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☆ Bitcoin trader loses almost $70 million after sending crypto to wrong online account address
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewA cryptocurrency trader reportedly lost tens of millions of dollars in a so-called "address poisoning" scam. Because blockchains are public, it's easy for scammers to find people's crypto addresses and send out spoof transactions to phish for victims. Related storiesTrezor, another crypto trading platform, recommends double-checking every address before sending a transaction and never copying an address from transaction history when transferring funds to avoid address scams. Sending a small test transaction before making a large transfer is also an effective method of verifying the address, the company says. One study showed that crypto "pig butchering" scams cost investors $75 million from 2020 to 2024.

Persons: — Organizations: Service, Business, Federal Trade Commission, FTC Locations: Bitcoin, scammers

We have everything you need to know about buying Phish Sphere tickets and getting access to their 2024 concert tour this summer. Below, find all of the details on Phish's sphere and concert tour schedule, purchasing details, and original and resale ticket prices. Phish Sphere and 2024 concert tour schedulePhish will play the Sphere April 18-21. How to buy tickets for Phish Sphere and concert tourOriginal standard Phish Sphere tickets are completely sold out through the band's website. Tickets to see Phish at the Sphere are relatively expensive compared to other Phish concert prices, but you'll find cheaper tickets on the band's last day at the Sphere compared to their first three performances.

Persons: Phish, Trey Anastasio, Mike Gordon, Jon Fishman, Page McConnell, We've, Mansfield, Saint, They're, hasn't, there's Organizations: Business, Saint Louis, Commerce City, Ticketmaster, Vivid Locations: Las Vegas, Vegas, Uncasville, Elkhorn, WI, Rapids, MI, Bethel, NY, Commerce, Mansfield, Bethel , NY, Massachusetts, New York, Noblesville, United States, Mexico

☆ Verizon is dropping cryptic ads ahead of the Super Bowl, and the internet says all clues point to Beyoncé
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-11 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Verizon released two ads that fans say hint at a Beyoncé Super Bowl commercial. Some say she could be set to appear in a Super Bowl commercial. The short clip ends with "2/11/24" in the center of a black screen — the date of this year’s Super Bowl — and a split-second song snippet. “Should we be in a Super Bowl commercial? Beyond anticipating the commercial, fans also expect that Queen Bey could use the opportunity to announce a Las Vegas residency.

Persons: —, Tony Hale, Hale, ” Hale, Beyoncé, Jay, ”, Bey, “, Buster Bluth, Beyoncé hasn’t, Usher, Mariah Carey, Adele Organizations: Verizon, Service, Beyoncé, FOX, Business, Las, Super, & Company, Billboard Locations: Las Vegas, Vegas

☆ Kiss Loves to Say Goodbye. Is Its Rock ’n’ Roll Really Over?
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Rob Tannenbaum | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

But Sinatra returned two years later, to much ballyhoo and chart success, with the album “Ol’ Blue Eyes is Back.” Bowie was paying attention. “David was a big Sinatra fan,” his former manager, Tony DeFries, recently told Mojo magazine. Bowie’s retirement was a ruse, DeFries added, to generate publicity and whip up demand for a headlining tour of big venues in the United States. It worked; in 1974, Bowie played arenas across the country, including two shows at Madison Square Garden. After Bowie retired in 1973, then unretired in 1974, he retired a second time in 1975.

Persons: Bowie, It’s, Frank Sinatra, “, Plato, Gene Simmons, Sinatra, ” Bowie, “ David, Tony DeFries, DeFries, Elton John, ”, “ Elton, hasn’t, Lazarus, “ I’ve, ” Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, Mötley Crüe, Cher, Meatloaf, Tina Turner, Barbra Streisand, “ I’d, ” Trent Reznor, Cameron Crowe Organizations: Mojo, Madison, Wembley, Billboard, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Playboy Locations: United States, London

☆ How Phish’s Lighting Designer Jams With the Band
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Marc Tracy | More About Marc Tracy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“I will in the subtlest way shake my head and say, ‘No, I’m not there,’” Anastasio said in an interview, “and from way back in the room he always gets this little message. I can take it around eight more bars, or four more bars, this peak, and he’ll make some incredible move right when we make the move. I don’t think anyone would notice this happening other than us.”Last Friday night at Madison Square Garden, Anastasio’s interlocutor was standing behind five monitors and a lighting control console, wearing a black T-shirt, jeans and Hoka sneakers. He controlled 100 base lighting looks — different permutations of 302 lights, with 79 colors preprogrammed for Phish — some mounted on 30 movable pieces of truss above the stage. It was his 1,752nd Phish show lighting the band.

