Published on: 2025-04-20 19:41:00
Getty Images/CNET Reports of the IRS Direct File's death may not have been exaggerated after all. The agency's free program for filing electronic tax returns may be the latest victim of the Trump administration's DOGE efficiency team, according to reporting by the Associated Press. It cited two anonymous sources familiar with the decision who said staff were told to stop working on the program for the 2026 tax filing season. Rumors of the service's demise began back in February with a social
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 10:00:00
This highly scalable approach may finally open the skies to a host of commercial drone applications that have yet to materialize. Amazon Prime Air launched in 2022 but was put on hold after crashes at a testing facility, for example. On any given day, only 8,500 or so unmanned aircraft fly in US airspace, the vast majority of which are used for recreational purposes rather than for services like search and rescue missions, real estate inspections, video surveillance, or farmland surveys. One ob
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 03:15:59
Query Engines: Push vs. Pull 26 Apr 2021 People talk a lot about “pull” vs. “push” based query engines, and it’s pretty obvious what that means colloquially, but some of the details can be a bit hard to figure out. Important people clearly have thought hard about this distinction, judging by this paragraph from Snowflake’s Sigmod paper: Push-based execution refers to the fact that relational operators push their results to their downstream operators, rather than waiting for these operators t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 23:01:02
The Trump administration plans to kill the free tax filing program operated by the Internal Revenue Service, the Associated Press reported today, citing two anonymous sources. The IRS launched Direct File in a pilot for the 2024 tax filing season. It was available to taxpayers in 12 states last year, and was available in 25 states this year. The program's website says the filing tool will be open until October 15 for people who obtained deadline extensions, but it hasn't been updated to account
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 03:38:02
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Economic Security Project If you didn't take advantage of the IRS' free Direct File service this year, you may have missed your chance. According to an AP News report, President Donald Trump plans to end IRS Direct File, the electronic system that lets residents in 25 states file their federal tax returns directly to the agency for free. Also: Why the CVE database for tracking security flaws nearly went dark - and what happens next The program began in 2024 i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 13:34:00
Happy tax day to those celebrating a refund. But whether you are or not, today is the last day to get your income taxes filed, and experts say procrastinators need to be careful they don't get scammed in the process. Rushing through this annual chore could put you at risk for more than just making costly mistakes -- it could also make you more likely to fall for tax season-related scams and other attempts to steal your refunds and personal information. Ahead of today's deadline, the FBI warned
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 22:29:09
13 Apr 2025 This is a story about how I overpaid my 2021 taxes due to an error in TurboTax and spent nearly three years trying to recover more than $12,000 from the IRS! I began writing this back in 2022, in the midst of frustration with TurboTax and the IRS, but waited to finish writing and publish it until I knew the ending. And I’m happy to say that although I had nearly given up hope, I successfully recovered my $12K tax refund, with interest, in 2025! I want to share the story not only bec
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 07:00:00
The deadline to pay your taxes is days away. If your tax bill isn't paid in full by April 15, you may receive a letter from the IRS saying your taxes are overdue. That can lead to interest, fees and in extreme cases, possible jail time. I've been an accountant for more than a decade and I can say that jail time is rarely the first step the Internal Revenue Service takes if you owe money. The tax agency will give you the opportunity to address the issue before it escalates to this extreme. But t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 15:27:10
Palantir, the software company cofounded by Peter Thiel, is part of an effort by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to build a new “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service records, IRS sources tell WIRED. For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a single API layer above all IRS databases at an event previously characterized to WIRED as a “hackathon,”
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 23:00:00
Time is running out to get your income taxes filed, and experts warn that waiting until the last minute could cost you. Rushing through this annual chore at the last minute could put you at risk for more than just making costly mistakes -- it could also make you more likely to fall for tax season-related scams and other attempts to steal your refunds and personal information. Ahead of the annual April 15 deadline, the FBI is warning consumers that criminals are stealing taxpayer identities and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-10 19:20:00
In a nutshell: April means one thing for many Americans: tax season stress. And while you're scrambling to file before the deadline, cybercriminals are just as busy – working to trick you into handing over your personal and financial information. Now, Microsoft has issued a warning about a new wave of tax-themed phishing scams that are more convincing than ever. It's tax time, and scammers are pulling out all the stops. Their latest schemes include fake IRS emails, malicious PDFs, and even QR c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 17:48:32
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to hold a “hackathon” next week in order to create a “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service data, reports Wired. The outlet says the API would be used to move the data into a cloud platform — potentially a third-party one — to serve as the “read center” of the agency’s systems.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 10:00:00
If you file your your tax return and discover you have a tax bill this year, you're not alone. While the IRS returns billions of dollars to taxpayers each year, some Americans do end up having to pay. If you can't pay your tax bill you can take these steps to avoid facing a hefty penalty from the IRS. 1. File anyway Your tax bill is due on April 15 this year -- regardless of whether you file on time or file an extension. Not filing your taxes won't make your tax bill go away. If you don't pa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 21:15:40
This past Wednesday Marvel proved that, in spite of it all, it can still demand a good grip of online attention when it managed to get the internet voraciously watching 27 chairs get laid out in a row for over five hours. How much of the internet? A lot of the internet. Deadline reports that the Doomsday cast announcement pulled in over 275 million views over its runtime, and 3.1 million mentions across social media–trumping the view records the studio previously established for the first Deadp
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 23:40:59
Some day, you may be in an organization that's about to add some more fiber cabling between two rooms in the same building, or maybe two close by buildings, and someone may ask you for your opinion about many fiber pairs should be run. My personal advice is simple: run more fiber than you think you need, ideally a bunch more (this generalizes to network cabling in general, but copper cabling is a lot more bulky and so harder to run (much) more of). THere is an unreasonable amount of fiber to run
