The Hollywood Reporter Friday September 18, 2026
The tech giant Meta is launching a new subscription offering called Meta One, meant to supercharge creators, power users and businesses that use its platforms like Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. The suite of subscriptions include single product plans like Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus ($3.99 per month), as well as bundle plans for power users, creators, and businesses. The new system “will include a healthy dose of AI,” notes the Hollywood Reporter, with higher usage limits on creating or editing images or videos, as well as features like Restyle and voice effects. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday September 18, 2026
Last year Sara Moonves, the editor who managed to rescue W magazine from extinction by recruiting a group of investors, got a text message from director Sofia Coppola, whose films have often touched
on themes of girlhood. Coppola wondered whether Moonves would consider "doing a teen W." Moonves, who grew up in Los Angeles reading Tiger Beat, Sassy and Teen Vogue, saw an opening, … Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Thursday September 17, 2026
In January, the New York police department’s counter-terrorism unit sent out a memo warning police officers about a new potential “security and counterintelligence” threat: Ray-Ban Meta glasses. The NYPD memo is one of a dozen, previously unreported and reviewed by The Guardian showing that law enforcement agencies across the US are increasingly concerned about the potential for smart glasses to be used against them. “These agencies surveil the public incessantly, but the moment we can watch them back, it’s deemed a security threat,” said Ryan Shapiro, the executive director of Property of the People. Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Thursday September 17, 2026
For his latest in a series of work photographing people with red hair, photographer Kieran Dodds interviewed and made portraits of hundreds of gingers across the US between 2024 and 2026—people, notes The Guardian, with widely varying backgrounds and heritage. The result is his book Gingers of America. "Although almost everyone featured in the project is a ginger, it is not really about hair. It is structured around themes raised time and again in the conversations I had with portrait sitters,” Dodds says. Read the full Story >>
