Estate Planning 2025 Federal Tax Update As we start the new year, this Federal Tax Update highlights estate planning-related federal tax information as you consider 2025 planning options. 01/2/2025 - 4:36 am | View Link
What you need to know about gift and estate taxes heading into 2025 Gift and estate tax laws aren't changing at the start of 2025 but the amounts you can give tax-free are going up. 12/30/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
The death penalty saves lives and tax dollars | John R. Lott Jr. Opinion: Like quickly selling border wall parts for pennies on the dollar, commuting these murderers’ sentences is another way for Biden to hinder President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda. 12/30/2024 - 2:15 am | View Link
My Mom Wants to Add Me to Her $40k Savings Account So I Won’t Owe Taxes When She Passes. Will This Work? Unfortunately, this scenario may not play out as intended, but it does have some potential benefits. Taxes on gifts and estates are governed by the same section of the tax code, a joint tax known as ... 12/26/2024 - 12:19 am | View Link
Starmer reveals the real reason for his family farm tax The NFU have said that the prime minister’s admission to the Commons liaison committee proves the family farm tax was ‘an indiscriminate revenue-raising measure with no thought given to who it impacts ... 12/19/2024 - 3:07 am | View Link
When fast radio bursts (FRBs) were first detected in 2007, they were a complete enigma. As their name implies, these events involve a very brief eruption of radio emissions and then typically silence, though a few objects appear to be capable of sending out multiple bursts. By obtaining enough data from lots of individual bursts, researchers gradually put the focus on magnetars, versions of neutron stars that have intense magnetic fields.
But we still don't know whether a magnetar is a requirement for an FRB or if the events can be triggered by less magnetized neutron stars as well.
As many of us celebrated the year-end holidays, a small group of researchers worked overtime tracking a startling discovery: At least 33 browser extensions hosted in Google’s Chrome Web Store, some for as long as 18 months, were surreptitiously siphoning sensitive data from roughly 2.6 million devices.
The compromises came to light with the discovery by data loss prevention service Cyberhaven that a Chrome extension used by 400,000 of its customers had been updated with code that stole their sensitive data.
‘Twas the night before Christmas
The malicious extension, available as version 24.10.4, was available for 31 hours, starting on December 25 at 1:32 AM UTC to Dec 26 at 2:50 AM UTC.
Welcome to Edition 7.25 of the Rocket Report! Happy New Year! It's a shorter edition of the newsletter this week because most companies (not named Blue Origin, this holiday season) took things easier over the last 10 days. But after the break we're back in the saddle for the new year, and eager to see what awaits us in the world of launch.
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