What is DDS?
DDS is DirectDraw Surface, the texture format games ship. Its point is that the GPU reads the compressed blocks directly, so BC1/BC3 textures never need unpacking at runtime. FileSorcery reads it and converts out; writing good block compression is a job for a dedicated compressor.
What is ICO?
ICO is the Windows icon container, and still what a browser fetches when it asks a site for /favicon.ico. One file can hold several sizes at once so the system can pick the right one; each dimension is stored in a single byte, which caps an icon at 256 pixels.