Persons: Trey Anastasio, ’ ” Anastasio, ”, Anastasio’s interlocutor, Chris Kuroda Organizations: Madison Locations: Vermont

☆ The Dave Matthews Band, Reconsidered
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Melissa Kirsch | More About Melissa Kirsch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Dave Matthews Band is on tour, as they have been every summer, except 2020, for the past 30-odd years. Like the Grateful Dead and Phish, so-called jam bands with which it’s often lumped together, Dave Matthews has a deliriously passionate fan base that follows the band from city to city, reuniting with fellow disciples at preshow tailgates, showing off devotional tattoos, trading live recordings. In the early ’90s, when I arrived for my first year at the University of Virginia, Dave Matthews was a local celebrity. It would be years before the stereotype of Dave Matthews fans as “pot-smoking, tie-dye-touting former frat bros fawning over craft beers in parking lots between cornhole games,” as Perri Ormont Blumberg puts it, would become a widely understood social designation. We spent the next four years not going to Dave Matthews Band shows together.

Persons: Dave Matthews, preshow, ”, Perri Ormont Blumberg, ” Ben Sisario Organizations: University of Virginia, The Times Locations: Virginia

☆ After hating on Taylor Swift for years, I've now spent $8,000 on her Eras Tour. I finally understand the hype.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Chris Weller | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Erin Wickham, 34, says she found Taylor Swift "annoying" for most of her twenties. I always knew Swift as this pop-bubblegum artist, so I didn't expect muchThe process of getting converted from Taylor Swift antagonist to full-on superfan happened faster than I expected. Swift's music spoke to me on an emotional level I wasn't expectingI had a difficult 2022. I was crazy for Taylor Swift, but I wasn't going to shell out that kind of money. Taylor Swift's music makes me feel less aloneI imagine this sense of connection is why people have followed groups like the Grateful Dead and Phish around for so many years.

Persons: Erin Wickham, Taylor Swift, Wickham, She's, —, It's, I'd, I'm, Swift, Taylor, TikTok, Marjorie, begrudgingly, I've, what's, Taylor Swift's Organizations: Swift, Service, New, MetLife, Pittsburgh, Amtrak Locations: TikTok, New Jersey, Pittsburgh, merch

☆ Billy Strings Found a Life Raft in Music
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Alan Paul | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Billy Strings, 30, is one of the fastest-rising touring acts in American music. Mr. Strings’s love of high-flying, risk-taking improvisation has endeared him to fans of jam bands like Phish and let him expand far beyond the bluegrass world where he started. Though he built his reputation on magnetic live performances, Mr. Strings’s career skyrocketed during the Covid pandemic, when touring was shut down. He started streaming performances from his home, then moved on to broadcasting from empty clubs, culminating in six nights at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, N.Y. “It felt like the Twilight Zone,” says Mr. Strings. “Live music is a conversation between the audience and the performer, but there was nobody talking back to us, and it honestly felt kind of pitiful.”

☆ A hacker's tips on how to spot a phishing attack
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Sponsor Post | Created Ibm With Insider Studios | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

When it comes to cybersecurity attacks, phishing continues to be effective for hackers and costly for organizations. The 2022 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index research showed that phishing is the way attackers are getting into organizations 41% of the time. "I cannot emphasize enough how important it is for organizations to not only develop an incident response plan, but to test it regularly." According to the Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022, organizations with an incident response team that tested their incident response plan (versus those who did not) saved on average $2.66M in data breach costs. Learn more about incident response planning and threat intelligence here.

Hacking and repressionAfter Nika went missing, her aunt and other protesters told CNN that her popular Instagram and Telegram accounts had been disabled. On October 12, two of Nika’s friends noticed her Telegram account briefly back online, they told CNN. As with Negin’s case, the reactivation of Nika’s accounts raises questions about whether Iranian authorities were responsible for accessing her social media profiles, allegedly to phish other protesters or compromise her after her death. “Usually what happens is, they do the target phone number, then they send a login request to Telegram,” Rashidi told CNN. However, references in Iranian state media indicate authorities did access Nika’s Instagram account and direct messages, stating they had permission from the judiciary to access them.

☆ Watch out for Black Friday and Cyber Monday scams—here's how to avoid 5 of the most common ones
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

You'll probably spend some time this weekend going through Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. Shoppers spent nearly $20 billion online between Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2021, making the shopping weekend prime territory for internet scammers. Here is Proxyrack's advice for avoiding five of the most common Black Friday scams you'll see this weekend. Most Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals will be advertised up front on retailer's websites, Proxyrack said. As you're scouring different websites, double-check each website's URL to make sure it's legitimate before entering any personal information, Proxyrack advised.

☆ These artists found out their work was used to train AI. Now they’re furious
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-21 | by ( Rachel Metz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

AI Image/Stable DiffusionHanson, who’s based in McMinnville, Oregon, is one of many professional artists whose work was included in the data set used to train Stable Diffusion, which was released in August by London-based Stability AI. Once available only to a select group of tech insiders, text-to-image AI systems are becoming increasingly popular and powerful. A piece by illustrator Daniel Danger that was included in the training data behind the Stable Diffusion AI image generator. But removing pictures of an artist’s work from a dataset wouldn’t stop Stable Diffusion from being able to generate images in that artist’s style. Hanson, for her part, has no problem with her art being used for training AI, but she wants to be paid.

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