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„Aus Zahlen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit schlussfolgert das Institut, dass die wegen Totalverweigerung von Jobcentern verhängten Sanktionen zwischen April 2024 und Juni 2025 wohl deutlich weniger als 100 Menschen betrafen.
„Dies ist eine sehr geringe Zahl angesichts von mehr als fünf Mio. Personen, die (..) 2024 (..) zur Gruppe der erwerbsfähigen Leistungsberechtigten gehörten“, heißt es im Bericht des zur Bundesagentur für Arbeit gehörenden Forschungsinstituts.“

CBP data: between April and June 2025, CBP searched 14,899 devices carried by international travelers, up from a high of 12,766 between January and March 2022 (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/phone-searches-at-the-us-border-hit-a-record-high/…

Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High
Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022.

India opens criminal investigations into The Wire editor Siddharth Varadarajan, the outlet's staff, and parent FIJ over articles on April attacks and Pakistan (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/08/indian-police-open-2-criminal-…

Indian police open 2 criminal probes into The Wire news outlet - Committee to Protect Journalists
New Delhi, August 20, 2025—Two police branches in northeastern Indian state of Assam opened separate criminal investigations into Siddharth Varadarajan, editor for independent news website The Wire, its entire editorial team, including Hindi language editor Ashutosh Bhardwaj and contributor Karan Thapar, and the outlet’s parent company, the Foundation for Independent Journalism (FIJ). The investigations are...

Exclusive: Government shutdown signals weakness to foes, ex-Defense Secretary says (April Rubin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/22/government-shutdown-democracy-failure-defense-leon-panetta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p150#a251022p150

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From 2026 onwards, Austria 🇦🇹 will have a (moderate 20%) lower network tariff for electricity consumption during the hours increasingly dominated by solar electricity (10:00–16:00, April to Se…

№ 16 Garvin Collins then a Sophomore from Bristol, IN scores a run for Penn's Quakers on April 13, 2025 at Cornell's Booth Field -- Penn won all three games in the series that weekend against the Big Red
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Compute-Optimal Scaling for Value-Based Deep RL
Preston Fu, Oleh Rybkin, Zhiyuan Zhou, Michal Nauman, Pieter Abbeel, Sergey Levine, Aviral Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14881

Compute-Optimal Scaling for Value-Based Deep RL
As models grow larger and training them becomes expensive, it becomes increasingly important to scale training recipes not just to larger models and more data, but to do so in a compute-optimal manner that extracts maximal performance per unit of compute. While such scaling has been well studied for language modeling, reinforcement learning (RL) has received less attention in this regard. In this paper, we investigate compute scaling for online, value-based deep RL. These methods present two pr…

Autonomous driving tech startup Nuro closed its $203M Series E at a $6B valuation, adding $97M from Uber, Nvidia, and others to April's $106M tranche (Rafe Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/264cecb7-aa7c-4cd3-9a54-601b3b7ba192

IAB moves its annual NewFronts up to March from late April/early May and adds a creator upfront called CreatorFronts, scheduled for September 15 (Bill Bradley/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/iab-shifts-newfronts-calendar-adds-creator-upfr…

IAB Shifts NewFronts Calendar, Adds Creator Upfront
The NewFronts are moving to earlier in the year.

Anrok, which helps software companies automate sales tax compliance, raised a $55M Series C at a $525M valuation, up from $250M after raising $30M in April 2024 (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20