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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

Shame on Greater Manchester Police: arrested 18 people on suspicion of supporting Palestine Action.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/19/protests-across-uk-supporting-banned-group-palestine-action-despite-arrests…

Protests held across UK supporting banned Palestine Action despite arrests
About 100 people have been arrested across the United Kingdom for holding demos in support of the group.

Fox acquires Caliente TV, a Mexican sports broadcasting platform, and appoints longtime industry exec Carlos Martinez to oversee its broadcast strategy in LatAm (Melissa Repko/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/19/fox-acquires-sports-bro…

Fox acquires sports broadcasting platform Caliente TV
The media company is bulking up its sports offerings to better compete with other streaming services.

"Researchers develop satellite-based method to boost accuracy of coal plant CO₂ emission estimates"
#FossilFuels #Emissions #Climate

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.

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…

Winiarski: Tidigare löften om skydd har varit värdelösa https://www.dn.se/varlden/michael-winiarski-tidigare-loften-om-skydd-mot-rysk-aggression-har-varit-vardelosa/

Kan vaga säkerhetsgarantier skydda Ukraina mot Ryssland?
Toppmötet i Washington resulterade inte i några synbara steg mot en fredslösning i Ukraina.

Mehrere Angebote für Batteriehersteller Northvolt
Mehrere Interessenten haben dem Insolvenzverwalter zufolge ihren Hut in den Ring geworfen, um den schwedischen Akkuhersteller zu retten.
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Data Shows ICE Deportation Efforts Are Way More Aggressive In ‘Blue’ States | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/18/data-shows-ice-deportation-efforts-are-way-more-aggressive-in-blue-states/

Rheinmetall und US-Ausrüster Anduril wollen Drohnen "made in Europe" bauen
Die Rüstungsfirma Rheinmetall hat mit Anduril eine Kooperation vereinbart, um europäische Varianten der autonomen Kampfsysteme Barracuda und Fury zu entwickeln.