tech radar Friday October 7, 2022
Meta is being sued for allegedly gathering personally identifiable information (PII) on its Facebook and Instagram users without telling them, reports Tech Radar. In a proposed class-action lawsuit, filed recently in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, two Facebook users accused the company of skirting Apple’s 2021 privacy rules and violating state and federal laws limiting the unauthorized collection of personal data, adds PetaPixel. The pair allege that Meta follows users’ online activity by injecting code into websites its users visit so that the company can override Apple’s tracking restrictions.
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BBC Friday October 7, 2022
Chris Lowther is making waves with a photograph he took while napping. Lowther, who lives in Bulmer, North Yorkshire, in the U.K., was hoping to photograph star trails recently, so he arranged his camera on a timer and turned in for some shut-eye. “I must have set the camera up at about 11:00, it had been raining and I knew it was going to be a clear night,” he tells the BBC. When he returned a couple of hours later, he saw the camera had captured something else. "I wasn't expecting the Northern Lights,” he said.
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OpenAI Friday October 7, 2022
Good news for those eager to plunge into the world of machine-made art: The DALL-E AI image generator is now available without a waiting list. "Since we first previewed the DALL·E research to users in April, users have helped us discover new uses for DALL·E as a powerful creative tool,” notes OpenAI, the company behind DALL-E, adding, “In the past months, we’ve made our filters more robust at rejecting attempts to generate sexual, violent and other content that violates our content policy and built new detection and response techniques to stop misuse.”
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The Washington Post Friday October 7, 2022
Leah Frances has spent the last 10 years photographing America’s diners. She first began sharing what she calls her “American Squares” series on Instagram and later, in 2019, in a book of the same name. “[Diners are] a romantic and idealized mythology of America that I felt was somehow based in the past,” Frances tells The Washington Post. Her second book on the subject, called Lunch Poems, it now being released. But she says something happened between 2016 and 2021—American nostalgia became politicized. Read the full Story >>
