ColoCloud Breach: Virtualizor Bugs Lead to Wild LowEndTalk Thread
ColoCrossing's ColoCloud brand suffered a serious breach today. The CC team is working hard to remediate the situation. Here's what we know so far.
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Big Tech's Resilience Offers Encouraging Signals for the Hosting Industry and the "LowEnd" Ecosystem
Investors in major U.S. technology companies are breathing a sigh of relief following a round of strong Q1 2025 earnings reports, which have helped ease concerns about a potential slowdown in the tech...
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GoDaddy Posts Strong Q1 2025 Results: Revenue Up 8% Year-Over-Year
GoDaddy has kicked off 2025 with a strong set of first-quarter results, reporting healthy top-line growth, strong cash flow, and increased operating profitability, even as net income appeared to decline due to an accounting quirk from the prior year.
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How to Poison AI Scrapers With Colorless, Odorless Iocaine: The Current Arms Race Between Billionaires and Hosters
AI scrapers are "relentless and brutal". Just ask Wikipedia. There's an arms race between these well-funded pillagers and content providers, and some people are deploying poisoners to slow bots down and fill their models with garbage.
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"I Recall Him Spefically Mentioning James Bond": The Juicy Deel/Rippling Espionage Affidavit Is Out
In our last spy story episode, a spy from HR SaaS firm Deel had been outed where he worked at Rippling, using some clever forensics. Now the spy has turned state's evidence, and his affidavit makes for spicy reading. Needless to say, Deel has hung him out to dry.
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Google Summer of Code 2025 is Almost Here! Check Out What BorgBase Needs and How You Can Earn a Nice Stipend
Google's Summer of Code 2025 is opening up for applications in a couple weeks. You can early up to $6,600 in stipends and contribute to open source projects. One you might want to consider if BorgBase, a community favorite.
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The Transition from WHOIS to RDAP: What You Need to Know
The WHOIS system, long used for retrieving domain registration details, has been sunset in favor of the new Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP). This transition, initiated by ICANN, is designed t...
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Domain Stats: Big Trends Shaking Up the Domain Market
ICANN recently unveiled the latest statistics regarding .com domain registrations, as compiled by Verisign for August 2024. This report reveals important trends within the domain registration landscape, particularly concerning major registrars.
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How Bitcoin Miners Are Becoming the Essential Power Source for AI Data Centers
In light of the cryptocurrency market’s volatility, Bitcoin miners are adapting their existing infrastructure to serve the data storage and computing needs of the AI sector.
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Automattic's $32 Million Annual Demand: The High Stakes of Using the WordPress Trademark
The saga of WordPress, Automattic, and WP Engine continues. As LowEndBox first covered on September 24, 2024, the situation within the hosted WordPress community and industry has continued to become more complicated.
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Nvidia's CEO Huang Proposes Nuclear Power as a Sustainable Solution for Data Center Energy Needs
Jensen Huang, the Chief Executive Officer of Nvidia, who played a pivotal role in the development of the technology driving the surge in artificial intelligence computing, stated that nuclear power represents a viable power source for datacenters.
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Guess Who Just Got a $5 Billion Check From the Government?
Unfortunately, the answer is not "raindog308". But the feds are handing out BIG checks these days...
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