The Washington Post Friday February 14, 2025
Security officials in the United Kingdom have demanded that Apple create a back door allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud. The British government’s undisclosed order, issued last month, requires blanket capability to view fully encrypted material, not merely assistance in cracking a specific account, and has no known precedent in major democracies, reports The Washington Post. At issue is cloud storage that only the user, not Apple, can unlock. Apple started rolling out the option, which it calls Advanced Data Protection, in 2022.
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David Schonauer Friday February 14, 2025
We noted this week that a GoFundMe page has been set up to help pay photographer Nick Ut's legal fees as he plans a defamation lawsuit against the makers of a documentary that asserts he did not take
the famous "Napalm Girl" photograph during the Vietnam War. Screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the documentary claims that Thanh Nghe, a driver for NBC, took … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday February 13, 2025
The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has made art history by acquiring its first photograph generated with A.I. The image, by queer Costa Rican artist Matias Sauter Morera, shows two young Latino men
wearing blue leather jackets with gold embellishments in a rustic cafe or bar, evoking the aesthetics of queer history in 1970s Costa Rica. Sauter Morera said the use of A.I. allows … Read the full Story >>
Fstoppers Thursday February 13, 2025
Before baby monitors and viral livestreams, a glitchy black-and-white camera pointed at an empty coffee pot ignited an internet revolution, notes Fstoppers, which tells the story of the birth of the webcam at Cambridge University’s Computer Laboratory. It’s a tale of scientific discovery driven “by a thirst for caffeine” and two Cambridge researchers, Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky, who loved the idea of harnessing technology to solve everyday problems.
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