Humanity Ark is a global initiative to preserve human knowledge in autonomous, offline repositories accessible without internet or electricity, designed to help people survive and rebuild capabilities during challenging circumstances by combining resilient hardware, local AI models, and open-source contributions.
A fan-made browser-based recreation of MTV music channel on-screen graphics for archival and preservation purposes. The project recreates pixel-accurate animations, typography, and visual elements from discontinued MTV channels including MTV Club, MTV Hits, MTV Live, and MTV Music using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Bungie is reversing its six-year-old Destiny Content Vault decision, planning to restore vaulted campaigns, destinations, and raids to Destiny 2. The developer acknowledges the decision harmed player trust and will update older content to meet current technical standards, though the restoration will take time.
A restored PDP-11/83 minicomputer running 2.11BSD Unix serves web pages via a small HTTP server. The system features a Mentec M11 processor, dual Q-bus chassis, classic storage media including disk and tape drives, serial terminals, and Ethernet networking, demonstrating vintage computer preservation and operation.
A static recompilation project converting the N64 game Ogre Battle 64 to native PC executable has reached 99.05% completion. The main code segment of 807 functions has been fully recompiled to C, with runtime components (rendering, input, audio) as the next milestone. The project uses the N64Recomp toolchain and requires users to supply their own ROM dump.
Germany's research foundation launched a €35 million program to create backup copies of U.S. climate and scientific data, fearing political upheaval and potential loss of critical datasets like those from Mauna Loa Observatory. The initiative reflects declining trust in U.S. science policy in Europe after the Trump administration withdrew from UN climate agreements and attempted to defund key research facilities.