engadget Friday October 10, 2025
Facebook and Instagram users in the UK will soon be offered paid subscriptions that remove ads. Users over the age of 18 can pay £3 ($4) per month on the web or £4 ($5) per month when using Meta’s iOS or Android apps. Meta says the change is a response to new regulatory "consent or pay" guidance from the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), whereby users are given the choice between consenting to an organization using their data to personalize ads, or paying to avoid it, notes Engadget.
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CNN Friday October 10, 2025
In photographer Morris Lum’s photographic archive of Chinatowns, change is the only constant, notes CNN. “That’s the life cycle of a Chinatown,” said Lum, who has spent more than a decade documenting commerce, community and architecture in Asian enclaves across the US and Canada. To date, Lum has visited over 20 Chinatowns, from Chicago to Winnipeg. His new book, Chinatowns: Tong Yan Gaai, paints a portrait of courtyards, alleyways and community buildings that have offered refuge and camaraderie to generations.
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THE VERGE Friday October 10, 2025
Google’s new new AI concepting tool Mixboard lets you create moodboards to create projects from pre-populated board templates or text prompts using Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash model, notes The Verge. Mixboard users can add their own images, or generate visuals with descriptions like “show me cups, bowls, and plates in Memphis style,” or “plan an autumn party in my living room.” The tool may be useful to conceptual and advertising photographers who often turn to mood boards to help sculpt the aesthetic of their project, adds PetaPixel.
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David Schonauer Friday October 10, 2025
We noted this week that ICE agents recently assaulted several journalists as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of people attending immigration court proceedings at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower
Manhattan. L. Vural Elibol, chief videographer of the Anadolu news agency, was the most severely injured.and was taken to a hospital on a stretcher. The National Press Photographers Association
later condemned "in the strongest … Read the full Story >>
