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In July, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France plans to recognize a Palestinian state
—joining the ranks of more than 100 global states, mostly non-European, that have already done so.
His decision was a clear shot across the bow to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israeli conduct in Gaza.
The point was made even more blunt in the following days by the news that the United Kingdom also intends to recognize a Palestinian state if no progress is…

What Was the Tipping Point on Gaza?
After almost two years of war, Israel is feeling the growing weight of governmental opprobrium.

"Jaguar cub born in Argentina’s Gran Chaco after three decades"
#Argentina #Jaguars #Animals

Jaguar cub born in Argentina’s Gran Chaco after three decades
A 5-month-old jaguar cub has been spotted along the Bermejo River in northern Argentina’s Gran Chaco region — the first wild-born cub in the region following a rewilding program at El Impenetrable National Park led by conservation nonprofit Rewilding Argentina. Researchers had suspected a birth several months prior, finding paw prints and other indirect signs, […]

Progress on the #tricycle project is mainly in thinking about and working on the subframe. One thing that I'm sure is the right decision is to give the subframe a flat mounting flange, which will bolt down onto a matching pedestal within the hull. This will make the subframe easier to fabricate, and easier to mount/dismount - which I think will be needed for any work on the wheel or tyre.

InstructX: Towards Unified Visual Editing with MLLM Guidance
Chong Mou, Qichao Sun, Yanze Wu, Pengze Zhang, Xinghui Li, Fulong Ye, Songtao Zhao, Qian He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08485

InstructX: Towards Unified Visual Editing with MLLM Guidance
With recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) showing strong visual understanding and reasoning, interest is growing in using them to improve the editing performance of diffusion models. Despite rapid progress, most studies lack an in-depth analysis of MLLM design choices. Moreover, the integration of MLLMs and diffusion models remains an open challenge in some difficult tasks, such as video editing. In this paper, we present InstructX, a unified framework for image and video…

Filing: corporate travel and expense management software maker Navan plans to raise up to $960M in a US IPO and is targeting a valuation of up to $6.45B (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/travel-tech-firm-navan-a…

I made a poll to see what generation do programmers in the Fediverse belong. 1,184 of you participated, and this resulted in the following distribution:
82.88 of you reported being a Baby Boomer.
473.6 of you said you belong to Generation X.
532.8 of you said you are Millennials.
82.88 of you said you don't belong to any of these three.
I was surprised to see these many Generation Xers at 40%, vs Millenials at 45%.

Following the expected mention of technology neutrality with regard to the 2035 review of CO₂ standards for cars, the automotive section of Von der Leyen's State of the Union speech ends on a positive note:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH…

SciVideoBench: Benchmarking Scientific Video Reasoning in Large Multimodal Models
Andong Deng, Taojiannan Yang, Shoubin Yu, Lincoln Spencer, Mohit Bansal, Chen Chen, Serena Yeung-Levy, Xiaohan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08559

SciVideoBench: Benchmarking Scientific Video Reasoning in Large Multimodal Models
Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have achieved remarkable progress across various capabilities; however, complex video reasoning in the scientific domain remains a significant and challenging frontier. Current video benchmarks predominantly target general scenarios where perception/recognition is heavily relied on, while with relatively simple reasoning tasks, leading to saturation and thus failing to effectively evaluate advanced multimodal cognitive skills. To address this critical gap, we intr…

FVGen: Accelerating Novel-View Synthesis with Adversarial Video Diffusion Distillation
Wenbin Teng, Gonglin Chen, Haiwei Chen, Yajie Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06392 https:…

FVGen: Accelerating Novel-View Synthesis with Adversarial Video Diffusion Distillation
Recent progress in 3D reconstruction has enabled realistic 3D models from dense image captures, yet challenges persist with sparse views, often leading to artifacts in unseen areas. Recent works leverage Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) to generate dense observations, filling the gaps when only sparse views are available for 3D reconstruction tasks. A significant limitation of these methods is their slow sampling speed when using VDMs. In this paper, we present FVGen, a novel framework that addres…