Single character in AI-generated script wipes developer’s entire hard drive

The user had asked for a simple PowerShell script to remove Python pycache folders. Instead, the script ended up deleting the contents of the user’s F: drive, including project files and Docker data.
Wall Street Journal

The Famous Names in the Latest Release of Epstein Files

The hotel magnate said he would retire as executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels to protect the company after newly released emails detailed his long association with Epstein and Maxwell. “I exercised ...
Statesman Journal

Oregonians can now file 2025 taxes. How big the kicker is, what to know

It's officially tax season. The Internal Revenue Service opened the 2026 filing period for the 2025 tax year on Jan. 26. Oregonians can file their 2025 federal and state income tax returns until April ...
The Hill

IRS Direct File is gone. This is how you can still file taxes for free

(NEXSTAR) – In 2025, nearly 300,000 Americans used a new electronic system to file their taxes directly with the IRS for free. In 2026, that’s no longer an option. IRS Direct File launched as a pilot ...
New York Post

DOJ reviewing more than 5 million pages of documents in the Epstein files: report

The Justice Department is buried in about 5.2 million pages of documents potentially related to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein – and it might take until late January to complete the review. The ...
The New York Times

Justice Dept. Is Now Said to Be Reviewing 5.2 Million Pages of Epstein Files

The number represents a more precise, and potentially much larger, figure than earlier estimates. The department is seeking to enlist about 400 lawyers to help in the review. By Devlin Barrett ...
Forbes

Hackers Unredact Epstein Files — What You Need To Know

The Epstein files have been hacked. Updated December 26 with previous examples of PDF document redaction failures, as well as warnings about malware associated with some Epstein Files distributions ...
CNN

Exclusive: Justice Department scrambling to find holiday volunteers to redact the Epstein files, internal DOJ email says

The Justice Department’s leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the “next several days” to help redact the Epstein files, in the latest Trump administration push toward ...
The New York Times

Redacted Material in Some Epstein Files Is Easily Recovered

The ease of recovering information that was not properly redacted digitally suggests that at least some of the documents released by the Justice Department were hastily censored. By Santul Nerkar ...
The Atlantic

So This Is Why Trump Didn’t Want to Release the Epstein Files

Nearly two years ago, Donald Trump kicked off the presidential-campaign season with a declaration: “I was never on Epstein’s Plane, or at his ‘stupid’ Island,” he posted on Truth Social in January ...
The Hill

Epstein files: Where do things stand with their release?

Washington has been roiled by controversy surrounding the files linked to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for months, but the scandal heated up at the end of last week with the Justice Department ...