Forbes Friday December 30, 2022
TikTok has admitted that it used data from the app to spy on American reporters, notes Forbes. The news comes as the social media platform faces a potential ban in the U.S. over security issues. ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, tracked multiple journalists covering the app, The goal was to see if the journalists had been in the same area as employees suspected of leaking confidential information. Among the journalists who were spied on: Financial Times reporter Cristina Criddle and former Buzzfeed writer Emily Baker-White, who now works for Forbes. See also: TechDirt.
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By David Schonauer Friday December 30, 2022
In 1972, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted a retrospective of Diane Arbus's work, just a year after she took her own life. The exhibition was lauded by some, including critic Hilton
Kramer, who called it "an artistic and a human triumph," and panned by others. But audiences loved it: The show became the museum's most-attended solo exhibition to date. Fifty … Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Thursday December 29, 2022
Adobe is having a good year: The company’s recently released earning report for the 2022 fiscal year shows a record revenue of $17.61 billion, which represents a 15-percent year-over-year growth. Creative Cloud revenue grew to 10.46 billion on its own. The report shows that Adobe’s choice to switch from a model of annual perpetual software releases to subscriptions has been a massive boon for the company’s profits, notes PetaPixel.
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Greatest Maasai Mara Photographer of the Year Thursday December 29, 2022
Launched in 2018, the Greatest Maasai Mara Photographer of the Year contest celebrates Kenya’s Maasai Mara game reserve and its wildlife—from elephants to cheetahs, lions, and giraffes. The Kenyan photography duo Preeti and Prashant Chacko win the top prize in this year’s contest for their black-and-white photo of a giraffe and her calf surrounded by oxpeckers. They win $10,000 and a five-night safari for two. The emotion of a mother-child interaction is something that we love to photograph,” Preeti tells My Modern Met.
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