AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer ...
Futurism

Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody’s Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place

Google has relied on a tremendous amount of material without permission to train its Gemini AI models. The company, alongside many of its competitors in the AI space, has been indiscriminately ...
Forbes

Direct File Is Gone. Here’s How You Can Still File Your Taxes For Free

The IRS shut down its direct filing program for 2026, but Free File, Fillable Forms, MilTax, and some private tools remain—if you know where to look. Here’s how to navigate the free options still ...
The Hill

IRS Direct File is gone. This is how you can still file taxes for free

(NEXSTAR) – In 2025, nearly 300,000 Americans used a new electronic system to file their taxes directly with the IRS for free. In 2026, that’s no longer an option. IRS Direct File launched as a pilot ...
Autoblog

Porsche Wants Car Paint That Can Copy Any Color You See

BMW showed us color-changing cars before, but Porsche has its own ideas. BMW, Toyota, and Porsche are developing color-changing paint technology for cars. Porsche's patent uses cameras to capture and ...
CNN

Hundreds of thousands of ‘Epstein files’ have been released — and there’s a lot more to come

The “Epstein files” saga will spill into 2026, despite a deadline last week to release all of the records. Congress passed a law last month — with near-unanimous support — requiring the Justice ...
Forbes

Hackers Unredact Epstein Files — What You Need To Know

The Epstein files have been hacked. Updated December 26 with previous examples of PDF document redaction failures, as well as warnings about malware associated with some Epstein Files distributions ...
Snopes.com

Can Epstein files be unredacted with a simple copy and paste? What we know

Soon after the U.S. Department of Justice released a batch of documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in late December 2025, social media users claimed the text hidden by redactions ...
Futurism

Justice Department Humiliated as People Find the Epstein Files Can Easily Be Un-Redacted

Many were disappointed — though perhaps not surprised — when the Justice Department’s long-awaited document dump on its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein came heavily redacted. The New York Times ...
Mediaite

DOJ Redactions of Some Epstein Files Easily Revealed With Copy and Paste

Information released by the Department of Justice in some of the files surrounding convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was not properly redacted, with blacked-out text becoming visible with a ...
People

How to View the Newly Released Epstein Files

Thousands of files related to the investigation into sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein are publicly available on a Department of Justice webpage titled "Epstein Library" Charna Flam is a writer-reporter ...
The New York Times

How to See the Epstein Files Released on Friday

The searchable database published by the Justice Department is broken into multiple categories. By Michael Gold Covering Congress The Justice Department on Friday released a set of publicly ...