#vegas — Public Fediverse posts

‘He’s a special player’: Golden Knights sign captain Mark Stone to 2-year extension | National Sports https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/661782/ #americas #Canada #EasternEurope #europe #GoldenKnights #GoldenKnights #Hockey #Italy #LasVegas #milano #nevada #NHL #NorthAmerica #Russia #SouthernEurope #sports #Switzerland #UnitedStates #Vegas #VegasGoldenKnights #VegasGoldenKnights #WesternEurope

https://www.lovenhl.com/1595083/ 🎥 POSTGAME SOUND | McLaughlin, Nobert & Ward #GoldenKnights #hockey #LasVegas #nhl #PacificDivision #sports #Vegas #VegasGoldenKnights #VGK #WesternConference

https://www.lovenhl.com/1595083/ 🎥 POSTGAME SOUND | McLaughlin, Nobert & Ward #GoldenKnights #hockey #LasVegas #nhl #PacificDivision #sports #Vegas #VegasGoldenKnights #VGK #WesternConference

https://www.lovenhl.com/1594731/ 🎥 2026 Rookie Camp | Connelly, Sivertson, Pakarinen, Hemmerling & Ward #GoldenKnights #hockey #LasVegas #nhl #PacificDivision #sports #Vegas #VegasGoldenKnights #VGK #WesternConference

https://www.lovenhl.com/1594731/ 🎥 2026 Rookie Camp | Connelly, Sivertson, Pakarinen, Hemmerling & Ward #GoldenKnights #hockey #LasVegas #nhl #PacificDivision #sports #Vegas #VegasGoldenKnights #VGK #WesternConference

https://www.lovenhl.com/1594559/ FLEECE JOB: Vegas Golden Knights Lock In Braeden Bowman on Bargain Extension | 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

https://www.lovenhl.com/1594559/ FLEECE JOB: Vegas Golden Knights Lock In Braeden Bowman on Bargain Extension | 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

❤️❤️Rivages lointains - Adam - Critiques - 1001BD.com https://www.1001bd.com/index.php?/ecriturecritiques/rivages-lointains-adam-r6467/ Note : 4.5/5 @EditionsDargaud #bd #gangster #vegas #romance

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.

Mark Stone’s Return Showed Why He’s Golden Knights’ Glue Guy https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/588708/ #Avalanche #Colorado #ColoradoAvalanche #ColoradoAvalanche #ColtonSissons #GoldenKnights #Hockey #LasVegasGoldenKnights #MarkStone #MitchMarner #NHL #PowerPlayGoal #StanleyCupFinals #TomasHertl #Vegas

New Drift Talk Podcast dropped tonight, S04E18 - Drift Anxiety.
https://www.tougesw.com/tougesw-s04e18-drift-talk-drift-anxiety/

#tougesw #vegasdrift #drift #podcast #vegas

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.

ESPN names Las Vegas Raiders as ‘best fit’ for 3 2026 free agents

The NFL’s franchise tag window opened on Tuesday, and 2026 free agency is right around the corner…
#NFL #LosAngelesChargers #LosAngeles #Chargers #BaltimoreRavens #EricStokes #FernandoMendoza #Football #freeagent #GreenBay #GreenBayPackers #JaylenWatson #JoshJobe #KansasCityChiefs #KlintKubiak #LasVegasRaiders #MattBowen #RomeoDoubs #Seahawks #Seattle #TheRaiders #Vegas #Wisconsin #zionjohnson
https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/760538/

ESPN names Las Vegas Raiders as ‘best fit’ for 3 2026 free agents

The NFL’s franchise tag window opened on Tuesday, and 2026 free agency is right around the corner…
#NFL #LosAngelesChargers #LosAngeles #Chargers #BaltimoreRavens #EricStokes #FernandoMendoza #Football #freeagent #GreenBay #GreenBayPackers #JaylenWatson #JoshJobe #KansasCityChiefs #KlintKubiak #LasVegasRaiders #MattBowen #RomeoDoubs #Seahawks #Seattle #TheRaiders #Vegas #Wisconsin #zionjohnson
https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/760538/

ESPN names Las Vegas Raiders as ‘best fit’ for 3 2026 free agents https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/760538/ #BaltimoreRavens #Chargers #EricStokes #FernandoMendoza #Football #FreeAgent #GreenBay #GreenBayPackers #JaylenWatson #JoshJobe #KansasCityChiefs #KlintKubiak #LasVegasRaiders #LosAngeles #LosAngelesChargers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesChargers #MattBowen #NFL #RomeoDoubs #Seahawks #Seattle #TheRaiders #Vegas #Wisconsin #ZionJohnson

ESPN names Las Vegas Raiders as ‘best fit’ for 3 2026 free agents https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/760538/ #BaltimoreRavens #Chargers #EricStokes #FernandoMendoza #Football #FreeAgent #GreenBay #GreenBayPackers #JaylenWatson #JoshJobe #KansasCityChiefs #KlintKubiak #LasVegasRaiders #LosAngeles #LosAngelesChargers #LosAngeles #LosAngelesChargers #MattBowen #NFL #RomeoDoubs #Seahawks #Seattle #TheRaiders #Vegas #Wisconsin #ZionJohnson

