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Carlie Irsay-Gordon to serve as Indianapolis Colts principal owner following death of father, Jim Irsay https://www.nfl.com/news/carlie-irsay-gordon-to-serve-as-indianapolis-colts-principal-owner-following-d…

The IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk of being killed by Intuit’s lobbyists and Donald Trump’s megabill.
Meanwhile, several top developers who worked on the software have left the government and joined a project to explore the “future of tax filing” in the private sector

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

Scenarios in Computing Research: A Systematic Review of the Use of Scenario Methods for Exploring the Future of Computing Technologies in Society
Julia Barnett, Kimon Kieslich, Jasmine Sinchai, Nicholas Diakopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05605

Scenarios in Computing Research: A Systematic Review of the Use of Scenario Methods for Exploring the Future of Computing Technologies in Society
Scenario building is an established method to anticipate the future of emerging technologies. Its primary goal is to use narratives to map future trajectories of technology development and sociotechnical adoption. Following this process, risks and benefits can be identified early on, and strategies can be developed that strive for desirable futures. In recent years, computer science has adopted this method and applied it to various technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI). Because c…

At first I thought "wow, there's a #privacy event in #Vilnius but then I read the post.

The IRS open sourced most of its Direct File tax software on GitHub last week, fulfilling a legal requirement under the SHARE IT Act, despite Intuit pressure (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-…

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04207 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@a…

Four-fold Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in Antiferromagnetic Epitaxial Thin Films of MnPt$_{x}$Pd$_{1-x}$
Antiferromagnets are emerging as promising alternatives to ferromagnets in spintronics applications. A key feature of antiferromagnets is their anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR), which has the potential to serve as a sensitive marker for the antiferromagnetic order parameter. However, the underlying origins of this behavior remains poorly understood, particularly, in thin film geometries. In this study, we report the observation of AMR in epitaxial thin films of the collinear L1$_{0}$ antifer…

Bernie Sanders warned of the US’s slide into authoritarianism
following Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the national guard to Los Angeles over the city’s protests against federal immigration raids.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

Detection of multiple X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations in IGR J19294 1816 with Insight-HXMT
Wen Yang, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05771 https://…

Detection of multiple X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations in IGR J19294+1816 with Insight-HXMT
We report the timing results with Insight-HXMT observations of X-ray binary IGR J19294+1816 during its 2019 Type I outburst at the decline phase shortly following its peak. We analyze the light curves and power density spectrum (PDS) of the 2019 observations and reveal a peak at approximately $ν_{NS} \sim 80.2$ mHz, corresponding to X-ray pulsations from the neutron star. In addition, a significant quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) feature is observed at around $ν_{QPO} \sim 30.2$ mHz from 10-…

An interview with Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela on expediting the movie-making process, copyright cases, why using Runway is like using a camera, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela wants Hollywood to embrace AI video
The head of the AI video generation platform on copyright and the future of filmmaking.

Irsay's daughters take ownership 'very seriously' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45487941/take-very-seriously