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NextGov: The IRS has notified states that offered the free, government tax filing service known as Direct File in 2025 that the program won't be available next filing season. In an email sent from the IRS to 25 states, the tax agency thanked them for collaborating and noted that "no launch date has been set for the future."
"IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026," says the Monday email, obtained by Nextgov/FCW and confirmed by multiple sources. It follows reports that the program was
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He also had strong opinions about people's "god-given" rights to eat a hotdog and flirt with someone who isn't their spouse. Read more ›
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Elon Musk has spent the last few weeks outlining a future with Optimus — one that will "eliminate" poverty, work, and require a universal income. Read more ›
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Due to age-verification laws, Pornhub has blocked itself in 22 U.S. states as of August 2025. Read more ›
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Meta said on Friday that it's investing $600 billion in US infrastructure and jobs by 2028. Although the announcement is light on specifics (and heavy on standard Big Tech self-congratulation), it sounds like much of it will go toward AI data centers."At Meta, we're focused on creating the next generation of AI products and building personal superintelligence for everyone," the company wrote. "Data centers are crucial to reaching these goals... Read more ›
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The $600 billion US investment that Mark Zuckerberg previously floated at a White House dinner with Trump is set to become a reality. Read more ›
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Nvidia RTX 5000 Super series might be canceled due to AI-induced GDDR7 shortage, as rumors suggest that 3GB GDDR7 chips will be hard to come by. Read more ›
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WIRED obtained notes from a Social Security Administration management meeting, where employees pressed leadership on plans for the agency. Read more ›
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Discover how you can negotiate your salary like Elon Musk by leveraging your value so you can get paid what you're worth. Read more ›
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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe's salary increased from $1M to $2M, along with a performance-based stock option award that could be worth billions. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from SFGATE: At the Safeway on San Francisco's King Street, you now can't leave the store unless you buy something. The Mission Bay grocery store recently installed new anti-theft measures at the entrance and exit. New gates at the entrance automatically swing open when customers walk in, but they're set to trigger an alarm if someone attempts to back out. And if you walk... Read more ›
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After launching the Find X9 and Find X9 Pro in China in mid-October, Oppo made them official for global markets late last month, and earlier today it announced that they're landing in India on November 18. [#InlinePriceWidget,14235,1#] [#InlinePriceWidget,14094,1#] Ahead of that, today a tipster over on X has shared the purported pricing for the Find X9 with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. This will allegedly cost INR 74,999.... Read more ›
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xAI CEO Elon Musk said there will be "a lot of trauma and disruption," but it is possible to have a future where work is optional. Read more ›
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Disney is rolling out its redesigned interface for Disney+ to more users in the US today. The redesign brings the streaming service in line with the loud, key art-forward approach of Netflix, and follows a price increase for both tiers of Disney+ that the company introduced in October.The biggest change in the new Disney+ is the addition of a horizontal navigation bar with separate tabs for recommendations (For You), Disney+,... Read more ›
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AMD's Bulldozer-era FX-9590 CPU from 2013 managed to run Battlefield 6 at over 30 FPS at 1080p resolution, boosting to 40+ FPS at lower resolutions on smaller maps. FX-9590, despite being more than a decade old, does support SecureBoot, which was enough for BF6 launch, confirming TPM is not neccesary. Read more ›
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On November 18th, Operation: Infinite will be released for Halo Infinite players with a battle pass and lots of new customizations, but according to the team, that’s it for this game’s content updates: With multiple Halo titles in development, we’ll need our whole team’s combined focus to deliver new experiences with the same passion and […] Read more ›
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In his new book, antitrust scholar and former White House adviser Tim Wu argues that tech giants are bleeding you dry—and lays out a plan to stop them. Read more ›
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Apple is going to release a low-cost MacBook in 2026, with the device set to be more affordable than the $999 MacBook Air. With the affordable notebook, Apple is aiming to better compete with cheap Chromebooks and Windows PCs. If you're thinking about picking up a computer for lightweight tasks like document editing, web browsing, watching videos, and doing homework, you might want to wait to see what Apple has... Read more ›
