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…
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…
"Researchers develop satellite-based method to boost accuracy of coal plant CO₂ emission estimates"
#FossilFuels #Emissions #Climate
Now out in #TMLR:
🍇 GRAPES: Learning to Sample Graphs for Scalable Graph Neural Networks 🍇
There's lots of work on sampling subgraphs for GNNs, but relatively little on making this sampling process _adaptive_. That is, learning to select the data from the graph that is relevant for your task.
We introduce an RL-based and a GFLowNet-based sampler and show that the approach perf…
Multiplier, which acquires accounting services firms and scales them with AI, raised $27.5M across a seed and Series A, with the latter led by Lightspeed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/mult
"Analysis: Reform-led councils threaten 6GW of solar and battery schemes across England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Solar #SolarPower
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