#Verstappen domina a Las #Vegas, disastro McLaren. #Ferrari arranca: le #pagelle del GP https://www.formula1.it/news/28100/1/-verstappen-domina-a-las-vegas-disastro-mclaren-ferrari-arranca-le-pagelle-del-gp-?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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

Golden Knights’ Tomas Hertl Nets Eighth Hat Trick Of Career https://www.rawchili.com/4135630/ #Canada #Detroit #DetroitRedWings #DetroitRedWingsAtVegasGoldenKnights #GoldenKnights #HatTrick #hattrick #hockey #HockeyHighlights #knights #LasVegas #LasVegasGoldenKnights #NHL #NhlHighlights #sports #Sportsnet #TomasHertl #Vegas #VegasGoldenKnights #VegasGoldenKnights #Wings

#NHLVideos: One for each nostril 🤣👃🚨 https://www.rawchili.com/4130165/ #dorofeyev #GOAL #HighStick #hockey #HockeyGame #HockeyGames2025 #HockeyVideos #IceHockey #IceHockeyHighlights #IceHockeyHighlights2025 #IceHockeyVideos #JackEichel #knights #MarkStone #NationalHockeyLeague #NHL #NhlHighlights #NhlHighlightsToday2025 #NhlHockeyGames2025 #NHLVideos #NHLVlog #nose #nostril #PavelDorofeyev #PowerPlayGoal #PPG #TomasHertl #Vegas #VegasGoldenKnights #VGK! #video #videos #Vlog #weird #WeirdNHL

Weekly output: Qualcomm’s connected-home vision, BMW’s Panoramic iDrive, Zoox’s robotaxis, Delta at the Sphere, Better Offline, Red Bull Ford Powertrains

This would have been a long week with CES alone, but nine hours after my flight back from Vegas touched down at Dulles I was on my way into D.C.  for ShmooCon. How could I not? I’ve learned an enormous amount since I first covered that security conference in 2019–and this weekend’s edition was the con’s final go-round.

1/6/2025: Qualcomm’s Smart Home Vision Includes TVs That Read Your ‘Emotional State’, PCMag

I got a head start on my CES coverage with this post I filed from home after getting embargoed copies of Qualcomm’s CES announcements.

1/8/2025: BMW Unveils Smartphone-Inspired Panoramic iDrive Dashboard, PCMag

I started Tuesday by going to the German automaker’s introduction of this driver interface, which featured comedians Tim Meadows and Ken Jeong leading a schtick in which they, the BMW executives onstage and those of us in the stands had all been shrunk down to about smartphone size.

1/8/2025: Taking a Robotaxi From Amazon-Owned Zoox for a Spin on the Vegas Strip, PCMag

My second stop in Vegas, after a quick check-in at my hotel, was to this robotaxi service’s offices to get a test ride in its autonomous vehicle–where I was delighted to see that the other journalist joining me in the car would be my long-ago Yahoo colleague Dan Howley. This became my second story datelined from Vegas this week after I needed clarification on a couple of points from Zoox.

1/8/2025: Delta Tips AI-Powered Concierge, In-Flight YouTube, More at Flashy CES Event, PCMag

The Delta Air Lines keynote introduced me to the Sphere, but only after getting to that venue reintroduced me to how utterly awful Vegas traffic can be during CES–the “Tech Express” shuttle needed more than 50 minutes to crawl the 1.3 miles from the Las Vegas Convention Center to the Venetian. The production values of Delta’s event were fantastic, but the substance of the announcements didn’t live up to that standard. Two aviation journalists who have covered the airline far longer than I have, Brett Snyder and Seth Miller, came away almost entirely unimpressed.

1/9/2025: Better Offline CES 2025: Day 4 – Pt. 2, Ed Zitron

Ed, a longtime tech publicist and more recent scourge of how growth-at-all-costs tech companies are ruining the digital world, invited me to join his podcast sometime when I was at CES, and I picked the last slot available–4:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday. Skip ahead to almost the 1:11 mark to hear my conversation with Ed and fellow CES journalists Ed Ongweso, Jr. and David Roth.

1/10/2025: Red Bull and Ford are building a new F1 hybrid race car engine—first as bits, then atoms, Fast Company

I started work on this piece months ago and then kept putting it off as I had other Fast Company projects with less flexible deadlines demand my attention first, then finally wrote and filed it the day after Christmas–just in time for it to get caught up in the publication’s winter break.

#Amazon #BMW #ces #connectedHome #Delta #DL #EdZitron #F1 #FordRedBullPowertrains #Formula1 #iDrive #LasVegas #NeueKlasse #Oracle #Qualcomm #RedBullFord #robotaxi #smartHome #Sphere #Vegas #Zoox

Back in #Vegas to kick off #NABshow with a #Mojo workshop. #MobileJournalism tips and #MojoAwards.

https://sched.co/1GyhF