The best text-to-speech tools: Expert tested

Speechify is a solid alternative for folks who want realistic text-to-speech on mobile for everything from web pages to e-books, while ElevenLabs has some of the best natural-sounding voices for voice ...
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 ...
Variety

‘The X Files’ to Become Available for Free With Ads on Pluto TV

“The X-Files” is headed to Pluto TV, becoming available beginning on New Year’s Day. Though the beloved, long-running sci-fi drama is already available to stream on Hulu and Disney+, its addition to ...
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 ...
Fox News

Ex-federal prosecutor says DOJ had power to release all Epstein files

If the Department of Justice (DOJ) wanted to release every Jeffrey Epstein-related document they had on file, they had the firepower to do so, a former assistant U.S. attorney argued. The DOJ has ...
PBS

See photos and documents from the latest Epstein file release

Want a refresher on the battle over the Epstein files? Here's how President Donald Trump factors in, a look at Jeffrey Epstein's private islands, plus what we know about Epstein's death in jail. The ...
The New York Times

Dutch Return ‘Java Man’ Bones, With 40,000 Fossils Set to Follow

The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to get them back for decades. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam The ...
TechSpot

Windows 11's updated File Explorer remains painfully slow despite using twice as much RAM

Facepalm: Users have long criticized Windows 11 File Explorer as inferior to its Windows 10 predecessor. The essential tool suffers from slow launches, sluggish file searches, and delayed right-click ...
Bleeping Computer

Code beautifiers expose credentials from banks, govt, tech orgs

Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter ...
New York Post

Karen Read files lawsuit against state police over alleged ‘gross misconduct’

Karen Read, who was found not guilty of charges in the death of her boyfriend, has filed a lawsuit accusing members of the Massachusetts State Police and several others of targeting her and shielding ...
CNN

Reading the fine print on the Epstein files legislation

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The Epstein files bill is now a law after a roller-coaster ride that ended with an ...