Sep 03
Every Apple user is familiar with the iCloud service, but many use it passively, never recognizing or taking advantage of the many features it offers.
Sep 03
NASA delays Artemis 1 launch again
Posted in: Today's ChiliFollowing a failed attempt earlier this week, NASA has once again delayed the start of its Artemis 1 Moon mission. The agency was forced to scrub Saturday’s launch after staff at Kennedy Space Center failed to fix a persistent leak in a liquid hydrogen connection point on the agency’s next-generation Space Launch System super heavy-lift rocket.
NASA detected the leak at 7:23AM ET and tried to troubleshoot the problem in a few different ways, but after three failed attempts ground crew recommended a “no go” for Saturday’s launch attempt. Monday’s attempt was cut short after one of the four on the SLS could not reach the appropriate temperature to send Artemis 1 into space.
“The Artemis I mission to the Moon has been postponed. Teams attempted to fix an issue related to a leak in the hardware transferring fuel into the rocket, but were unsuccessful,” NASA said on Twitter.
Developing…
Sep 03
Several People Hurt, Thousands Flee As Wildfire Rages In Northern California
Posted in: Today's ChiliEvacuees described chunks of ashes raining down and heavy smoke that made it look like “the world was coming to an end.”
Sep 03
In 2007 at Austin, TX’s then-annual film festival Butt-Numb-a-Thon, director Mike Dougherty (Godzilla: King of the Monsters) screened his horror film, Trick ‘r Treat. The film would later get delayed for the next two years, and even when it did come out in December 2009, it was only through limited screenings. But it…
Sep 03
Police say the pilot of a small airplane was circling over Tupelo, Mississippi, and threatening to crash the aircraft into a Walmart store.
Sep 03
Apple offers Dark and Light interface options on the iPhone and iPad, but the Light mode is turned on by default. Why should you switch to Dark?
Sep 03
The IRS says it accidentally exposed confidential information involving 120,000 taxpayers
Posted in: Today's ChiliAround 120,000 taxpayers who filed a Form 990-T will be hearing from the IRS in the coming weeks, telling them that the agency inadvertently exposed their information on its website. Exempted organizations, including charities and religious groups, with unrelated business income are required to file Form 990-T. As The Wall Street Journal notes, though, people with individual retirement accounts invested in assets that generate income, such as real estate, are also required to file the form. Filings by exempted organizations are supposed to be public, but those by private individuals aren’t.
The agency said the issue stemmed from a human cording error last year when Form 990-T became available for electronic filing. As you can guess, the error led to the bundling of non-public data with public data, which were all made available for download. It wasn’t until these past weeks that an employee discovered the issue and triggered an investigation that eventually led to the removal of the data that shouldn’t have been public in the first place.
In its letter, the IRS said the leaked data included individual names and business contact information. Affected taxpayers’ Social Security numbers, individual income details and other information that could impact their credit weren’t made public. The Journal, which was able to download some of the data before it was removed, said it included people’s income within their IRAs, as well.
Even though it has already removed the leaked data, the IRS is still reviewing the situation. The Treasury Department’s Anna Canfield Roth also said that the agency “has instructed the IRS to conduct a prompt review of its practices to ensure necessary protections are in place to prevent unauthorized data disclosures.”
Sep 03
It Took Going To Prison To Recognize My Toxic Masculinity. Here’s How I Finally Changed.
Posted in: Today's Chili“I have witnessed prisoners and guards get beaten until their eyes could not open, for nothing more than calling someone a ‘punk.'”
Sep 03
Angelic Anderson crouched down and ran her fingertips across a large white mound that rose several inches from the surface of the bone-dry lakebed. As a park ranger at the Great Salt Lake State Park in northern Utah, she’s accustomed to seeing the massive lake’s waterline recede, especially during dry months when…
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