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Google launches Gemini 3 Pro Image, aka Nano Banana Pro, with more control, improved text rendering, and enhanced world knowledge, for free in the Gemini app (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/20/gemini-3-nano-banana-pro/

Google rolling out Gemini 3-powered ‘Nano Banana Pro’ image gen, editing
Google is following the launch of Gemini 3 Pro with Nano Banana Pro. The image generation and editing model is officially Gemini 3 Pro Image.

All four reporters at Suncoast Searchlight, a nonprofit news site, accused their EIC of using generative AI tools without disclosure; one reporter was fired (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/florida-no…

Florida nonprofit news reporters ask board to investigate their editor’s AI use
Suncoast Searchlight’s four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired.

Heavy is the head that bows the crown. Or something…
https://apnews.com/article/bbc-director-resigns-trump-speech-editing-3aab83138d58c92db1bb00e77e568876

Top BBC bosses resign after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a Trump speech
The head of the BBC has resigned after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump. The BBC said that director-general Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness both announced their resignations on Sunday. Britain’s public broadcaster has been criticized for editing a speech Trump made on Jan. 6, 2021 before protesters attacked the Capitol in Washington. Critics said that the way the speech was edited for a BBC documentary last year was misleading and cut …

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

IVEBench: Modern Benchmark Suite for Instruction-Guided Video Editing Assessment
Yinan Chen, Jiangning Zhang, Teng Hu, Yuxiang Zeng, Zhucun Xue, Qingdong He, Chengjie Wang, Yong Liu, Xiaobin Hu, Shuicheng Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11647

IVEBench: Modern Benchmark Suite for Instruction-Guided Video Editing Assessment
Instruction-guided video editing has emerged as a rapidly advancing research direction, offering new opportunities for intuitive content transformation while also posing significant challenges for systematic evaluation. Existing video editing benchmarks fail to support the evaluation of instruction-guided video editing adequately and further suffer from limited source diversity, narrow task coverage and incomplete evaluation metrics. To address the above limitations, we introduce IVEBench, a mo…

Having just watched #Jaws for the first time in ages, I was stunned by the famous opening sequence ... but not by its cinematography or acting or editing - but by the never-ending chain of in-your-face #continuity errors in lighting once the girl enters the water: one moment we have a low Sun and a red sky, then we have the Sun near the zenith (with a day for night effect) then low again and so on, for several cycles.
Now #Spielberg, is there supposed to be some hidden message here? Well, there isn't.
(Once it's day, fortunately, this problem is gone, and a great movie unfolds, still fresh after 50 years. And I know, you shouldn't mess with a masterpiece, but Lucas added characters to Star Wars IV, and Cameron corrected a wrong star pattern in Titanic, so may be Spielberg could just, for an anniversary special edition ... o.k., I shut up. ;-)

#3GoodThings
Chili and cornbread.
Working out with Kid1 at the local public gym (it's small, but it's ours!).
Editing an absolute gem of an article - interesting, well written, and, for bonus points, it cites Althusser all at the same time.

I have been intermittently sick, and working on a grant proposal and doing household stuff with the family all week. It's not the best recipe for a relaxing week on holiday. So now I'm going to do some fun stuff. Saturday morning science - which means looking at pretty data and reading new papers and editing student's paper.
... And wondering where I went so wrong that I have to do the actual science in my free time rather than at the office

"This is a new reality that we are dreaming and weaving together."
This is either the last or second to last section of Kairos I'm writing. This is the most specific so far. After that it's editing and making it feel more like a single consistent text than a bunch of essays. I hope it's worth the read.
Feedback is always welcome, especially editing (typos, grammar, etc), and questions.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-creating-a-viable-system-91h5

President Trump sues BBC (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/16/trump-bbc-lawsuit-defamation-editing-jan-6-speech
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p121#a251215p121

Playing around with progressive JPEGs and their behavior in a web page. You can use ImageMagick to determine if a JPEG is interlaced. Most photo editing apps will export images as interlaced now, but you can see the behavior below.
Non-interlaced: Chunky render
Interlaced: Loads in from low quality to high quality.

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.

Who herein is using ON1 Photo RAW 2026?
Your thoughts/Reviews on why I should purchase this cool looking app?
#affinity

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump
Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About
How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/03/6…

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is currently being described as “nuts.” There are…

Precise Attribute Intensity Control in Large Language Models via Targeted Representation Editing
Rongzhi Zhang, Liqin Ye, Yuzhao Heng, Xiang Chen, Tong Yu, Lingkai Kong, Sudheer Chava, Chao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12121

Precise Attribute Intensity Control in Large Language Models via Targeted Representation Editing
Precise attribute intensity control--generating Large Language Model (LLM) outputs with specific, user-defined attribute intensities--is crucial for AI systems adaptable to diverse user expectations. Current LLM alignment methods, however, typically provide only directional or open-ended guidance, failing to reliably achieve exact attribute intensities. We address this limitation with three key designs: (1) reformulating precise attribute intensity control as a target-reaching problem, rather t…

#ffmpeg in your browser: #codecs

It’s another one of those lackluster desert sunsets again
(no editing or filters on the photo)

C3Editor: Achieving Controllable Consistency in 2D Model for 3D Editing
Zeng Tao, Zheng Ding, Zeyuan Chen, Xiang Zhang, Leizhi Li, Zhuowen Tu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04539 ht…

