Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV data — court rules station owns 50TB of data in Iron Mountain servers after host went under

There’s light at the end of the tunnel for Nine PBS after a judge has cleared the way for it to retrieve archival data and programming from Iron Mountain.

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Rogue iOS developer creates app that simulates messages sent by carrier pigeon; messages only travel at 100mph — LA to NYC correspondence takes 22 hours to deliver; virtual birds can get distracted or even lost

Carrier Pidge slows down your electronic communications to a more natural speed.

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PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation
 PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct — public TV channel sues Iron Mountain data center, which hosts archival materials, to ensure preservation

Public broadcaster Nine PBS is in trouble after its cloud storage provider went out of business and it now can’t access more than 50TB of archival data. The data center hosting the files can’t simply turn over the files, as it’s legally owned by another entity, even if the channel is the ultimate owner of the stored data.

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Vibe-coded app adds a 3D video rental storefront to your Jellyfin HTPC — self-hosted, open-source project brings back memories of browsing for VHS tapes on Saturday afternoons

A Redditor vibe-coded a Jellyfin front-end that mimics that old video rental stores from the 1990s. This simulation is more than just a selection screen, though, and is a complete experience on its own.

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x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a arrives — you can now run this seminal 1990 word processor natively in Windows 11
 x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a arrives — you can now run this seminal 1990 word processor natively in Windows 11

A developer has ported 1990’s Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a to x64 so it can run natively on Windows 11 PC systems.

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The Pickle Is In: You’ll See This Emoji and More on Your Device Next Year

I’m predicting the pickle emoji will knock the eggplant emoji off its pedestal.

Dev releases ‘unblockable’ ASCII video stream software, stoking fears of unstoppable ads — delivers 360p video at 30 FPS and acts as a ‘bridge for AI’

A new and unique video streaming solution is pitched as a ‘high-performance, real-time ASCII video rendering engine’ that can be used to broadcast ‘an unblockable video stream.’
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Google floats reduced initial 5GB free cloud storage limit, users claim — 15GB to require extra security measures, company confirms it is ‘testing a new storage policy for new accounts’

While Google has not publicly announced the change, the company confirmed that it is testing a new approach designed to improve account security and data recovery.
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Backblaze silently redefines ‘unlimited’ backups and users discover it’s not backing up Dropbox and OneDrive — as firm leans heavier into AI storage services, changes could signal shift away from home backups

Backblaze redefines “unlimited” while users discover it’s not backing up Dropbox, OneDrive, et al

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Expert maps out more than 80 different Microsoft Copilot products, but there may be more than 100 — ‘What happens when you name everything Copilot,’ an AI consultant mapped out the myriad products

An AI aficionado has put together a chart of all the Copilot products they could find. At the latest count there are 80.
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