Staring at a blank slide while wrestling with raw numbers still slows teams down. A 2025 SlideSpeak study found chart ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that prevents some users from opening Excel email attachments in the new Outlook client. According to a service alert (EX1189359) seen by BleepingComputer ...

Microsoft is removing the Photos section from its Phone Link app and shifting photo access directly to File Explorer. This means users will now see their phone's images directly in the File Explorer: ...

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 ...

To help solve this, Google released the File Search Tool on the Gemini API, a fully managed RAG system “that abstracts away the retrieval pipeline.” File Search removes much of the tool and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The IRS Direct File program is no longer available. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Economic Security Project) We knew that it was coming, but now we know for sure: Direct File, the free ...

Republicans asked a federal court to block newly approved maps in California that were designed to flip as many as five House seats for Democrats. By Laurel Rosenhall Reporting from Sacramento Hours ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The IRS has notified states that offered the free, government tax filing service known as Direct File in 2025 that the program won’t be ...

Strong winds across Dallas and Tarrant counties continued to cause a string of power outages Wednesday. Around 11,000 customers were affected by outages as of 6:00 p.m., according to the Oncor outage ...