Bloomberg Wednesday December 10, 2025
Did your Thanksgiving dinner turn out to be as scrumptious as it looked on Pinterest? Bloomberg reports that AI slop recipes are taking over the interest just in time for the holidays. Instead of sending home cooks to well-tested recipes, Google increasingly inserts AI-generated summaries stitched together from various sources, notes Bloomberg, adding that Pinterest feeds are stuffed with AI-generated images of food that the attached instructions won’t achieve.
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The New Yorker Wednesday December 10, 2025
Newspapers are closing at an emergency-level rate—over the past 20 years, America has lost more than 3,000. And, notes The New Yorker, for the past six years, photographer Ann Hermes has been documenting the lives lived in these dying places across the country, from Juneau, Alaska, to St. Louis, Missouri. The result is a portrait of journalism in action, carried out in what the magazine calls “dumps” that “only a newsperson could love.” Hermes's photos, writes Zach Helfand, are “elegiac, sweet, and sometimes hilarious.”
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Drone XL Wednesday December 10, 2025
A group of former DJI engineers is set to launch an AI-powered camera designed specifically for long-distance wildlife and bird photography. The new RocX camera, from the start-up Farseer, is billed as the “World’s First AI-powered Distant View Camera,” according to Digital Camera World. It features a 1/2.8-inch sensor capable of 50x zoom. That translates to a focal range from 35mm all the way to 1,750mm equivalent, with an aperture ranging from f/2.0 to f/3.2, notes Drone XL. Read the full Story >>
Getty Images Wednesday December 10, 2025
Getty Images is looking back at the “most impactful moments across news, sports, entertainment, and beyond” captured by its photographers in 2025—from “the first American pope to California’s devastating wildfires, the high-speed action of the World Athletics Championships to the glamorous spectacle of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.” Among the photos selected for the spotlight: Maddie Meyer’s shot of golfer Rory McIlroy celebrating after Team Europe's 15-13 win over Team America in the 2025 Ryder Cup.
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