C3Editor: Achieving Controllable Consistency in 2D Model for 3D Editing
Existing 2D-lifting-based 3D editing methods often encounter challenges related to inconsistency, stemming from the lack of view-consistent 2D editing models and the difficulty of ensuring consistent editing across multiple views. To address these issues, we propose C3Editor, a controllable and consistent 2D-lifting-based 3D editing framework. Given an original 3D representation and a text-based editing prompt, our method selectively establishes a view-consistent 2D editing model to achieve sup…

MIT Scientists Unlock a New Level of Precision in Gene Editing
https://scitechdaily.com/mit-scientists-unlock-a-new-level-of-precision-in-gene-editing/

BBC Chair Samir Shah apologizes for an "error of judgement", saying the Panorama edit "did give the impression of a direct call for violent action" (Ellise Shafer/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/globa…

BBC Chair Apologizes for Editing Trump Speech: 'Error of Judgement'
BBC chair Samir Shah apologized to the U.K. culture, media and sport committee following a scandal around the editing of a Trump speech in "Panorama."

Google rolls out Nano Banana image editing upgrades in Photos, including a "help me edit" feature that lets users make edits using text or voice prompts (Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-google-

Your Google Photos just got 3 huge Nano Banana image editing upgrades - for free
Google Photos just made it easier than ever to create realistic AI edits, thanks to Google DeepMind's top image-editing model.

Mono4DEditor: Text-Driven 4D Scene Editing from Monocular Video via Point-Level Localization of Language-Embedded Gaussians
Jin-Chuan Shi, Chengye Su, Jiajun Wang, Ariel Shamir, Miao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09438

Mono4DEditor: Text-Driven 4D Scene Editing from Monocular Video via Point-Level Localization of Language-Embedded Gaussians
Editing 4D scenes reconstructed from monocular videos based on text prompts is a valuable yet challenging task with broad applications in content creation and virtual environments. The key difficulty lies in achieving semantically precise edits in localized regions of complex, dynamic scenes, while preserving the integrity of unedited content. To address this, we introduce Mono4DEditor, a novel framework for flexible and accurate text-driven 4D scene editing. Our method augments 3D Gaussians wi…

Energy-Regularized Sequential Model Editing on Hyperspheres
Qingyuan Liu, Jia-Chen Gu, Yunzhi Yao, Hong Wang, Nanyun Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01172 https://

Energy-Regularized Sequential Model Editing on Hyperspheres
Large language models (LLMs) require constant updates to remain aligned with evolving real-world knowledge. Model editing offers a lightweight alternative to retraining, but sequential editing often destabilizes representations and induces catastrophic forgetting. In this work, we seek to better understand and mitigate performance degradation caused by sequential editing. We hypothesize that hyperspherical uniformity, a property that maintains uniform distribution of neuron weights on a hypersp…

Speak, Edit, Repeat: High-Fidelity Voice Editing and Zero-Shot TTS with Cross-Attentive Mamba
Baher Mohammad, Magauiya Zhussip, Stamatios Lefkimmiatis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04738

Speak, Edit, Repeat: High-Fidelity Voice Editing and Zero-Shot TTS with Cross-Attentive Mamba
We introduce MAVE (Mamba with Cross-Attention for Voice Editing and Synthesis), a novel autoregressive architecture for text-conditioned voice editing and high-fidelity text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, built on a cross-attentive Mamba backbone. MAVE achieves state-of-the-art performance in speech editing and very competitive results in zero-shot TTS, while not being explicitly trained on the latter task, outperforming leading autoregressive and diffusion models on diverse, real-world audio. By i…

EditTrack: Detecting and Attributing AI-assisted Image Editing
Zhengyuan Jiang, Yuyang Zhang, Moyang Guo, Neil Zhenqiang Gong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01173 https://

EditTrack: Detecting and Attributing AI-assisted Image Editing
In this work, we formulate and study the problem of image-editing detection and attribution: given a base image and a suspicious image, detection seeks to determine whether the suspicious image was derived from the base image using an AI editing model, while attribution further identifies the specific editing model responsible. Existing methods for detecting and attributing AI-generated images are insufficient for this problem, as they focus on determining whether an image was AI-generated/edit…

Ok, he has seen replies and knows we were out first but decided not to bother editing or deleting his statement, that way convincing his fanbois that Brave is best and we totally failed, even though we were first.
Nice, basically a Trump move.

Anybody know of a Linux image editing tool that lets you dynamically mesh-warp a layer (i.e. click a point in the image and move it to align with a feature on another layer, adding new mesh key points each time you do this)?

SIMSplat: Predictive Driving Scene Editing with Language-aligned 4D Gaussian Splatting
Sung-Yeon Park, Adam Lee, Juanwu Lu, Can Cui, Luyang Jiang, Rohit Gupta, Kyungtae Han, Ahmadreza Moradipari, Ziran Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02469

SIMSplat: Predictive Driving Scene Editing with Language-aligned 4D Gaussian Splatting
Driving scene manipulation with sensor data is emerging as a promising alternative to traditional virtual driving simulators. However, existing frameworks struggle to generate realistic scenarios efficiently due to limited editing capabilities. To address these challenges, we present SIMSplat, a predictive driving scene editor with language-aligned Gaussian splatting. As a language-controlled editor, SIMSplat enables intuitive manipulation using natural language prompts. By aligning language wi…

