BBC Wednesday June 24, 2026
Eighteen animals, birds and insects — from puffins to bumblebees — have been shortlisted to appear on future British banknotes. And, notes the BBC, the public can have their say on which creatures feature. The Bank of England launched the vote to replace the historical figures that currently sit on the £5, £10, £20, and £50 notes. The decision to replace the likes of Winston Churchill and Alan Turing has provoked the ire of some politicians, but the Bank of England says that change is needed to “increase counterfeit resilience,” adds PetaPixel. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday June 24, 2026
Shares of Getty Images soared more than 150% in premarket trading early on Monday after the company announced a deal with OpenAI to integrate its digital image libraries into ChatGPT. The agreement
will bring Getty's licensed content libraries to the AI company, with Getty's content appearing in OpenAI search and ChatGPT. Until recently, Getty had taken a strong stance against working with AI
companies. … Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Tuesday June 23, 2026
For more than two decades, Hany Farid, 60, had been the world’s leading expert in the field of digital forensics, but, notes The New York Times, in the last six months he’s stopped trusting his own eyes because of how sophisticated deepfakes have become.“I miss the days when it was a grainy video of a shark swimming up the street,” says Farid, who served as Dean and Head of School for the UC Berkeley School of Information and works as a consultant for non-profits, government agencies, and news organizations. Read the full Story >>
Harper's Bazaar Tuesday June 23, 2026
The title of photographer Brianna Capozzi’s new book, Womanizer, conjures a vision of a man who entices women with promises of love and security, only to disappear and find some other women to trap in his web of deception. But, notes Harper’s Bazaar, the book instead brings together a body of work where women are unassailably in control—and having a good time in the process. “I landed on the title while I was watching a documentary on Helmut Newton,” says Capozzi. Read the full Story >>
