The Department of Justice will not release all Epstein files on the court-ordered deadline. Several hundred thousand documents are expected to be released Friday, with more to follow next week. The ...

Microsoft updated its Windows 11 support documentation to clarify that AI agents now require explicit user permission to access six key folders: Documents, Downloads ...

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Reading officials say the city’s lead hazard reduction program is gaining momentum, but more participation is sought. “Lead exposure, especially in older homes with deteriorating lead-based paint, is ...

My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...

Microsoft is testing a new optional feature that preloads File Explorer in the background to improve launch times and performance on Windows 11 systems. According to Microsoft, the app will load ...

Americans will have one fewer free option to file their taxes in 2026 after the Trump administration killed IRS Direct File. Without it, Direct File supporters said Americans will end up spending more ...

WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service is officially ending Direct File, the free, government-run tax-filing pilot program that the Biden administration started last year. Instead, the Trump ...

The new program, Direct File, helped low- and moderate-income taxpayers file their returns more easily, and had been expanding. By Tara Siegel Bernard The Internal Revenue Service is shutting down its ...

The IRS ended Direct File, the free, online pilot program that nearly 300,000 taxpayers in 25 states used to file returns for tax year 2024. The IRS website for Direct File says “Direct File is closed ...

Robots.txt tells search engines what to crawl—or skip. Learn how to create, test, and optimize robots.txt for better SEO and site management. Robots.txt is a text file that tells search engine ...

We didn’t fully understand the experiment we were beginning, but this was the question driving our search, the point of curiosity that started our not-quite-scientific process. As women who were once ...