PetaPixel Monday September 9, 2024
If you’re concerned about web crawlers scraping your images from the internet to train AI models without permission or compensation, you can do something about it, notes artist and engineer Robert A. Gonsalves at Medium. The easiest thing you can do is turn off AI crawler access to your website using settings in your hosting service, he says. Meanwhile, PetaPixel points to a new app called Overlai, which protects images with an invisible watermark while simultaneously creating an “immutable record of your metadata,”
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Minimalist Photography Awards Monday September 9, 2024
Simplicity is beautiful: Photographer Eva Chupikova of the Czech Republic is the top winner of the 2024 Minimalist Photography Awards for her series “Anna,” a collection of portraits that, she notes, draws inspiration from the Renaissance ideals of harmony and proportion. Amid the chaos of modern life, “we yearn for a new sense of conformity and balance with our environment and ourselves,” she notes. This year’s competition drew more than 3,400 submissions from photographers around the globe.
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THE VERGE Monday September 9, 2024
GoPro’s newly announced flagship action camera, the Hero 13 Black, gets some interesting features, including magnetic mounting, plus three new lenses: an Ultra Wide Lens Mod ($99.99) that captures a 177-degree field of view with a 1:1 aspect ratio; a Macro Lens Mod ($129.99) for close-ups, and an Anamorphic Lens Mod ($129.99) that offers a 21:9 aspect ratio recording. There’s also a redesigned battery that the company says has a 10-percent higher capacity than its predecessor, notes The Verge.
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David Schonauer Monday September 9, 2024
In a deal announced on Aug. 21, California will become the first US state to direct millions of dollars from taxpayer money and tech companies to help shore up cash-strapped newsrooms. Under the
first-in-the-nation agreement, a mix of funding from Google, taxpayers and possibly other private sources will pay up to $250 million to support California-based news organizations,. The agreement
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