The Trump administration may have shuttered Direct File — the IRS’s short-lived experiment in tax-preparation software — but it doesn’t mean you have to pay to file your taxes. There are plenty of ...

Tax filings for the 2026 season begin Jan. 26, the agency announced. “The Internal Revenue Service is ready to help taxpayers meet their tax filing and payment obligations during the 2026 filing ...

The IRS Direct File program, a free tax filing option, has been discontinued for the 2026 tax season. The program was ended by the Trump Administration after a two-year pilot due to low participation ...

TL;DR: Windows 11's File Explorer remains slower than Windows 10 despite a fix that preloads the app at startup, doubling its RAM usage without significantly improving speed. The slower performance ...

Microsoft has announced that it's testing out a new change on Windows 11 that will automatically preload File Explorer in the background in an attempt to speed up the app when users launch it.

Abstract: Generating accurate SQL from users’ natural language questions (text-to-SQL) remains a long-standing challenge due to the complexities involved in user question understanding, database ...

If you cannot preview Word or Excel files in Explorer, but you can preview other text or image files, then this post will help you fix the problem. If the Word or Excel file preview is not working in ...

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. We’ve discussed minimal APIs in several earlier posts here.

Encountering the dreaded “File in Use” or “The document is locked for editing by another user” message when you’re just trying to open a Microsoft Word file ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Top of mind for many scientists over the past several months has been ...