Columbia Journalism Review Friday August 16, 2024
In a decision this month that runs to more than two hundred and seventy pages, Judge Amit Mehta found that the payments that Google makes to Apple, Mozilla, and other companies in return for making it the default search engine for their smartphones and Web browsers—payments that totaled more than twenty billion dollars last year—amount to an unfair restraint on competition. Her ruling, notes the Columbia Journalism Review, could “dramatically change” the internet. Maybe. The most extreme option would be to force Google to sell off parts of its search and/or advertising businesses.
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It’s Nice That Friday August 16, 2024
Initiated by humanitarian aid workers Artem Skorohodko and Dmytro Zubkov, Behind Blue Eyes is a charity providing food and basic necessities to regions in the north of Ukraine that were taken back from Russian occupiers, as well as a photography project: What began as an effort in one village to supply local children with disposable cameras has grown to encompass 19 villages and a collection of over 4,000 unique photos that capture “all the sides of the consequences of the war in the de-occupied territories,” notes It’s Nice That.
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PetaPixel Friday August 16, 2024
Free users of ChatGPT can now generate up to two images per day with DALL-E 3. The AI image generator was previously exclusive to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, notes PetaPixel. DALL-E 3 differs from its competitors such as Midjourney in that it is difficult to produce photorealistic images from it. That is a purposeful policy from OpenAI, which says it wants to mitigate “misinformation and propaganda,” adds PP. It is impossible to ask for a picture “in the style of” any given artist.
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COLOSSAL Friday August 16, 2024
Photographer Brendon Burton has spent a decade documenting rural America, searching out “deeply personal spaces and homes lost to decay” along with “expansive dreamlike landscapes, frozen as the world changes around them.” The result is his book Epitaph, which, notes Colossal, probes “buried past lives” in images of fields and foothills, dilapidated farmhouses, and grain elevators stand-ing “amid the stark, magnificent landscape in areas that seem to exist in a different world and operate on their own time.”
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