A long and somewhat scary post…

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/04/when-ais-start-hacking.html

When AIs Start Hacking

If you don’t have enough to worry about already, consider a world where AIs are hackers.

Hacking is as old as humanity.  We are creative problem solvers.  We exploit loopholes, manipulate systems, and strive for more influence, power, and wealth.  To date, hacking has exclusively been a human activity.  Not for long.

As I lay out in a report I just published, artificial intelligence will eventually find vulnerabilities in all sorts of social, economic, and political systems, and then exploit them at unprecedented speed, scale, and scope.  After hacking humanity, AI systems will then hack other AI systems, and humans will be little more than collateral damage.

 

 

Worth reading…

https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/26/jeremy_fleming_gchq_china_warning/

GCHQ boss warns China can rewrite 'the global operating system' in its own authoritarian image

The director of the UK's signals intelligence agency has delivered a speech in which he contemplated power in the digital age, observing that "China's size and technological weight means that it has the potential to control the global operating system," and hinting at an expanded role for the agency he leads as one way to fight back.

GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming on Friday delivered the 2021 Vincent Briscoe Lecture for the Institute for Security, Science and Technology, and opened with an observation that humans love to connect to each other, that digital connectivity continues to become more pervasive and important, and that Britain is "a big animal in the digital world."

 

 

Looks useful.

https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/technology/1059776/artificial-intelligence-comparative-guide

United States: Artificial Intelligence Comparative Guide

Do you want to compare other jurisdictions?... Click here

1 Legal and enforcement framework

1.1 In broad terms, which legislative and regulatory provisions govern AI in your jurisdiction?

1.2 How is established or 'background' law evolving to cover AI in your jurisdiction?

1.3 Is there a general duty in your jurisdiction to take reasonable care (like the tort of negligence in the United Kingdom) when using AI?

1.4 For robots and other mobile AI, is the general law (eg, in the United Kingdom, the torts of nuisance and 'escape' and (statutory) strict liability for animals) applicable by analogy in your jurisdiction?

 

 

NFTs are hot right now…

https://www.bespacific.com/non-fungible-tokens-force-a-copyright-reckoning/

Non-Fungible Tokens Force a Copyright Reckoning

IP Watchdog: “NFTs may actually mark the new era in online content; an era where we eventually see every digital copy tagged with a serial number to trace and prosecute counterfeiting…. From the advent of the internet, digital commodities and technologies have ceaselessly presented new hurdles for intellectual property (IP) owners and protectors.  The cycle of copyright law trying, and generally failing, to adapt and keep pace with emerging technology has meant copyright stakeholders have been always at a disadvantage because legal enforcement lagged so far behind innovative infringement.  But during a year in which vast swaths of life moved online, the internet has forged and driven to prominence a powerful new tool for protecting copyright owners’ unique assets: the non-fungible token (NFT)…”

 

 

Worth considering?

https://www.bespacific.com/adding-information-from-your-law-blog-to-wikipedia/

Adding information from your law blog to Wikipedia

Kevin O’Keefe – Lexblog: “via an existing entry or a footnote makes good sense. Contributing to the advancement of the law.

• Making reliable and credible legal information more accessible to legal professions and the public.
• Wikipedia appears on page one of Google’s search results forty-six percent of the time.
• Others are citing legal blogs, and perhaps yours, for Wikipedia entries and footnotes.
• Law blogs are a leading source on many subjects.
• Increases stature as a reliable authority.
• Law firms and legal marketing professionals scramble to get their blogs and blogs seen in any number of places. Some worthwhile, some not.
• Wikpedia is twelve percent of the Internet. It dwarfs any other source…”

 

 

Toys for shut-ins?

https://www.bespacific.com/3d-print-18000-famous-sculptures-statues-artworks/

3D Print 18,000 Famous Sculptures, Statues & Artworks

Open Culture – 3D Print 18,000 Famous Sculptures, Statues & Artworks: Rodin’s Thinker, Michelangelo’s David & More: “…Items that took the ancients untold hours to sculpt from marble and stone can be reproduced in considerably less time, provided you’ve got the technology and the know-how to use it.  Since we last wrote about this free, open source initiative in 2017, Scan the World has added Google Arts and Culture to the many cultural institutions with whom it partners, expanding both its audience and the audience of the museums who allow items in their collections to be scanned prior to 3D printing…”

