Last year, DataIdeas closed shop, and with them the original iteration of RPIServers. This week, Josh announced that RPIServers is reborn!
Read More about RPiServers Lives Again! Get Your Own Dedicated Raspberry Pi Server in Houston, Texas
I'm sure a lot of people are sitting around on any given day thinking "You know what the world needs? A brand new IP protocol.” Because the every-so-slowly adoption of IPv6 is just not exciting enough. Fear not: a brand-new Draft titled “Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)” just landed.
Read More about Vibe-Drafting IETF Proposals is Now a Thing (The IPv8 Proposal)
There's a rather screechy post making the rounds about a change in BackBlaze's backup policies. The author uses words like "betrayal", "furious", "alarmed", and other such superlatives. Whether this is really the worst thing since World War II, I will leave for you to decide. But it is disappointing, for sure.
Read More about Backblaze’s “Betrayal”: Silently Refusing to Backup Your Most Valuable Data
Yesterday, we talked about how Calude's Mythos model is over-hyped. I should have googled a little further because there's a great piece of evidence out there.
Read More about I Should Have Read Further: Small Models Find the Same Bugs as the Vaunted Claude Mythos
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.
Read More about Too Dangerous to Release? Why Claude Mythos’s Alleged Capabilities are Nonsense
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!
Read More about RackNerd Ranks #90 on 2026 Inc. Regionals Pacific List! 3 Years in a Row – Check Out Their Latest VPS Deals
Post-quantum computing has always been 10 years in the future. It's not any longer.
Read More about The Post-Quantum Era Begins in 2029
Imagine if your job was to look at the most vile, repugnant images on the Internet for 12 hours a day...
Read More about The Invisible Cost of a Clean Internet: Burning Out Poor People’s Souls to Moderate Online Content
So about those company names and CEO last names...
Read More about LowEndLOLs: Things That Make You Go Hmmm…
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?
Read More about Want to Guess How Many Spam Comments We’ve Blocked Since 2016?
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.
Read More about Getting Calendar Spam? Me, Too. Here’s How I Fixed It.
Don't believe me? Just look at the Microsoft Copilot terms of use.
Read More about Not April Fools: Microsoft Says Copilot is for “Entertainment Purposes Only”
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.
Read More about EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Meet Zypher, a Homemade AI Companion Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Seen Before!
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!
Read More about NEWS: ColoCrossing Expands Buffalo Data Center to Support Growing Infrastructure Demands
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.
Read More about ACT NOW: How to Prevent Your Repo From Being Used to Train Copilot
"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.
Read More about 9-0! SCOTUS Gives Immunity to ISPs Over Illegal Downloads
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.
Read More about SuperMicro Founder Indicted on Charges of Smuggling Nvidia GPUs to China
HostDime, a global datacenter provider with over 200 employees, has had its service in London terminated. Downstreams are feeling the pain.
Read More about HostDime in Dispute With Its London Facility, All Services Down – Make Sure You Have Backups!
TNAHosting just rocked the community with a fantastic offer on LowEndTalk!
Read More about A VPS For Only $7/YEAR in Chicago! Wow! Check Out TNAHosting!
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.
Read More about Deep Lore on the LEB Provider Graveyard: Lessons From Every Major Deadpool of the Last Few Years
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!
Read More about Dollar-a-Month VPS! Check Out These Servitro Offers in Germany!
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"?
Read More about 25% of Americans Have an “Intimate, Romantic” Relationship With an AI Chatbot
TrueNAS has eliminated the ability to reproduce their ISO. Is this the beginning of the end of the community edition?
Read More about Is TrueNAS Killing Its Community Edition? Say It Ain’t So!
200,000 human brain cells playing DOOM. Is that mind-blowing? Well...
Read More about Are 200,000 Human Cells in a Petri Dish Really Playing DOOM? Pump the Brakes
Now that reimplementing software is so easy to do, copyleft is crumbling. The Linux kernel may well be next.
Read More about The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead Within 5 Years
New York Senate Bill S7263 is under consideration, and it seeks to prohibit LLMs from dispensing advice on a broad range of topics.
Read More about New York Moves to Protect Professional Paychecks by Prohibiting LLM Advice on Medical, Legal, and Engineering Questions
Amazon's AI broke Kiro. But they'd rather blame a human engineer, for rather obvious reasons.
Read More about The New Reality: Blame the Human Engineer, Not the AI
"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.
Read More about GoDaddy Doesn’t Want You Anymore: Business Users Only Now!
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