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Audio player loading… The market for one of the most iconic items in the technology industry is only set to hold up for "another four years" according to floppy disc tycoon, Tom Persky. The US businessman, the self-described "last man standing" in the fading business, runs floppydisk.com (opens in new tab) , one of the last places on the internet you can purchase the vintage technology. Sony, the last company to produce floppy discs, stopped manufacturing them in March 2011, and Perksy has been mainly running his business from a one million plus order made almost a decade ago. Who still uses floppy disks? Quite a lot of people apparently, at least up until very recently. Boeing 747s, which were only retired in July 2020, continued to use 3.5-inch floppy discs to store updated navigational databases. Unsettlingly, it wasn't until 2019 that the US military stopped using 8-inch floppy disks in a 1970s computer, the Strategic Automated Command and … [Read more...] about It could soon be time to bid a final farewell to floppy disks

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee sent a preservation notice Friday to former FBI official Timothy Thibault, warning Thibault to save records related to the multiple whistleblower allegations he is facing in the event Republicans take the majority and are able to conduct a formal investigation. The Republicans referenced in their letter Breitbart News’s report from July revealing an FBI whistleblower had accused Thibault, a former assistant special agent in charge, of pressuring agents to reclassify cases as “domestic violent extremism” despite limited evidence supporting reclassification. The Republicans also cited a whistleblower claim that Thibault shut down a line of investigation into “derogatory Hunter Biden reporting,” an accusation initially brought to light by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. “We have been investigating serious allegations of abuse and misconduct within the senior leadership of the … [Read more...] about GOP Sends Notice to Ex-FBI Official Accused of Shutting Down Hunter Biden Probe