 

 

Injuries in an empty workplace?

https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-04-26

 

This concerns me and should concern those government agencies reaching into my computers. What if the bad guys left a tripwire that recognized an “unauthorized” command and set off some nasty responses?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/emotet-malware-forcibly-removed-today-by-german-police-update/

Emotet malware forcibly removed today by German police update

Emotet, one of the most dangerous email spam botnets in recent history, is being uninstalled today from all infected devices with the help of a malware module delivered in January by law enforcement.

The botnet's takedown is the result of an international law enforcement action that allowed investigators to take control of the Emotet's servers and disrupt the malware's operation.

… After the takedown operation, law enforcement pushed a new configuration to active Emotet infections so that the malware would begin to use command and control servers controlled by the Bundeskriminalamt, Germany's federal police agency.

Law enforcement then distributed a new Emotet module in the form of a 32-bit EmotetLoader.dll to all infected systems that will automatically uninstall the malware on April 25th, 2021.

I thought that might be the case. Move “sensitive” processes outside your agency so you can say, “We don’t do that” with a straight face.

https://www.pogowasright.org/the-postal-services-social-media-surveillance-program-sends-100s-of-reports-to-fusion-centers/

The Postal Service’s Social Media Surveillance Program Sends 100’s of Reports To Fusion Centers

Earlier this week, this site linked to a report by The Guardian about the U.S. Postal Service monitoring social media posts. Over on MassPrivateI, Joe Cadillic also had something to say about the revelations.

“DHS has succeeded in turning the Postal Service into a clandestine government agency,” Joe writes. And he says we shouldn’t be surprised.

All of this really shouldn’t come as a surprise; a 2019 USPIS annual report revealed the existence of iCOP, albeit in less ominous terms.

Page 36 of the report says iCOP is one of seven functional groups that send hundreds of intelligence reports to fusion centers.

Joe also notes that

A 2019 Federal News Network article revealed how iCOP postal inspectors have been going ‘undercover’ on the dark web since at least 2014.

Anyone who was surprised simply hasn’t been paying enough attention. And that’s probably what the government hopes for.

Read Joe’s entire post.

Perhaps we will need to wait for AI systems that will “know it when they see it.”

https://www.pogowasright.org/canadas-attempt-to-regulate-sexual-content-online-ignores-technical-and-historical-realities/

Canada’s Attempt to Regulate Sexual Content Online Ignores Technical and Historical Realities

Daly Barnett writes:

Canadian Senate Bill S-203, AKA the “Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act,” is another woefully misguided proposal aimed at regulating sexual content online. To say the least, this bill fails to understand how the internet functions and would be seriously damaging to online expression and privacy. It’s bad in a variety of ways, but there are three specific problems that need to be laid out: 1) technical impracticality, 2) competition harms, and 3) privacy and security.

[…]

Then there’s the privacy angle. It’s ludicrous to expect all adult users to provide private personal information every time they log onto an app that might contain sexual content. The implementation of verification schemes in contexts like this may vary on how far privacy intrusions go, but it generally plays out as a cat and mouse game that brings surveillance and security threats instead of responding to initial concerns. The more that a verification system fails, the more privacy-invasive measures are taken to avoid criminal liability.

Read more on EFF.

Oh, the horror!

https://commons.ln.edu.hk/pg-conf-2021/day2-3/panel2/4/

Comical computers and dull PCs: The ethics of giving artificial intelligence a sense of humour

There seems an increasing and equal measure of excitement and anxiety about the growth in sophistication technology has demonstrated over the past 100 years. One particular anxiety that has been the subject of academic research and science fiction alike is artificial intelligence (AI) and the threat or hope it poses. But a major research gap in contemplating the ethics and future of AI is humour. While science fiction often portrays AI as humourless, researchers of computational humour are working to engineer into AI an understanding of humour. Research projects like JAPE, HAHAacronym and STANDUP have attempted to implement humour to varying degrees of success. But humour can be greatly contentious, inflicting offence and even breaking certain speech laws. If we are to programme a sense of humour into AI, whose sense of humour ought to be? Equally, if we exclude this form of intelligence from AI, then will we be able to safely engage in human-agent interaction without AI being able to discern between bona-fide and non bona-fide communication? This paper offers an introduction to the ethical problems in computational humour.

