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AI-Generated Image Misattributed to Egon Schiele Provokes Outrage
An AI-created image purporting to be a famous watercolor by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele has generated hundreds of thousands of page views, as well as outrage and alarm on X. The image was posted by @lovedropx, an account with 287,000 followers and a vigorous reposter with a weakness for maudlin inspirational quotes. A depiction of read more
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Anthropic launches interactive Claude apps, including Slack and other workplace tools | TechCrunch
Claude users will now be able to call up interactive apps within the chatbot interface, thanks to a new feature announced by Anthropic on Monday. In keeping with Anthropic’s enterprise focus, the launch apps are mostly workplace tools, including Slack, Canva, Figma, Box, and Clay, with a Salesforce implementation expected soon. In each case, the read more
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Tech workers call for CEOs to speak up against ICE after the killing of Alex Pretti | TechCrunch
More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs to call the White House and demand that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leave U.S. cities. “For months now, Trump has sent federal agents to our cities to criminalize us, our neighbors, friends, read more
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Exclusive: VC firm 2150 raises €210M fund to solve cities’ climate challenges | TechCrunch
If you want to solve climate change, there are few better places to start than cities. “The city is kind of like this beautiful vampire squid that sucks in all the resources,” Jacob Bro, co-founder and partner at 2150, told TechCrunch. “They basically aggregate all the prosperity in the world — 80% of GDP — read more
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Best beaches in California for swimming, whales & winter sun
For travelers looking to get to know the many-varied charms of the Golden State, discovering it through the best beaches in California is never a bad idea. The state’s coastline spans a vast 3,427 miles after all. Among its 420 public beautiful beaches are plentiful opportunities to swim, lay out, look at tide pools, surf read more
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In New York, the Stakes are High for a Young Gallery Dedicated to Play
A cold wind cuts through lower Manhattan, passing shuttered storefronts that once housed small galleries—some casualties of the rent crisis—before losing force at the corner of Broome and Chrystie Streets. There, a different kind of market experiment took shape. Last year, Spielzeug Gallery, a nomadic curatorial project had a turn as a brick-and-mortar commercial gallery, read more
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Redditors Are Mounting a Resistance Against ICE
On Saturday morning, a Reddit user who has posted about living in Minneapolis for years shared a video on the city’s subreddit, r/Minneapolis, with the title “Another ICE murder in front of Glam Doll Donuts.” The 40-second clip showed a group of federal agents tackling 37-year-old Alex Pretti to the ground and beating him. About read more
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Saudi satirist hacked with Pegasus spyware wins damages in court battle | TechCrunch
The London High Court awarded a Saudi satirist and human rights activist more than £3 million ($4.1 million USD) in damages on Monday after finding “compelling evidence” that his phone had been hacked with government-grade spyware. Ghanem Al-Masarir, a London-based comic whose popular YouTube channel featured videos of him criticizing Saudi Arabia, while earning him read more
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AI startup CVector raises $5M for its industrial 'nervous system' | TechCrunch
Industrial AI startup CVector built a brain and nervous system for big industry. Now, founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles are tasked with a bigger challenge: showing customers and investors how this AI-powered software layer translates to real savings on an industrial scale. The New York-based startup has had some success following its pre-seed funding read more
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AirTag 2: These Airlines Offer Feature That Helps Find Your Lost Bags
Apple offers a Share Item Location feature in the Find My app that allows you to temporarily share the location of an AirTag-equipped item with others, including employees at participating airlines. This way, if you put an AirTag inside your bags, the airline can better help you find them in the event they are lost read more
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The Best Sleep Masks for Hot Sleepers, Third-Shift Workers, and Travelers
Compare Our Top 10 Sleep Masks More Sleep Masks We Tested Photograph: Kat Merck Drowsy Silk Eye Mask for $79: This 22-momme, padded mulberry silk mask might be one of the most comfortable sleep masks I’ve ever worn. It covered a large surface area on my face, but instead of it feeling suffocating or smothering, read more
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Painted LEGO Bricks Appear to Move and Vibrate in Katherine Duclos' Assemblages
Starting with the inherently gridded layouts of LEGO baseplates, Katherine Duclos creates vibrant, undulating compositions of pastels and gradients. The Vancouver-based artist employs the colorful bricks in a variety of geometric patterns and low-relief textures to achieve dynamic compositions that appear almost kinetic, adding her own effects with paint. The impression of movement, paired with read more
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Nigerian officers to face trial over allegations of a coup against President Bola Tinubu
A group of officers in Nigeria are set to face a military court after being accused of “plotting to overthrow the government” of President Bola Tinubu last year, an armed forces’ statement has said. Sixteen officers were arrested last October after what were described as “acts of indiscipline and breaches of service regulations”. At the read more
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Artists Urge Jewish Museum to Save Federal ‘Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art’ from Demolition in Open Letter
The latest attempt to save the New Deal-era artwork from the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C., involves a letter written by a group of artists urging the Jewish Museum in New York to save the murals and sculptural reliefs created by Jewish artists like Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and Seymour Fogel. The read more
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Louvre Closes Again as Union Negotiations Drag On
The Louvre closed on Monday due to a strike as employees’ demands for improved working conditions and pay equity continue to go unmet, marking the fourth day the Paris museum has shuttered since mid-December. The stoppage is one of the longest strikes in the history of the world’s most visited museum, a crisis intensified by read more
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Salon 94’s Alissa Friedman on Coming Home, Cultural Lag, and Why Art’s Boundaries Are Disappearing
Editor’s Note:This story is part ofNewsmakers, an ARTnews series featuring conversations with the figures shaping how the art world is changing right now. For Alissa Friedman, returning to Salon 94 was a homecoming. After more than a decade of helping to shape the gallery’s identity, Friedman left when founder Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn joined forces with read more
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Shakahola cult leader Paul Mackenzie faces Kenya charges over 52 further deaths
The leader of a Kenyan cult accused of encouraging his followers to starve themselves to death will be charged over a further 52 deaths at another village, prosecutors say. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie was arrested in 2023 after 429 bodies, including children, were dug up from mass graves in the remote Shakahola forest. He has read more
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Apple Releases watchOS 26.2.1, Adding Precision Finding Support for AirTag 2
Apple today released watchOS 26.2.1, a minor update to the watchOS 26 update that came out last year. watchOS 26.2.1 comes six weeks after Apple released watchOS 26.2. watchOS 26.2.1 can be downloaded for free on an iPhone running iOS 26.2.1 by opening up the Apple Watch app and going to General > Software Update, read more
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Apple Releases iOS 26.2.1 With AirTag 2 Support
Apple today released iOS 26.2.1 and iPadOS 26.2.1, minor updates to the iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 operating systems. The new software comes a month after Apple released iOS 26.2 and iPadOS 26.2. The new software can be downloaded on eligible iPhones and iPads over-the-air by going to Settings > General > Software Update. iOS read more
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6 Books on Robert Smithson’s Shelf
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