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IRS Direct File,
the electronic system for filing tax returns for free,
will not be offered next year,
the Trump administration has confirmed.
An email sent Monday from IRS official Cynthia Noe to state comptrollers that participate in the Direct File program said that
“IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026. No launch date has been set for the future.”
The program developed during Joe Biden’s presidency
was credited by users with…

IRS Direct File won't be available next year for submitting tax returns for free
The Trump administration has decided not to offer the IRS' electronic tax filing system for free next year, and its future is unclear. An IRS official informed state comptrollers in an email Monday that "IRS Direct File will not be available in Filing Season 2026." Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said better alternatives exist and the private sector can do a better job. The program, developed during Joe Biden's presidency, was praised for making tax filing easy and economical. However, it face…

«Hayek, whose company is the world’s largest watchmaker, said the CEOs’ visit sent a signal of weakness. Instead, he suggested that Switzerland — the seventh-largest investor in the US — should retaliate by threatening to cut investment, or ditch a deal to buy US-made F-35 jets.
“Are we William Tell,” he quipped in reference to the Swiss hero of folklore, “or are we a vassal?”»

The application period for the EMJM- #EMLex Master Programme (European Master in Lexicography) is now open.
Interested candidates can submit their applications via the following link:
https://emlex.eu.usc.gal/web/application
Applications for the Erasmus Mundus scholarship are open until February 2, 2026 (inclusive).

from my link log —
UK High Court to lawyers: cut the ChatGPT or else.
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/07/uk-high-court-to-lawyers-cut-the-chatgpt-or-else/
saved 2025-06-08

UK — High Court to lawyers: cut the ChatGPT or else
US lawyers have spent the past two years filing briefs full of citations to nonexistent cases — because a chatbot made them up. You’d think these intelligent and educated people would know better t…

Obstructions for normally spanned sets of vertices
Nicola Lorenz, Max Pitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04367 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04367

Obstructions for normally spanned sets of vertices
Halin conjectured that a graph has a normal spanning tree if and only if every minor of it has countable colouring number. This has recently been proven by the second author. In this paper, we strengthen this result by establishing the following local version of it: Given a prescribed set of vertices $U$ in a connected graph $G$, there is a normal tree in $G$ that includes $U$ if and only if every $U$-rooted minor of $G$ (i.e. a minor every branch set of which meets $U$) has countable colouri…

First Measurement of Neutrino Emissions from Spent Nuclear Fuel by the Double Chooz Experiment
Double Chooz Collaboration, T. Abrah\~ao, H. Almazan, J. C. dos Anjos, S. Appel, J. C. Barriere, I. Bekman, T. J. C. Bezerra, L. Bezrukov, E. Blucher, C. Bourgeois, C. Buck, J. Busenitz, A. Cabrera, M. Cerrada, E. Chauveau, P. Chimenti, O. Corpace, J. V. Dawson, J. F. Du, Z. Djurcic, A. Etenko, H. Furuta, I. Gil-Botella, A. Givaudan, H. Gomez, M. C. Goodman, T. Hara, J. Haser, D. Hellwig, A. …

First Measurement of Neutrino Emissions from Spent Nuclear Fuel by the Double Chooz Experiment
Neutrino emission from nuclear reactors provides real-time insights into reactor power and fuel evolution, with potential applications in monitoring and nuclear safeguards. Following reactor shutdown, a low-intensity flux of ``residual neutrinos'' persists due to the decay of long-lived fission isotopes in the partially burnt fuel remaining within the reactor cores and in spent nuclear fuel stored in nearby cooling pools. The Double Chooz experiment at the Chooz B nuclear power plant in France …

Spirits in the Stacks: A Ghostly Tour at the Congregational Library & Archives
https://ift.tt/Hqa35Ut
Conference> Chinese Buddhist Philosophy: From Three Treatises to Five Schools, 7-8 August 2025,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) immunizations chief
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis said Sunday that
he’s concerned with the direction the agency is going and worried about public health going forward.
Daskalakis, who served as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases,
submitted his resignation from the CDC on Wednesday in protest following the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) removing CDC Director Susan Mona…

Former CDC immunizations chief: ‘I only see harm coming’ with RFK Jr. leading HHS
Daskalakis is concerned with HHS's direction and the effect on public health.

French media on Americans migrating to Ireland, fleeing Trump.
9,600 so far in 2025, 26k applications. Mostly affluent, some with trans kids, English makes it easier.
#mastodaoine

REPORTAGE. "On aurait dû faire ça il y a des années" : ces Américains qui s'installent en Irlande sur fond d'i
En 2025, près de 9 600 Américains ont posé leurs valises en Irlande, un chiffre qui a explosé depuis l'élection de Donald Trump. Mais ceux qui peuvent se permettre de partir sont souvent les plus aisés.