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Microsoft says glass data storage can preserve data for 10,000 years, using lasers to write voxels inside silica plates. It’s built for archives, but scaling write speed and reader access remain big ...

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A massive security failure by the US Department of Justice has exposed active passwords for Jeffrey Epstein’s personal accounts. The breach occurred following the latest release of more than three ...

Although Microsoft has improved File Explorer over the years, it still doesn't meet modern expectations. You can't open folders side by side, add tags to folders, pin ...

Microsoft automatically turns on OneDrive Backup in new Windows 11 installations. Your files aren't stolen -- they've just been moved to a new folder and synced to the cloud. A recent, undocumented ...

If you’ve installed Windows 10 or Windows 11 recently, you’ve probably noticed that little cloud icon sitting in your taskbar. That’s OneDrive, Microsoft’s built-in cloud storage service — and let’s ...

Cutting corners: When Windows users suddenly discover that their files have vanished from their desktops after interacting with OneDrive, the issue often stems from how Microsoft's cloud service ...

Most appearances of President Trump’s name in the set of files just released by the Justice Department came from news reports and other documents. But some deal directly with the relationship between ...

Firefox is testing a backup feature for Windows 10 users who move to Windows 11 now that support for Windows 10 has ended. It appears designed to protect browser data during the transition, a point ...

TL;DR: Windows 11's File Explorer remains slower than Windows 10 despite a fix that preloads the app at startup, doubling its RAM usage without significantly improving speed. The slower performance ...