Object-AVEdit: An Object-level Audio-Visual Editing Model
Youquan Fu, Ruiyang Si, Hongfa Wang, Dongzhan Zhou, Jiacheng Sun, Ping Luo, Di Hu, Hongyuan Zhang, Xuelong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00050 …

Object-AVEdit: An Object-level Audio-Visual Editing Model
There is a high demand for audio-visual editing in video post-production and the film making field. While numerous models have explored audio and video editing, they struggle with object-level audio-visual operations. Specifically, object-level audio-visual editing requires the ability to perform object addition, replacement, and removal across both audio and visual modalities, while preserving the structural information of the source instances during the editing process. In this paper, we pres…

Google Photos launches new video editing tools, including specialized templates with preset music and text overlays, as well as a redesigned video editor (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/google-photos-launches-new-video-editing…

Google Photos launches new video editing tools | TechCrunch
Google Photos' new update helps make editing video reels in the app quicker, such as new templates that already add music and text to clips.

Remember the Photoshop competitor that didn't require a monthly subscription? #AffinityPhoto
You can no longer download/purchase their software and they are giving away the iPad version for free until the end of the month. And they are teasing something "big" coming up with a bunch of marketing-speak. Whenever a company talks about freedom, be weary.

This is especially ambitious in the amount of area I'm trying to cover and number of ideas I'm trying to pull together. Editing feedback (typos and grammar) always welcome, as are any questions about the subject, and any other feedback.

Trump sues BBC for $10 billion, accusing it of defamation over editing of president's Jan. 6 speech (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-bbc-lawsuit-defamation-a9fd196c4f242decd8f28e8d0ce74442
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p134#a251215p134

DreamOmni2: Multimodal Instruction-based Editing and Generation
Bin Xia, Bohao Peng, Yuechen Zhang, Junjia Huang, Jiyang Liu, Jingyao Li, Haoru Tan, Sitong Wu, Chengyao Wang, Yitong Wang, Xinglong Wu, Bei Yu, Jiaya Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06679

DreamOmni2: Multimodal Instruction-based Editing and Generation
Recent advancements in instruction-based image editing and subject-driven generation have garnered significant attention, yet both tasks still face limitations in meeting practical user needs. Instruction-based editing relies solely on language instructions, which often fail to capture specific editing details, making reference images necessary. Meanwhile, subject-driven generation is limited to combining concrete objects or people, overlooking broader, abstract concepts. To address these chall…

Generating High-Quality Datasets for Code Editing via Open-Source Language Models
Zekai Zhang, Mingwei Liu, Zhenxi Chen, Linxi Liang, Yuxuan Chen, Guangsheng Ou, Yanlin Wang, Dan Li, Xin Peng, Zibin Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25203

Generating High-Quality Datasets for Code Editing via Open-Source Language Models
Code editing plays a vital role in software engineering, requiring developers to adjust existing code according to natural language instructions while keeping functionality intact and avoiding unnecessary modifications. However, commit-based datasets commonly used for this task are often noisy, lack diversity, and fail to reflect the style of real-world edit instructions. To address this, we introduce CanItEdit, an open-source pipeline that leverages multiple LLMs to synthesize realistic code-e…

Here's a great use of AI text-to-speech generation: preparing for a live pitch.
Instead of reading your pitch a hundred times so you can edit it for time, use ElevenLabs.
1. Create an account
2. Find a voice that matches your own cadence
3. Paste your script and have it generate the pitch
You'll immediately see how long the audio file is and can adjust your script for length.
Then you can spend your time **rehearsing** instead of editing.

Data-Model Co-Evolution: Growing Test Sets to Refine LLM Behavior
Minjae Lee, Minsuk Kahng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12728 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.1272…

Data-Model Co-Evolution: Growing Test Sets to Refine LLM Behavior
A long-standing challenge in machine learning has been the rigid separation between data work and model refinement, enforced by slow fine-tuning cycles. The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) overcomes this historical barrier, allowing applications developers to instantly govern model behavior by editing prompt instructions. This shift enables a new paradigm: data-model co-evolution, where a living test set and a model's instructions evolve in tandem. We operationalize this paradigm in an int…

Or just use a solid rectangle selection tool and DELETE whatever you want to redact.
I’ve never understood how people can be so terrible at redacting pixel-based images. PDFs can be a special case (hint: redact, then Print as PDF)
https://todon.eu/@cf/115521875990737714

Crimson Fork /🌌🏳️‍⚧️&ΘΔ (@cf@todon.eu)
Attached: 1 image When censoring names or other things in screenshots/images, it's important to know that a lot of image editing programs default to a brush with partial transparency both for the shape of the brush as well as sometimes the color itself, We've personally been able to extract enough information from censored screenshots to narrow down what the crossed out sections are, even if to the naked eye they were not readable. Built in mobile image editors tend to be the worst offender in…

Whee #KDEnlive is available for macOS and even Apple Silicon CPUs. During Project Rendering it seems make use of all the CPU core at least. Not the GPU though.

https://kdenlive.org

holy cow, painful debugging session
offspring managed to break networkmanager by editing a config file
NM died with an unhelpful error message complaining about the syntax of a [connection] line
it looked ok in vim
it looked ok from cat -v
it looked the same as the file from the source package
but diff said the [connection] lines were invisibly different!
hexdump -C revealed that the broken file started with a UTF-8 BOM
i have encouraged him to…

I'm not even big on Scarlett Johansson usually, but tried out Under the Skin from 2013 on a whim, and wow, this was a wild one. Some pacing and editing issues (as all modern films seem to have) but I really dug this - the ending is bonkers and then your confusion will all make sense. I do love knowing NOTHING about a film going in.
https://boxd.it/3mD…

On 19 November, Christopher Ohge (IES) will deliver a talk on his new project, The Bow in the Cloud: A Digital Edition and Network Analysis of Antislavery Literature, at LETS: Loughborough Editing and Textual Scholarship research group. This hybrid even starts at 4.15pm in Brockington Building (B1.11) on the Loughborough University campus and on Teams. DM for online link.

