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Sixty-five countries sign a UN cybercrime treaty to share data and extradite suspects, despite privacy and security concerns from tech companies and activists (Lien Hoang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/cybe

UN cybercrime treaty signed in Hanoi despite security, privacy concerns
Countries meeting in Vietnam vow mutual help to collect data, extradite suspects

"Brazil expands Indigenous territories as COP30 protests spotlight the stakes"
#Brazil #COP30 #ClimateSummit

Brazil expands Indigenous territories as COP30 protests spotlight the stakes | The Optimist Daily
Brazil recognizes 10 new Indigenous territories during COP30, strengthening land rights and offering hope for forest protection amid rising tensions.

R\'ECITKIT: A Spatial Toolkit for Designing and Evaluating Human-Centered Immersive Data Narratives
Vidya Setlur, Samuel Ridet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18670 https://

RÉCITKIT: A Spatial Toolkit for Designing and Evaluating Human-Centered Immersive Data Narratives
Spatial computing presents new opportunities for immersive data storytelling, yet there is limited guidance on how to build such experiences or adapt traditional narrative visualizations to this medium. We introduce a toolkit, RÉCITKIT for supporting spatial data narratives in head-mounted display (HMD) environments. The toolkit allows developers to create interactive dashboards, tag data attributes as spatial assets to 3D models and immersive scenes, generate text and audio narratives, enabli…

UniTransfer: Video Concept Transfer via Progressive Spatial and Timestep Decomposition
Guojun Lei, Rong Zhang, Chi Wang, Tianhang Liu, Hong Li, Zhiyuan Ma, Weiwei Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21086

UniTransfer: Video Concept Transfer via Progressive Spatial and Timestep Decomposition
We propose a novel architecture UniTransfer, which introduces both spatial and diffusion timestep decomposition in a progressive paradigm, achieving precise and controllable video concept transfer. Specifically, in terms of spatial decomposition, we decouple videos into three key components: the foreground subject, the background, and the motion flow. Building upon this decomposed formulation, we further introduce a dual-to-single-stream DiT-based architecture for supporting fine-grained contro…

A few thoughts about my localization experience for #mozilla and #Thunderbird
https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2025/…

A Hierarchical Variational Graph Fused Lasso for Recovering Relative Rates in Spatial Compositional Data
Joaquim Valerio Teixeira, Ed Reznik, Sudpito Banerjee, Wesley Tansey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20636

A Hierarchical Variational Graph Fused Lasso for Recovering Relative Rates in Spatial Compositional Data
The analysis of spatial data from biological imaging technology, such as imaging mass spectrometry (IMS) or imaging mass cytometry (IMC), is challenging because of a competitive sampling process which convolves signals from molecules in a single pixel. To address this, we develop a scalable Bayesian framework that leverages natural sparsity in spatial signal patterns to recover relative rates for each molecule across the entire image. Our method relies on the use of a heavy-tailed variant of th…

High Frequency Radar Perspective of Putative Subglacial Liquid Water on Mars: #Mars After All / NASA Orbiter Shines New Light on Long-Running Martian Mystery: https://eos.org/research-spotlights/maybe-thats-not-liquid-water-on-mars-after-all / https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-reconnaissance-orbiter/nasa-orbiter-shines-new-light-on-long-running-martian-mystery/

RetoVLA: Reusing Register Tokens for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models
Jiyeon Koo, Taewan Cho, Hyunjoon Kang, Eunseom Pyo, Tae Gyun Oh, Taeryang Kim, Andrew Jaeyong Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21243

RetoVLA: Reusing Register Tokens for Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models
Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate remarkable generalization in robotics but are restricted by their substantial size and computational cost, limiting real-world deployment. However, conventional lightweighting methods often sacrifice critical capabilities, particularly spatial reasoning. This creates a trade-off between efficiency and performance. To address this challenge, our work reuses Register Tokens, which were introduced for artifact removal in Vision Transformers bu…

The point is the mask: scaling coral reef segmentation with weak supervision
Matteo Contini, Victor Illien, Sylvain Poulain, Serge Bernard, Julien Barde, Sylvain Bonhommeau, Alexis Joly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18958

The point is the mask: scaling coral reef segmentation with weak supervision
Monitoring coral reefs at large spatial scales remains an open challenge, essential for assessing ecosystem health and informing conservation efforts. While drone-based aerial imagery offers broad spatial coverage, its limited resolution makes it difficult to reliably distinguish fine-scale classes, such as coral morphotypes. At the same time, obtaining pixel-level annotations over large spatial extents is costly and labor-intensive, limiting the scalability of deep learning-based segmentation …

DealStreetAsia: VC funding in Indonesian startups fell to just $80M in H1 2025 from $200M a year earlier, as startups face fallout from corruption scandals (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/asean-money/indonesian-s…

Indonesian startups face funding fallout from corruption scandals
Experts urge better governance and more hands-on investor oversight to revive ecosystem