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Submission + - Intuit Claims Security Concerns in Dropping Windows 10 For TurboTax (intuit.com)

Submitted by Xesdeeni
Xesdeeni writes: I received an email indicating Intuit will not support Windows 10 for the desktop versions of TurboTax, starting this tax year. Laughably, they say "security is a top priority for us", before saying "To use TurboTax Desktop software for tax year 2025, your computer will need to run on Microsoft Windows 11" or "TurboTax Online".

I'm just paranoid enough to use the desktop version, which at least limits what they get to see to the forms they relay to the IRS, rather than everything. Even if I was willing to endure the added burden of printing and mailing the forms, this works be the end of that, since I'm out on Windows 11 for the reasons you already know.

Here's what they sent:

Hi there,

Weâ(TM)re reaching out to provide an update on TurboTax Desktop software for tax year 2025. After October 14, 2025, Microsoft will no longer provide software updates, technical assistance, or security fixes for Windows 10 operating system. Because security is a top priority for us, TurboTax Desktop software for tax year 2025 onwards will not be compatible with Windows 10 operating system.

To use TurboTax Desktop software for tax year 2025, your computer will need to run on Microsoft Windows 11 operating system. You can also consider switching to TurboTax Online, which will work on any supported browser (available December 2025).

For more resources and additional information about this change, go to this help article: How does the end of support for Windows 10 affect my TurboTax Desktop experience?

Thanks for being part of the TurboTax family.

Warm regards,

The TurboTax Team

I've wanted a Linux offering for years now, and only kept Windows for such limited products as this. I guess I can completely punt it now.

Submission + - Nvidia Prohibits Consumer GPU Use In Data Centers? (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Xesdeeni
Xesdeeni writes: (Except blockchains)

Nvidia has banned the use of its GeForce and Titan gaming graphics cards in data centers â" forcing organizations to fork out for more expensive gear, like its latest Tesla V100 chips.

The chip-design giant updated its GeForce and Titan software licensing in the past few days, adding a new clause that reads: âoeNo Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted.â

Is this really even legal?

First, because it changes use of existing hardware, already purchased, by changing software (with potentially required bug fixes) agreements retroactively.

Second, because how can a customer (at least in the US) be told they can't use a product in a particular place, unless it's a genuine safety or security concern (i.e. government regulation)!?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/... https://wccftech.com/nvidia-ge... https://www.google.com/amp/s/w...

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Practical Backup Bitrot Detection 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: There is a lot of advice about backing up data, but it seems to boil down to distributing it to several places (other local or network drives, offsite drives, in the cloud, etc.). We have hundreds of thousands of family pictures and videos we're trying to save using this advice. But in some sparse searching of our archives, we're seeing bitrot destroying our memories. With the quantity of data (~2 TB at present), it's not really practical for us to examine every one of these periodically so we can manually restore them from a different copy. We'd love it if the filesystem could detect this and try correcting first, and if it couldn't correct the problem, it could trigger the restoration. But that only seems to be an option for raid type systems, where the drives are colocated. Is there a combination of tools that can automatically detect these failures and restore the data from other remote copies without us having to manually examine each image/video and restore them by hand? (It might also be reasonable to ask for the ability to detect a backup drive with enough errors that it needs replacing altogether.)

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