DIGIDAY Tuesday October 21, 2025
As AI bot traffic grows, content creators are taking steps to protect their intellectual property from being scraped against their will. Six content creators and creator talent managers tell Digiday that AI scraping of their content was an increasing concern going into the end of 2025, with three taking specific steps to block AI bot traffic and legally defend against the scraping of copyrighted content. “When people think of publishers, they think of those big, traditional media publishers — but there are many smaller publishers, like ourselves,” said Sarah Leung, a food content creator behind the YouTube channel The Woks of Life.
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David Schonauer Tuesday October 21, 2025
Earlier this year we noted that photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten exhibited her 2024 series "Frida-A Singular Vision of Beauty & Pain" in Mexico City, bringing along with it a lighting workshop
showing how she uses complex cinematic lighting set-ups to create the images that define her notable work. In November, Fullerton-Batten will open another exhibition of her work at the Fahey/Klein
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Popular Mechanics Monday October 20, 2025
Earlier this year, researchers in Austria were able to produce an effect of special relativity that’s been theorized for 100 years. Called the Terrell-Penrose effect, it describes the idea that when an object is traveling at the speed of light, any method of trying to photograph that object will show it to be slightly rotated. To recreate this effect in an experiment, scientists from Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology and the University of Vienna combined lasers and high-speed photography to turn light speed into something we can witness up close. Your mind will be blow, declares Popular Mechanics.
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The Guardian Monday October 20, 2025
The exhibition “Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World,” at London’s National Portrait Gallery through Jan. 11, 2026, presents the famous photographer “as a sharp-tongued socialite obsessed with high society, beauty – and himself,” notes The Guardian. Beaton, known as the “King of Vogue,” had his first show at the NPG in 1968—the first solo show for a photographer at a British museum. The new exhibition, featuring images of Hollywood stars and war photography, shows why Beaton was one of the visionary forces of the British 20th century.
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