#vegas — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #vegas, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.lovenhl.com/1592532/ Vegas Golden Knights’ SYSTEM UPGRADE—Can Ryan Craig’s Tweaks PUSH the Team Farther? | VGK Podcast #AlexPietrangelo #BruceCassidy #ChandlerStephenson #GoldenKnights #GoldenKnightsNews #GoldenKnightsPodcast #GoldenKnightsShow #HockeyPodcast #HockeyShow #JackEichel #LasVegas #LoganThompson #MarkStone #nhl #NHLPacificDivision #NHLWesternConference #PacificDivision #RobinLehner #SheaTheodore #Vegas #VegasGoldenKnights #VGK #VGKNews #WesternConference #WilliamKarlsson
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https://www.lovenhl.com/1592532/ Vegas Golden Knights’ SYSTEM UPGRADE—Can Ryan Craig’s Tweaks PUSH the Team Farther? | VGK Podcast #AlexPietrangelo #BruceCassidy #ChandlerStephenson #GoldenKnights #GoldenKnightsNews #GoldenKnightsPodcast #GoldenKnightsShow #HockeyPodcast #HockeyShow #JackEichel #LasVegas #LoganThompson #MarkStone #nhl #NHLPacificDivision #NHLWesternConference #PacificDivision #RobinLehner #SheaTheodore #Vegas #VegasGoldenKnights #VGK #VGKNews #WesternConference #WilliamKarlsson
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I will consider the opening of a BRT line a failure of the autonomous car tunnel concept.
https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/las-vegas-brt-bus-rapid-transit/828563/
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I've been to both places BTW. That's why I have the opinion I do, and I'm strictly talking east coast. West coast is an entirely different beast, and I've only been to #Vegas and #LosAngeles there.
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BOMB MEXICAN FOOD🔥🔥 in #Vegas‼️ Tulum vibes 🥳 #foodie #mukbang #explore
https://youtube.com/shorts/Te7t3wcatjQ?is=8jBHXf1g03nBSt_7 -
Stratosphere Casino and Tower Hotel ( WWE WrestleMania XXXI - Las Vegas - San Jose - Los Angeles )
Original : https://www.flickr.com/photos/miguel_discart/50746846678
#2015 #E1670mmF4ZaOss #Food #FromPhotolabXToPhotolab4 #FromPlXToPl4 #Hotel #LasVegas #Plxtopl4 #StratosphereCasino #StratosphereCasinoAndTowerHotel #Vegas -
Stratosphere Casino and Tower Hotel ( WWE WrestleMania XXXI - Las Vegas - San Jose - Los Angeles )
Original : https://www.flickr.com/photos/miguel_discart/50747517567
#2015 #E1670mmF4ZaOss #Food #FromPhotolabXToPhotolab4 #FromPlXToPl4 #Hotel #LasVegas #Plxtopl4 #StratosphereCasino #StratosphereCasinoAndTowerHotel #Vegas -
Stratosphere Casino and Tower Hotel ( WWE WrestleMania XXXI - Las Vegas - San Jose - Los Angeles )
Original : https://www.flickr.com/photos/miguel_discart/50746675753
#2015 #Beer #E1670mmF4ZaOss #Food #FromPhotolabXToPhotolab4 #FromPlXToPl4 #Glass #Hotel #LasVegas #Plxtopl4 #StratosphereCasino #StratosphereCasinoAndTowerHotel #Vegas -
Here’s why Black Hat meeting pitches are almost always doomed with me
My seventh year of Black Hat is in the books, and once again I fought a losing battle with my own schedule. Which I would have lost by a much larger margin if I’d accepted more than a tiny fraction of the meeting requests I’d gotten from PR reps for various information-security companies exhibiting at that conference.
This collective quest for my in-person presence seems to happen every year with Black Hat (see also: CES), regardless of whom I’m writing for or how recently I’ve done any extended writing on infosec. I have to assume that it must work for some journalists and companies, but it almost never does for me.
First, there’s the onstage content of Black Hat: Most large conferences feature a lengthy series of panels, but Black Hat’s tend to be much more info-rich. That makes them easier to turn into posts and therefore into money–when I can find time to write.
