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The digital legacy problem: what happens to the people behind the memories?

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People accumulate enormous digital archives but leave future viewers with no context. Eternal Memory founders Israel Elgamil and Itamar Evgey are building a digital time capsule platform where users curate meaningful moments with photos, videos, and stories. They cite Pew Research (84% on YouTube, 71% on Facebook), Library of Congress digital preservation guidance, and ResearchGate research on format obsolescence to frame the gap between accumulation and meaningful preservation.

The Pew Research Center’s 2025 survey found that 84% of U.S. adults use YouTube, 71% use Facebook, and 50% use Instagram, illustrating how deeply everyday expression has moved onto digital platforms.

The Library of Congress explains that digital materials can be harder to preserve than physical materials because access depends on changing technologies, formats, and devices. Its personal archiving guidance recommends selecting what matters, organizing it, and maintaining copies over time. Digital preservation could therefore involve decisions about...

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Windows 11 Updates Trigger False Antivirus Warnings & Cursor Glitches

There's plenty of good and bad news abound for Microsoft and Windows 11 this week, but two new Known Issues have been getting a lot of attention. Namely, there's an issue where Windows erroneously reports that "Microsoft Defender Antivirus is turned off" and an

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China's CXMT Starts LPDDR6 Mass Production Ahead Of Samsung & SK Hynix

Fifth-generation DDR SDRAM, known more commonly as DDR5, launched in its "LP" form with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 in February of 2020. Those chips were first found in the Xiaomi Mi 10 smartphone. It's been almost seven years since then, and the growing demand for

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Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a “Harvey for police officers”

David Lawrence was a Harvard Law student when an on-campus shooting involving a police officer sparked intense controversy over police conduct. Realizing that most policing errors occur when officers lack instant access to department rules, Lawrence dropped out to tackle the problem with AI. He teamed up with co-founders Amit

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Enterprise hits and misses - Salesforce and Workday defuse the SaaSpocalypse, tokenomics is a turning point, and prompt injections are a drag

Lead story -Tokenomics - where are we now? Another day, another one million AI token(s). But what are we learning? The diginomica tokenomics megaseries rolls on. Start with Stuart's Tokenomics - "It was never about tokenmaxxing," insists Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy. Choice quote: It boils

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Windows 11 Updates Trigger False Antivirus Warnings & Cursor Glitches

China's CXMT Starts LPDDR6 Mass Production Ahead Of Samsung & SK Hynix

Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a “Harvey for police officers”

Enterprise hits and misses - Salesforce and Workday defuse the SaaSpocalypse, tokenomics is a turning point, and prompt injections are a drag