L’armée de Terre est en quête de 21 systèmes embarqués d’enfouissement de mines antichars

En mars 2024, la Direction générale de l’armement [DGA] avait émis une demande d’informations auprès de l’industrie au titre du programme «contre-mobilité future». Plus précisément, celle-ci portait sur le renouvellement des capacités de minage antichar à pose manuelle, via l’acquisition de «mines antichar à faible empreinte technologique, de mines antichars dites de nouvelle génération…

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Maintaining a human web: human.json & the ‘AI’ blacklist

My ~~dislike~~ strong opposition to engaging with “AI” generated things, be that texts, images, code or anything else is well-documented. But avoiding the mindless slop is still getting harder, as it seems that more and more developers, writers – and of course SEO-scum trying to make quick buck – can’t avoid the siren song of ‘removing friction’, all negative consequences be damned.1 Technical…

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Two Years After Fatal Explosion, Alabama Mine Regulator ‘Letting the Fox Guard the Henhouse’

OAK GROVE, Ala.—It’s been a long two years for Lisa Lindsay. And every day since her neighbor’s home exploded above an expanding coal mine in March 2024, she’s been reminded of how far her community still has to go. February’s meeting of the Alabama Surface Mining Commission, the entity charged with regulating the surface impacts […]

One of Alaska’s flagship mines soon could draw energy from the sun

The operator of Alaska’s massive Red Dog mine says it wants to use the sun to help power the sprawling zinc operation, which currently burns expensive, imported fossil fuels. If built, a newly proposed 8.8-megawatt solar farm at Red Dog would have slightly more capacity than the state’s largest existing farm, in the Susitna Valley […]

Nation’s First Critical Minerals Mine Nears Approval in Biodiversity Hotspot

PATAGONIA, Ariz.—The U.S. Forest Service on March 5 announced it plans to soon approve the nation’s first critical minerals mine, South32’s Hermosa project, when it released the final environmental impact statement, which was permitted under a streamlined process. The federal government called it “a strategic investment in America’s energy future” that “directly supports U.S. energy […]

New Lawsuit Aims to Halt Expansion of a Montana Coal Mine Blamed for Drying up the Land Above It

ROUNDUP, Mont.—Environmental groups sued Tuesday to halt an expansion of the Bull Mountains Mine, claiming that the “energy emergency” underpinning its revival is nonexistent and that regulators have been aware for decades that underground coal mining would irrevocably damage the area’s water. The case, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, […]

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