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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)

Delivery Goes Wrong: New Cybertruck Slices Owner's Wrist During Inspection (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

A Tesla owner's dream of taking his new Cybetruck for a spin turned into a nightmare. He landed in the emergency room with blood spurting from a wrist wound before even getting behind the wheel.

World's first bioprocessor uses 16 human brain organoids for ‘a million times less power’ consumption than a digital chip (www.tomshardware.com)

Portable convenience [The Square Comics] (lemmy.world)

https://www.instagram.com/thesquarecomics/?hl=en

Doesn't matter how you try to justify it... (lemmy.world)

Why the NSA Is Right About Periodically Restarting Your Smartphone (gizmodo.com)

Google's "Manifest V2" Chrome extension phaseout next month is expected to impact the original uBlock Origin extension, which still uses the V2 framework and has 37 million users (www.theregister.com)

The new MV3 architecture reflects Google's avowed desire to make browser extensions more performant, private, and secure. But the internet giant's attempt to do so has been bitterly contested by makers of privacy-protecting and content-blocking extensions, who have argued that the Chocolate Factory's new software architecture...

New York governor to launch bill banning smartphones in schools (www.theguardian.com)

I just wanted the workflow, ok? (lemmy.sdf.org)

This is Fine Rule (i.imgur.com)

EDIT: here's a source for that figure...

Live by verification, die by verification (lemmy.world)

Source https://existentialcomics.com/comic/374

PayPal plans an ad network built off your purchase history (www.theregister.com)

Pure light being (lemmy.world)

author: https://www.instagram.com/sarahandersencomics/

mood (slrpnk.net)

Giving Windows total recall is a privacy minefield (www.theregister.com)

Microsoft's Windows Recall feature is attracting controversy before even venturing out of preview....

It has already been removed again

Edit: Stickying some relevant "war reporting" from the comments to the post body, in a hopefully somewhat chronological order. Thanks for diving into the trenches everybody!...

Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use...

Autism rule (midwest.social)

Uncanny Valley (slrpnk.net)