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Hey there, it's Kim and welcome to the audio version of my daily tech newsletter, The Current,

read by nearly a million

people every single day.

Now let's get into today's newsletter for Thursday, February 5th, 2026.

Before we dive into today's stories, I've got a tech trivia question that'll make your

stomach drop just thinking about it.

Picture this.

You're working at Pixar during Toy Story 2 production.

Someone runs a rogue command and poof. 90% of the entire movie just vanishes. Gone. Two years

of character models, scenes, animations, deleted in a split second. What a disaster. We're talking a

$100 million disaster with a release date that wasn't going to budge.

They checked the backup system. Corrupted. Useless. So here's your question. How did they save the

movie? Was it? A, Steve Jobs himself reversed the command. B, they started over and the entire

team animated 80 hours a week.

C, they found a dusty backup tape labeled miscellaneous under someone's desk.

Or D, an employee on maternity leave had a copy on her home computer.

I'll give you the answer at the end of this podcast.

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