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    Backblaze publishes Q2 2026 hard drive failure statistics●Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026Yhn2157 min ago

    Backblaze has released its drive statistics report for the second quarter of 2026, continuing its long-running series detailing failure rates across the hard drives in its cloud storage fleet. The reports are closely watched in the tech community as a rare public source of real-world reliability data for consumer and enterprise drives, often sparking debate over which manufacturers and models perform best.

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    Debate grows over giving AI agents least-privilege cloud file access●Ask HN: Allow agents access to cloud files with least privilege?YhnEnvironment614 min ago

    A question on Hacker News is asking whether AI agents should be granted access to cloud storage under least-privilege permissions. The discussion touches on how developers can let automated agents read and write files without exposing broader credentials or sensitive data. Commenters are weighing the security trade-offs of agent-driven workflows against current identity and access management tools.

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    Using a local LLM to clean out a full hard drive●I gave my local LLM a nearly-full SSD and told it to find everything I could safely delete✉newsTechnologyAI1 h ago

    A technology writer describes handing a nearly full SSD to a locally running large language model and asking it to identify files that could be safely deleted. The piece highlights a practical, privacy-friendly use of local AI: instead of sending data to the cloud, the model analyses the drive on the user's own machine and suggests what can be removed to free up storage space.

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