REPAIR: Robust Editing via Progressive Adaptive Intervention and Reintegration
Yisu Wang, Ming Wang, Haoyuan Song, Wenjie Huang, Chaozheng Wang, Yi Xie, Xuming Ran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01879

REPAIR: Robust Editing via Progressive Adaptive Intervention and Reintegration
Post-training for large language models (LLMs) is constrained by the high cost of acquiring new knowledge or correcting errors and by the unintended side effects that frequently arise from retraining. To address these issues, we introduce REPAIR (Robust Editing via Progressive Adaptive Intervention and Reintegration), a lifelong editing framework designed to support precise and low-cost model updates while preserving non-target knowledge. REPAIR mitigates the instability and conflicts of large-…

Let the SwiftUI graph editing begin!

Rare view of my desk during video editing.
With appropriate beverage vessels.

Chinese short-video company Kuaishou launches Kling Video O1, saying it is the first multimodal AI model to unify video generation, editing, and post-production (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/a…

Kuaishou debuts multimodal AI video model with ‘Nano Banana’ editing capability
Kuaishou expects the new model’s abilities to drive its adoption by filmmakers, production studios, advertisers and influencers.

Guiding Audio Editing with Audio Language Model
Zitong Lan, Yiduo Hao, Mingmin Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21625 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21625

Guiding Audio Editing with Audio Language Model
Audio editing plays a central role in VR/AR immersion, virtual conferencing, sound design, and other interactive media. However, recent generative audio editing models depend on template-like instruction formats and are restricted to mono-channel audio. These models fail to deal with declarative audio editing, where the user declares what the desired outcome should be, while leaving the details of editing operations to the system. We introduce SmartDJ, a novel framework for stereo audio editing…

Kontinuous Kontext: Continuous Strength Control for Instruction-based Image Editing
Rishubh Parihar, Or Patashnik, Daniil Ostashev, R. Venkatesh Babu, Daniel Cohen-Or, Kuan-Chieh Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08532

Kontinuous Kontext: Continuous Strength Control for Instruction-based Image Editing
Instruction-based image editing offers a powerful and intuitive way to manipulate images through natural language. Yet, relying solely on text instructions limits fine-grained control over the extent of edits. We introduce Kontinuous Kontext, an instruction-driven editing model that provides a new dimension of control over edit strength, enabling users to adjust edits gradually from no change to a fully realized result in a smooth and continuous manner. Kontinuous Kontext extends a state-of-the…

SAEdit: Token-level control for continuous image editing via Sparse AutoEncoder
Ronen Kamenetsky, Sara Dorfman, Daniel Garibi, Roni Paiss, Or Patashnik, Daniel Cohen-Or
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05081

SAEdit: Token-level control for continuous image editing via Sparse AutoEncoder
Large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have become the backbone of modern image editing, yet text prompts alone do not offer adequate control over the editing process. Two properties are especially desirable: disentanglement, where changing one attribute does not unintentionally alter others, and continuous control, where the strength of an edit can be smoothly adjusted. We introduce a method for disentangled and continuous editing through token-level manipulation of text embeddings. The ed…

The surge in watermark removers within days of Sora 2’s release reminds us that most AI detection is just security theater at this point.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonippolito_sora-aiethics-aivideo-activity-738203300507213004…

Dems want FCC probe of "60 Minutes" trimming Trump Binance pardon exchange
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/03/trump-60-minutes-editing-criticism-binance

Anatomy of a news story: '60 Minutes' invites audience into the editing process with Trump interview (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-60-minutes-cbs-editing-6199baa2046016bb808cdcaa69b3bf33
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p142#a251103p142

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…

JSON Whisperer: Efficient JSON Editing with LLMs
Sarel Duanis, Asnat Greenstein-Messica, Eliya Habba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04717 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

JSON Whisperer: Efficient JSON Editing with LLMs
Large language models (LLMs) can modify JSON documents through natural language commands, but current approaches regenerate entire structures for each edit, resulting in computational inefficiency. We present JSON Whisperer, a framework that enables LLMs to generate RFC 6902 diff patches-expressing only the necessary modifications-rather than complete documents. We identify two key challenges in patch-based editing: (1) LLMs often miss related updates when generating isolated patches, and (2) a…

Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to Search's AI Mode and Google Lens, on Android in the US for those with an account opted into Search Lab (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/10/11/google-lens-ai-mode-nano-banana/

Nano Banana image editing comes to AI Mode and Google Lens
Nano Banana has been a hit in the Gemini app, and Google is now bringing image editing and generation to AI Mode, as well as Google Lens.

