Mashable Wednesday April 22, 2026
Kids are consuming a lot of AI slop, and child safety advocates are getting worried, notes Mashable: In a letter sent to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Neil Mohan, a coalition of national organizations and child development experts is demanding a change to YouTube policies to cut down on AI slop, including an outright ban on "Made for Kids" content generated by AI. Recently, YouTube announced a partnership with generative AI studio Animaj, which specializes in AI content aimed at infants and babies. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Wednesday April 22, 2026
Celebrities need passport photos, too, and, as The New York Times notes, being celebrities, they demand the best. In London, they often ventured to a photo studio on Oxford Street, near the American Embassy, where for decades David Sharkey created hundreds of flattering passport photos. The actor Stephen Fry calls Shipley “the greatest, most trusted and admired practitioner” of passport and visa photography. Now his work is collected in the book Passport Photo Service: An Unexpected Archive of Celebrity Portraits. Read the full Story >>
Yahoo! Finance Wednesday April 22, 2026
The UK, which is scrutinizing Getty Images’s bid to acquire Shutterstock and create a $3.7 billion company, has proposed that Shutterstock sell its entire editorial business in order to get approval for the deal. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has previously found that that the purchase would dent competition and adversely impact the choices for media outlets in the UK. Getty said it disagreed and plans to meet with the regulator. The U.S. Dept. of Justice approved the combination of Getty Images and Shutterstock in February. Read the full Story >>
Close-up Photographer of the Year Wednesday April 22, 2026
Nature can be both beautiful and brutal, as evidenced by the top winner of the 2026 Close-up Photographer of the Year competition— South African photographer Willem Kruger’s shot of a spotted hyena carrying a severed zebra head. Kruger and his wife came across a pack of three hyenas headed straight for them on a road in Kruger National Park. The head probably came from a recent lion kill. “In nature, almost nothing goes to waste – even hyenas have a family to feed, and they do it with remarkable commitment,” Kruger says. Read the full Story >>
