The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program, an electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free, according to two people familiar with the decision.

The program developed during Joe Biden’s presidency was credited by users with making tax filing easy, fast and economical.

But Republican lawmakers and commercial tax preparation companies complained it was a waste of taxpayer money because free filing programs already exist, although they are hard to use.

https://apnews.com/article/irs-direct-file-tax-returns-free-trump-4bb0bca02fab9b3d06ae6f45ac67b7ab

cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/7579524

What do you all think of this?

Video is only 6 minutes and 44 seconds long.

Project is called "Mouseless" and seems to be a keyboard mod.

Chroma, lo strumento di simulazione del daltonismo di Ubisoft, è ora disponibile per l'uso pubblico dopo diversi anni di utilizzo e sviluppo interno. Con una stima di 300 milioni di persone affette da daltonismo in tutto il mondo, Chroma consente agli sviluppatori di replicare accuratamente la loro esperienza e di creare contenuti accessibili per soddisfare le loro esigenze. Lo strumento open-source funziona applicando un filtro alla schermata di gioco senza ostacolare le prestazioni.

“Negli ultimi anni, Chroma ha dimostrato di essere uno strumento estremamente efficiente per noi di Ubisoft”, afferma David Tisserand, Direttore dell'Accessibilità. "Ci ha permesso di valutare l'accessibilità dei nostri giochi per i giocatori daltonici in modo molto più rapido e completo che mai. Poiché crediamo che l'accessibilità sia un viaggio, non una gara, siamo entusiasti di condividere Chroma con l'intero settore. Invitiamo tutti a trarne vantaggio, a fornire feedback e a contribuire al suo sviluppo futuro".

UbiChroma

Ubisoft’s Colorblind Simulation Tool, Chroma, Now Available For Public Use

The open-source tool allows developers to simulate a colorblind person’s experience while gaming.

^{news.ubisoft.com}

So the names of the options literally translate to:

Row Above
Row insert beneath
Colums Left
Insert Column Right

Not only are they named inconsistently and only partially translated. The capitalization is also seemingly random.

The United States's $2.5 billion beef trade to China has come to a halt.

Tariffs war halts US beef exports to China as Australia fills the gap

ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.

^{Matt Brann (ABC News)}

The TLDR here, IMO is simply stated: the OSAID fails to require reproducibility by the public of the scientific process of building these systems, because the OSAID fails to place sufficient requirements on the licensing and public disclosure of training sets for so-called “Open Source” systems. The OSI refused to add this requirement because of a fundamental flaw in their process; they decided that “there was no point in publishing a definition that no existing AI system could currently meet”. This fundamental compromise undermined the community process, and amplified the role of stakeholders who would financially benefit from OSI's retroactive declaration that their systems are “open source”. The OSI should have refrained from publishing a definition yet, and instead labeled this document as ”recommendations” for now.

Open Source AI Definition Erodes the Meaning of “Open Source”

This week, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) made their new Open Source Artificial Intelligence Definition (OSAID) official with its 1.0 release.

^{Software Freedom Conservancy}

The TLDR here, IMO is simply stated: the OSAID fails to require reproducibility by the public of the scientific process of building these systems, because the OSAID fails to place sufficient requirements on the licensing and public disclosure of training sets for so-called “Open Source” systems. The OSI refused to add this requirement because of a fundamental flaw in their process; they decided that “there was no point in publishing a definition that no existing AI system could currently meet”. This fundamental compromise undermined the community process, and amplified the role of stakeholders who would financially benefit from OSI's retroactive declaration that their systems are “open source”. The OSI should have refrained from publishing a definition yet, and instead labeled this document as ”recommendations” for now.

Open Source AI Definition Erodes the Meaning of “Open Source”

This week, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) made their new Open Source Artificial Intelligence Definition (OSAID) official with its 1.0 release.

^{Software Freedom Conservancy}

First Spotify and now Zoom

No meetings today 🕺

Zoom is down for many – here's what we know about the video calling platform's outage

If you can't get on a meet, you're not alone.

^{Jacob Krol (TechRadar)}

Moscow (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk on Wednesday, telling university students he was a pioneer comparable to legendary Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev.

The comments came as Russia and the United States forged closer ties under President Donald Trump's administration, of which billionaire SpaceX founder Musk is a key figure.

"You know, there's a man -- he lives in the States -- Musk, who, you could say, raves about Mars," Putin told students on a visit to Bauman University, a Moscow college that specialises in science and engineering.

"These are the kind of people who don't often appear in the human population, charged-up with a certain idea."

"If it seems incredible even today, such ideas often come to fruition after a while. Just like the ideas of Korolev, our pioneers, came about in due time," Putin added.

Korolev is considered the father of the Soviet space programme, developing the first satellite Sputnik as well as Vostok 1, which carried first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit in 1961.

Musk, the world's richest man and Trump's most powerful advisor, is the head of SpaceX -- a US company that launches rockets for NASA and owns the Starlink satellite internet network.

Musk has been a frequent critic of Ukraine, which is currently battling a three-year Russian offensive.

The billionaire accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last month of wanting a "forever war", and in February said Kyiv had gone "too far" in the conflict.

Putin praises Musk, compares him to Soviet space hero

^RFI

https://hoodline.com/2025/04/big-tech-bonanza-nvidia-chooses-texas-for-trailblazing-supercomputer-sites-in-houston-dallas/

Migrants who overstayed a visa are not eligible to be sent to Guantanamo Bay, the document says. But if the nature of a migrant's entry is unclear, the memo allows officials to assume that the person paid a criminal group to enter the U.S. and to send them to Guantanamo if they hail from a nation "where the preponderance of aliens from that country enter the United States in that fashion."

Instead, the agreement, signed on March 7 by top DHS and Pentagon officials, says the departments agreed to use the Guantanamo base to detain migrants with final deportation orders who have "a nexus to a transnational criminal organization (TCO) or criminal drug activity."

Officials defined "nexus" in broad terms. A nexus can be satisfied, the memo says, if migrants with final deportation orders are part of a transnational criminal group or if they paid one "to be smuggled into the United States." The latter condition could be used to describe many of the migrants and asylum-seekers who have illegally crossed the U.S. southern border, as criminal groups in Mexico largely control the illicit movement of people and drugs there.

Memo shows U.S. can send migrants without criminal records to Guantanamo, despite Trump's promise to hold "the worst" there

A government memo obtained by CBS News shows the Trump administration created broad rules outlining which migrants can be held at Guantanamo Bay​.

^{Camilo Montoya-Galvez (CBS News)}

https://www.wired.com/story/2025-4chan-hack-admin-leak/