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.
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.
Modern life runs on subscriptions that are often useful, reasonable, and increasingly difficult to live without. The future arrived, but apparently we’ll need to keep paying monthly to use it.
Android is adding granular switches for message and device backups while testing automatic Documents uploads to Google Drive, giving users more control over what gets saved and what consumes their cloud storage.
Google Photos is adding incremental Takeout exports, making recurring local backups smaller after the first full archive. The catch is that Photos must be the only selected product during setup.
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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New Google accounts are now starting with 5GB of free storage. Linking a phone number unlocks the full allocation, but the support page quietly dropped its unconditional 15GB promise.
Backblaze redefines “unlimited” while users discover it’s not backing up Dropbox, OneDrive, et al