Document fingerprinting to identify leakers is a fascinating niche application. There are all kinds of sophisticated methods but the way Musk went about it is, well, rather lame. Read on to lead how to pros do it!
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Today we have another awesome interview for you, this time with Henry Vaaderpass, Co-Founder and Chief Business Development Officer at Warren.io, an Estonian startup that is bringing innovation to the cloud hosting space at an amazing pace. This position in the industry as an platform outfitter is really fascinating. It's a cool company, cool story, and cool interview, so read on and enjoy!
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Fred Brooks was a pioneer in the field of software engineering. If your boss is incompetent or your projects are falling behind, it's probably because you're violating one of his maxims. Brooks, a Turing Award winner, passed away this week at the age of 91.
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The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy recently released a "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights". It's an interesting mix of the obvious and Z
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For years I've read comments online by people who don't trust cloud providers because the government will use them to spy on them or these cloud companies are building massive behavioral databases. The reality is that it's the bored junior sysadmin or the perverted graveyard shift content moderator who are going to rifle through your files. Case in point this week: Facebook.
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To continue LowEndBox’s new “interesting news” series, we came across this post shared by RackNerd recently, and thought it would be pretty cool to share, considering this is not something you see ver...
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TinySnap asked us to take a look at their new flagship product. It's a neat browser extension that allows you to do some interesting things with your screenshots, but it's still evolving. Check out our full review with many - wait for it - screenshots!
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Why not join in on the hilarious joke that's making its rounds on Twitter? Thousands of Twitter users are tweeting the same joke.
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Meta has laid off a team which is an "elite tactical squad" in the artificial intelligence and machine learning fields. Has the bidding war already begun for these dark wizards, who've worked for one of the most rapacious tech firms and are presumably ready to do more?
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"Globalping is a platform that allows anyone to run networking commands such as ping, traceroute, dig and mtr on probes distributed all around the world. Our goal is to provide a free and simple API for everyone out there to build interesting networking tools and services."
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The game is vile, repulsive, repellent, and XXX, but the Steam reviewers love it. The title alone is startling. It's part of a strange subgenre that raises all sorts of questions about our relationship with history...which is not to say the game publishers weigh such issues.
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Twitter is censoring Mastodon links on its platform, labeling them as "malware". This is both petty and hypocritical. Does this mean that Twitter views Mastodon as a serious threat? What happened to free speech?
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Everyone who has anything to do with leading Twitter's security, privacy, and compliance departments has fled the company in mass resignations. Twitter is headed for a security cliff. How vulnerable are you?
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VPS systems for a dollar a year. Storage VPSes for pennies per GB. Crazy-cheap shared hosting deals. It's coming in only two weeks!
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If you're seeing weird things in your logs, it's because the UK National Cyber Security Center has decided to scan all UK systems as part of their "Scanning the Internet for Fun and Profit" (their term). Click to learn how to opt-out.
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Starting later this week, I'm beginning my journey towards the Google Professional Cloud Architect certification. In this article I'll go over the path and training plans, and share some thoughts on certifications in the industry in general.
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Chess GM Hans Niemann is suing other chess notables for $400 million. We break down the legal strategy and likely outcome of this lawsuit, based on the comments from multiple attorneys. Will Niemann prevail? Not a chance.
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What happened to Internet service in the Shetlands, and why was there a Russian spy ship nearby? The Russians have amped up their undersea capabilities, but the vulnerability of this infrastructure is much broader when we consider the technological advances in underwaer drones.
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Voxility doesn't, and neither do Zayo, Worldstream, and others. Joshua Moon turned to LowEndTalk for help in a fascinating post! Get the full history of the network wanderings of one of the most controversial if not THE most controversial site on the Internet.
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You may have noticed a new supporter joining the ranks here at LowEndBox. We're pleased to welcome CPLicense to the fold! They offer various essential hosting licenses, including Plesk and Immunify36...
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Kiss that 15GB of free Google storage goodbye...it's being upgraded to 1TB! Your favorite editor is hoping that this applies to grandfathered accounts as well.
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Software defined networks is a real thing. But what about software defined DDoS protection? That's what Akamai is announcing but alas there aren't many details. What do you think about it?
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Free VPS! No clickbaitery here, we're talking a straight up free VPS that you can qualify for. In fact, if you're a LowEndTalk member, you may already have. Check it out - and the freevps.org web site design competition!
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Here's a hot take: "[SolusVM 2.0] is still missing some core features that SolusVM 1 previously had, and V2 is essentially SolusIO rebranded as SolusVM 2." Ouch. Read on to learn more about the controversy around this new release.
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Does it really take 10x more people to run Twitter compared to Reddit?
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Got a VPS you don't need or missed a sale? Try the secondary market!
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