The Tribeca Festival and OpenAI plan to feature five short films made using OpenAI's text-to-video tool Sora on June 15 (Brian Welk/IndieWire)
https://www.indiewire.com/news/festivals/tribeca-ai-generated-short-films-sora-short…
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Filing: Ticketmaster confirms "unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database", after a hacking group advertised alleged data of 560M users for sale (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/ticketmaster-confirms-hack-in-sec-filing/
IRS Direct File is here to stay. All 50 states are invited.
The IRS is making its free tax-filing platform permanent and open to all 50 states,
the Biden administration announced Thursday,
following the successful launch of the first-of-its-kind website.
This tax season, more than 140,000 taxpayers in 12 eligible states made use of Direct File
— which allows users to submit simple tax returns directly to the government.
Republicans have criticized it a…
34 felonies seems like a lot of felonies
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US Treasury Department will make IRS' Direct File program permanent starting with the 2025 tax season and invites all states and Washington DC to participate (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/30/irs-taxes-direct-file-free-program
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