German Society for Nature Photography Monday October 20, 2025
The German Society for Nature Photography’s Rewilding Europe Awards contest celebrates powerful imagery that showcases the revival of Europe’s natural world. This year’s top winner is Spanish photographer Jon A. Juárez for his image “Comeback of the Atlantic Sturgeon,” which depicts the release of a juvenile Atlantic sturgeon in Sweden's Göta River in 2024, as part of a first batch of 100 fish. The effort, coordinated by the Swedish Anglers Association, aims to protect a critically endangered species. Read the full Story >>
404 Media Monday October 20, 2025
Apple removed from its store an app that preserved TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media reports. The app, called Eyes Up, differs from other banned apps such as ICEBlock which were designed to report sightings of ICE officials in real-time to warn local communities. Eyes Up, meanwhile, was more of an aggregation service pooling together information to preserve evidence in case the material is needed in the future in court. The move comes after pressure from the Department of Justice against Apple to crack down on ICE-spotting apps, notes 404 Media’s Joseph Cox.
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BBC Monday October 20, 2025
OpenAI plans to allow a wider range of content, including erotica, on its popular chatbot ChatGPT as part of its push to "treat adult users like adults.” says its boss Sam Altman. In a post on X, Altman said upcoming versions of the chatbot would enable it to behave in a more "human-like way.” The move, reminiscent of Elon Musk's xAI's recent introduction of two sexually explicit chatbots to Grok, could help OpenAI attract more paying subscribers, notes the BBC. Meanwhile, The Verge notes that Instagram is making a major update to teen accounts that will only allow them to view content similar to what you would see in a PG-13 movie.
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David Schonauer Monday October 20, 2025
Print is dead, they say. And yet we keep hearing that it's coming back, what with the resurrection of iconic titles. Recently The New York Times T Style Magazine noted that despite the many
obituaries written for print, "many people seem captivated by magazines lately." Arguably, the most memorable page of any magazine is its cover, so The Times convened a panel of experts … Read the full Story >>
