The Washington Post Wednesday January 18, 2023
Records of 235 million Twitter accounts and the email addresses used to register them have been posted to an online hacking forum, setting the stage for anonymous handles to be linked to real-world identities, notes The Washington Post. Hackers could also use the email addresses to attempt to reset passwords and take control of accounts, especially those not protected by two-factor authentication. The records were probably compiled in late 2021, using a flaw in Twitter’s system that allowed outsiders who already had an email address or phone number to find any account that had shared that information with Twitter.
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British Journal of Photography Wednesday January 18, 2023
The British Journal of Photography has announced the winners of its Portrait of Britain contest— Britain’s biggest portrait competition. The goal of the competition has always been to highlight the nation’s diversity, and the 99 winning photographs from the sixth edition of Portrait of Britain do just that, with subjects representing a wide swath of ages, occupations, and ethnicities, notes Artnet. Subjects range from a north London cowboy to soccer fans (sorry, that’s football fans), priests, beekeepers and more.
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THE VERGE Wednesday January 18, 2023
Three artists have filed a lawsuit claiming that AI art tools violate copyright law by scraping artists’ work from the web without their consent. The artists, Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz, filed a copyright infringement action against Stability AI and Midjourney, creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and artist portfolio platform DeviantArt, which recently created its own AI art generator, DreamUp. Whether or not these systems infringe on copyright law is a complicated question that experts say will need to be settled in the courts, notes The Verge.
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David Schonauer Wednesday January 18, 2023
The last thing Nathan Eidse wants -- and he makes this abundantly clear -- is to be in the spotlight, noted the CBC recently. But Eidse is pretty visible these days. A Winnipeg-based freelance
cameraman, Eidse mostly works for TSN, the Canadian sports network, shooting ice hockey games while camouflaged in an all-white outfit. He recently covered the world junior men's hockey championship
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