quietly share sensitive health data, such as fertility information and sexual activity, with third-party analytics firms, ad networks, and data brokers. This data is highly revealing and could be weaponized against users, especially in a post-Roe America where law enforc...
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Take Back Control of Your Online Shopping Data
Online shopping involves extensive collection and sharing of personal data, often without full user awareness or consent, posing significant privacy risks. Data is frequently stored indefinitely and shared with third parties, increasing exposure to breaches, misuse, and targeted scams, as seen in...
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Google Chrome Silently Downloads 4GB AI Model, Researcher Says
Google Chrome has been quietly downloading approximately 4GB of AI model files for Gemini Nano onto users' computers without explicit consent, storing them in a folder called OptGuideOnDeviceModel. The AI model automatically redownloads after manual deletion, but Google has begun rolling out a se...
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Meta AI Chat Gets Fully Encrypted, Private Mode
Meta has launched Incognito Chat, an AI feature with end-to-end encryption that prevents Meta or anyone else from viewing conversation logs, unlike other platforms that retain data for hours or days. This privacy-focused feature marks a notable shift for Meta, which recently removed similar encry...
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AI Is Changing the Rules of Modern Marketing
Data has transformed from a costly liability to a core strategic asset, driven by cheaper storage and advanced analytics that enable predictive and prescriptive business insights. The current shift is powered by large language models (LLMs), which use compressed, static knowledge and must be comb...
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Google saves Lens photos, Search recordings, and Translate audio for AI training
Google has introduced a new "Search Services History" setting that now saves images, files, audio, and video used for searches via tools like Google Lens and voice search, expanding beyond text queries. Users can opt out by disabling the Search Services History setting entirely or turning off the...
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Cloudera and Dell Launch Private AI Platform with ObjectScale
Cloudera and Dell Technologies have launched a Private AI platform, integrating Dell ObjectScale with Cloudera's data services to offer a scalable, governed, and economically predictable solution for AI deployment. The platform addresses challenges of managing data across environments by consolid...
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Earthmover Aims to Be the Snowflake for Weather and Location Data
Earthmover shifted its focus from general Earth observation data to weather data and its immediate applications, recognizing the need for frequently updated information to address climate impacts on daily operations. The company's core product is a sophisticated data structure and tool suite that...
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