"The Architecture of a Missed Opportunity How early warnings about NARA's Electronic Records Archives anticipated problems that later audits would rediscover" metaarchivist.substack.com/p/the-archit...

"PlayStation killing physical discs has inspired PS5 emulator devs to ramp up development" www.pcguide.com/news/playsta...

PlayStation killing physical discs has inspired PS5 emulator devs to ramp up development

PS5 emulator devs seem to be reacting to Sony's bombshell announcement to stop producing physical PlayStation discs in January 2028.

pcguide.com

bi weekly and bi monthly are pointless terms as they mean two different things so always have to be clarified.

@digitalscholarship.bsky.social are you still posting to Digital Koans?

"DigitalKoans and Digital Scholarship Have Been Published for 21 Years" digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans...

. @barbaraamsterdam.bsky.social has been writing a great blog series "30 Years of Digital Preservation", she's onto issue 2 - They're all available on her blog here: digitalpreservation.nl/seeds/

"Emulating Inmagic DB/TextWorks databases with QEMU" bitsgalore.org/2026/02/16/e...

Emulating Inmagic DB/TextWorks databases with QEMU

This post explains how I used QEMU to emulate an old (2004) version of the Inmagic DB/TextWorks software, and how I used the emulation to export a legacy database to a a comma-delimited text file that...

bitsgalore.org

"Game Preservation In The Digital Age: What Happens When Servers Die?" editorialge.com/game-preserv...

Game Preservation In The Digital Age: What If Servers Die?

Explore the importance of Game Preservation In The Digital Age and find out simple ways to protect your favorite legacy games from vanishing!

editorialge.com

Join the next Art+Feminism event in partnership with Wikimedia Deutschland:  Intro to Wikidata + Archives training session 🗓 29 Jan, 15:00–18:00 UTC 💻 Online (Zoom, English) 🔗 Registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"Google unkills JPEG XL?" tonisagrista.com/blog/2025/go... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4610...

So miro.com can export board "backup" files in "rtb" format. That format is a zip file with a bunch of images and "json" files inside of it. Unfortunately the .json files are full of random binary data and are not json compliant. Poor form

"Vintage Large Language Models" "A vintage LLM is a large language model trained on texts and potentially images or other multimodal data up to a particular date." owainevans.github.io/talk-transcr...

More gratification - so great to hear of people using @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social for digital preservation signature metadata. I just heard mention of using the Wikidata signature file in Siegfried! #ipres2025

"[I often find that after installing e.g. a version of flash for one artifact, I just search for it for use with other artifacts]" Paraphrased quote from Bryony Cavallaro @ the State Library of New South Wales (I think) #ipres2025 - So great to here the benefits of #EasSI being realised #AusEaaSI

So great to hear about the use of #AusEaaSI / #EaaSI in Australia. Hearing how it is also really useful for raising awareness of digital preservation is validating. Reminds me of my post on Digital Patinas www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/th... #ipres2025

Talk to Zak, Cynthia and I about Utaina, a recently completed project of mass digital preservation of about 70,000 at-risk audiovisual magnetic media at ArchivesNZ and National Library of New Zealand. Uploading our poster here. Or see the PDF version at […] [Original post on digipres.club]

Great post @exponentialdecay.bsky.social re: excessive storage- if we kept the software needed to make the change to the file, & kept the original unchanged file, could we just add the command to "fix" the file to the package to do on access in the future? exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/bsdiff-...

Revisiting bsdiff as a tool for digital preservation - ross spencer :: exponentialdecay.digipres :: blog

I first blogged about bsdiff in 2014. How does it stand up in terms of its potential and ease of use in 2025? Let's take a look.

exponentialdecay.co.uk

The "beverage may be hot" of our time

#DigiPres folks👋Whether you are attending #iPRES2025 virtually, or just curious about the latest in #digitalpreservation, iPRES Radio provides a front-row seat to the global conversation happening in Wellington this year! Read our blog on how you can tune in every day during #iPres: buff.ly/viLsIIc

"A new disk image format" comes with McOS 26 Tahoe. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica review

Liquid Glass brings translucent sheen to the typical batch of iterative changes.

arstechnica.com

"Tips for installing Windows 98 in QEMU/UTM" sporks.space/2025/08/28/t... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4522...

Tips for installing Windows 98 in QEMU/UTM - the sporks space

Windows 98 runs surprisingly well in QEMU via UTM SE, but it requires some care in setting it up. It’s a great way to run old 90s Windows and DOS software on your iPad (and Mac too, though you have… C...

sporks.space

"This ultra-rare ’90s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC You don't have to track down pricey retro hardware to play the Pioneer LaserActive anymore." arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

This ultra-rare ’90s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC

You don’t have to track down pricey retro hardware to play the Pioneer LaserActive anymore.

arstechnica.com

"All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity Finding working copies of the last few titles was an "especially cursed" journey." arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

Finding working copies of the last few titles was an “especially cursed” journey.

arstechnica.com

✈️ Travel tips for your #iPRES2025 journey!🧳Local Organising Committee member and athlete, Carly, recently traveled from Wellington to Austria and back with Team New Zealand in the 2025 Roller Derby World Cup in July. Carly shares her best long-haul travel tips here: www.ipres2025.nz/post/long-ha...

iPRES Travel Advice: Tips for the Long-Haul Journey

Local Organising Committee member and athlete Carly Lenz offers her top tips for long-haul travel to Aotearoa and back.

ipres2025.nz

Ask Jeeves needs to make a comeback as an AI interface

" Seagate’s massive, 30TB, $600 hard drives are now available for anyone to buy Seagate's heat-assisted drive tech has been percolating for more than 20 years." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Seagate’s massive, 30TB, $600 hard drives are now available for anyone to buy

Seagate’s heat-assisted drive tech has been percolating for more than 20 years.

arstechnica.com

AI Bitrot? "This is like inducing catastrophic brain damage in the model: with just one bit flip, accuracy can crash from 80% to 0.1%, rendering it useless,” arstechnica.com/security/202...

Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks

GPUhammer is the first to flip bits in onboard GPU memory. It likely won’t be the last.

arstechnica.com

📅 Reminder! The Call for #iPRES2025 Ad Hoc Contributions closes this Friday, 18 July 2025, End of Day, Anywhere on Earth. Don't miss out on submitting your ideas for: ⚡ Lightning Talks 🤖 Games 🐦‍⬛ Birds of Feather (BoF) sessions Submit your Ad Hoc contribution here: forms.gle/MzbEbo4k9Gbb...

iPRES 2025 Ad Hoc Call for Contributions

Submit your ad hoc contribution to iPRES 2025 using this form. These contributions—such as lightning talks, games, birds of a feather sessions, and more—are reviewed lightly by the Programme…

forms.gle

LLM + FFMPEG in browser "I found that I am using ChatGPT more and more to get the FFmpeg command I need, but the process can be a bit tedious... This site attempts to solve that." vidmix.app/ffmpeg-in-pl... via news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4452...

"Microsoft is deprecating Publisher," " However, the brand helpfully suggests creating a macro to export all your files in PDF format so they're still viewable, www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-pu...

Microsoft is deprecating Publisher, so here's 5 tools I could replace it with

How hard can it possibly be?

xda-developers.com