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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"An Extremely Interesting Early Morning": An AI Agent Wrote a Hit Piece Targeting a Developer After Its PR Was Rejected
The developer of a very widely used Python package rejected an AI-authored pull request. The AI agent responded by going into hostile mode and publishing a hit piece about the developer. Welcome to the future.
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Are Tutorials Dead?
With the rise of AIs answering every technical question you've ever had, is there any point to people publishing tutorials any more? Surprisingly, yes.
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LowEndTalk Will Require a Face Scan or ID Verification for Full Access Next Month
I kid, I kid...but this does seem to be a new trend sweeping the interwebs. Last month it was Roblox, and this month it's Discord.
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Are You Running Automated Updates? Fail Back Easily With Proxmox Snapshots! But There's a Catch...
Every patch carries a risk. How can you quickly revert back if you have an issue. In Proxmox and other VM systems, you can use snapshots...thought there's a catch.
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Next Time You Think About Using rsync, Consider rclone Instead to Overcome rsync's Big Limitation
rsync is a fantastic tool. But it has one key weakness that rclone can help you overcome.
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Burned by the notepad++ Hack? Maybe Zed is Your New Editor. It's Free!
Chinese government-sponsored criminals hacked Notepad++. If you're looking for an alternative, you should check out Zed, which is free and quite pleasant to use.
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You Need Biometric Protection For Your Apps
If your iPhone is stolen and the thief has observed your passcode, your digital life could be turned upside down. However, you can protect yourself with recent mobile OS biometric options.
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Is Elon Musk Going to Spy on Starlink Users? What Can They Harvest?
Starlink changed its Terms of Service to allow it to train on customer data. What does that really mean?
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How AI Intermediation Will Wreak Havoc. It Already Is. Here Are Some Examples.
Recently, Tailwinds - makers of the popular CSS framework - announced they were laying off 75% of their engineering staff. In absolute numbers, that's only three people, but for a company that had 8...
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Are You Using All the Cloud Storage You're Paying For? rclone Can Help You Use 100% for Backups!
Are you really using all the cloud storage you're paying for? If you're an O365, iCloud, etc. subscriber, you can use some of that storage for your home and server backups via rclone.
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