I don't know the whole field, but this one is local-ish to me: https://www.openstar.tech/

Has gained some government funding recently, but I wouldn't call it government-sponsored.

I don't know whether it's 'ahead' of IETR, but it is a different technology path from the others. Which path will eventually win the race to working at useful energy surplus levels, it's too soon to say. There may even be several successful designs, like there are with fision reactors.

Obviously it won't break all mods. Most mods don't directly use the rendering system at all, and only a very few will do things directly in OpenGL. It will likely affect mods that change the rendering or visuals in some way, like Iris Shaders or Optifine.

Mojang seem like they are aware of the value of the modding community more than many game makers. The very fact that they are signalling this change in advance is an indicator of this!

There is another way to solve it - require that you can't be a network provider *and* a retailer. All retailers become MVNOs buying capacity off the underlying wholesalers. Then, where necessary, you regulate the wholesalers as they are a monopoly (modern cell tech limits the number of carriers because there are only a small number of frequencies available.) Much like many countries are doing with fibre and landlines. Given current trends, eventually the tower tech will be so expansive and RF bandwidth hogging that cellular radio will become a natural monopoly anyway (like power lines - no one is going to build 2 sets) - perhaps embracing that early would be better than hoping we can continue to have competition in that part of the sector?

This may be a problem in your area, but is not a general DHL issue. DHL delivered me a parcel 2 weeks ago, and I got given a 2-hour window for delivery (9:15-11:15). They contacted me by both email and, surprisingly, WhatsApp. The WhatsApp contact included clickable replies to a chatbot interface that could let me override the signature requirement if I wanted.

IBM produced a few weird models around this time. I remember this one, and also the 755cdv that could have the back of the screen removed (taking out the backlight) and included straps to attach it to an overhead projector allowing you to show your screen to a meeting without buying a dafa projector which were only just coming into existence, and very very pricy... https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:755CDV

They shipped my order from source.

I wasn't in the USA though, so Framework may have a different process there.

They'd have looked pretty daft if they emailed the outage notice to everyone, wouldn't they!

Australian and New Zealand eliminated their de minimis equivalents for large overseas retailers some years ago. What they did was reach an agreement with the big resellers, AliExpress, Temu, etc that they would charge the very simple GST at order time. Then remit the tax to the government much like onshore companies. There was an exemption for small/occasional shipping companies (like those that couldn't even find New Zealand on a map but ship there because they're shipping provider can), this levelled the playing field a little between the local companies and the mass shippers. But didn't result in any extraordinary distortion of the market. However, those were planned and executed in an orderly fashion, and were feeding into far far simpler tax systems that didn't require multiple rates for different kinds of goods.

NVIDIA 4060 has less memory than the 3060 https://videocardz.net/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4060 . The 4070 is in a different price bracket, I think they have chosen their comparisonn point reasonably.

Because, at present lithium-ion and variants are being used as an alternative to lead acid and metal-hydride batteries for many applications.

For example the house-batteries on my solar system are LFP (lithium-Iron-Phosphate) - It would be perfectly reasonable to have Sodium batteries in that use as size and weight are not the highest priority for this.

Agreed, but the units don't even line up. If you think of this as - we'll put the batteries at supercharger stations so we can charge cars from solar power when it's dark -, then 24GWh is enough to charge 240,000 cars where a car is 100KWh (most are smaller but some are getting there and that number makes the calculation easy...)

My bank has started a new scheme in which a second CVV number is available in the app, which rotates every 12 hours, so you donâ(TM)t have to give out the real code.
I could see a future variant where the on-card code rotates. Could be done without any extra support from merchants or payment providers unlike an extra code. That would need 3DSecure support - which not all sites do.