BBC is ‘100% fake news’,
says Donald Trump’s
Minister of Lies
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/08/bbc-100-fake-news-says-donald-trumps-press-secretary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Understanding Collective Social Behavior in OSS Communities: A Co-editing Network Analysis of Activity Cascades
Lisi Qarkaxhija, Maximilian Carparo, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Ingo Scholtes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26173

Understanding Collective Social Behavior in OSS Communities: A Co-editing Network Analysis of Activity Cascades
Understanding the collective social behavior of software developers is crucial to model and predict the long-term dynamics and sustainability of Open Source Software (OSS) communities. To this end, we analyze temporal activity patterns of developers, revealing an inherently ``bursty'' nature of commit contributions. To investigate the social mechanisms behind this phenomenon, we adopt a network-based modelling framework that captures developer interactions through co-editing networks. Our frame…

NERVIS: An Interactive System for Graph-Based Exploration and Editing of Named Entities
Uro\v{s} \v{S}majdek, Ciril Bohak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04971 https://

NERVIS: An Interactive System for Graph-Based Exploration and Editing of Named Entities
We present an interactive visualization system for exploring named entities and their relationships across document collections. The system is designed around a graph-based representation that integrates three types of nodes: documents, entity mentions, and entities. Connections capture two key relationship types: (i) identical entities across contexts, and (ii) co-locations of mentions within documents. Multiple coordinated views enable users to examine entity occurrences, discover clusters of…

Only 60GB of RAM free but I was going to do some more delayering and chip imaging. Might have to run the stitch on my other box...
hashtag bigdataproblems or something?
To be fair I did *somewhat* bring this on myself running an EM solver simulation while editing a video and doing a board design and viewing a bunch of other big images and such. But still, annoying :p

Things I could do without when editing:
-Pretentiousness (luckily quite rare). Dude, we get it, you're really smart. But most of us are more impressed by good ideas than pompous prose.
-Passive voice. How have you made it this far as a writer while attributing action to the universe instead of people? Buildings don't just get built. Books don't just get written.
-Footnotes. You've written 10k words that three reviewers like. I bet you could read the style guide…

Apple discontinues Clips, a video editing app it launched in 2017, removing it from the App Store for new users, and says Clips will no longer be updated (Eric Slivka/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/11/apples-clips-app-discontinued/

Apple's Clips App Discontinued
Apple has essentially discontinued Clips, its video-editing app designed to allow users to combine video clips, images, and photos with voice-based...

How The Minnesota Star Tribune bolstered its shoe-leather reporting by using ChatGPT to analyze handwritten Faux Cyrillic journal entries of a mass shooter (Tom Scheck/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2025/minnesota-star-tribun…

How the Minnesota Star Tribune used AI to bolster its shoe-leather reporting to background a mass shooter - Poynter
A team of journalists relentlessly tracked the shooter’s digital and paper trail. But AI provided deeper insight into her thoughts before the shooting.

EditLens: Quantifying the Extent of AI Editing in Text
Katherine Thai, Bradley Emi, Elyas Masrour, Mohit Iyyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03154 https://arx…

EditLens: Quantifying the Extent of AI Editing in Text
A significant proportion of queries to large language models ask them to edit user-provided text, rather than generate new text from scratch. While previous work focuses on detecting fully AI-generated text, we demonstrate that AI-edited text is distinguishable from human-written and AI-generated text. First, we propose using lightweight similarity metrics to quantify the magnitude of AI editing present in a text given the original human-written text and validate these metrics with human annota…

Chinese short-video company Kuaishou launches Kling Video O1, saying it is the first multimodal AI model to unify video generation, editing, and post-production (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/a…

Kuaishou debuts multimodal AI video model with ‘Nano Banana’ editing capability
Kuaishou expects the new model’s abilities to drive its adoption by filmmakers, production studios, advertisers and influencers.

UniVideo: Unified Understanding, Generation, and Editing for Videos
Cong Wei, Quande Liu, Zixuan Ye, Qiulin Wang, Xintao Wang, Pengfei Wan, Kun Gai, Wenhu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08377

UniVideo: Unified Understanding, Generation, and Editing for Videos
Unified multimodal models have shown promising results in multimodal content generation and editing but remain largely limited to the image domain. In this work, we present UniVideo, a versatile framework that extends unified modeling to the video domain. UniVideo adopts a dual-stream design, combining a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) for instruction understanding with a Multimodal DiT (MMDiT) for video generation. This design enables accurate interpretation of complex multimodal instru…

Bilinear relational structure fixes reversal curse and enables consistent model editing
Dong-Kyum Kim, Minsung Kim, Jea Kwon, Nakyeong Yang, Meeyoung Cha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21993

Bilinear relational structure fixes reversal curse and enables consistent model editing
The reversal curse -- a language model's (LM) inability to infer an unseen fact ``B is A'' from a learned fact ``A is B'' -- is widely considered a fundamental limitation. We show that this is not an inherent failure but an artifact of how models encode knowledge. By training LMs from scratch on a synthetic dataset of relational knowledge graphs, we demonstrate that bilinear relational structure emerges in their hidden representations. This structure substantially alleviates the reversal curse,…

Anyone interested in following along with the brain dump before it's completely edified can feel free. It's the same one I've posted before.
Editing support (typos, corrections, questions) is always welcome.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/
Edit:
FYI, I've temporarily renamed it "Rainforest" but WriteFreely doesn't really support changing URLs or titles very well so it's stuck until I finish it. The temporary name is "Rainforest" because it's roughly the opposite of Desert. It is not simply optimistic rather than pessimistic... it's a plan.