Second, there’s the short duration of this event: After some opening pleasantries on a Tuesday afternoon and evening, everything is crammed into Wednesday and Thursday.
Third, this year’s edition of Black Hat gave me even less free time than usual because I was bouncing between that conference and another about two miles north on the Strip–Ai4, which ran from Tuesday through Thursday at the Venetian and paid me to moderate one panel Tuesday and another Thursday.
And some publicists compound their clients’ problems when they wait until the run-up to Black Hat to try to introduce me to these companies instead of picking almost any other time of the year besides (ugh) CES Advent.
Three weeks ago, I felt compelled to vent on LinkedIn: “PR friends, can y’all please explain this obsession with booking meetings at Black Hat? The conference only runs two days and change, with more than 100 generally info-dense talks and presentations filling the schedule Wednesday and Thursday while we’re also supposed to be writing and filing copy. How much free time do your clients think journalists have there?”
The replies I got were more enlightening than I perhaps deserved. To paraphrase a few:
- Well, some journalists do take meetings, so we have to ask.
- Developing one-on-one connections means a lot to us.
- Some of our clients insist on this, even if we tell them it’s a bad tactic.
- You can always say no.
About that last one: It is true that I can always reply to a PR pitch to say “sorry, no interest” and maybe even say why. But then I would spend a large fraction of my workdays doing just that–and no, I don’t trust Gemini, or at least the implementation of that AI service in the Google Workspace version of Gmail that I pay for, to send those replies for me. Sorry, but the lack of a reply remains the reply.
And as I noted at the start of this post, I did accept a few meeting requests. All but one had one thing in common: They were for events in the evening. (I would have accepted breakfast invites too, but nobody sent me any.) Everybody has to eat, and while Black Hat provides a wealth of exhibitor-subsidized dining options, ones that allowed me to have a useful conversation with somebody at a company of interest got my attention over others.
(Free advice to companies looking to get time with journalists at large conferences like Black Hat, CES or MWC: Most of us aren’t parachuting in for a single day of coverage, and you will vastly improve your odds of us going to your event if you don’t schedule it on the same peak evening as everybody else.)But no matter how well PR types optimize their meeting pitches, there’s no escaping one crazy-making aspect of this quest for journalists’ attention: how the volume of these requests keeps suggesting a far higher value for our time than our compensation indicates.
#Ai4 #BlackHat #BlackHatMeetings #conferences #cybersecurity #hackerSummerCamp #informationSecurity #infosec #LasVegas #techJournalism #techPr #Vegas -
𝗛𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗞𝗹𝗼𝗸 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗮𝗮𝗿 𝗩𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘀
Hans Klok heeft de hoop om ooit weer op te treden in Las Vegas nog niet opgegeven. Vrijdag gaf de illusionist in De Oranjezomer op SBS6 aan dat het er mogelijk weer van gaat komen.
https://www.rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/5636558/hans-klok-droomt-weer-van-terugkeer-naar-vegas
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Just arrived in Vegas and we’re cooking in this 115° heat, but the mesh is cooking too 😎🔥 Looking forward to meeting everyone at DEF CON! #Meshtastic #DEFCON #Vegas
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I'm in #vegas for something. I'll be spending my time with the @L0nelyH4ckers community. #defcon #DEFCON34
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got my #bsideslv #hackertracker planned out. alao have stickers coming in for #Glassof0J
i might do some interviews and maybe get a fun panel together to digest and talk about what we learned at the conference. Or who had the best Hacker Karaoke performance?
likely not hitting DEFCON up unless i bum a badge for a but to check it out and maybe hold court for a bit. Plenty to do and catch up on in #Vegas.
Night Clubs (suggestions)
DryBar
Mob Museum
Freemont Street
Cirque du Soleil
ShoppingAny other fun suggestions for my Thursday through saturday?
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Workshop registration is open! 💀🕺
Get hands-on at AppSec Village @ DEF CON 34 with workshops covering prompt injection, container escapes, Burp extension and Bambda development, software supply chain defence, open-source cloud security and AI-enhanced threat modeling.
Places are limited, so explore the lineup and book your workshops now.
