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Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance stalled US trade talks | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-rescinds-digital-services-tax-bid-advance-trade-talks-with-us-2025-06-30/

Canada rescinds Digital Services Tax after Trump cuts off U.S. trade talks (Lim Hui Jie/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/30/canada-rescinds-digital-services-tax-after-trump-cuts-off-us-trade-talks.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p5#a250630p5

Canada rescinds its Digital Services Tax "in anticipation of" a trade deal with the US, with trade talks resuming; the tax was set to go into effect on Monday (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/canada-us-carney-trump-…

Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance broader trade negotiations with the United States (Government of Canada)
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/06/canada-rescinds-digital-services-tax-to-advance-broader-trade-negotiations-with-the-united-states.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p7#a250630p7

Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained away. The European Commission has tools, public support and a mandate to act on Big Tech. Trading that away for short-term calm would be a costly mistake.
https://www.politico.eu/article/digital-sovereignty-us-br…

Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained away
The European Commission has tools, public support and a mandate to act on Big Tech. Trading that away for short-term calm would be a costly mistake.

The European Commission drops plans to impose a digital tax on tech giants in its upcoming 2028-2034 budget proposal, amid ongoing EU-US trade negotiations (Gregorio Sorgi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/victory-eu-donald-trump-meta-tax-digital/…

Victory for Trump as EU backs down on digital taxes in next budget
Shelving the plan could help EU persuade the U.S. to give it a more favorable trade deal and comes just two months after the Commission suggested it.

Sources: UK plans to designate Apple and Google as holding a "strategic market advantage" over rivals, subjecting them to new regulations and potential fines (Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/

UK moving on new penalties for Apple and Google amid trade discussions with Trump
The United Kingdom is preparing to single out Apple and Google under its new Digital Markets, Competition, and Consumers Act.

Sources: the European Commission has stalled one of its X investigations for breaking its digital transparency rules, as it negotiates a trade deal with the US (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8f38514b-3265-496e-91e2-f8a44daa0ab6

Multimodal Coordinated Online Behavior: Trade-offs and Strategies
Lorenzo Mannocci, Stefano Cresci, Matteo Magnani, Anna Monreale, Maurizio Tesconi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12108

Multimodal Coordinated Online Behavior: Trade-offs and Strategies
Coordinated online behavior, which spans from beneficial collective actions to harmful manipulation such as disinformation campaigns, has become a key focus in digital ecosystem analysis. Traditional methods often rely on monomodal approaches, focusing on single types of interactions like co-retweets or co-hashtags, or consider multiple modalities independently of each other. However, these approaches may overlook the complex dynamics inherent in multimodal coordination. This study compares dif…

An Efficient Digital Watermarking Technique for Small Scale devices
Kaushik Talathi, Aparna Santra Biswas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06691 https://

An Efficient Digital Watermarking Technique for Small Scale devices
In the age of IoT and mobile platforms, ensuring that content stay authentic whilst avoiding overburdening limited hardware is a key problem. This study introduces hybrid Fast Wavelet Transform & Additive Quantization index Modulation (FWT-AQIM) scheme, a lightweight watermarking approach that secures digital pictures on low-power, memory-constrained small scale devices to achieve a balanced trade-off among robustness, imperceptibility, and computational efficiency. The method embeds watermark …

Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange Bullish files for an IPO, plans to trade on the NYSE, and reports a net loss of ~$349M on digital asset sales of $80M in Q1 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-18/bull…

AI and Remote Sensing for Resilient and Sustainable Built Environments: A Review of Current Methods, Open Data and Future Directions
Ubada El Joulani, Tatiana Kalganova, Stergios-Aristoteles Mitoulis, Sotirios Argyroudis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01547

AI and Remote Sensing for Resilient and Sustainable Built Environments: A Review of Current Methods, Open Data and Future Directions
Critical infrastructure, such as transport networks, underpins economic growth by enabling mobility and trade. However, ageing assets, climate change impacts (e.g., extreme weather, rising sea levels), and hybrid threats ranging from natural disasters to cyber attacks and conflicts pose growing risks to their resilience and functionality. This review paper explores how emerging digital technologies, specifically Artificial Intelligence (AI), can enhance damage assessment and monitoring of trans…

Sources: the European Commission has stalled one of its X investigations for breaking its digital transparency rules, as it negotiates a trade deal with the US (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8f38514b-3265-496e-91e2-f8a44daa0ab6

Hybrid SLC-MLC RRAM Mixed-Signal Processing-in-Memory Architecture for Transformer Acceleration via Gradient Redistribution
Chang Eun Song, Priyansh Bhatnagar, Zihan Xia, Nam Sung Kim, Tajana Rosing, Mingu Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00020

Hybrid SLC-MLC RRAM Mixed-Signal Processing-in-Memory Architecture for Transformer Acceleration via Gradient Redistribution
Transformers, while revolutionary, face challenges due to their demanding computational cost and large data movement. To address this, we propose HyFlexPIM, a novel mixed-signal processing-in-memory (PIM) accelerator for inference that flexibly utilizes both single-level cell (SLC) and multi-level cell (MLC) RRAM technologies to trade-off accuracy and efficiency. HyFlexPIM achieves efficient dual-mode operation by utilizing digital PIM for high-precision and write-intensive operations while ana…

LensCraft: Your Professional Virtual Cinematographer
Zahra Dehghanian, Morteza Abolghasemi, Hossein Azizinaghsh, Amir Vahedi, Hamid Beigy, Hamid R. Rabiee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00988

LensCraft: Your Professional Virtual Cinematographer
Digital creators, from indie filmmakers to animation studios, face a persistent bottleneck: translating their creative vision into precise camera movements. Despite significant progress in computer vision and artificial intelligence, current automated filming systems struggle with a fundamental trade-off between mechanical execution and creative intent. Crucially, almost all previous works simplify the subject to a single point-ignoring its orientation and true volume-severely limiting spatial …