A potential for privacy.

https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/aii_fac_pub/508/

Machine Learning Meets Internet of Things: From Theory to Practice

Standalone execution of problem-solving Artificial Intelligence (AI) on IoT devices produces a higher level of autonomy and privacy. This is because the sensitive user data collected by the devices need not be transmitted to the cloud for inference. The chipsets used to design IoT devices are resource-constrained due to their limited memory footprint, fewer computation cores, and low clock speeds. These limitations constrain one from deploying and executing complex problem-solving AI (usually an ML model) on IoT devices. Since there is a high potential for building intelligent IoT devices, in this tutorial, we teach researchers and developers; (i) How to deep compress CNNs and efficiently deploy on resource-constrained devices; (ii) How to efficiently port and execute ranking, regression, and classification problems solving ML classifiers on IoT devices; (iii) How to create ML-based self-learning devices that can locally re-train themselves on-the-fly using the unseen real-world data.

For lawyers who expect to have AI clients… Lots of reference articles.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-021-00306-9

Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law (2020) by Joshua Gellers

AI and the law?

https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=AMMpEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA89&dq=%22artificial+intelligence%22++%2Blaw&ots=uNPfc5gIEf&sig=y2cHdmR0Pz0H2rx7ES0FAlGpxkM#v=onepage&q&f=false

Technology and International Relations: The New Frontier in Global Power

5 Artificial Intelligence: a paradigm shift in international law and politics? Autonomous weapons systems as a case study.

(Related) How to write AI law?

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joshua-Ellul/publication/350889927_A_Pragmatic_Approach_to_Regulating_Artificial_Intelligence_A_Technology_Regulator's_Perspective/links/607889e6881fa114b406c5b4/A-Pragmatic-Approach-to-Regulating-Artificial-Intelligence-A-Technology-Regulators-Perspective.pdf

A Pragmatic Approach to Regulating Artificial Intelligence: A Technology Regulator’s Perspective

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the regulation thereof is a topic that is increasingly being discussed within various fora. Various proposals have been made in literature for defining regulatory bodies and/or related regulation. In this paper, we present a pragmatic approach for providing a technology assurance regulatory framework. To the best knowledge of the authors this work presents the first national AI technology assurance legal and regulatory framework that has been implemented by a national authority empowered through law to do so. In aim of both providing assurances where required and not stifling innovation yet supporting it, herein it is proposed that such regulation should not be mandated for all AI-based systems and that rather it should primarily provide a voluntary framework and only be mandated in sectors and activities where required and as deemed necessary by other authorities for regulated and critical areas.

Perspective.

https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S2705078521300012

The AI Wars, 1950–2000, and Their Consequences

Philosophy and AI have had a difficult relationship from the beginning. The “classic” period from 1950 to 2000 saw four major conflicts, first about the logical coherence of AI as an endeavor, and then about architecture, semantics, and the Frame Problem. Since 2000, these early debates have been largely replaced by arguments about consciousness and ethics, arguments that now involve neuroscientists, lawyers, and economists as well as AI scientists and philosophers. We trace these developments, and speculate about the future.

The future of the law firm?

https://fortune.com/2021/04/21/legal-tech-rocket-lawyer-raises-223-million-expansion/

Exclusive: Legal tech startup Rocket Lawyer raises $223 million for expansion

… The company, which has 25 million registered users, already offers online legal documents and virtual attorney meetings to businesses and individuals in the U.S., U.K. and parts of Europe. Customers pay $40 monthly for a subscription or for individual documents, from $40 for a simple living will to $100 for an incorporation filing.

… Rocket Lawyer is among a host of legal startups attracting money from venture capitalists looking to disrupt the staid legal profession. Last year, Everlaw, which helps lawyers sort and search vast amounts of digital documentary evidence, raised $62 million from investors including Google parent Alphabet. Verbit, an A.I.-powered courtroom transcription service, raised $91 million in two rounds of fundraising. And Notarize, which offers online notary services, raised $35 million.

