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“Robbing them blind”: Live Nation execs boasted about overcharging customers

“Robbing them blind”: Live Nation execs boasted about overcharging customers

Published by Sam Flores

Senior employees of Live Nation bragged about their ability other wring money out of ticket-buying customers, saying they were “robbing them blind.” In Slack messages from 2022, the live entertainment conglomerate’s current head of ticketing for their amphitheater division  said that customers they charged for “ancillary” options like parking were “so stupid.” “I almost feel bad taking advantage of them,” Ben Barker wrote. The venue owner and ticketing platform controls much of the United States’ major concert market. They settled an antitrust lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice earlier this week. The settlement avoided a potential forced sale of Ticketmaster, the ticket platform owned by Live Nation. That agreement caps Live Nation’s service fees at 15% and requires them to avoid anticompetitive practices like certain exclusivity agreements with venues. In a court filing last week, Live Nation asked that the conversation between Barker and ticketing department director Jeff Weinhold be kept sealed. The company argued that the pair were speaking “off-the-cuff” and that their conversation amounted to “banter not… facts of consequence.” Media …

Love is Blind contestant sparks debate with shock reunion confession

Love is Blind contestant sparks debate with shock reunion confession

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more The dramatic Love Is Blind season 10 reunion has sparked a debate about “girl code” after one of the contestants, Devonta Anderson, went on a trip with three girls from the show while he was still engaged to his fiancée, Brittany Wicker. Every season of the Netflix dating series begins with 30 singles entering isolated rooms (known as pods) where they spend days forming emotional connections with people they’ve never met. Contestants then propose to their strongest match before meeting face to face, heading on a romantic trip and returning home to begin their new lives together. Each season culminates in weddings, where couples decide whether “love is truly blind” by saying “I do” or “I don’t.” This season saw Anderson and Wicker struggle …

Anthropic and OpenAI just exposed SAST’s structural blind spot with free tools

Anthropic and OpenAI just exposed SAST’s structural blind spot with free tools

Published by skeptic

OpenAI launched Codex Security on March 6, entering the application security market that Anthropic had disrupted 14 days earlier with Claude Code Security. Both scanners use LLM reasoning instead of pattern matching. Both proved that traditional static application security testing (SAST) tools are structurally blind to entire vulnerability classes. The enterprise security stack is caught in the middle. Anthropic and OpenAI independently released reasoning-based vulnerability scanners, and both found bug classes that pattern-matching SAST was never designed to detect. The competitive pressure between two labs with a combined private-market valuation exceeding $1.1 trillion means detection quality will improve faster than any single vendor can deliver alone. Neither Claude Code Security nor Codex Security replaces your existing stack. Both tools change procurement math permanently. Right now, both are free to enterprise customers. The head-to-head comparison and seven actions below are what you need before the board of directors asks which scanner you are piloting and why. How Anthropic and OpenAI reached the same conclusion from different architectures Anthropic published its zero-day research on February 5 alongside …

Why the “Love Is Blind” experiment was doomed from the start

Why the “Love Is Blind” experiment was doomed from the start

Published by Sam Flores

Surely Chris Fusco did not sign up for “Love Is Blind” to become its failure mascot, but here we are. For most of the romance reality show’s 10th season, the account executive seems like a standard-issue OK guy with a quirk about taking daily cold plunges. He said all the right things to his eventual fiancée, infectious disease physician Jessica Barrett, while they were dating. During their couples’ getaway in Mexico, both seemed to have a sexy good time. Only when they return to Ohio, and Fusco lays eyes on his fiancée’s large and well-appointed home, does he transform into Mr. Hyde. Fusco sits her down in the apartment they share to discuss his problem with their relationship: her body. He’s used to dating women who keep it tight, he explains. And Barrett, who works the long hospital shifts required to save people’s lives, isn’t cutting it. “So I’m trying to like, I don’t know. Somebody who works out all the time and has a different type of, I don’t know,” he stammers. “It’s just …

‘Love Is Blind’ Embraces the Manosphere

‘Love Is Blind’ Embraces the Manosphere

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When Netflix dropped the first season of Love Is Blind in February 2020, it offered a reprieve from the washboard abs that normally seem like a casting requirement for reality TV shows. The premise—that couples get engaged “sight unseen” after talking to each other through pods, then, following a big reveal, decide if they want to get married—featured just the right amount of mess. Who can forget Jessica allowing her dog to sip wine or an insulted Carlton throwing his fiancee’s engagement ring into a pool? Meanwhile Lauren and Cameron’s unvarnished conversations highlighted the awkwardness that sometimes accompanies interracial dating. It was a reality show, but it seemed like a format that could actually allow people to fall in love without getting bogged down in superficial distractions and expectations. Maybe. Now in its 10th season, Love Is Blind is a cornerstone of Netflix’s reality TV cinematic universe. But while each cycle brings us standout women who earnestly buy into the show’s original conceit, it’s getting tougher to find any men to root for. With the …

