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Sources: the US has paused a tech trade deal with the UK, signed in September, over disagreements about the UK's digital regulations and food safety rules (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/business/economy/trump-uk-trade-deal-tariffs…

U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal Hits Stumbling Block
The U.S. government has paused a tech-focused trade pledge with Britain over broader disagreements about Britain’s digital regulations and food safety rules.

Cloudflare warns the US government that site-blocking efforts in Europe and Asia to combat online piracy are creating digital trade barriers for US providers (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-te

Civil society decries digital rights ‘rollback' as European Commission pushes data protection changes https://therecord.media/civil-society-privacy-rollback

Decentralised Blockchain Management Through Digital Twins
Georgios Diamantopoulos, Nikos Tziritas, Rami Bahsoon, Georgios Theodoropoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07901 https:/…

Decentralised Blockchain Management Through Digital Twins
The necessity of blockchain systems to remain decentralised limits current solutions to blockchain governance and dynamic management, forcing a trade-off between control and decentralisation. In light of the above, this work proposes a dynamic and decentralised blockchain management mechanism based on digital twins. To ensure decentralisation, the proposed mechanism utilises multiple digital twins that the system's stakeholders control. To facilitate decentralised decision-making, the twins are…

B2B travel trade magazine TTG closes its print edition after 72 years to focus on digital and events, which it says account for 45% and 40% of its revenue (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Travel magazine TTG closes print title to focus on digital and events growth
B2B travel trade magazine title TTG is closing in print after 72 years but CEO sets out "clear growth path".

China's Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou showcased robots, EVs, and a self-driving yacht, but questions remain over the US-China trade dispute and profits (Andrew Higgins/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/world/asia/china-tech-trade.html…

A Tech Expo Shows What China Can Make, but Not Who’ll Buy It All
The vast Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou stood as a rebuke to U.S. efforts to hem in China’s technology. But the real competition is internal, and profits are hard to find.

Optimizing Phase-Scheduling with Throughput Trade-offs in AQFP Digital Circuits
Robert S. Aviles, Peter A. Beerel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03956 https://…

Optimizing Phase-Scheduling with Throughput Trade-offs in AQFP Digital Circuits
Adiabatic Quantum-Flux-Parametron (AQFP) logic is a promising emerging superconducting technology for ultra-low power digital circuits, offering orders of magnitude lower power consumption than CMOS. However, AQFP scalability is challenged by excessive buffer overhead due to path balancing technology constraints. Addressing this, recent AQFP works have proposed design solutions to reduce path balancing overhead using phase-skipping and phase-alignment. Phase-skipping is a circuit-level techniqu…

How Canada Can Become a Nation of Jailbreakers, Reclaim Our Digital Sovereignty, Win the Trade-War, and Disenshittify Our Technology.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/disenshittification-nation/#post-american-internet
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During a Mumbai trade visit, UK PM Keir Starmer hailed India's digital ID program, Aadhaar, as a "massive success" as the UK plans to introduce digital ID cards (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ce22e78c-4a0c-49ca-a658-f2167df7f31d

Intelligent Healthcare Ecosystems: Optimizing the Iron Triangle of Healthcare (Access, Cost, Quality)
Vivek Acharya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03331 https://

Intelligent Healthcare Ecosystems: Optimizing the Iron Triangle of Healthcare (Access, Cost, Quality)
The United States spends nearly 17% of GDP on healthcare yet continues to face uneven access and outcomes. This well-known trade-off among cost, quality, and access - the "iron triangle" - motivates a system-level redesign. This paper proposes an Intelligent Healthcare Ecosystem (iHE): an integrated, data-driven framework that uses generative AI and large language models, federated learning, interoperability standards (FHIR, TEFCA), and digital twins to improve access and quality while lowering…

Interdisciplinary Digital Twin Engine InterTwin for calorimeter simulation
Corentin Allaire, Vera Maiboroda, David Rousseau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26527 https://

Interdisciplinary Digital Twin Engine InterTwin for calorimeter simulation
Calorimeter shower simulations are computationally expensive, and generative models offer an efficient alternative. However, achieving a balance between accuracy and speed remains a challenge, with distribution tail modeling being a key limitation. Invertible generative network CaloINN provides a trade-off between simulation quality and efficiency. The ongoing study targets introducing a set of post-processing modifications of analysis-level observables aimed at improving the accuracy of distri…

EU antitrust chief Teresa Ribera accuses the US of using "blackmail" to strong-arm the EU into watering down its tech rulebook during trade negotiations (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/top-eu-official-teresa-ribera-ac…

Top EU official accuses US of ‘blackmail’ in trade talks
Renewed U.S. pressure for the EU to recalibrate its digital rules is unacceptable, says Teresa Ribera.

Challenges and Solutions in Selecting Optimal Lossless Data Compression Algorithms
Md. Atiqur Rahman, MM Fazle Rabbi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25219 https://

Challenges and Solutions in Selecting Optimal Lossless Data Compression Algorithms
The rapid growth of digital data has heightened the demand for efficient lossless compression methods. However, existing algorithms exhibit trade-offs: some achieve high compression ratios, others excel in encoding or decoding speed, and none consistently perform best across all dimensions. This mismatch complicates algorithm selection for applications where multiple performance metrics are simultaneously critical, such as medical imaging, which requires both compact storage and fast retrieval.…

Automatic Intermodal Loading Unit Identification using Computer Vision: A Scoping Review
Emre G\"ulsoylu, Alhassan Abdelhalim, Derya Kara Boztas, Ole Grasse, Carlos Jahn, Simone Frintrop, Janick Edinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17707

Automatic Intermodal Loading Unit Identification using Computer Vision: A Scoping Review
The standardisation of Intermodal Loading Units (ILUs), such as containers, semi-trailers and swap bodies, has revolutionised global trade yet their efficient and robust identification remains a critical bottleneck in high-throughput ports and terminals. This paper reviews 63 empirical studies that propose computer vision (CV) based solutions. It covers the last 35 years (1990-2025), tracing the field's evolution from early digital image processing (DIP) and traditional machine learning (ML) to…

Digital asset treasuries, one of the hottest trends in public markets in H1 2025, saw a dramatic reversal in H2; SharpLink stock has fallen 86% from its peak (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Kalshi says users can now trade tokenized versions of their wagers on Solana, in a bid to court crypto holders; Polymarket already allows on-chain trading (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/01/kalshi-makes-move-t…

Kalshi makes move to court crypto traders with tokenized betting contracts
Tokenization refers to creating a digital version of a real-world financial asset such as a stock, bond or treasury note.

French lawmakers vote to raise France's digital services tax on US tech giants to 6%, up from 3%; the French government opposes the move, fearing US retaliation (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/french-lawmakers-progress-tax…

French lawmakers progress tax on American Big Tech amid huge pushback
PARIS — French lawmakers are moving ahead with plans to double a tax on big tech firms — backing away from a more aggressive push amid fears of provoking U.S. trade retaliation. France’s National A…