Perspective. The Streisand Effect won’t work if people in India can’t see news about the suppression and India probably doesn’t care what outsiders think since they don’t vote.

https://www.makeuseof.com/india-removes-tweets-criticizing-government/

India Orders Twitter to Remove Tweets Criticizing the Government's Handling of the Pandemic

Tools?

https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-use-linkedin-as-a-research-tool/

How to Use LinkedIn as a Research Tool

What would Lindbergh do?

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/opinions/case-for-against-criminalizing/

The Case For and Against Criminalizing Ransomware

… Another related subject that has been at the forefront of debate in recent months is the contentious issue of ransomware payments. If companies are compliant, the excessive demands of hackers can be financially crippling. If they refuse, stolen data becomes vulnerable to public exposure and businesses can be subject to penalties from data protection authorities, as well as suffering reputational damage. With ransomware attacks skyrocketing, companies are increasingly turning to cyber insurance policies to recoup money paid to ransomware gangs. Unfortunately, this has created the perfect storm. Cyber-criminals are emboldened to launch ransomware attacks in the knowledge that many businesses now hold insurance policies. It has become something of a self-fulfilling prophecy – a vicious cycle. Unfortunately, ransomware is modern cybercrime’s killer tactic, so this problem is only going to get worse.

… Let’s first look at the reasons why ransomware payments should be made illegal. First, the obvious. Ransomware payments essentially fund cybercrime, and this is why ransomware attacks are becoming more common

… On the other hand, criminalizing the victim seems highly counter intuitive.

(Related) Good luck.

https://www.makeuseof.com/doj-formed-new-taskforce-ransomware/

The DOJ Has Formed a New Taskforce to Tackle Ransomware

… According to the Wall Street Journal, the DOJ's task force will seek to break up the efforts of ransomware attackers. In an internal memo, Acting Deputy Attorney General John Carlin said that ransomware poses both an economic threat and a threat to "the safety and health of Americans."

The Wall Street Journal report notes that:

The memo calls for developing a strategy that targets the entire criminal ecosystem around ransomware, including prosecutions, disruptions of ongoing attacks and curbs on services that support the attacks, such as online forums that advertise the sale of ransomware or hosting services that facilitate ransomware campaigns.

Perspective.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/04/02/7-of-americans-dont-use-the-internet-who-are-they/

7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?

… Today, 25% of adults ages 65 and older report never going online, compared with much smaller shares of adults under the age of 65.

… Some 14% of adults with a high school education or less do not use the internet, but that share falls as the level of educational attainment increases.

Cool or creepy? Harry Potter-esque?

https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-use-myheritages-ai-tool-animate-old-photos/

How to Use MyHeritage's AI Tool to Animate Old Photos

MyHeritage's Deep Nostalgia tool can apply movement to old pictures, bringing your ancestors back to life.

… Deep Nostalgia is a tool created by the online genealogy platform, MyHeritage. It can bring your old photos to life by converting them into animations. The tool allows you to "see your ancestors from generations past like never before."

… MyHeritage allows you to create animations of up to five photos for free—you'll have to upgrade to a premium account if you wish to create more.

This seems to put some rigor behind my speculation.

https://threatresearch.ext.hp.com/web-of-profit-nation-state-report/

Nation States, Cyberconflict and the Web of Profit

… In addition to the analysis of nation state cyberattacks, the research also draws upon first-hand intelligence gathering from informants across the dark web and consultations with an expert panel of 50 leading practitioners in relevant fields (such as cybersecurity, intelligence, government, academia, and law enforcement). The findings paint a clear picture of escalations in tensions, supported by increasingly complex structures that intersect with the underground cybercrime economy – referred to as the Web of Profit.

… Into the Web of Profit is an academic study that was originally launched by Bromium in April of 2018 – Bromium was acquired by HP in September 2019. The report is sponsored by HP, and researched and written by Dr. Mike McGuire, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Surrey. Nation States, Cyberconflict and the Web of Profit is the fourth installment in the Web of Profit body of research. The findings contained in this report are the culmination of an analysis of known Nation State cyberattacks up to February 2021, alongside interviews with an expert panel of leading practitioners.

