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Ukraine war latest: EU agrees on 'one of its strongest' Russia sanctions packages after Slovakia lifts veto: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/ukraine-war-latest-eu-agrees.html

💗 Forest expansion increases agricultural output, new study shows
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Forest expansion increases agricultural output, new study shows
Agriculture is the largest cause of deforestation. So, it follows that forest expansion efforts would displace agriculture—but new research from Georgia Tech's School of Economics reports that that's not necessarily the case. And not only that, forest expansion actually increased agricultural output in the study.

Atlassian acquires developer productivity platform DX for $1B in cash and restricted stock; DX has 350 enterprise customers and raised less than $5M (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/atlassian-acquires-dx-a-devel…

Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B | TechCrunch
Atlassian is making its largest acquisition yet by buying DX so it can offer a developer productivity tool.

"Researchers develop satellite-based method to boost accuracy of coal plant CO₂ emission estimates"
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Researchers develop satellite-based method to boost accuracy of coal plant CO₂ emission estimates
A new satellite-based method developed by Chinese researchers improves the accuracy of carbon dioxide (CO2) emission estimates from coal-fired power plants, according to a study published in Environmental Science & Technology.

Unearthed - The People Changing Australian Agriculture
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/unearthed-the-people-changing-australian-agriculture/

Breaking the Aggregation Bottleneck in Federated Recommendation: A Personalized Model Merging Approach
Jundong Chen, Honglei Zhang, Chunxu Zhang, Fangyuan Luo, Yidong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12386

Breaking the Aggregation Bottleneck in Federated Recommendation: A Personalized Model Merging Approach
Federated recommendation (FR) facilitates collaborative training by aggregating local models from massive devices, enabling client-specific personalization while ensuring privacy. However, we empirically and theoretically demonstrate that server-side aggregation can undermine client-side personalization, leading to suboptimal performance, which we term the aggregation bottleneck. This issue stems from the inherent heterogeneity across numerous clients in FR, which drives the globally aggregated…

Slovakia agrees to approve EU's 18th sanctions package against Russia, Fico says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/slovakia-agrees-to-approve-eus.html

Russian attacks kill 5, injure 11 across Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/russian-attacks-kill-injure-across.html

Russian strikes kill 8, injure 35 across Ukraine ahead of Zelensky-Trump meeting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/russian-strikes-kill-injure-across.html

UK and Germany to sign historic mutual defense pact amid Russian aggression, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/uk-and-germany-to-sign.html