The LLMs are useful for some tasks, I'm currently tidying up, proof reading and editing a document written by many international co-authors.
The LLM I'm using can very quickly correct grammar and spelling mistakes and produces much easier to understand text from occasionally tortured paragraphs. It still needs an experts eye (mine!) to check no mistakes have been introduced or complexities over-simplified.
This is actually the first time I've used an LLM for this task. It's making it much faster and less painful.
It also explains a lot about academic publishing lately..

Switching from editing SVGs to trying to rebase, reset, etc. has ended badly for me. Send help.

Virtual Consistency for Audio Editing
Matthieu Cervera, Francesco Paissan, Mirco Ravanelli, Cem Subakan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17219 https://arxiv.org/…

Virtual Consistency for Audio Editing
Free-form, text-based audio editing remains a persistent challenge, despite progress in inversion-based neural methods. Current approaches rely on slow inversion procedures, limiting their practicality. We present a virtual-consistency based audio editing system that bypasses inversion by adapting the sampling process of diffusion models. Our pipeline is model-agnostic, requiring no fine-tuning or architectural changes, and achieves substantial speed-ups over recent neural editing baselines. Cr…

4DGS-Craft: Consistent and Interactive 4D Gaussian Splatting Editing
Lei Liu, Can Wang, Zhenghao Chen, Dong Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01991 https://arx…

4DGS-Craft: Consistent and Interactive 4D Gaussian Splatting Editing
Recent advances in 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) editing still face challenges with view, temporal, and non-editing region consistency, as well as with handling complex text instructions. To address these issues, we propose 4DGS-Craft, a consistent and interactive 4DGS editing framework. We first introduce a 4D-aware InstructPix2Pix model to ensure both view and temporal consistency. This model incorporates 4D VGGT geometry features extracted from the initial scene, enabling it to capture underl…

Sources: the BBC is prepared to formally apologize to Trump for the Panorama edit; an apology would allow it to push back on wider criticisms of its US coverage (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov

Towards Scalable and Consistent 3D Editing
Ruihao Xia, Yang Tang, Pan Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02994 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02994

Towards Scalable and Consistent 3D Editing
3D editing - the task of locally modifying the geometry or appearance of a 3D asset - has wide applications in immersive content creation, digital entertainment, and AR/VR. However, unlike 2D editing, it remains challenging due to the need for cross-view consistency, structural fidelity, and fine-grained controllability. Existing approaches are often slow, prone to geometric distortions, or dependent on manual and accurate 3D masks that are error-prone and impractical. To address these challeng…

DragFlow: Unleashing DiT Priors with Region Based Supervision for Drag Editing
Zihan Zhou, Shilin Lu, Shuli Leng, Shaocong Zhang, Zhuming Lian, Xinlei Yu, Adams Wai-Kin Kong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02253

DragFlow: Unleashing DiT Priors with Region Based Supervision for Drag Editing
Drag-based image editing has long suffered from distortions in the target region, largely because the priors of earlier base models, Stable Diffusion, are insufficient to project optimized latents back onto the natural image manifold. With the shift from UNet-based DDPMs to more scalable DiT with flow matching (e.g., SD3.5, FLUX), generative priors have become significantly stronger, enabling advances across diverse editing tasks. However, drag-based editing has yet to benefit from these strong…

Taking notes from the successes and failures of the Russian revolution, a group of anarchists (including Nestor Makhno, a Ukrainian anarchist militant who was critical in defeating the Tzar's army and who later also fought the Red Army) wrote a document titled the "Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists." This document came to be known as "The Platform." It remains one of the most important first-hand revolutionary documents, outlining a clear revolutionary plan.
I've taken this, the Viable System Model from cybernetics, and my own organizing experience, to describe an organization to confront the current set of crises.
This continues to build on the stuff I have been writing, but it's a lot less high level theory and a lot more specific.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-microservices
As always, editing notes (typos, grammar, spelling, etc) are always welcome, as are any questions. My ADHD brain tends to go a lot faster than anything else, so I have a tendency to drop words and have a lot of trouble catching them later. Between my ADHD and mild dyslexia, it can be pretty hard for me to catch when autocorrect gives me the wrong word.
A lot of folks have already been super helpful in offering their editing support, and I'm really grateful. Writing this has felt collaborative, and it should. On the one hand this comes from my own experience and research, but on the other I'm also voicing things that have come from conversations here. This has all been a bit of my voice and a bit of the federated world, and I'm really appreciating that.

Google updates NotebookLM's Video Overviews, adding six new Nano Banana-powered visual styles and a new "Brief" format for quick insights (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/10/13/notebooklm-video-overviews-styles/

NotebookLM Video Overviews add Nano Banana visual styles, Brief or Explainer formats
NotebookLM is giving Video Overviews a big upgrade with the help of Google’s Nano Banana image editing and generation model.