Register ➡️ https://buff.ly/7meD6qj
See you in Vegas!!
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credit hit my account last week- apparently I overpaid enough at my old place that I've now got enough credit to cover 18+ mo. of electricity at my current place!
would rather have the cash of course, but given that NV Energy was originally declining to issue full refunds at all on this issue, suppose i can be content with the credit
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2026/feb/24/nv-energy-to-issue-63m-in-refunds-to-multifamily-c/
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Bags packed. Suit pressed. Arms crossed until August.
20 days until AppSec Village takes over @defcon 34.
Fix the Flag is live - play secure-coding wargames on-site or remotely, or build your own challenge and see it run live in Vegas.
DEF CON 34: Aug 7–9. See you there.
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Vegas is gonna be 108F. Canceling all outdoor activities... might not even go to the pool.
Reminds me of a movie moment I grew up with from Good Morning Vietnam:
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So the annexation of #Canada would be like how #Israel took the Golan Height?
"Lake Mead, the country’s largest reservoir near Las #Vegas, is now 28% full. Lake Powell, the second-largest reservoir, at just 24%"
As #Climate change hits, in the not so far future, more wars about water are to come.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o5wlr3gi4tz23ake7ef23ejs/post/3mpelvsuatk2p -
Opinion: Legally, You Have To Tell Me if You’re a Member of the Blue Man Group if I Ask
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To the Nines: A Stephanie Plum Novel "Stephanie Plum's got rent to pay, people shooting at her & psychos wanting her dead every day of the week" Sale: $11.99 to $1.99 by Janet Evanovich 4.6/5 (8,762 Reviews) #books #humor #satire #fiction #mystery #suspense #trenton #vegas #bountyhunter #booksky
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After almost 20 years of editing video with #Vegas, I’m hoping #FinalCutPro won’t be too hard to pick up. Not thrilled at all at paying $300 for it so I’d appreciate any recommendations for alternative #NLE software that isn’t laughably expensive when all someone wants to do is edit iPhone videos. #mac #apple #video #videoediting
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Southwest Airlines prices are utterly stupid. $950 for 2 people roundtrip from LA-to-Vegas? And now they're nickeling & diming for "selected seats". Geez, how did they get this bad?
Welp, "Skyscanner" airfare finder to the rescue!
https://www.skyscanner.com/
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"Enough war!" -- #Gazans shout for peace amid mounting
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/business.html#12#News24 | #Azerbaijan vows retaliation after #Iran's 'terrorist'
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#CapeTown#Victoria’s ‘Right to Work From #Home’ #Law Signals a
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/infotech.html#101Minor trafficked from #Texas to #Louisiana, Woman arrested
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-cities.html#10a#WashingtonCapitals #Trade Nic #Dowd to #Vegas Golden
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc.html#IndiaFrom #Canada's McCreath to #US's Anthony, recent breakthroughs
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Weekly output: teens + AI chatbots, Android updates, Trump on data-center energy use, Archer + Starlink, balcony solar, customer feedback, CDA 230 + AI, Bluetooth updates
BARCELONA–It’s a treat to be able to start off a post with this dateline. This is the 13th trip that’s afforded me that opportunity and the 12th involving MWC. But this trip isn’t like the ones before it in one way; on my way across the Atlantic, my country started a war of choice because the president felt like it. The world is better without Iran’s worthless, murdering theocrat Ali Khameni, but I have little confidence in the Trump administration’s ability to do the right things for that long-suffering country.
In addition to the links you see below, Patreon readers got a bonus post from me in which I shared lessons learned from more than 10 years of booking Airbnbs.
2/24/2026: Most Teens Use AI for Homework Help. 10% Let It Do Everything, PCMag
Getting an advance copy of this new study from the Pew Research Center gave me a chance to note a new student-understudy chatbot called Einstein and quiz the CEO behind that app.
2/25/2026: Android Update Puts Gemini AI In the Driver’s Seat for Ride-Hail, Food Orders, PCMag
I have somehow become PCMag’s Android-updates guy. This report included a little testimony about Google’s call-scam-detection feature misfiring for me, an important bit of context to include in a post telling readers about Google bringing that tool to Samsung’s new Galaxy S26 series of phones.
