PetaPixel Wednesday July 8, 2026
The Pennsylvania Attorney General has announced a lawsuit against a wedding photographer for allegedly ripping off customers to the tune of $75,000. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Christina Garcia, who operated as Wandering Stardust Collective and Christina Hernandez Artistry LLC, failed to deliver images to customers and then refused to return deposits. Earlier this year, the North Carolina Attorney General sued Holly Christina Photography for allegedly taking money from hundreds of couples without providing a service, notes PetaPixel. Read the full Story >>
MY MODERN MET Wednesday July 8, 2026
A new exhibition at the Auschwitz Research Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalization (ARCHER) at House 88 in Owicim, Poland, uses restored camera lenses once manufactured by Jewish engineer Lore Sternfeld to reconstruct the inner world of the Holocaust victim who crafted them before Nazi forces murdered her at Auschwitz in 1943. The exhibition, by Jewish-American photographer Hannah Altman, was organized by the Counter Extremism Project, notes My Modern Met. Read the full Story >>
TechCrunch Wednesday July 8, 2026
Instagram users could soon see more ways to fine-tune their content: In a recent post, Instagram head Adam Mosseri showed off new ways that users might access Your Algorithm, a feature that allows them to specify which topics they want to see more of, and less of. “We want to evolve Your Algorithm from a setting to something that feels central to your experience on Instagram,” Mosseri said. The most popular comments on Mosseri’s post, notes TechCrunch, all make the same request. As one user put it, “WE JUST WANT OUR ALGORITHM TO SHOW THE PPL WE FOLLOW.” Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday July 8, 2026
The goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) has been described as a "living fossil" because it's the only extant species of the family Misukurinidae, a 125-million-year-old line of ancient sharks. It
lives far below the ocean's surface and had been seen alive only rarely, when one would get hooked on a fishing line and hauled to the surface. But now, for the first time, scientists have … Read the full Story >>
