AI & RoboticsNews

‘ONE RULE’: Trump says he’ll sign an executive order blocking state AI laws despite bipartisan pushback

December 9, 2025
President Donald Trump said on Monday he plans to ink an executive order this week that would limit states from enacting their own regulation of AI technology. “I will be doing a ONE RULE Executive Order this week,” Trump posted on social media. “You can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something.” “There must be only One…
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NewsPhotography

Martin Parr in his own words: "People are funny"

December 9, 2025
Parr sadly passed away on December 6, 2025, aged 73. Back in 2016, Professional Photography magazine sat down with prolific Parr to discuss his photo books, wedding photography, and his “laboratory”, the beach. “You have to laugh. People are funny, aren’t they?” Martin Parr has a keen eye for quirky human behaviour. Where you or I might dismiss an everyday scene of supermarket…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

I got a 5-ton electric tractor from China. Here’s what showed up

December 9, 2025
When a 40-foot container rolled up to my property and the doors swung open, I finally got to meet a machine I’d only last seen half-finished on a factory floor in China. Sitting up front, nose practically pressed against the container doors, was my new 10,000-plus-pound (4,700 kg) electric tractor: the NESHER L3000 wheel loader. Technically, it’s part of a class known as articulating front…
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DefenseNews

Tanks, howitzers galore: Australian Army embraces influx of new armor

December 9, 2025
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — The Australian Army fired an AS9 Huntsman 155mm self-propelled howitzer on home soil for the first time this month, as crews have begun intensive training on the new artillery system before it rolls into service. The Huntsman will eventually equip the Australian Army’s 3rd Brigade, a formation undergoing a dramatic transformation as a plethora of new equipment is…
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