In February 2025, Musk criticized a federal contract with Iron Mountain to store physical records, labeling it a "time warp" and adding: "The speed at which the mineshaft elevator can move determines ...

DOGE recently announced that it has replaced 14,000 magnetic storage tapes used by the US General Services Administration ...

Elon Musk's organization aims to save $1 million annually by converting government records to digital formats. That switch ...

It is not clear how DOGE will save $1 million per year conventing from magnetic tape unless it is converting to more modern ...

Global Data Destruction Services Market is valued approximately at USD 9.23 billion in 2023 and is anticipated to grow with a healthy growth rate of more than 14.78% over the forecast period 2024-2032 ...

What seems at first like a logical move to modernize the government's archives may in fact be an ill-advised decision.

Half a century later, despite the invention of solid-state hard drives, magnetic tape remains surprisingly well-used in ...

The latest embodiment of his comic book fantasies (he described himself as "dark, gothic MAGA" in the run-up to the US ...

Trump’s ads from the Department of Homeland Security thanking him for his anti-immigrant crackdown were exempted from review ...

A Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) social media post boasts of the elimination of tape data storage facilities at ...

The comment doesn’t include any context as to what tape technology was used (reel-to-reel or cartridge), how long it took to ...

Filmaker Ben Russel discussed the passage of time, psychedelia and experimental film techniques in a film screening by ...