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The State Department announced this weekend that it is
suspending visitor visas for Palestinians from Gaza to enter the U.S.
after right wingers raged about children entering the country to receive medical care
— often for injuries caused by Israel with the U.S.’s backing.
“All visitor visas for individuals from Gaza are being stopped while we conduct a full and thorough review of the process and procedures used to issue a small number of temporary medical-humanitaria…

Trump Admin Halts Visas for Gazans as Children Arrive for Medical Care
The decision was announced after Laura Loomer posted a video of injured and ill Gaza children arriving in the U.S.

Vertical Video Creator: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/vertical-video-creator.html

InfiniteTalk: Audio-driven Video Generation for Sparse-Frame Video Dubbing
Shaoshu Yang, Zhe Kong, Feng Gao, Meng Cheng, Xiangyu Liu, Yong Zhang, Zhuoliang Kang, Wenhan Luo, Xunliang Cai, Ran He, Xiaoming Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14033

InfiniteTalk: Audio-driven Video Generation for Sparse-Frame Video Dubbing
Recent breakthroughs in video AIGC have ushered in a transformative era for audio-driven human animation. However, conventional video dubbing techniques remain constrained to mouth region editing, resulting in discordant facial expressions and body gestures that compromise viewer immersion. To overcome this limitation, we introduce sparse-frame video dubbing, a novel paradigm that strategically preserves reference keyframes to maintain identity, iconic gestures, and camera trajectories while en…

Adobe updates its Firefly video model and adds a beta Generate Sound Effects tool that can create custom sounds from text prompts and the user's voice (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/adobe-firefly-ca…

Adobe Firefly can now generate AI sound effects for videos - and I'm seriously impressed
In addition to video sound effects, Text to Avatar is launching in beta. It allows you to turn scripts into avatar-led videos.

Skarpe holdninger fra en person, der ved hvad han snakker om, publiceret i et medie, der potentielt biiver set af mange politisk beslutningstagere. Man kunne håbe, at det var denne artikel, der åbnede Ÿjnene for danskerne. #DKIT #DKPol

Suverænitet er vanskeligt | Version2
Jeg var på BornHack igår, for at afprøve min teori om at emner kan være for nørdede for selv det publikum og for at deltage i den traditionelle panel-debat under Anders Kjærulff's vidunderlige ledelse.Det gennemgående tema i debatten var "digital suverænitet" og jeg synes det blev noget mudret, hvilket jeg 100% selv indrømmer at have bidraget til, for hvad er det i det hele taget vi taler om under overskriften "digital suverænitet" ?Udtrykket er en oversættelse af "Digital Sovereignt…

A very cool thread about live audio for video from @…
#gearsquad
https://old.mermaid…

Comics platform Webtoon says it is adapting comics into episodic videos meant for vertical scrolling; it reported revenue of $1.35B last year, up 5.1% YoY (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/webtoon-comics-vertical-vide…

Webtoon is betting on vertical video to grab more of Gen Z's attention
Webtoon explained how it's trying to grab more of Gen Z's attention as that cohort gravitates to vertical video content.

ViT-FIQA: Assessing Face Image Quality using Vision Transformers
Andrea Atzori, Fadi Boutros, Naser Damer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13957 https://arxiv.or…

ViT-FIQA: Assessing Face Image Quality using Vision Transformers
Face Image Quality Assessment (FIQA) aims to predict the utility of a face image for face recognition (FR) systems. State-of-the-art FIQA methods mainly rely on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), leaving the potential of Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures underexplored. This work proposes ViT-FIQA, a novel approach that extends standard ViT backbones, originally optimized for FR, through a learnable quality token designed to predict a scalar utility score for any given face image. The le…

Google's Veo 3 video generation model launches on the Gemini API, with an eight-second video costing $6, making it one of the most expensive AI video options (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/googles-veo-3-v…

Google's Veo 3 video generation model launches on Gemini API with a hefty price tag
Google’s Veo 3 video generation model is now available through the Gemini API, with a price point that puts it among the more expensive options for AI video.

How YouTube became the most-watched video provider on TVs in the US, with creator content tailored for family and group viewing and app features enhanced for TV (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/how-you…