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Elon Musk said Tesla may need to build its own massive “TeraFab” chip plant to secure enough AI processors, a move that would make Tesla one of the world’s largest chipmakers, but experts like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang warn that creating a modern semiconductor process and fab is vastly more complex than Musk imagines. Read more ›
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My family has lived in several countries and US cities. When we moved to Jamestown, a coastal town in Rhode Island, we finally found our forever home. Read more ›
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"An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device," writes Tom's Hardware. "That's when he noticed it was constantly sending logs and telemetry data to the manufacturer — something he hadn't consented to." The user, Harishankar, decided to block the telemetry servers' IP addresses on his network, while keeping the firmware and OTA servers open. While his smart... Read more ›
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The FBI has subpoenaed popular Canadian domain registrar Tucows, demanding information about the owner of archive[dot]today, a popular archiving site used to bypass paywalls and avoid sending traffic to original publishers. The subpoena states it relates to a federal criminal investigation but provides no details about the alleged crime. Archive.today posted the document on X the same day. The site, also known as archive.is and archive.ph, started in the early... Read more ›
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A curious engineer discovered that his iLife A11 smart vacuum was remotely "killed" after he blocked it from sending data to the manufacturer's servers. By reverse-engineering it with custom hardware and Python scripts, he managed to revive the device to run fully offline. Tom's Hardware reports: An engineer got curious about how his iLife A11 smart vacuum worked and monitored the network traffic coming from the device. That's when he... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, is asking Automatic.CSS -- a company that provides a CSS framework for WordPress page builders -- to change its name amid public spats between Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg and Automatic.CSS creator Kevin Geary. Automattic has two T's as a nod to Matt. "As you know, our client owns and operates a wide range of software brands and services,... Read more ›
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Palantir launched a fellowship that recruited high school graduates directly into full-time work, bypassing college entirely. The company received more than 500 applications and selected 22 for the inaugural class. The four-month program began with seminars on Western civilization, U.S. history, and leaders including Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill. Fellows then embedded in client teams working on live projects for hospitals, insurance companies, defense contractors, and government agencies. CEO Ale Read more ›
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"People are creating 'dumb homes,'" the VP of research at the Global Wellness Institute, tells the web site Axios. Some are swapping NASA-style setups for old-fashioned buttons, switches and knobs. Others are designing digital detox corners — all part of a bigger "analog wellness" movement... The return to analog hobbies and spacesis about more than nostalgia for pre-internet times, researchers say. A home where "technology is always in the background,... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: U.S. prosecutors have charged two rogue employees of a cybersecurity company that specializes in negotiating ransom payments to hackers on behalf of their victims with carrying out ransomware attacks of their own. Last month, the Department of Justice indicted Kevin Tyler Martin and another unnamed employee, who both worked as ransomware negotiators at DigitalMint, with three counts of computer hacking and extortion... Read more ›
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"It's been hard for me to understand why Atlas exists," writes MIT Technology Review. " Who is this browser for, exactly? Who is its customer? And the answer I have come to there is that Atlas is for OpenAI. The real customer, the true end user of Atlas, is not the person browsing websites, it is the company collecting data about what and how that person is browsing." New York... Read more ›
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AI labs are paying skilled professionals hundreds of dollars per hour to train their models in specialized fields. Companies like Mercor, Surge AI, Scale AI and Turing recruit bankers, lawyers, engineers and doctors to improve the accuracy of AI systems in professional settings. Mercor advertises roles for medical secretaries, movie directors and private detectives at rates ranging from $20 to $185 per hour for contract work and up to $200,000... Read more ›
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CBS News investigates what happened when police thought they'd tracked down a "porch pirate" who'd stolen a package — and accused an innocent woman. "You know why I'm here," the police sergeant tells Chrisanna Elser. "You know we have cameras in that town..." "It went right into, 'we have video of you stealing a package,'" Elser said... "Can I see the video?" Elser asked. "If you go to court, you... Read more ›
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