Bookmarks | The music business has a tough drive downside

These are the articles, movies, podcasts and extra that caught the eye of TechCentral’s editorial group prior to now 24 hours. 

• Music business’s Nineteen Nineties laborious drives, like all HDDs, are dying: The music business’s reliance on Nineteen Nineties laborious drives for archiving has hit a critical snag: round 20% of these drives at the moment are unreadable. Regardless of changing tape with laborious drives to keep away from tape deterioration, laborious drives themselves aren’t suited to long-term storage. Their mechanical failures, together with software program format challenges, spotlight the broader difficulty: no storage medium is everlasting, and fixed copying to contemporary storage is crucial. Learn extra on Ars Technica. DM
• Intel is on life assist. Can something put it aside?: Intel, as soon as a pacesetter in chip manufacturing, is struggling for survival. The corporate missed main shifts within the cell and GPU markets and now faces fierce competitors from TSMC and AMD. Intel’s previous dominance, fuelled by Moore’s regulation, is fading. Learn extra in The Economist (laborious paywall). DM
• YouTube on TVs is cramming advertisements down your throat even when pausing movies: Should you watch YouTube in your sensible TV and don’t have a YouTube Premium subscription, you would possibly quickly begin seeing advertisements whenever you pause a video. YouTube first introduced this “pause advertisements” format in Could 2023 and briefly examined it in chosen markets. It now seems to be rolling out to extra customers. Extra on Android Authority. TS
• Xbox has reportedly been instructed to ‘go darkish’ as we speak: The information follows, and is probably going linked to, the announcement that Xbox’s mother or father firm, Microsoft, is shedding tons of of workers from numerous gaming divisions, a development that has embittered the gaming group in its previous occurrences. Learn extra on Recreation Rant. TS
• JLR reveals rover the robotic guard canine: Jaguar Land Rover has partnered with Boston Dynamics to create an AI-powered robotic guard canine for its electrical automobile build-and-test facility in Coventry, England. The nice ole boy not solely displays equipment and valves, liberating up engineers’ time, but in addition assists in transferring parts across the manufacturing unit ground. Watch the video on LinkedIn. NN
• CrowdStrike ex-employees: ‘High quality management was not a part of our course of’: Ex-CrowdStrike workers have claimed that the corporate prioritised pace over high quality, resulting in technical points and rushed deadlines lengthy earlier than a significant July software program failure brought about widespread outages. Learn extra on Semafor. DM
• The complete workers of beloved recreation writer Annapurna Interactive has reportedly resigned: The complete workers of Annapurna Interactive, the writer behind indie hits like Stray and Outer Wilds, has reportedly resigned after failing to barter a spin-off into an unbiased entity. Regardless of this, Annapurna said that ongoing video games and initiatives will proceed beneath the corporate. (Oh, and in the event you haven’t performed Stray but, get it – it’s a fantastic recreation!). Learn extra on The Verge. DM
• 10 new devices you’ll want to purchase: From sensible displays and e-bikes to a conveyable cable train machine, this record appears at a number of the latest tech out there to assist numerous elements of on a regular basis residing. Granted, not all of the devices on this record will grow to be mainstream super-sellers, however one would possibly simply remedy an issue near house for everybody on the market. Watch the video from Future Tech on YouTube. NN 

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