2/25/2026: As Energy Costs Soar, Trump Pushes AI Giants to ‘Produce Their Own Electricity’, PCMag
I didn’t watch the entire State of the Union address because self-care is an important thing, but after reading about President Trump’s call for data-center operators to pay for their electricity and power infrastructure, I knew I’d have to write about that initiative.
2/27/2028: Archer Aviation Taps Starlink for Air Taxi Connectivity, PCMag
I still don’t quite get the point of adding Starlink connectivity to aircraft that won’t fly longer than 15 minutes or higher than 4,000 feet above major cities, but this was an easy post to crank out Friday morning before heading to Dulles that afternoon to start my journey to Spain.
2/28/2026: After Years of Shining in Europe, Balcony Solar Comes Out of the Dark in the US, PCMag
This story had been in the works for literally months–I took the photo you see at the top of the piece on the afternoon that I arrived in Berlin for IFA in September–but the policy picture has also changed dramatically, and for the better, over the intervening months.
2/28/2026: What’s the Best Way to Get Customer Feedback in 2026? Hint: It’s Not Email, PCMag
Two weeks after the customer-experience firm Medallia had me at its annual conference in Vegas (with my hotel covered upfront and my airfare to be reimbursed), PCMag ran my recap of what I learned there.
3/1/2026: Online Platforms Are Not Liable for What Users Post. Should That Include Gen AI?, PCMag
I spent Thursday at the Cato Institute for this enlightening conference marking the 30th anniversary of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the 1996 act that bars you from suing an online platform for something that one of its users posted.
3/1/2026: Bluetooth Is Getting an Upgrade. Here’s What It Means for Your Devices, PCMag
I took almost all of the notes for this at CES in January, but I needed more time to confirm some details and then write the post, after which its lack of a news peg left it easy to set aside for a bit.
#AIChatbots #android #ArcherAviation #balconySolar #Barcelona #Bluetooth #Catalunya #CatoInstitute #CDA230 #ces #customerExperience #customerSatisfaction #cx #dataCenters #eVTOL #GeminiAI #IFA #LasVegas #Medallia #MWC #PewResearchCenter #plugInSolar #PresidentTrump #RatepayerProtectionPledge #SOTU #Spain #Starlink #StateOfTheUnion #travel #TrumpEnergyPolicy #Vegas -
Weekly output: Uber and Lucid’s robotaxi, Craig Newmark on dodging scams, Jensen Huang on engineering, Better Offline podcast
I got back from CES Friday morning, which means I’ve now more or less caught up with my sleep deficit from those frenetic five days in Las Vegas but still have a lot of writing to do.
1/5/2026: This Is the Robotaxi That Lucid and Nuro Are Building for Uber, PCMag
I wrote the first version of this off an embargoed copy of Uber’s announcement, then did an in-person inspection of Uber’s forthcoming self-driving version of the Lucid Gravity electric vehicle and updated the story two days later.
1/7/2026: Craiglist’s founder has some simple rules for not losing your mind—or money—on the internet, Fast Company
My video interview with Craig Newmark happened back in December–without any PR minder on the call–but online scams are an unfortunately evergreen topic.
1/7/2026: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: This Is Why I’m Lucky to Be an Engineer, PCMag
It was a treat to see Huang accept the engineering group IEEE’s annual medal of honor at a private event and gush a little about his chosen profession–the same one that my dad picked in college.
1/8/2026: CES 2026: Part Seven (Thursday), Better Offline
As I did last year, I wrapped up CES by joining tech gadfly Ed Zitron’s Better Offline podcast at the hotel suite he booked in Vegas for a lengthy conversation about what we saw at the show and what that says about the state of technology. My fellow guests in this Thursday night recording session: standup comedian Chloe Radlciffe and fellow writers Garrison Davis, Robert Evans, Westin Lee, and Ed Ongweso. After some post-recording banter, I went from there to the airport and fell asleep within maybe 10 minutes of takeoff.
