To make it easier to pull a .csv or .txt file directly into Excel without having to deal with Power Query, Microsoft is ...

Amateur hackers are using Photoshop to undo redactions in files released by the Department of Justice in the Jeffrey Epstein case. The latest 11,034-document dump under the Epstein Files Transparency ...

Want to file your 2025 federal income taxes early as possible? Jackson Hewitt advises you take that approach, as more than 31% of tax filers admit to procrastinate filing taxes, according to ...

Preloading will help File Explorer launch more quickly on less powerful hardware. Preloading will help File Explorer launch more quickly on less powerful hardware. is a senior editor and author of ...

OpenAI is experiencing a widespread outage affecting two systems, APIs and ChatGPT. The outage has been ongoing for at least a half an hour as of publication date. The first issue is that batch API ...

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 Internal Revenue Service has shut down its Direct File free tax-filing program, sending an email to the 25 states that offered it this year. The email was sent to the state departments of revenue ...

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 ...

Over two dozen states incorporated the free tax software in 2025, but the IRS has decided to discontinue the program. Peter is a writer and editor for the CNET How-To team. He has been covering ...

Direct File, the free, government-provided alternative to services like TurboTax, won't be available for the 2026 tax season, Bloomberg Tax reports. That's based on a letter sent from the Internal ...