Download the report: Nation States, Cyberconflict and the Web of Profit

Download the infographic: Nation States, Cyberconflict and the Web of Profit Infographic

Must make sense to someone. All I can think of is a shell game to hide the agency that is currently doing the surveillance the FBI believes is too sensitive for them. Or maybe everyone thinks they have to be “doing something.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/23/usps-covert-program-postal-service-social-media

Outcry over US Postal Service reportedly tracking social media posts

The US Postal Service has reportedly been monitoring social media posts, with a focus on people planning protests.

The surveillance procedure, known as the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP), tracks social media activity that it describes as “inflammatory” and shares that information to government agencies, according to a government bulletin from 16 March obtained by Yahoo News. The program is part of the efforts of the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), the law enforcement arm of the USPS.

The USPIS monitored social media accounts regarding planned protests occurring internationally and domestically on 20 March, when the World Wide Rally for Freedom and Democracy was scheduled to take place, according to the bulletin.

The information regarding the demonstrations against lockdown measures was distributed through Department of Homeland Security facilities. The agency collected information from Facebook, as well as other platforms used by rightwing extremist groups, such as Parler and Telegram.

… The agency told Yahoo News that Icop “assesses threats to Postal Service employees and its infrastructure by monitoring publicly available open source information.”

My algorithm says: You must send me lots of money.

https://thenextweb.com/news/study-shows-dangerous-simple-manipulate-voters-dating-ai

Study shows how dangerously simple it is to manipulate voters (and daters) with AI

A pair of researchers, Ujué Agudo and Helena Matute of Universidad de Deusto in Spain, recently published a fascinating study demonstrating how easy it is to influence humans with algorithms.

The basic takeaway from the work is that people tend to do what the algorithm says. Whether they’re being influenced to vote for a specific candidate based on an algorithmic recommendation or being funneled toward the perfect date on an app, we’re dangerously easy to influence with basic psychology and rudimentary AI.

Perspective.

https://www.bespacific.com/investigation-and-prosecution-of-capitol-attack-will-likely-be-one-of-largest-in-american-history/

Investigation and prosecution of Capitol Attack will likely be one of the largest in American history

Case 1:21-cr-00303-ABJ Filed 04/22/21 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA vs MICHAEL JOSEPH RUSYN, Defendant

“…The investigation and prosecution of the Capitol Attack will likely be one of the largest in American history, both in terms of the number of defendants prosecuted and the nature and volume of the evidence. Over 400 individuals have been charged in connection with the Capitol Attack. The investigation continues and the government expects that at least one hundred additional individuals will be charged. While most of the cases have been brought against individual defendants, the government is also investigating conspiratorial activity that occurred prior to and on January 6, 2021. The spectrum of crimes charged and under investigation in connection with the Capitol Attack includes (but is not limited to) trespass, engaging in disruptive or violent conduct in the Capitol or on Capitol grounds, destruction of government property, theft of government property, assaults on federal and local police officers, firearms offenses, civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, possession and use of destructive devices, and conspiracy. Defendants charged and under investigation come from throughout the United States, and a combined total of over 900 search warrants have been executed in almost all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Multiple law enforcement agencies were involved in the response to the Capitol Attack, which included officers and agents from U.S. Capitol Police, the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the United States Secret Service, the United States Park Police, the Virginia State Police, the Arlington County Police Department, the Prince William County Police Department, the Maryland State Police, the Montgomery County Police Department, the Prince George’s County Police Department, and the New Jersey State Police. Documents and evidence accumulated in the Capitol Attack investigation thus far include: (a) more than 15,000 hours of surveillance and body-worn camera footage from multiple law enforcement agencies; (b) approximately 1,600 electronic devices; (c) the results of hundreds of searches of electronic communication providers; (d) over 210,000 tips, of which a substantial portion include video, photo and social media; and (e) over 80,000 reports and 93,000 attachments related to law enforcement interviews of suspects and witnesses and other investigative steps. As the Capitol Attack investigation is still on-going, the number of defendants charged and the volume of potentially discoverable materials will only continue to grow. In short, even in cases involving a single defendant, the volume of discoverable materials is likely to be significant…”

Move along little student.

https://www.wyff4.com/article/rossen-reports-tricks-to-land-a-new-job-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/36202129#

Rossen Reports: Tricks to land a job in the age of artificial intelligence

… how can you make sure your application gets to the top of the pile? We're getting advice straight from the experts.

