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Meta launches prompt-based sound separation model SAM Audio in its Segment Anything Playground, letting users isolate individual sounds from complex recordings (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/16/meta-pla…

Meta Platforms transforms audio editing with prompt-based sound separation - SiliconANGLE
Meta Platforms transforms audio editing with prompt-based sound separation - SiliconANGLE

RFM-Editing: Rectified Flow Matching for Text-guided Audio Editing
Liting Gao, Yi Yuan, Yaru Chen, Yuelan Cheng, Zhenbo Li, Juan Wen, Shubin Zhang, Wenwu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14003

RFM-Editing: Rectified Flow Matching for Text-guided Audio Editing
Diffusion models have shown remarkable progress in text-to-audio generation. However, text-guided audio editing remains in its early stages. This task focuses on modifying the target content within an audio signal while preserving the rest, thus demanding precise localization and faithful editing according to the text prompt. Existing training-based and zero-shot methods that rely on full-caption or costly optimization often struggle with complex editing or lack practicality. In this work, we p…

At first I thought „Oh no, I need to peel off laptop stickers!“, but then I remembered that I won’t travel to the United States anytime soon (for large values of “soon”).
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/17/politics/antifa-terrorist-designation-trump

Trump says he’s designating Antifa as a terrorist organization
President Donald Trump said he is designating the far-left anti-fascism movement Antifa as a terrorist organization, announcing the move on his Truth Social platform in the early hours of Thursday morning UK time.

volume 2 of the 7th edition of the unix documentation has the long-form tutorial and reference material (vol 1 has the man pages)
the table of contents lists each paper with its title, author(s), and a brief blurb
for instance
UNIX Assembler Reference Manual.
D. M. Ritchie.
The ultimate dead language.

😂 ICE arrests police officer in Chicago suburb and accuses him of being in US illegally! 😂
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/ice-arrests-chicago-suburb-police-officer-hanover-park

If a book hasn't made it to a second edition, it doesn't have a first edition either (grumble, XML, grumble, grumble, library catalog, grumble, grumble, grumble).

The New York Sun is reviving its print product for the first time since 2008, with weekly editions published in a Berliner format on Fridays (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/14/new-york-sun-print-edition

Exclusive: The New York Sun revives print edition
Newspapers have rarely revived print editions in an era of declining circulation.

Indiana University orders school paper to cease print edition and fires director of student media
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/indiana-university-school-paper

Vistoria: A Multimodal System to Support Fictional Story Writing through Instrumental Text-Image Co-Editing
Kexue Fu, Jingfei Huang, Long Ling, Sumin Hong, Yihang Zuo, Ray LC, Toby Jia-jun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13646

Vistoria: A Multimodal System to Support Fictional Story Writing through Instrumental Text-Image Co-Editing
Humans think visually-we remember in images, dream in pictures, and use visual metaphors to communicate. Yet, most creative writing tools remain text-centric, limiting how authors plan and translate ideas. We present Vistoria, a system for synchronized text-image co-editing in fictional story writing that treats visuals and text as coequal narrative materials. A formative Wizard-of-Oz co-design study with 10 story writers revealed how sketches, images, and annotations serve as essential instrum…

Adobe updates Firefly's app to add a prompt-based video editor using Runway's Aleph model, and adds image and video models from Black Forest Labs and others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/16/adob

Adobe Firefly now supports prompt-based video editing, adds more third-party models | TechCrunch
Adobe is updating its AI video-generation app, Firefly, with a new video editor that supports precise prompt-based edits, as well as adding new third-party models for image and video generation, including Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 and Topaz Astra.