Figma is spending a boatload on AWS every month. Is this the best use of 15% of their revenue?
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A little less than 24 hours ago, a catastrophic fire erupted at Telecom Egypt’s Ramses Exchange in downtown Cairo, resulting in the deaths of four employees and injuries to at least 27 others.
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Microsoft has laid off 15,000 people in the last 60 days. Is that because AI is taking people's jobs? Not exactly.
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The Internet is not one flat network where anything goes. Humans gonna human, which means erecting all sorts of barriers. One of the biggest walls is between the outside world and Russia. Can you buy a VPS in the Motherland?
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Writing is hard. Perhaps you need a $1,100 typewriter to make it easy?
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On Friday, the US Supreme Court ruled that states can require age verification for pornography web sites. There's 23 states with these laws on the books nowl
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If you love Meta's free series of AI models (LLaMA), sorry to inform you that its days may be numbered. Meta is considering "de-investing" in LLaMA as it overhauls its AI strategy.
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We've all done it: seen some incredible offer that checks a couple of our desire boxes and done a speed run through purchasing...only to end up with a system that doesn't meet our needs because we made assumptions. Be smart and double-check the details before signing up!
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Back in the day - waaaay back in the day - unicore systems were the norm. Today, they're a rarity. The Linux kernel is being updated to reflect that.
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RackNerd has landed in Toronto, Canada! And of course, they've got amazing cheap VPS offers for you. Come to the Great White North!
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Well, it had to happen eventually. AI services are being sued left and right by authors, artists, and musicians. And now Hollywood has entered the fray. Disney, 20th Century Studios, Universal City Studios Productions, and DreamWorks Animation have jointly filed a lawsuit against Midjourney accusing it of rampant copyright infringement.
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CharityHost is rebranding (again), this time as ExactVM. So now we're waiting for ExactVMgate, which should happen any day now.
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If you're trying to learn an instrument, gamification is a concept that could play a huge role in your success. It's worked very well for me. A followup on an earlier post from last October.
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Ransomware is always a rough experience. Do you pay? Do you go through a laborious recovery? How do you manage outraged users? And what if you made over €300K in profit in the experience?
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Remember the part in Mark Twain's 1884 novel, Huckleberry Finn, where Huck uses a laser sniper rifle? Me neither.
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As you've undoubtedly read by now, a sophisticated Ukrainian operation (Operation Spider's Web) launched drones from prepositioned storage crates outside four Russian air bases and blew up about a third of Russia's strategic long-range bomber fleet. What's been less noted is the open source software that powered these systems.
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Everyone knows MinIO, a popular S3-compatible object storage platform. It used to have a lot of love in the community. Then it decided it didn't want its community any more.
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Popular LEB provider, RackNerd, consistently voted as a top provider year over year by the LowEndTalk community, and recognized multiple times on the Inc. 5000 list for its rapid growth, has today announced a significant restock of their popular Ashburn VPS location after being sold out for several months in a row. Read on to learn more...and get in on their cheap VPS deals starting at under $11/year!
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VPN has become so mainstream a lot of people don't even known what "VPN" stands for, but know they need one. From streamers looking to bypass regional restrictions to security-conscious netizens evading trackers to people looking to get around the recent craze of laws requiring registration to view porn, everyone is using VPNs in 2025. The market is saturated with commercial VPN providers promising anonymity, speed, and security. So if you need a VPN, it's just a question of searching for the right coupons to sign up, right? Not so fast.
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The latest BackBlaze drive stats report was released today. The quarterly reports offer invaluable insight into real-world, hard-use hard drive statistics.
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Want to generate high quality AI-authored videos at home, for free, without sending any data to the cloud? Piotr walks us through using Wan 2.1, an awesome model from Alibaba.
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Community provider Crunchbits is organizing a community-wide charity event on LowEndTalk, to be launched later this month. It's shaping up to be a big event in our community and we plan to promote it to the hilt. Rewards for those who donate, publicity for participating hosts, and a lot of money going to a worthy cause. We don't have all the details yet, but we got a head's up and permission to share a teaser with you.
Read More about The Upcoming Crunchbits Charity Event: We Don’t Have All the Details Yet But It Sounds Extremely Cool!
Pope Leo XIV is here! Let's take a quick peek at the Vatican's datacenter and online presence.
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Do some people develop serious illnesses when exposed to the electromagnetic fields that Wi-Fi routers, cell phones, and other modern devices emit? According to believers, exposure to WiFi, cell phones, and other electromagnetic fields (EMFs) can cause nausea, fatigue, headaches, skin rashes, memory problems, and more.
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The Soviet Union may drop a space egg worth $1,000 in your backyard in mid-May. Let's look at the odds and
Read More about A $1,000 Gift May Be Landing In Your Backyard, Courtesy of the Soviet Union
The CharityHost story just keeps going. There's been a half-dozen lengthy threads on LowEndTalk and now there's a site setup to consolidate all the scandal information.
Read More about The Uncharitable Website About Charity Host: The Scandal Escalates32GB RAM for $5 first month! Wow! That's pretty amazing, and that's what Hostiger has for you in Istanbul.
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What is an "exotic" geography? One in which there are few datacenters and few offers. One LowEndTalk member has proposed categories, and it's pretty accurate.
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