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IRS makes free tax return program permanent and is asking all states to join in 2025. This could deal a massive blow to private tax filing services such as TurboTax (apnews.com)

Epic says that Apple has accepted its third-party app store (www.engadget.com)

Teslas Can Still Be Stolen With a Cheap Radio Hack—Despite New Keyless Tech (www.wired.com)

AI's Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law (gizmodo.com)

Massive car dealer ransom attack is mostly over after 2 weeks of work-arounds (arstechnica.com)

AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream (www.wired.com)

Selfie-based ID raises eyebrows among infosec experts (www.theregister.com)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/36566249...

China’s AI overload: Baidu CEO warns of too many models, too few applications (www.scmp.com)

ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text (arstechnica.com)

Adobe's Employees Are Just As Upset at the Company As Its Users: Report (petapixel.com)

Adobe’s employees are typically of the same opinion of the company as its users, having internally already expressed concern that AI could kill the jobs of their customers. That continued this week in internal discussions, where exasperated employees implored leadership to not let it be the “evil” company customers think...

Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket (arstechnica.com)

The rocket was undergoing a static fire test of the stage, in which a vehicle is clamped to a test stand while its engines are ignited, when the booster broke free. According to a statement from the company, the rocket was not sufficiently clamped down and blasted off from the test stand “due to a structural failure.”...

Google’s Repair Policy Is Broken (www.wired.com)

Notepad’s spellcheck and autocorrect are rolling out to everybody after 41 years (arstechnica.com)

It's still bare-bones by most standards, but Notepad has evolved a lot recently.

The President Ordered a Board to Probe a Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did. (www.propublica.org)

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The U.S. President Ordered a Board to Probe a Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did. (www.propublica.org)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/612786...

noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store (techcrunch.com)

My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore (www.howtogeek.com)

Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. (mainichi.jp)

Get the BBS Scene Vibes back with Neon Modem Overdrive (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

“We must cultivate a society that can critically think, resist disinformation, and not succumb to fear”: Czech report warns against Russian tactics across Europe to undermine support for Ukraine (www.euractiv.com)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/490647...

South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware (www.tomshardware.com)

Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets (www.righto.com)

To use the Montreal subway (the Métro), you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it opens. The ticket works through a system called NFC, but what's happening internally? How does the ticket work without a battery? How does it communicate with the turnstile? And how can it be so cheap that you can throw the ticket away...

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