The best email encryption software can prevent hackers from scraping your emails for company contracts, financial records, and workplace credentials.

Prominent crime forum BreachForums has suffered a new and possibly fatal blow to its reputation after the revelation that a database of thousands of criminals using it was stolen months ago. News of ...

The Trump administration has shut down the IRS "Direct File" program, which was a free tax filing option. Critics of Direct File cited high development costs and low user participation for its closure ...

This season, Americans will have one fewer free option to use when filing their 2025 income taxes. Direct File, launched during former President Joe Biden’s term, was meant to simplify federal tax ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over 250,000 Americans filed their taxes for free with the Internal Revenue Service last year, using the IRS Direct File option.

“The X-Files” is headed to Pluto TV, becoming available beginning on New Year’s Day. Though the beloved, long-running sci-fi drama is already available to stream on Hulu and Disney+, its addition to ...

The IRS has ended the Direct File program, which let some taxpayers file their annual returns for free using software developed by the government. Many tax preparation companies opposed this, as did ...

It’s not the coolest phrase in the world to utter, but here goes: I love Windows. Maybe you do too. Maybe you don’t, but you’re forced to use it for work. Whatever the case, for all its positives, ...

Americans will have one fewer free option to file their taxes in 2026 after the Trump administration killed IRS Direct File. Without it, Direct File supporters said Americans will end up spending more ...

At first the software engineer did not succeed in making off with a trove of Santa Clara computer chip giant Intel’s trade secrets, but then he tried again. Jinfeng Luo, at Intel since 2014, had been ...

Taxpayers in 25 states will need to find a new way to file their taxes in 2026 as the IRS has shut down the free Direct File option. Details are limited, but the IRS has confirmed the program launched ...

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 ...