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 >>
The New York Times Thursday October 9, 2025
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has signed into law a new set of rules to ensure the safe development of artificial intelligence, creating one of the strongest sets of regulations in the nation, notes The New York Times. The Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, or S.B. 53, requires the most advanced A.I. companies to report safety protocols used in building their technologies and forces the companies to report the greatest risks posed by their technologies.
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CNN Thursday October 9, 2025
Almost 25 years ago, when Chris Fallows captured his famous photograph of a great white shark breaching the surface at False Bay, off Cape Town, the area was a hotspot for the predators. Since then, as CNN notes, great whites have completely disappeared from False Bay, perhaps because of predatory killer whales or overfishing by humans. Touched by the loss, Fallows and his wife used proceeds from his image to buy and re-wild 61 acres of land on South Africa’s south coast.
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