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-30 18:00:00
Receiving a tax refund is one highlight most filers can look forward to during tax season. Nearly two-thirds of Americans receive a tax refund each year. With the cost of living rising due to sticky inflation, 38% of adults plan to use their IRS refunds this year to make ends meet, a new CNET survey finds. Many filers are using refunds to pay bills, debt, rent or their mortgage. About one in six taxpayers are also using the money to fund emergency savings. Retail and tech purchases, often commo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 22:00:00
It's officially tax season and April 15 is fast approaching. Sure, waiting until the last minute to file is tempting, especially if you owe the government money, but security experts say procrastinators should beware. Rushing last-minute through this annual chore could put you at risk for more than just making costly mistakes -- it could also make you more likely to fall for tax season-related scams and other attempts to steal your refunds and personal information. While consumers have long ne
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 23:00:23
For years, the US Internal Revenue Service has assured undocumented workers that they could file taxes without fear of their information leading to their deportation. It appears the agency will no longer be able to make that promise. According to the Washington Post, the IRS is close to completing a deal with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that would allow the previously private personal information to be shared. Under the agreement, ICE would be able to send requests for names and address
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 22:01:13
Florida CFO Jimmy Patronis delivers remarks before Gov. Ron DeSantis took to the stage during his Don't Tread on Florida Tour in Sarasota on Nov. 6, ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm election, 2022. Fresh off its victories in the 2024 election cycle, the crypto industry is going big in Florida. Affiliates of the Fairshake super PAC, a fundraising group that helped elect pro-crypto candidates up and down the ticket, is trying to boost Republican candidates in two Florida races, which could determine
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 21:50:00
It's officially tax season and April 15 is fast approaching. Sure, waiting until the last minute to file is tempting, especially if you owe the government money, but security experts say procrastinators should beware. Rushing last-minute through this annual chore could put you at risk for more than just making costly mistakes -- it could also make you more likely to fall for tax season-related scams and other attempts to steal your refunds and personal information. While consumers have long ne
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 06:14:08
Since Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency took over important government technology teams within the General Services Administration (GSA) and what was formally known as the United States Digital Service (USDS), around 200 technologists have either resigned or been fired, jeopardizing about a decade’s worth of work dedicated to everything from public health to passport applications. The culling of the GSA’s 18F division, in particular, a specialized digital services agency
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 16:22:34
Since Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency took over important government technology teams within the General Services Administration (GSA) and what was formally known as the United States Digital Service (USDS), around 200 technologists have either resigned or been fired, jeopardizing about a decade’s worth of work dedicated to everything from public health to passport applications. The culling of the GSA’s 18F division, in particular, a specialized digital services agency
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 16:00:03
This year, some gig workers, freelancers and small business owners received an unfamiliar IRS tax form: a 1099-K. If you're one of them, how you report this form on your tax return could accidentally trigger an overpayment to the IRS. You'll receive a 1099-K form if you use a third-party payment service, such as PayPal, Venmo or CashApp, to receive freelance income and you earned $5,000 or more via these platforms in 2024. The problem is that you might also receive other 1099s for this same inc
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 13:00:13
It's officially tax season, and April 15 is fast approaching. Sure, waiting until the last minute to file is tempting, especially if you owe the government money, but security experts say procrastinators should beware. Rushing last-minute through this annual chore could put you at risk for more than just making costly mistakes -- it could also make you more likely to fall for tax season-related scams and other attempts to steal your refunds and personal information. While consumers have long n
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-02 16:30:03
For some gig workers, freelancers and small business owners, a new kind of IRS form may have arrived alongside other forms they're used to receiving: a 1099-K. And if you're not careful, this form could make it easy to overpay the IRS. If you use a third-party payment service to receive payments, such as PayPal, Venmo or CashApp, those payment processors are now required to issue form 1099-K to you if you earned $5,000 or more in 2024. I'm an IRS-enrolled agent and tax expert who can help you
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 03:00:00
Pragma, a backend game engine used in multiple large games like Destiny 2, has announced an acquisition of FirstLook, an all-in-one playtester feature suite that drives and tracks player engagement data in the crucial testing phase. By adding FirstLook community management integration into Pragma’s backend, developers can, as an example, track Steam keys and their uses without the need of third party tools. According to Pragma, this includes developers at People Can Fly, Square Enix, and more.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 16:00:00
If you're not able to pay your tax bill by April 15, you can expect a letter from the IRS saying your taxes are overdue. A late tax payment can rack up interest and penalty fees, but it actually land you in jail? The short answer is yes. But it's rarely the first step the Internal Revenue Service takes to get its money. If you owe the IRS money, they'll give you the opportunity to address the issue before it escalates to this extreme. But there are legal consequences for tax evasion or continuo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 10:10:54
A security researcher says the default password shipped in a widely used door access control system allows anyone to easily and remotely access door locks and elevator controls in dozens of buildings across the U.S. and Canada. Hirsch, the company that now owns the Enterphone MESH door access system, won’t fix the vulnerability, saying that the bug is by design and that customers should have followed the company’s setup instructions and changed the default password. That leaves dozens of expos
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 03:07:07
Electric trucking startup Nikola is hoping to sell what remains of its whole business as early as April, lawyers for the company told a judge Thursday during the first hearing of its bankruptcy case in Delaware. The lawyers claimed Nikola already has at least three interested buyers (who they did not name) and that the company hopes to solicit other bids, with a submission deadline likely in late March. If Nikola can’t find a buyer willing to take on the whole business, the company will pivot
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