Museum Director Charged Over Composite Photo of Putin and Hitler

A large banner hangs on a stone wall, featuring a photoshopped image combining Vladimir Putin’s and Adolf Hitler’s faces, with the words "PUTLER WAR CRIMINAL!" in bold letters below.

A museum director has been charged over a poster featuring a composite photograph of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler merged into one face.

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The UK recently introduced the Online Safety Act, which contains new requirements for social media platforms to protect users, particularly minors, from illegal or harmful content. As part of the regulation, users must now verify their age to access platforms that may contain adult content, including services like Discord and Reddit.

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Three professional camera lenses with focal lengths of 35mm, 45mm, and 60mm are displayed upright side by side against a white background. The lenses feature focus and aperture rings with labeled markings.

Sirui, makers of excellent photographic lenses, unveiled the IronStar series of anamorphic cinema lenses for full-frame cameras. The trio of lenses all feature fast T1.9 apertures and 1.5x squeeze ratios, enabling the capture of CinemaScope-style widescreen ratios (2.39:1 and 2.65:1).

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A hand holding a Sony RX1R camera in front of a black and white zigzag patterned background, with "PetaPixel Reviews" text logo overlay at the bottom left.

The Sony RX1R II was such a unique product for its time, offering high resolution mated to a stunning Zeiss lens, all in a compact size. However, it was always a premium product that demanded an exorbitant price. The RX1R II debuted at around $3,300, and let’s keep in mind that was nine years ago.

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A floating, futuristic cityscape sphere splits light and dark, with the word "ANTIGRAVITY" in bold white letters across the center. Smoke and glowing lights highlight the surreal, sci-fi atmosphere.

Antigravity is the name of a new drone company. Launched out of “incubation” inside of Insta360, the company says its goal is to “redefine aerial exploration and storytelling” and will do so when it launches a sub-249g form factor, 360-degree drone with 8K resolution later this year.

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A 17-year-old boy from Spain is being investigated by police on suspicion of using AI to create fake nude videos of his female schoolmates that he intended to sell online.

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A swirling spiral of bright, bluish-white clouds or gas illuminated against a dark, almost black background, resembling a vortex or galaxy in space.

Floating 258 miles above, NASA astronauts on board the International Space Station have a view like no other and can therefore photograph Earth in unique ways.

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A man who was photographed naked in his yard by a Google Street View camera has been awarded $12,500 in compensation after a court ruled the images invaded his privacy.

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Black-and-white photos of two men on an open album: the left side shows them standing together in suits, and the right side shows close-up portraits of their faces, one resting his chin on the other’s head.

A rare portfolio belonging to iconic British fashion photographer David Bailey has been discovered in the personal collection of a graphic designer who worked with Bailey.

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A man with a white beard sits on worn steps outside a house (left); an aerial view shows a flooded neighborhood with partially submerged houses (right).

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the devastating Hurricane Katrina, which killed nearly 2,000 people, primarily in Louisiana and Mississippi. National Geographic’s new documentary series, Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time, transports viewers back to the chaos and destruction Katrina wrought in New Orleans, and shines a much-needed light on the people and stories that were ignored back in 2005.

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