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This is typical for the senate. It’s called the “pro-forma session”. This is primarily done so that the senate is never truly in recess and thus blocks the president’s power to make recess appointments.

https://legalclarity.org/what-is-a-pro-forma-session-and-how...

In Spain the high speed network is separate from the traditional network too. There is some inter connectivity to allow for high speed trains to call at traditional stations, but the high speed network is for high speed trains only.

In engineering the simple solution is often the best solution. Creating a demand-side network of devices is not that.

Plus, such a system would provide even more ways for nefarious actors to sabotage the grid, by influencing the demand side. For example, setting every appliance to run its load at the same time. The grid would be fucked.

I have bad news on that front.

https://tee.fail/

Bulgaria has been an EU member state since 2007. This is only about adoption of the euro.

This is a very standard part of responsible disclosure. Hacker finds bugs -> discloses them to the vendor -> (hopefully) the vendor communicates with them and remediates -> both sides publish the technical details. It also helps to demonstrate to the rest of the security world which companies will take reports seriously and which ones won’t, which is very useful information to have.

>They provide third party API's to use APPLE's RCS-Service. The alternative would have been to support registering alternative RCS-services as default on the OS (and then, allow the user to choose a service).

RCS messaging is carrier-controlled and configured via carrier bundles in iOS. Apple doesn't run a "RCS service". TelephonyMessageKit [0] in iOS 26+ exposes a standard interface to the carrier SMS, MMS, and RCS services, as applicable, allowing for 3rd party applications to send and receive carrier standards-based messages.

In 3GPP standards, RCS is just another service using the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) framework. Carriers can either run their own RCS service in their IMS core or use a 3rd party service (as many do with Google's Jibe).

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/telephonymessaging...

FedNow is a technological solution for instant payments, not a regulation. It’s a voluntary system for the banks to join. Further, banks are not required to offer instant payment services to their customers. The analogous technological solution in the EU is TIPS [0], which has been operational since 2018.

The IPR is a regulation that requires banks to support instant payments and offer them to customers.

[0]: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/target/tips/html/index.en.htm...

The EU has already figured this out with the recently passed instant payments regulation [0]. As of 2024 are 5,304 banks in the EU [1], so the number of banks really isn’t an excuse. The US banking system lags the rest of world by a mile, because there is no will to force modernization.

[0] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/integration/retail/instant_pa...

[1] https://www.ebf.eu/factsandfigures/

Bizum is for P2P instant payments and it’s operated by a consortium of Spanish banks, not Banco de España.