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
#india
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…
"Researchers develop satellite-based method to boost accuracy of coal plant CO₂ emission estimates"
#FossilFuels #Emissions #Climate
Eco-Movement, which holds a quasi-monopoly on EV charging point data in Europe, has been acquired by Dow Jones.
https://www.dowjones.com/press-room/dow-jones-acquires-eco-movement/
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/
Reservations plunge across DC restaurants after Trump's police takeover (Jordan Fischer/WUSA)
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/reservations-plunge-across-dc-restaurants-after-president-donald-trumps-police-takeover-summer-restaurant-week-district-open-table/65-e83cc2e7-a921-401a-ba35-960c77f8da14
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p36#a250817p36
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…
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