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The LTO Program — HPE, IBM, and Quantum — has extended its tape roadmap from current LTO-10 cartridges at 40TB uncompressed to a planned LTO-14 at 365TB native capacity. Tom's Hardware notes the 25-year-old format would reach roughly a 400x capacity increase without changing form factor, and that the consortium has deliberately slowed capacity growth to prioritise reliability, cost per terabyte, and backup/recovery times.

Why: For most app and SaaS builders this changes nothing this quarter: there is no API, pricing, or deployment change here. It only matters if you own petabyte-scale cold archival or backup, where the roadmap's stated shift toward reliability, cost per TB, and restore times is a prompt to compare tape economics against cloud archive pricing rather than assuming disk or object storage is cheaper.

The Hacker News headline reports that the Qilin and INC ransomware groups are exploiting a Palo Alto Networks flaw to bypass MFA. The supplied page text is truncated after the headline and contains only site navigation, so no CVE ID, affected product or version, patch status, victim counts, or attack mechanics are available. Nothing beyond the headline claim can be verified from this text.

Why: There is not enough detail here to act on: no CVE, no affected PAN-OS or GlobalProtect version, and no fix guidance. If your startup runs Palo Alto firewalls or GlobalProtect VPN for remote access, treat this as a prompt to check Palo Alto's own advisory and patch notes directly rather than relying on this headline; if you do not operate Palo Alto network gear, this item changes nothing in your week.