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Software week: 70 years of archives vanished from the cloud, Google got just one week from the court — how closely did you follow the news?

This week's software stories: a court deadline for Google, decades-old archives lost to the cloud, shut-down apps and an unexpected indie hit. Let's see how much stuck!

  1. What did Google have to change within one week following a US court ruling?
  2. Which cloud provider isn't responding to a US PBS member station that may lose 50 terabytes of data as a result?
  3. How many years of archive material did a US public broadcasting channel lose after its cloud provider shut down?
  4. Which long-running "read it later" app shut down, giving users until October 8 to export their data?
  5. Who developed the reminder app Unforgetful, aimed at chronic procrastinators?
  6. Why is X (formerly Twitter) overhauling its creator reward system?
  7. What does the newly released sqlite-utils 4.2 primarily improve?
  8. What new features did the recently revamped Instapaper app get?