Trump’s Next Decision in War: Whether to Retrieve Iran’s Nuclear Fuel
A mission to seize or destroy Iran’s nuclear material would be one of the riskiest military operations in modern American history.
Storage
Sandisk brings SPRandom to open source for large SSD testing
Enterprise storage environments already run long qualification cycles as solid-state drive capacities rise and validation teams try to mirror production workloads. Preconditioning steps now consume days of lab time for a single device, especially in da…
What the latest data reveals about hard drive reliability
What really counts as a hard drive failure? That’s the question at the center of Backblaze’s Q3 2025 Drive Stats report, which tracks the performance of 328,348 hard drives across its global data centers. The latest findings build on more than a decade…
Security Breaches Found in AI-Powered Repair Tool Wondershare RepairIt
Trend Micro reveals that RepairIt “contradicted its privacy policy by collecting, storing, and, due to weak Development, Security, and Operations practices, inadvertently leaking private user data.”
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Woman Is Convicted of Killing Her Children and Leaving Them in Suitcases
Years after Hakyung Lee left New Zealand for her native South Korea, the bodies of her children were found in Auckland. She faces life in prison.
Product showcase: iStorage datAshur PRO+C encrypted USB flash drive
The iStorage datAshur PRO+C is a USB-C flash drive featuring AES-XTS 256-bit hardware encryption. Available in capacities from 32 GB to 512 GB, the drive holds FIPS 140-3 Level 3 certification and operates without the need for software, making it compa…
Open-source server management platform Proxmox VE 9.0 released
Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 9.0 introduces advancements in both storage and networking capabilities, addressing critical enterprise demands. A highlight is the long-awaited support for snapshots on thick-provisioned LVM shared storage, improving s…
Product showcase: iStorage diskAshur PRO3
Data breaches seem to pop up in the news every other week, so it’s no surprise that keeping sensitive information safe has jumped to the top of the priority list for just about every industry. Hardware-encrypted drives like the iStorage diskAshur PRO3 …
macOS Tahoe Brings a New Disk Image Format
Apple’s macOS 26 “Tahoe” introduces a new disk image format called ASIF, designed to dramatically improve performance over previous formats like UDRW and sparse bundles — achieving near-native read/write speeds for virtual machines and general disk im…
FAA To Eliminate Floppy Disks Used In Air Traffic Control Systems
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom’s Hardware: The head of the Federal Aviation Administration just outlined an ambitious goal to upgrade the U.S.’s air traffic control (ATC) system and bring it into the 21st century. According to NPR, most A…