#unitedcenter — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #unitedcenter, aggregated by home.social.
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Weekly output: DDoS attacks, Ed Zitron at Ai4, Delta WiFi spoofing, security perspectives from Black Hat’s NOC, AT&T’s Turbo Live
Having zero in-person work events on my calendar this week was a real treat after spending the prior week in Vegas bouncing between two conferences. That downtime also allowed me to finish two stories from those events.
8/11/2026: Major DDoS Attacks Are Booming, But US No Longer the Most Targeted Country, PCMag
I wrote up a Cloudflare report on trends in distributed denial-of-service attacks and closed it out with a reminder of how efforts to set security standards for the connected gadgets that are often enlisted into DDoS botnets continue to lag.
8/11/2026: This Tech Expert Thinks It’s ‘Time to Call Bullshit on the AI Industry’, PCMag
The easier thing to do with Ed Zitron’s talk at Ai4 would have been to write a scaffold of a post around his most memorable lines, but I wanted to provide some context for the numbers he threw out. The required research started feeling like an exercise in yak shaving, in part because the AI data-center news cycle did not stop.
8/12/2026: Delta Passenger Spoofs Wi-Fi in the Air (Pro Tip: Don’t Do This), PCMag
After seeing so many other places jump on this story, I decided I should do my part–and make sure that my own post, unlike so many others, would feature a photo of 757 in Delta colors instead of some other plane in DL’s fleet.
8/14/2026: At Black Hat, AI is helping security pros find threats—and creating new ones, Fast Company
This was a Black Hat meeting request that I enthusiastically obliged, because Black Hat network admins don’t hold back when they’re talking about unwise behavior they’ve seen on the conference’s WiFi. James Pope (outside this information-security conference, senior director of security product research at Corelight) had some forceful advice for people using AI to vibe-code their own software: “Stop having janky apps.”
8/15/2026: At Rush Concert, AT&T’s Turbo Live Rocked, With Dazzling Download Speeds, PCMag
This story ran almost a month after the concert in question; first I had to field various bits of breaking news, then I had to tell my AT&T PR contact to set aside my questions about this data-only power-up and instead answer a query about a round of retroactive rate hikes, then Ai4 and Black Hat monopolized my journalistic bandwidth. I may or may not have also needed additional time to see how many Rush song-title references I could sneak into this post.
#AI #AIHype #Ai4 #ATT #BlackHat #Cloudflare #cybersecurity #dataCenters #DDoS #Delta #DeltaWiFi #DeltaWiFi #DL #EdZitron #informationSecurity #infosec #NetworkOperationsCenter #NOC #Rush #TurboLive #UnitedCenter #vibeCoding -
Redeveloping United Center Parking Lots
Wow, this looks really cool. The United Center is a sea of parking in the middle of downtown Chicago.
"New retail, entertainment and residential district could not only be a boon for Chicago professional sports attendance, but spur a new wave of interest and economic activity that creates a halo effect and spreads out to neighborhoods that have historically been inadequately served. "
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#Kentucky #Gov. #AndyBeshear #assails #Trump’s #record on #abortionrights at #DNC.
“Their (#Republican) #policies give #rapists more #rights than their #victims. That's not #inconvenient. It's just plain #wrong,” Beshear said to a packed crowd at the #UnitedCenter.
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The #DNC will be held from Mon, Aug 19, until Thurs, Aug 22. #Convention programming will be aired from the #UnitedCenter in #Chicago live from 6:15 PM to 11PM ET on Mon, & 7PM to 11PM ET for all other days.
Nearly 50k visitors are expected to attend the convention, including about 4k delegates.
#Democrats hope to present themselves as fully unified behind #Harris & #Walz.
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Niech mi ktos powie, ze to zdjecie to zart / fotomontaz 🤨
Tak ma niby wygladac nowy parkiet boiska #ChicagoBulls w hali #UnitedCenter - przeciez tam wszyscy, wlacznie z widzami transmisji TV oslepna 🤨
(zdjecie pochodzi z oficjalnego fan page druzyny)
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@Mary625 In Chicago, at the United Center, 1901 W. Madison Street.