3DiFACE: Synthesizing and Editing Holistic 3D Facial Animation
Balamurugan Thambiraja, Malte Prinzler, Sadegh Aliakbarian, Darren Cosker, Justus Thies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26233

3DiFACE: Synthesizing and Editing Holistic 3D Facial Animation
Creating personalized 3D animations with precise control and realistic head motions remains challenging for current speech-driven 3D facial animation methods. Editing these animations is especially complex and time consuming, requires precise control and typically handled by highly skilled animators. Most existing works focus on controlling style or emotion of the synthesized animation and cannot edit/regenerate parts of an input animation. They also overlook the fact that multiple plausible li…

An ex-BBC editor says Panorama's editing error is a minor issue exaggerated by right-wing newspapers and social media, but the BBC needs major internal reforms (Lewis Goodall/Goodall and Good Luck)
https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-im…

The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"

Factuality Matters: When Image Generation and Editing Meet Structured Visuals
Le Zhuo, Songhao Han, Yuandong Pu, Boxiang Qiu, Sayak Paul, Yue Liao, Yihao Liu, Jie Shao, Xi Chen, Si Liu, Hongsheng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05091

Factuality Matters: When Image Generation and Editing Meet Structured Visuals
While modern visual generation models excel at creating aesthetically pleasing natural images, they struggle with producing or editing structured visuals like charts, diagrams, and mathematical figures, which demand composition planning, text rendering, and multimodal reasoning for factual fidelity. To address this, we present the first comprehensive, systematic investigation of this domain, encompassing data construction, model training, and an evaluation benchmark. First, we construct a large…

Google rolls out an AI-powered conversational photo editing tool, previously exclusive to the Pixel 10 series, to all Google Photos users on Android (Artie Beaty/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/android-users-just…

Your Android phone just got a massive Google Photos upgrade - here's what it can do now
Previously exclusive to the Pixel 10, you can now edit photos with a simple AI prompt - remove glare, add clouds, and more.

How Chicago journalists are covering the ICE raids, a task made more difficult by the agencies' unpredictability, lack of transparency, and attacks on press (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2025/chicago…

Tear gas, fear and federal secrecy: How Chicago journalists are covering Trump’s immigration policies while living through them - Poynter
‘It’s really exhausting, mentally and physically. But somebody has to record history’

DiT-VTON: Diffusion Transformer Framework for Unified Multi-Category Virtual Try-On and Virtual Try-All with Integrated Image Editing
Qi Li, Shuwen Qiu, Julien Han, Xingzi Xu, Mehmet Saygin Seyfioglu, Kee Kiat Koo, Karim Bouyarmane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04797

DiT-VTON: Diffusion Transformer Framework for Unified Multi-Category Virtual Try-On and Virtual Try-All with Integrated Image Editing
The rapid growth of e-commerce has intensified the demand for Virtual Try-On (VTO) technologies, enabling customers to realistically visualize products overlaid on their own images. Despite recent advances, existing VTO models face challenges with fine-grained detail preservation, robustness to real-world imagery, efficient sampling, image editing capabilities, and generalization across diverse product categories. In this paper, we present DiT-VTON, a novel VTO framework that leverages a Diffus…

Trump threatens to sue the BBC over the Panorama edit, seeking "no less than $1B in damages" if he does not get a full retraction and an apology (Michael D. Shear/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/world/europe/trump-bbc-lawsuit-do…

Trump Threatens to Sue the BBC for $1 Billion After Jan. 6 Documentary
A lawyer for President Trump said the BBC’s editing of a speech he gave was “defamatory.” The broadcaster apologized on Monday for an “error in judgment.”

Adobe launches its Premiere video editing software on iPhone for the first time; general editing is free, but Adobe charges for credits to generate AI content (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

CAMILA: Context-Aware Masking for Image Editing with Language Alignment
Hyunseung Kim, Chiho Choi, Srikanth Malla, Sai Prahladh Padmanabhan, Saurabh Bagchi, Joon Hee Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19731

CAMILA: Context-Aware Masking for Image Editing with Language Alignment
Text-guided image editing has been allowing users to transform and synthesize images through natural language instructions, offering considerable flexibility. However, most existing image editing models naively attempt to follow all user instructions, even if those instructions are inherently infeasible or contradictory, often resulting in nonsensical output. To address these challenges, we propose a context-aware method for image editing named as CAMILA (Context-Aware Masking for Image Editing…

Cursor launches Visual Editor, a vibe-coding product for designers that integrates professional design controls with natural language editing (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cursor-launches-pro-design-tools-figma/

Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool For Designers
The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market.

EditVerse: Unifying Image and Video Editing and Generation with In-Context Learning
Xuan Ju, Tianyu Wang, Yuqian Zhou, He Zhang, Qing Liu, Nanxuan Zhao, Zhifei Zhang, Yijun Li, Yuanhao Cai, Shaoteng Liu, Daniil Pakhomov, Zhe Lin, Soo Ye Kim, Qiang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20360

EditVerse: Unifying Image and Video Editing and Generation with In-Context Learning
Recent advances in foundation models highlight a clear trend toward unification and scaling, showing emergent capabilities across diverse domains. While image generation and editing have rapidly transitioned from task-specific to unified frameworks, video generation and editing remain fragmented due to architectural limitations and data scarcity. In this work, we introduce EditVerse, a unified framework for image and video generation and editing within a single model. By representing all modali…

Anthropic adds context editing and a memory tool to the Claude API, allowing AI agents to handle long-running tasks without frequently hitting context limits (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/context-management

Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform
We're introducing new capabilities for managing your agents’ context on the Claude Developer Platform: context editing and the memory tool.

The Washington Post's former letters editor, Alyssa Rosenberg, reflects on her role as a professional listener, offering readers a rare chance to feel heard (Alyssa Rosenberg/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/per…

The Washington Post Got 21,000 Emails After It Didn't Endorse. I Read Them All.
Reading and editing letters gave me a theory about what is wrong with America — and how it could be fixed.

Adobe launches free ChatGPT-integrated apps for Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express on desktop, the web, and iOS, after OpenAI added app integrations in October (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/841369/chatgpt-apps-adobe-photoshop-acrobat…

ChatGPT can now use Adobe apps to edit your photos and PDFs for free
Adobe is giving ChatGPT users integrated apps for Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express for designing and editing their work without having to switch apps.