I suddenly went blind 2,000 miles from home – alone, penniless and confused | Blindness and visual impairment

I suddenly went blind 2,000 miles from home – alone, penniless and confused | Blindness and visual impairment

Published by Sam Flores

The first sign that something was wrong was the blurred text in the book Gary Williamson was reading. The problem with his vision had come on suddenly – the day before, it had been normal. Williamson thought perhaps he was tired, or run down. He was 18 and had arrived in Gibraltar after travelling through Europe for two weeks, sleeping rough and not eating or drinking properly. “I’ll go and get some water and something to eat. I thought: maybe it’s nothing. I’ll see how I am tomorrow. The next day, I woke up and it was bad again.” He remembers cautiously getting out his book to test his eyesight: “It’s actually getting worse. I can’t read it now. The lines were starting to blur.” He had relied on a map to get him that far. “I remember thinking: that’s going to become useless very soon. I need to work out what I’m doing.” He needed to get home. It was 1990, and Williamson didn’t think to call home to ask for help. With no …

In Blind Test, Audiophiles Unable to Tell Difference Between Sound Signal Run Through an Expensive Cable and a Banana

In Blind Test, Audiophiles Unable to Tell Difference Between Sound Signal Run Through an Expensive Cable and a Banana

Published by José Betancourt

High-quality cables have long been marketed as a key way to get the most out of high-end equipment, such as expensive studio-grade monitor speaker cables and gold-plated HDMI cables for cutting-edge TVs. In the high-end audiophile world, which is renowned for eye-bulging prices, cables can cost tens of thousands of dollars for ultra-pure copper with silver plating, specialized insulation, and dozens of individual conductors that manufacturers claim will squeeze the most out of a luxury-grade sound system aimed at the uber-wealthy. The laws of physics, however, have long dictated that spending that kind of cash on cables simply isn’t worth it in the vast majority of circumstances — as long as you don’t go for the cheapest option from the dollar store, of course. To put the decades-long debate to the ultimate test, a moderator who goes by Pano at the audiophile enthusiast forum diyAudio conducted an eyebrow-raising experiment back in 2024, which was rediscovered by Headphonesty late last month and Tom’s Hardware last week. Pano ran high-quality audio through a number of different mediums, …

Blind date: ‘The best thing about her? Super easy to talk to. And pretty’ | Dating

Blind date: ‘The best thing about her? Super easy to talk to. And pretty’ | Dating

Published by Sam Flores

Freya on Greg What were you hoping for?Somebody friendly and kind, and an interesting chat. First impressions?He seemed a little nervous but had a very warm and gentle energy. He also looks like Stephen from The Traitors. What did you talk about?Hiking. Conservation. Bob Dylan. Ghosts. Matty Healy. Most awkward moment? He approached a random group of men thinking they worked at the bar. They were all sat eating dinner. Good table manners?10/10, despite both ordering elaborate pasta dishes. Best thing about Greg?We share a lot of interests. He also survived a black bear encounter, which is pretty impressive! Q&A Fancy a blind date? Show Blind date is Saturday’s dating column: every week, two strangers are paired up for dinner and drinks, and then spill the beans to us, answering a set of questions. This runs, with a photograph we take of each dater before the date, in Saturday magazine (in the UK) and online at theguardian.com every Saturday. It’s been running since 2009 – you can read all about how we put it together here. What …

The Blind Side star breaks silence following hospitalization

The Blind Side star breaks silence following hospitalization

Published by Daniella Wilson

The Blind Side star Quinton Aaron has made a steady recovery following his recent spinal stroke, and revealed that he was feeling “strong and empowered” in the wake of the health scare.  “I went through a lot, but I’m focusing on God, my recovery, my family and close friends as well as my career,” he told People, adding that he was still in the hospital but on the mend.  “He’s excited about the future opportunities life will present to him,” his family added, stating that he was “fully alert” and “interacting with his family and approved visitors”.  © GC ImagesQuinton shared an update from the hospital following his spinal stroke Quinton also has “feeling in his legs” and is “focused on his recovery and successfully doing things like practising writing, doing puzzles.” In January, the actor suffered a spinal stroke, which is an incredibly rare medical emergency that occurs when blood flow to the spinal cord is blocked by a clot or hemorrhage. It can lead to paralysis, numbness and incontinence.  Quinton’s family thanked his …