RALEIGH – Red Hat is moving a big tech conference to Denver, having cancelled its planned 2024 event in San Francisco.

Here’s what Raleigh-based Red Hat had to say:

“Sometimes, even when we make plans far in advance to host an event in a given city, we have to change plans based on date conflicts on our end or other circumstances. This is the case for Red Hat Summit 2024, which will be hosted in Denver,” Red Hat said in a statement as reported by TV station KRON.

A 2025 event in San Francisco also was cancelled.

Tech giant Meta dropped an event in the city as well.

For more, read the full story at KRON.

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San Francisco city officials said Tuesday they had decided to cancel the city’s annual New Year’s Eve fireworks display over concerns about COVID-19 as cases continue to rise nationwide.

With the Omicron variant contributing to the exploding cases, city officials said they are canceling the famous fireworks display over the bay for the second year in a row.

Thousands of residents and guests usually pack along the Embarcadero to see the show, but last year people were told to stay home to prevent large gatherings and limit the spread of the virus.

Once again, city officials remain warnings.

“While we are all understandably eager to ring in a New Year with San Francisco’s usual New Year’s Eve fireworks, we must remain vigilant and do everything in our power to stop the spread of the COVID-19 variant of Omicron,” Mayor London told Breed in a statement. “By canceling the New Year’s Eve fireworks show, we are reducing everyone’s exposure to COVID-19 while ensuring the continuity of city-wide public safety measures.”

In addition, isolation and quarantine protocols are reducing the workforce for public safety agencies due to the recent surge, city officials said.

“Minimizing unnecessary exposure among our officials and professional staff is key to maintaining the police force expected by San Franciscans, and it is important that we all do our part as San Franciscans to reduce the transmission of the ward across the city.” said Police Chief Bill Scott.

“We urge you to celebrate with your close family members and friends safely at home with all COVID security measures,” said fire chief Jeannine Nicholson. “The cancellation of traditional fireworks will allow us to focus our resources on emergency services and day-to-day operations without adding large crowds and the potential incidents that result from such crowds.”

As of last week, the city was recording an average of 305 new COVID-19 cases per day, compared to an average of just 91 cases the week before.

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Young Thug – the hip-hop star who tops the Billboard 200 with his new album “Punk” – will not take the stage at Outside Lands in San Francisco this year.

The highly influential rapper, who meanwhile has three number 1 albums on his account, was originally supposed to perform on the second day (Saturday, October 30th) at 5 p.m. on the festival’s big Lands End Stage. It was one of the highly anticipated sets of the three-day festival, which runs through October 31.

The organizers of the festival announced earlier today that the set would not take place.

“We are deeply disappointed that we have just been informed that Young Thug will not make his planned appearance at Outside Lands,” said a post on the festival’s Twitter account, @sfoutsidelands.

The organizers did not give a reason for the cancellation.

It’s a big loss as Young Thug is one of the most popular artists today. He just released the second full-length “Punk” on October 15th and it debuted at number 1 and is said to have moved around 90,000 album equivalents in the first week of release.

Fans will still get to hear some hip hop during this time window, however.

“We are happy to announce that Aminé has been added to the line-up and will perform at Lands End at 5 pm,” the tweet continued.

Amine – aka Adam Aminé Danie – is a definite up and coming star of the genre. A native of Portland, Oregon, who now lives in Los Angeles, is best known for the multi-platinum single “Caroline” from 2016, but he also has his two studio albums – “Good for You” from 2017 and “Limbo “From 2020 – reached Top 40 on Billboard 200.

We are deeply disappointed that we have just learned that Young Thug will not make his planned appearance on Outside Lands. We are happy to announce that Aminé has been added to the line-up and will perform at Lands End at 5:00 p.m. pic.twitter.com/fklqfrUjxg

– Outside Lands (@sfoutsidelands) October 30, 2021

It’s the second big cancellation at Outside Lands this weekend. On Friday, organizers announced that electronic music musician and YouTube star Marc Rebillet had to step down from the October 30 festival lineup due to an injury and will be replaced by singer, musician and comedian Reggie Watts. The set is at 7:10 p.m. on the Sutro stage.

Marc Rebillet cannot appear at Outside Lands due to an injury. We’re excited to announce that Reggie Watts has been added to the line-up and will be performing at the Sutro this Saturday at 7:10 pm. pic.twitter.com/lWp2h2UC1M

– Outside Lands (@sfoutsidelands) October 29, 2021

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