Let's start with your resume. CareerBuilder CEO Irina Novoselsky says artificial intelligence will open the job search up for you behind the scenes. "It's no longer based on 'have you done it' but it now is based on 'can you do it'?" says Novoselsky. Computers can take your skillset and match you with jobs that match closely to what you can do. Websites like CareerBuilder can then offer you job openings at other companies or in other fields.

Tips for your resume:

Tips for your interview:

Where should we draw the line? If a “ban” meant we could not identify the people who stormed the capital, would that be too far?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78qyy/fourth-amendment-is-not-for-sale-act-would-ban-clearview-and-warrantless-location-data-purchases

'Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act' Would Ban Clearview and Warrantless Location Data Purchases

A sweeping proposed piece of legislation with support from both Democrats and Republicans will ban law enforcement agencies from buying data from controversial firm Clearview AI, as well as force agencies to obtain a warrant before sourcing location data from brokers.

A new sin?

https://www.washington.edu/news/2021/04/21/a-growing-problem-of-deepfake-geography-how-ai-falsifies-satellite-images/

A growing problem of ‘deepfake geography’: How AI falsifies satellite images

A fire in Central Park seems to appear as a smoke plume and a line of flames in a satellite image. Colorful lights on Diwali night in India, seen from space, seem to show widespread fireworks activity.

Both images exemplify what a new University of Washington-led study calls “location spoofing.” The photos — created by different people, for different purposes — are fake but look like genuine images of real places. And with the more sophisticated AI technologies available today, researchers warn that such “deepfake geography” could become a growing problem.

… “This isn’t just Photoshopping things. It’s making data look uncannily realistic,” said Bo Zhao, assistant professor of geography at the UW and lead author of the study, which published April 21 in the journal Cartography and Geographic Information Science. “The techniques are already there. We’re just trying to expose the possibility of using the same techniques, and of the need to develop a coping strategy for it.”

Are we the tortoise or the hare? I haven’t see slow, steady progress nor have I seen a jack rabbit start.

https://www.axios.com/regulate-ai-artificial-intelligence-9afe3bd9-65c1-434a-a9de-59019ff8fd9b.html

The global race to regulate AI

On Wednesday, the EU revealed a detailed proposal on how AI should be regulated, banning some uses outright and defining which uses of AI are deemed "high-risk."

(Related) The first of (I’m sure) many attempta to analyze the Act.

https://www.politico.eu/article/6-key-battles-europes-ai-law-artificial-intelligence-act/

6 key battles ahead for Europe’s AI law

The European Commission has unveiled its new rulebook for artificial intelligence, a power play that seals the bloc's reputation as a global rulemaker for tech.

Now comes the hard part — convincing lawmakers, lobbyists and national politicians that its Artificial Intelligence Act is fit for purpose and won't hobble innovation or hurt fundamental rights.

1. Bans, and how they are worded

2. Defining 'high-risk'

3. Conformity assessments

4. A new AI board

5. Parliamentary scrutiny

6. Negotiations with Council

Perspective. I think this is becoming a trend. Lots of related articles.

https://thenextweb.com/news/12-us-states-biden-ban-combustion-washington-california?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheNextWeb+%28The+Next+Web+All+Stories%29

12 US states call for Biden to ban combustion cars from 2035

Get a load of this. America is finally coming down hard on combustion engine vehicles.

Governors of 12 US states are campaigning for President Biden to take a leaf out of California and Washington’s play book, and ban combustion engined cars by 2035.

Tools. Because I run into so many PDFs.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-powerful-chrome-tools-for-all-your-pdf-needs/

10 Powerful Google Chrome PDF Extensions and Apps

If you are a Chrome user, there are several extensions and apps that are quite useful. From viewing and editing, to merging and splitting, there is a PDF tool here for almost anything you need.