Business Insider Monday September 14, 2026
Allen Cooley, an Atlanta-based photographer and director, says that for most of his career he barely thought about the price of hard drives. That changed as the global explosion of AI and data centers drove up the price of memory. He decided to completely halt buying new storage. Instead, he used Anthropic’s Claude AI assistants to build an intelligent indexing system to categorizing and tag his thousands of unorganized drives, effectively unlocking terabytes of forgotten space he could reuse, notes Business Insider. Read the full Story >>
CNN Monday September 14, 2026
If Courtney Love was the unpredictable fire of Hole, bassist Melissa Auf der Maur was her cool counterpart, For five years, the Montreal-born Auf der Maur performed with the grunge-rock group “just as they crested toward a vertiginous, yet precarious peak,” notes CNN. She also photographed her life on stage, backstage, on the road and in hotel rooms, documenting the alternative renaissance she was part of. The forthcoming book “My ’90s Rock Photographs” brings together more than 200 of her images. Read the full Story >>
Press Gazette Monday September 14, 2026
Amazon and Meta appear to be the two companies with the most prolific AI bots when it comes to the scraping of websites worldwide, notes Press Gazette: Data and technology company 51Degrees says it has analyzed data looking at three billion website visits in the year through May 29, 2026 based on sites it works with in telecoms, advertising, media, retail, financial services and technology sectors. It found that AmazonBot accounted for more than 4% of all web visits over the period monitored and Meta-External-Agent represented almost 3%. Read the full Story >>
Vanity Fair Monday September 14, 2026
If nothing else, the scene inside Dallas’s American Airlines Center last week was colorful as Republicans gathered for what was billed as a “midterm convention”—and what informally came to be called “Trumpapalooza.” The star of the show was the president, who pledged to give $5,000 to every American adult if voters keep his party in power this November, but those in attendance brought their own visual flair, which was vividly captured by photojournalist Mark Peterson. Vanity Fair featured his work from deep in the heart of MAGA. Read the full Story >>
