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Internal memo: Vanity Fair will move away from news aggregation, reviews, and trade coverage, phasing out The Hive and Hollywood Daily (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/vanity-fair-cut-back-coverage-hol…

Vanity Fair Will Cut Back Some Coverage to Focus on Hollywood
Vanity Fair will scale back certain areas of coverage, including shutting down The Hive, to focus on entertainment and culture, editorial director Mark Guiducci said.

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

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…

Fundamental Trade-off in Wideband Stacked Intelligent Metasurface Assisted OFDMA Systems
Zheao Li, Jiancheng An, Chau Yuen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08294 https://

Fundamental Trade-off in Wideband Stacked Intelligent Metasurface Assisted OFDMA Systems
Conventional digital beamforming for wideband multiuser orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) demands numerous power-hungry components, increasing hardware costs and complexity. By contrast, the stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) can perform wave-based precoding at near-light speed, drastically reducing baseband overhead. However, realizing SIM-enhanced fully-analog beamforming for wideband multiuser transmissions remains challenging, as the SIM configuration has to handle inter…

Incentives for Digital Twins: Task-Based Productivity Enhancements with Generative AI
Catherine Wu, Arun Sundararajan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08732 https://

Incentives for Digital Twins: Task-Based Productivity Enhancements with Generative AI
Generative AI is a technology which depends in part on participation by humans in training and improving the automation potential. We focus on the development of an "AI twin" that could complement its creator's efforts, enabling them to produce higher-quality output in their individual style. However, AI twins could also, over time, replace individual humans. We analyze this trade-off using a principal-agent model in which agents have the opportunity to make investments into training an AI twin…

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.

Brazil has an interesting history of homegrown technology (see Lua!) and I guess the new big step is developing their own digital payment system: Pix.
This article is largely about US efforts against it, but also discusses the rise of Pix.
https://restofworld.org/2025/pix-brazi

U.S. targets Brazil’s payments platform Pix in trade spat
Big Tech has struggled to compete against Brazil’s beloved digital payments system, with the U.S. government now investigating the country’s “unfair trade practices.”

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…

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…

Trump tariffs bring chaos, as shipments halted from Europe, Asia https://cdm.link/trump-de-minimis-chaos/

Trump tariffs bring chaos, as shipments halted from Europe, Asia - CDM Create Digital Music
The Trump administration's trade policies do more than increase costs for US consumers. Their historic scale and disorganized rollout are causing global disruptions. That hurts independent music gear makers and label owners. It's also ironically likely to cripple manufacturers trying to work in the USA. The only (sort of) good news: shippers and exporters are trying to find solutions, and at least some of the disruptions should be temporary. But those solutions won't come free.

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…

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.…

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.

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…

Image-based modelling of elastic properties using unresolved rock images
Rui Li, Yi Yang, Wenbo Zhan, Jianhui Yang, Yingfang Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18888 https://

Image-based modelling of elastic properties using unresolved rock images
The trade-off between image resolution and model field-of-view has long been a limitation for numerical simulations in digital rock models. A significant amount of sub-resolution pore space cannot be captured in the unresolved digital rock images, which hinders the accuracy of numerical simulations, especially those predicting the rock effective elastic properties. This work uses paired digital rock images at multiple resolutions to investigate the sub-resolution solid and pore fraction distrib…

Multistakeholder Fairness in Tourism: What can Algorithms learn from Tourism Management?
Peter Muellner, Anna Schreuer, Simone Kopeinik, Bernhard Wieser, Dominik Kowald
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20496

Multistakeholder Fairness in Tourism: What can Algorithms learn from Tourism Management?
Algorithmic decision-support systems, i.e., recommender systems, are popular digital tools that help tourists decide which places and attractions to explore. However, algorithms often unintentionally direct tourist streams in a way that negatively affects the environment, local communities, or other stakeholders. This issue can be partly attributed to the computer science community's limited understanding of the complex relationships and trade-offs among stakeholders in the real world. In thi…

1-Bit Unlimited Sampling Beyond Fourier Domain: Low-Resolution Sampling of Quantization Noise
Vaclav Pavlicek, Ayush Bhandari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19408 https://

1-Bit Unlimited Sampling Beyond Fourier Domain: Low-Resolution Sampling of Quantization Noise
Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) play a critical role in digital signal acquisition across various applications, but their performance is inherently constrained by sampling rates and bit budgets. This bit budget imposes a trade-off between dynamic range (DR) and digital resolution, with ADC energy consumption scaling linearly with sampling rate and exponentially with bit depth. To bypass this, numerous approaches, including oversampling with low-resolution ADCs, have been explored. A promine…

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…

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

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…

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