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This is essential reading on competition in the European EV charging market, and on how Charging Point Operators (CPOs) cannot treat Mobility Service Providers (MSPs) and their own internal business units unequally. Regulators can already take effective action against market abuse even before #AFIR, the European Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation is enforced more effectively

ERRA Regulatory Story No. 18: When a Dominant EV Operator Squeezes the Market: Case Study of Italy
The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) imposed in July 2025 the first antitrust sanction in the European EV charging sector against Enel X (Ruling 31646). This Regulatory Story provides a concise legal and regulatory analysis of the AGCM decision, together with the European context that gives the AGCM ruling its wider significance and its implications for energy EU NRAs operating under the AFIR (Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation) framework.

So here is the context of the crazy 1985 magazine illustrration: you find the complete article at https://archive.org/details/Unix_World_Vol02_02.pdf/page/n29/mode/2up h/t Ralf Bülow on X

Train supprimé :
-KOHO départ Melun 10h48, arrivée Montereau 11h25
Risque d'affluence Š bord du train suivant.
Prochain train Š circuler :
-KOHO départ Melun 11h48, arrivée Montereau 12h25
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne.
Motif : difficulté d'acheminement du conducteur.
🤖 09/04 10:38

I love this premise:
"It has been 62 years since the last Federation contact with the planet."
It sounds real, gloomy, and plausible in the grander scale of the Star Trek universe compared to the usual warping about the Alpha Quadrant.
It's from TNG's 1x14 (Angel One) Memory Alpha:
https://

Angel One (episode)
While Riker leads an away team to a female-dominated planet, a mysterious virus spreads among the Enterprise crew. The USS Enterprise-D has discovered the wreckage of the Odin, a freighter that disappeared seven years earlier. It was disabled by a collision with an asteroid, and there are no life signs on board, but three escape pods have been discovered missing. The Enterprise travels to Angel I, the nearest class M planet, to search for the freighter's survivors. Angel I is a...

xAI launches Grok 4.3, featuring "always-on reasoning", 1M token context window, and low API pricing, and releases a voice cloning suite called Custom Voices (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/xai

Train supprimé :
-ZOHA départ Montereau 12h29, arrivée Melun 13h05
Risque d'affluence Š bord du train suivant.
Prochain train Š circuler :
-ZOHA départ Montereau 13h29, arrivée Melun 14h05
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X de la ligne.
Motif : difficulté d'acheminement du conducteur.
🤖 09/04 10:44

So the new #Kreutz #comet #MAPS is *still* following the constant rapid rise in brightness it has shown since discovery: a dumb extrapolation - https://cobs.si/analysis/?comet=2688&from_date=2026-01-15 00:00&to_date=2026-04-30 00:00&observation_type=V&observation_type=C&plot_x_value=1&plot_y_value=1&fit_option=1&exclude_faint=on&exclude_issue=on&observer=&association=&country=&compare_values=compare - has it get 10,000-times brighter than the Sun at its extremely close perihelion which makes so sense at all, of course, physically.
"It must therefore be assumed that this increase in activity will level off significantly in the near future," writes https://fg-kometen.vdsastro.de/koj_2026/c2026a1/26a1eaus.htm: "More likely are parameters m m0=12.0 mag / n=4 (or even lower), which would still result in a (very short-term) maximum brightness of about –9 mag (but this would probably still be significantly too bright) – always assuming that the comet survives its perihelion passage unscathed."
For other views see http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005663.txt and https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17626 and https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10236580364221799 and https://cometografia.es/cometa-kreutz-2026-a1-maps-analisis/ - and the actual brightness is tracked at https://cobs.si/obs_list?id=2688 where it has reached ~11.5 mag. now.

Ok, Im using a form from the finance department and frankly I expected better Excel-fu from the accountants. This made me physically recoil from the computer (yes, its supposed to be a checkbox).
And no, "unchecked" or "<blank>" isn't a value in the dropdown, but you have to delete the/any value in the field for it to be "unchecked".

Kraken launches what it claims are the first regulated perpetual futures contracts based on tokenized stocks, available to non-US users and trading 24/7 (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/

Kraken brings crypto-style, 24/7 perpetuals trading for tokenized U.S. stocks
The crypto exchange is bringing U.S. stocks closer to the crypto world, letting users trade derivatives of tokenized stocks around-the-clock and with 20x leverage.

What #comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) - more pictures from the 28th in https://www.danilopivato.com/solar_system/comets/c2025_r3_panstarrs/2026.03.28.html and https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=34496897756622967 and https://x.com/hositosorekara/status/2037645491253780614 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/227002358661288/posts/1726756352019207 - may be up to brightness-wise and what the viewing geometry will be in central Europe: explanations in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-26-marz-2026/#Mar29