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Hacker group SilverFox spent January and February attempting to hack South African companies using fake SARS tax emails.

The landscape of puzzle-solving has shifted from manual brute-force methods to AI-assisted development, with Microsoft Copilot now capable of generating and editing code directly in your live ...

The website for the popular JDownloader download manager was compromised earlier this week to distribute malicious Windows ...

New research exposes how prompt injection in AI agent frameworks can lead to remote code execution. Learn how these ...

Malicious Lightning 2.6.2/2.6.3 released April 30 enable credential theft via hidden payload, leading to PyPI quarantine and ...

A routine software update for Anthropic's Claude Code tool accidentally leaked its entire source code, sparking rapid community response. Within hours, a developer rewrote the tool in Python and then ...

Americans are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and Claude to help prepare their tax returns, but experts warn the technology can deliver outdated or inaccurate ...

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Only 2% of federal income tax returns were filed through Free File, despite 70% of filers qualifying. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

The solution to the error is actually very easy, as all you need to do is restart your launcher. Close it down fully, don't just restart the download. I can only ...

The IRS Direct File program, a free tax filing option, has been discontinued for the 2026 tax season. The program was ended by the Trump Administration after a two-year pilot due to low participation ...