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An exciting new cold storage technology seems to be getting closer, Nvidia seemingly wants a slice of the laptop hardware action, why you (and your users) should definitely not use LLMs to “generate” passwords , and whistleblowing when sensitive customer data isn’t being taken seriously.

 

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ARC and L2ARC Sizing on Proxmox

 

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Data stored in glass could last over 10,000 years, Microsoft says

Nvidia plans a Windows PC SoC, setting up direct competition with Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD

Vibe Password Generation: Predictable by Design

 

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Automox Turnkey Results

Endpoint management tailored to your specific environment. Know the plan. Trust the result. Learn more at www.automox.com

 

 

 

 

 

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Hardware scarcity and price hikes spread to hard drives, the Bcachefs dev thinks his AI is ‘fully conscious’, an agent might have gone after a FOSS maintainer, Jim is disappointed with an Ars author, and ZFS and VMs in the homelab.

 

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Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late

Pool and VDEV Topology for Proxmox Workloads

 

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AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year

Hard drive pricing in the UK is so high someone flew to the US to buy drives, saving money despite flight and hotel costs

Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is ‘fully conscious’

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

Sorry all this is my fault

 

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Jim and Allan disagree on how new hard drive tech is likely to work, more on storage and compute in the same box, and how we set up disk encryption on laptops.

 

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OpenZFS Monitoring and Observability

 

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Western Digital doubles the performance of hard drives with dual-actuator High-Bandwidth, with path to 8X performance increase — Power-Optimized HDDs will reduce power by 20 percent

 

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We were asked about how we set up disk encryption on laptops.

A quick-start guide to OpenZFS native encryption – Ars Technica

Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS: Security, Encryption, and Delegation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Notepad++ falls victim to a state-sponsored attacker, AI agents talk nonsense to each other on an insecure vibe coded social network, and backing up a laptop properly.

 

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ZFS vs Btrfs: Architecture, Features, and Stability

 

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Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it’s getting weird fas

Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys

 

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We were asked about backing up a laptop properly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Outlook’s autodiscover feature is leaking data again, our thoughts on the cycle of cloud and on-prem (centralised and local computing), and why you probably shouldn’t use NMVe to SATA adapters.

 

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ZFS in Production: Real-World Deployment Patterns and Pitfalls

Modern VDI on Proxmox: ZFS Reliability and GPU Acceleration at Lower Cost

 

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Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?

 

 

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We were asked about SATA to PCIe adapters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Why you might not want your Windows encryption keys to be backed up to Microsoft, some Bluetooth devices are vulnerable to snooping and tracking, a lesson in the need for backups,  and the best practices and stack for setting up a mail server.

 

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Klara’s Expert Perspective on OpenZFS in 2026 and What to Expect Next

Modern VDI on Proxmox: ZFS Reliability and GPU Acceleration at Lower Cost

 

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Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw

How to encrypt your PC’s disk without giving the keys to Microsoft

WhisperPair: Hijacking Bluetooth Accessories Using Google Fast Pair

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click

 

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The last method to activate Windows without the Internet has gone away, malware that tricks users with a fake blue screen of death, and recovering from bad RAM with ZFS.

 

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Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity

 

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Windows activation by phone is seemingly dead

How Fake BSODs and Trusted Build Tools Are Used to Construct a Malware Infection

 

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Cisco network gear fell over when it shouldn’t have, yet another security flaw is found in Microsoft Copilot, the US military is letting Grok into all its networks, and managing LVM snapshots.

 

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Unwrapping ZFS: Gifts from the Open Source Community

A New Year, A New ZFS: What 2.4 Brings to the Table

 

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Cisco routers knocked out due to Cloudflare DNS change

Reprompt: The Single-Click Microsoft Copilot Attack that Silently Steals Your Personal Data

Musk’s AI tool Grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks, Hegseth says

 

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The many reasons why email shouldn’t be trusted. Plus how to stop your kids accessing inappropriate content online, and why the answer probably isn’t a technical one.

 

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What We Built: Top ZFS Capabilities Delivered by Klara in 2025

 

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Please STOP trusting email

 

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Why you should probably keep paying for your old domains, the perpetual problem of typo squatting, a machine learning expert’s take on BS from LLMs, and whether to separate compute and storage in a home setup.

 

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Can You Have Too Many VDEVs? A Practical Guide to ZFS Scaling

 

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Digital Trust in Danger: When Authorities Forget Their Old Domains

Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content

LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn’t mean they’re not useful

 

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