Too Dangerous to Release? Why Claude Mythos's Alleged Capabilities are Nonsense
Is Claude's new AI model, Mythos, really so incredibly godlike that it's a threat to the Internet? I wish this one was on Polymarket.
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RackNerd Ranks #90 on 2026 Inc. Regionals Pacific List! 3 Years in a Row – Check Out Their Latest VPS Deals
Our community has been following RackNerd’s growth for quite some time now. Since first appearing on LowEndBox back in 2020, they’ve continued to build a strong reputation among our readers, and they’ve consistently shown up with both solid deals and impressive milestones. And speaking of milestones, RackNerd has officially been ranked #90 on the 2026 Inc. Regionals: Pacific list!
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The Post-Quantum Era Begins in 2029
Post-quantum computing has always been 10 years in the future. It's not any longer.
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The Invisible Cost of a Clean Internet: Burning Out Poor People's Souls to Moderate Online Content
Imagine if your job was to look at the most vile, repugnant images on the Internet for 12 hours a day...
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LowEndLOLs: Things That Make You Go Hmmm...
So about those company names and CEO last names...
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Want to Guess How Many Spam Comments We've Blocked Since 2016?
LowEndBox has been live since February 1, 2008. In those 16 years, we've had 6,264 posts published (including this one) with a total of 129,351 approved comments. And how many spam comments?
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Getting Calendar Spam? Me, Too. Here's How I Fixed It.
Starting a month or so ago, I started getting meetings popping up on my calendar, like the one shown to the left. Out of nowhere, I'd get a reminder telling me that I had a meeting that was about to start. It was very annoying, but thinking through how they were sending this junk made the solution obvious.
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Not April Fools: Microsoft Says Copilot is for "Entertainment Purposes Only"
Don't believe me? Just look at the Microsoft Copilot terms of use.
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Meet Zypher, a Homemade AI Companion Unlike Anything You've Ever Seen Before!
A while back I was browsing Reddit and came across a fascinating post by a man who'd created his own AI companion. We sat down with him and learned a lot about this really cool project.
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NEWS: ColoCrossing Expands Buffalo Data Center to Support Growing Infrastructure Demands
The name "Buffalo" is legendary in our community. It's a city in Western New York state where ColoCrossing has offered service since the earliest days of LowEndBox. It's a strategic geography - close enough to New York City to serve the East Coast very well, yet much cheaper than operating out of a Manhattan data center. This has allowed them offer wonderfully low prices, and over the years many providers have hosted there. And now ColoCrossing is expanding!
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ACT NOW: How to Prevent Your Repo From Being Used to Train Copilot
GitHub has announced that going forward, your data on GitHub will be used to train Microsoft's Copilot LLM. Here's how to opt-out.
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9-0! SCOTUS Gives Immunity to ISPs Over Illegal Downloads
"Under our precedents, a company is not liable as a copyright infringer for merely providing a service to the public with knowledge that it will be used by some to infringe copyrights." So wrote Justice Clarence Thomas in the US Supreme Court decision Cox Communications vs. Sony Music released today.
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SuperMicro Founder Indicted on Charges of Smuggling Nvidia GPUs to China
Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, one of the founders of server manufacturer SuperMicro, has been indicted on charges of smuggling billions of dollars' worth of high-end Nvidia GPUs to China.
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HostDime in Dispute With Its London Facility, All Services Down - Make Sure You Have Backups!
HostDime, a global datacenter provider with over 200 employees, has had its service in London terminated. Downstreams are feeling the pain.
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A VPS For Only $7/YEAR in Chicago! Wow! Check Out TNAHosting!
TNAHosting just rocked the community with a fantastic offer on LowEndTalk!
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Deep Lore on the LEB Provider Graveyard: Lessons From Every Major Deadpool of the Last Few Years
In the LowEnd community, a "deadpool" is not a wisecracking Marvel superhero. It's a provider who cratered, often taking our readers' money with it. Let's take a look at some prominent deadpools over the last few years to see what lessons we can learn.
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Dollar-a-Month VPS! Check Out These Servitro Offers in Germany!
Some people think you need to spend $5 or $10 a month to get a VPS. But as Servitro demonstrates, all you need is a dollar a month to get service!
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25% of Americans Have an "Intimate, Romantic" Relationship With an AI Chatbot
If you had to guess the percentage of American adults who say they have a "personal" relationship with an AI chatbot, what would be your guess? And what percentage of those would describe it as "romantic"?
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Is TrueNAS Killing Its Community Edition? Say It Ain't So!
TrueNAS has eliminated the ability to reproduce their ISO. Is this the beginning of the end of the community edition?
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Are 200,000 Human Cells in a Petri Dish Really Playing DOOM? Pump the Brakes
200,000 human brain cells playing DOOM. Is that mind-blowing? Well...
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The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead Within 5 Years
Now that reimplementing software is so easy to do, copyleft is crumbling. The Linux kernel may well be next.
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New York Moves to Protect Professional Paychecks by Prohibiting LLM Advice on Medical, Legal, and Engineering Questions
New York Senate Bill S7263 is under consideration, and it seeks to prohibit LLMs from dispensing advice on a broad range of topics.
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The New Reality: Blame the Human Engineer, Not the AI
Amazon's AI broke Kiro. But they'd rather blame a human engineer, for rather obvious reasons.
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GoDaddy Doesn't Want You Anymore: Business Users Only Now!
"Our Services are not intended for private, personal or household use" say the new GoDaddy terms of service. Let's talk about why this happened, and what it means.
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Launch Your Personal AI Agent Today! 50% OFF Plans from Hostiger!
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've heard about OpenClaw, an open-source, autonomous AI agent that goes beyond conversation. Hostiger is ready to hook you up with this amazing technology for just $4.99/month!
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That Was a Fun Read! Pondering Cosmological UUIDs
UUIDs are fine for Earth. But what if you need UUIDs that can span the stars?
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AI Fraudster Matt Shumer Wrote "Something Big is Happening" and He Should Be Ashamed
Matt Shumer has been exposed before as a liar and fraud. Yet people are still reading his essays. Why?
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Prompt It Again, Sam: The Three Reasons Microsoft Decided to Ditch OpenAI and Run Its Own Models.
Bad news for OpenAI: its former partner and funding source will instead shortly become a very well-funded competitor.
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