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Training data for generative AI models like Midjourney and ChatGPT is beginning to dry up, according to a new study.

In December, PetaPixel published a deep-dive on the wild west of CFexpress cards, highlighting how many were outright ignoring vital portions of the specification that allowed the cards to work properly with Sony cameras. Today, the story is very different.

A disturbing report has revealed that personal photos of Brazilian children have been included in a major image library used to train AI image generators.

A decade's worth of Peak Design's client data (about half a million records) leaked publicly because due to a data migration, the information was temporarily not password protected.

More data from Japan shows that, looking back at the last 15 years, smartphones truly obliterated the compact camera market: the ownership rate of a standalone digital camera in Japan has fallen below 50% for the first time in 19 years.

In 1998, San Francisco installed the latest cutting-edge technology to run the train network: floppy disks. A quarter of a century later and the city's transportation agency is still using the same system.

For residents and tourists alike, Google Maps Street View is an exceptionally useful navigational tool. However, not every country has welcomed Google's iconic Street View cars to their streets. One of these longtime holdouts, Germany, has only recently begun to change its tune after more than a decade of resistance. But why?

Last week, Canon claimed victory as the number one mirrorless camera brand by unit sales in the United States. While impressive, Sony says it has data from the same agency Canon used that contests the position.

Technology companies are busy showing off their latest and greatest products at CES this week and, as always, some of these new products look perfect for photographers and videographers. While Hyper's HyperDrive Next Thunderbolt 5 Dock may offer speeds current computers don't support, it is nonetheless an exciting debut.

Adobe made millions reselling the personal data of its customers in the Netherlands, that's according to a Dutch watchdog that is taking the photo software giant to court.

With the holiday season just around just the corner, a consumer advocacy group has warned that advanced technological children's toys could be at risk of being hacked.

Synology has announced the DiskStation DS223 network attached storage (NAS) system, a new two-bay storage solution in its "Value" lineup of essential storage servers aimed at home and work-from-home use.

DJI has passed the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP), a critical security benchmark that was jointly established by the United States Department of Commerce and the Canadian Center for Cyber Security.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging that the Silicon Valley tech giant unlawfully captured and used the biometric data of millions of Texans without obtaining their consent.

X-ray data from NASA's Chandra Observatory has been combined with the infrared data captured by the James Webb Space Telescope to create new composites that make the most of each's data gathering capabilities.

Zenfolio has announced what it calls Smart Pricing, an "advanced data-driven technology" that uses pooled historical transactions to help photographers competitively price their prints and photo products.

Text-to-image generators are a new and messy technology and this week another major step was taken that some argue is damaging to your copyrighted photographs.

The Association of Photographers (AOP) has raised the alarm over the Text and Data Mining copyright exception that the U.K. government plans to introduce.

James Eagle created a fascinating data visualization that lays bare the dominance of the smartphone market over the camera.

Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has been injecting code into websites its users visit so that the company can track them across the internet after they click links in its apps.

Google will allow "emergency disclosures" of video footage to the police from its Nest cameras, without a warrant.

Technology giant Amazon has admitted to handing over Ring doorbell camera footage to law enforcement at least eleven times this year -- without the owners' permission or a search warrant.

A former Facebook employee says he was fired for raising concerns about a new company protocol that allowed staff to access deleted user data and share the information with law enforcement.

Meta has announced that it has filed separate legal actions in federal court against a company and an individual who scraped data from Facebook and Instagram.

It can be heartbreaking to discover a favorite picture on an iPhone or a photograph from a recent shoot has been unexpectedly deleted. The good news is that there are several ways to recover deleted photos, some quite simple and most can be done directly from the iPhone itself.

Synology has announced a new five-bay network-attached storage (NAS) array called the DS1522+. It has a relatively small footprint, can be expanded to up to 15 drives, and supports NVMe SSD caching and 10GbE networking.