#autonomousVehicle #BetterOffline #ces #CraigNewmark #Craiglist #EdZitron #IEEE #JensenHuang #LasVegas #LucidGravity #Nvidia #onlineScams #PauseTake9 #podcast #robotaxi #selfDrivingCar #Take9 #Uber #Vegas
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Ok it was that time again. New episode has dropped with my drift car updates.
#vegasdrift, #vegas #tougesw #tougenw #touge #drift #s12 #s12silvia
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Weekly output: Dashlane, T-Mobile home 5G, AI skepticism at Black Hat, the Fourth Amendment at Black Hat, Black Hat’s network, AOL dial-up
Black Hat is one of the more exhausting and intimidating events that I cover. That’s not because I stress over the risk of my devices getting compromised, but because almost all of its two-day schedule is blocked out by timeslots featuring from nine to 11 briefings each. That increases the odds of my missing something good and reduces the time in which I can write up what I do see.
Over at Patreon, I explained to readers why I decided not to stick around Vegas for another couple of days to cover the DEF CON security conference, somewhat to my dismay.
8/6/2025: Dashlane to Delete Its Free Tier of Service, PCMag
I wrote this Monday afternoon off an embargoed copy of Dashlane’s press release after getting further input from a publicist on two points.
8/6/2025: T-Mobile Tweaks 5G Home Internet to Add Benefits (and Fine-Print Fees), PCMag
An editor suggested I take a look at the T-Mobile announcement heralding some added perks to its fixed-wireless service, then I noticed a change in the fine print around its prices. That made this much more interesting to write about.
8/7/2025: This AI Skeptic Thinks AI Is Bringing Human Brains Down to Its Level, PCMag
After catching the tail end of a panel featuring Gary Marcus at Web Summit Vancouver, I made sure to watch his talk at Black Hat and found that an excellent use of my time.
8/8/2025: ACLU Expert: Please Don’t Make Bulk Snooping by Governments Easier, PCMag
Jennifer Granick’s talk was another one I’d put on my to-watch list after first looking over Black Hat’s schedule. I wish I shared her optimism that more companies would be inspired to adopt data-minimization practices to avoid aiding government surveillance.
8/9/2025: Inside Black Hat’s Network Security Operation: Humans Are Still a Problem, PCMag
After several years of writing about the penultimate panel in which Black Hat network admins relate how the event’s network worked and how badly some attendees behaved on it, I had the chance to quiz two of these experts beforehand. I should have done that sooner!
8/9/2025: End of an E-Era: AOL to End Dial-Up Internet Access, PCMag
I did not plan on working Saturday morning after the cognitive overload of Black Hat, but seeing tech journalist Ernie Smith’s Bluesky post highlighting the impending demise of AOL’s dial-up access left me feeling compelled as a Gen Xer to write about it. Unfortunately, my sleep debt may have caught up with me when I left two cringe-inducing typos in the same snakebit paragraph: spelling “America Online” as “American Online” and writing that the company’s 15th birthday happened in 2020, not 2000.
#ACLU #AI #AmericaOnline #AOL #BlackHat #BlackHatNOC #cybersecurity #dialUp #FourthAmendment #GaryMarcus #informationSecurity #infosec #JenniferGranick #LasVegas #TMobileFixedWireless #TMobileHome5G #techPrivacy #Vegas
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Want to pack less tokens for #MCVegas to leave room for more decks? Come grab yourself a pack of InfiniTokens dry erase tokens from our booth in Vegas.
One small pack can cover any and every token you can possibly need!
#mtg #magicthegathering #vegas #edh #mtgcommander #infinitokens
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Exciting news: InfiniTokens has a BOOTH at #MCVegas!
Make sure to drop by to grab yourself some InfiniTokens, get a free sticker or just say hello. Spread the word!
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Vegas one win away from Stanley Cup title as Panthers fail in comeback attempt :
"It was definitely an unfortunate loss," Sergei Bobrovsky said, "but we've been in this position before. It all comes down to one moment at a time, one period at a time."
#AdinHill #FloridaPanthers #GoldenKnights #MatthewTkachuk #StanleyCup #Vegas
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Oh yeah! He why! #StanleyCup #Vegas #GoldenKnights #VegasStrong #HNOM
Gratz on a second shutout win for #AdinHill
