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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.

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

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

NFL Week 11 aftermath: Six loudest statements from Sunday’s blockbuster slate https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-11-aftermath-loudest-statements-from-sunday-s-blockbuster-slate

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.

😂 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

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…

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).

October: AI and Trust / Dumb Ransomware, Big Chaos
Toronto Area Security Klatch
https://www.task.to/schedule/v3f7p4b6zhdyhz4…

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.