Beyond Seeing: Evaluating Multimodal LLMs on Tool-Enabled Image Perception, Transformation, and Reasoning
Xingang Guo, Utkarsh Tyagi, Advait Gosai, Paula Vergara, Ernesto Gabriel Hern\'andez Montoya, Chen Bo Calvin Zhang, Bin Hu, Yunzhong He, Bing Liu, Rakshith Sharma Srinivasa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12712

Beyond Seeing: Evaluating Multimodal LLMs on Tool-Enabled Image Perception, Transformation, and Reasoning
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly applied in real-world scenarios where user-provided images are often imperfect, requiring active image manipulations such as cropping, editing, or enhancement to uncover salient visual cues. Beyond static visual perception, MLLMs must also think with images: dynamically transforming visual content and integrating it with other tools to solve complex tasks. However, this shift from treating vision as passive context to a manipulable cogni…

EditReward: A Human-Aligned Reward Model for Instruction-Guided Image Editing
Keming Wu, Sicong Jiang, Max Ku, Ping Nie, Minghao Liu, Wenhu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26346

EditReward: A Human-Aligned Reward Model for Instruction-Guided Image Editing
Recently, we have witnessed great progress in image editing with natural language instructions. Several closed-source models like GPT-Image-1, Seedream, and Google-Nano-Banana have shown highly promising progress. However, the open-source models are still lagging. The main bottleneck is the lack of a reliable reward model to scale up high-quality synthetic training data. To address this critical bottleneck, we built \mname, trained with our new large-scale human preference dataset, meticulously…

Query-Kontext: An Unified Multimodal Model for Image Generation and Editing
Yuxin Song, Wenkai Dong, Shizun Wang, Qi Zhang, Song Xue, Tao Yuan, Hu Yang, Haocheng Feng, Hang Zhou, Xinyan Xiao, Jingdong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26641

Query-Kontext: An Unified Multimodal Model for Image Generation and Editing
Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in text-to-image generation (T2I) and editing (TI2I), whether instantiated as assembled unified frameworks which couple powerful vision-language model (VLM) with diffusion-based generator, or as naive Unified Multimodal Models with an early fusion of understanding and generation modalities. We contend that in current unified frameworks, the crucial capability of multimodal generative reasoning which encompasses instructio…

60 Minutes heavily edited down its interview with President Trump, after previously settling with him over editing a pre-election interview with Kamala Harris (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/03/trump-cbs-60-minutes…

OTR: Synthesizing Overlay Text Dataset for Text Removal
Jan Zdenek, Wataru Shimoda, Kota Yamaguchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02787 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

OTR: Synthesizing Overlay Text Dataset for Text Removal
Text removal is a crucial task in computer vision with applications such as privacy preservation, image editing, and media reuse. While existing research has primarily focused on scene text removal in natural images, limitations in current datasets hinder out-of-domain generalization or accurate evaluation. In particular, widely used benchmarks such as SCUT-EnsText suffer from ground truth artifacts due to manual editing, overly simplistic text backgrounds, and evaluation metrics that do not ca…

Google says Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, is now generally available and supports more aspect ratios, priced at $0.039/image and $30/1M output tokens (Google Developers Blog)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2…

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image now ready for production with new aspect ratios- Google Developers Blog
Our state-of-the-art image generation and editing model which has captured the imagination of the wo...

ContextFlow: Training-Free Video Object Editing via Adaptive Context Enrichment
Yiyang Chen, Xuanhua He, Xiujun Ma, Yue Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17818 https://

ContextFlow: Training-Free Video Object Editing via Adaptive Context Enrichment
Training-free video object editing aims to achieve precise object-level manipulation, including object insertion, swapping, and deletion. However, it faces significant challenges in maintaining fidelity and temporal consistency. Existing methods, often designed for U-Net architectures, suffer from two primary limitations: inaccurate inversion due to first-order solvers, and contextual conflicts caused by crude "hard" feature replacement. These issues are more challenging in Diffusion Transforme…

Editing Physiological Signals in Videos Using Latent Representations
Tianwen Zhou, Akshay Paruchuri, Josef Spjut, Kaan Ak\c{s}it
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25348 https://…

Editing Physiological Signals in Videos Using Latent Representations
Camera-based physiological signal estimation provides a non-contact and convenient means to monitor Heart Rate (HR). However, the presence of vital signals in facial videos raises significant privacy concerns, as they can reveal sensitive personal information related to the health and emotional states of an individual. To address this, we propose a learned framework that edits physiological signals in videos while preserving visual fidelity. First, we encode an input video into a latent space v…

MultiCOIN: Multi-Modal COntrollable Video INbetweening
Maham Tanveer, Yang Zhou, Simon Niklaus, Ali Mahdavi Amiri, Hao Zhang, Krishna Kumar Singh, Nanxuan Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08561

MultiCOIN: Multi-Modal COntrollable Video INbetweening
Video inbetweening creates smooth and natural transitions between two image frames, making it an indispensable tool for video editing and long-form video synthesis. Existing works in this domain are unable to generate large, complex, or intricate motions. In particular, they cannot accommodate the versatility of user intents and generally lack fine control over the details of intermediate frames, leading to misalignment with the creative mind. To fill these gaps, we introduce \modelname{}, a vi…