DIYPhotography Tuesday July 1, 2025
It’s July and the mercury is rising, And so is Mercury! the Solar System’s innermost planet will be 25.9 degrees from the Sun at its greatest eastern elongation on July 4. Just after sunset, look for the planet low in the eastern sky and plan to photograph it with a wide-angle or medium telephoto lens (e.g., 135 mm), notes DIY Photography. On July 7, the bright star Antares will disappear behind the moon (from our perspective). This occultation, however, won’t be visible from all locations on Earth. Meanwhile, the Milky Way season is in full swing.
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CNN Tuesday July 1, 2025
President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday there is a “buyer for TikTok,” adding that announcement would come in “about two weeks,” which is the time frame he often uses to build news-cycle suspense. He identified the buyers only as “a group of very wealthy people,” notes CNN. “I think I’ll need probably China approval, and I think President Xi will probably do it,” the president said on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo. Trump has instead signed three orders delaying a congressionally mandated TikTok ban.
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Kraszna-Krausz Tuesday July 1, 2025
Mahmoud Khattab is the winner of the 2025 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award for his self-published book The Dog Sat Where We Parted, a deeply personal exploration of the vulnerability and fragility of otherwise unseen military life in Egypt: Image in the book were shot during Khattab's enforced year of Egyptian national service as an army doctor in 2017, The award is the UK’s top honor for photography books. Khattab shares a £10,000 prize with Ellen E. Jones, winner of the 2025 Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award.
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Poynter. Tuesday July 1, 2025
As we noted recently, the conflict between Israel and Iran has spawned a load of AI slop. Now Poynter reports that fake images and videos of explosions, fires, protests and weapons have gone viral after the United States’ June 21 attacks on three Iranian nuclear sites. Many of them were shared by X accounts with blue check marks, which were formerly associated with accounts belonging to people or organizations with verified identities but are now available for purchase, PolitiFact adds tips on how to spot bogus imagery,
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