Yahoo News Monday December 19, 2022
Photography can be dangerous: A plot to smuggle £44 million (about $53 million) worth of drugs to Australia inside an excavator machine was smashed when one of the criminals accidentally sent a photo of his French bulldog on encrypted network EncroChat, notes Yahoo News. The picture, spotted by National Crime Agency investigators, revealed a phone number on the dog's tag. The gang was jailed for a combined total of 140 years after investigators also spotted reflections of two other members in images they shared on the encrypted network.
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Amon Carter Museum Monday December 19, 2022
On view through Jan. 22, 2023 at the Amon Carter Museum in Ft. Worth, TX, the exhibition “Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography” looks at how Indigenous artists “have leveraged their lenses over the past three decades to reclaim representation and affirm their existence, perspectives, and trauma.” Through approximately 70 photographs, videos, three-dimensional works, and digital activations by more than 30 artists, the exhibition investigates issues of identity, resistance, and belonging, notes the museum.
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ars technica Monday December 19, 2022
China's Cyberspace Administration recently issued regulations prohibiting the creation of AI-generated media without clear labels, such as watermarks, reports Ars Technica. Like the US, China has seen a boom in AI-powered applications. For example, one of China's leading tech companies, Baidu, produced an image synthesis model that is similar to DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. “A growing number of tech experts have recently recognized that China and the United States face a coming wave of generative AI that could pose challenges to power structures, enable fraud, or even tamper with our sense of history,” adds AT.
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Smithsonian Monday December 19, 2022
The New York Times recently lookedat top photo books from 2022 by women. Now photo editors at Smithsonian magazine have picked 10 photography volumes from the past year that, as they put it, gave them “a front-row seat” to the world. Among them: Daniel Jack Lyons’s Like a River, which explores transgender and queer communities in the depths of the Amazon, and Stacy Kranitz’s As It Was Give(n) to Me, which “breaks down the stereotypical treatment of life in Appalachia.”
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