THE VERGE Wednesday May 6, 2026
Canva’s new Magic Layers design feature has been replacing the word “Palestine” in designs, notes The Verge. “I put this image into Canva [sic], I press this ‘magic layers’ button, and it turned this poster that said ‘cats for Palestine’ into ‘cats for Ukraine,’” noted X user Rosie (@ros_ie9), who first spotted the issue. Canva apologized in a statement: “We became aware of an issue with our Magic Layers feature and moved quickly to investigate and fix it,” Canva spokesperson Louisa Green said. “We take reports like this very seriously, and we’re putting additional checks in place to help prevent this in the future.” Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday May 6, 2026
Despite strong first-quarter earnings, Meta's stock plummeted nearly 9 percent last Thursday. Why? During a Q1 earnings call the previous day, the company revealed it had lost 20 million users across
its family of apps, though it didn't say specifically whether the users are bleeding from Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp. Meta's chief financial officer, Susan Li, blamed "internet disruptions in
Iran, as well as … Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Tuesday May 5, 2026
In September 2024, Oscar-winning actor and passionate photographer Jeff Bridges announced that he and his wife, photographer Susan Bridges, had joined forces with Marwan El Mozayen and Charys Schulder of Silvergrain/Classics to form a new company called SilverBridges, whose sole ambition was to bring the Widelux camera back to life. After recently sharing images made with the WideluxX F10 prototypes, SilverBridges has announced that the new panoramic camera is available for pre-order, notes PetaPixel. Read the full Story >>
Aperture Tuesday May 5, 2026
Italian photojournalist Emanuele Satolli’s book That Thing That Never Vanished is a decade-long chronicle of war and conflict, including the fall of ISIS in Iraq and Syria and the war in Ukraine. Much of the work in the book has never been published previously, and the images are sequenced without captions, dates, or references to locations. The idea, Satolli tells Aperture, was to attain some distance from the imperatives of journalism and to stage for the reader a visceral experience of what war is. Read the full Story >>
