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Japan Opens School Staffed Entirely by Virtual Waifus

Japan’s gakushu juku industry — private, after-hours study schools — has spent decades monetizing the…

Feb 23, 2026 3 min read
AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains

Whole Foods shelves sit empty after a data breach shut down its wholesale distributor. Meat…

Feb 23, 2026 3 min read
Barrage of Emails From AI Politics Platform Defeats Clean Air Initiative

Late in 2023, the corporate world was abuzz with the utopian promise of AI —…

Feb 22, 2026 5 min read
Eric Trump Pouring Funding Into “Low Cost-Per-Kill” Drone Corporation

Somewhere in the long tradition of Trump family grifting, there’s a line between “nakedly corrupt”…

Feb 22, 2026 2 min read
Antarctica’s Gravity Hole Growing Stronger, Scientists Find

For decades, scientists have been studying intriguing “gravity holes,” which are enormous depressions in the…

Feb 22, 2026 3 min read
Cities Are Shredding Their AI Surveillance Contracts en Masse

Since the start of 2025, at least 30 cities have canceled their contracts with Flock…

Feb 22, 2026 2 min read
AI “Filmmaker” Gets Funding, Begs For Ideas On What to Actually Make

An AI “filmmaker” was viciously mocked after begging his followers for ideas on what to…

Feb 22, 2026 3 min read
Hackers Working on Method to Make Ring Cameras Store Footage Locally, Never Giving It to Amazon

When you buy a Ring camera for your house, you’re also agreeing to let Amazon…

Feb 22, 2026 3 min read
In Blind Test, Audiophiles Unable to Tell Difference Between Sound Signal Run Through an Expensive Cable and a Banana

High-quality cables have long been marketed as a key way to get the most out…

Feb 22, 2026 4 min read
The Economics of 3D Printed Homes Are Surprisingly Horrible

The pitch for 3D-printed housing has always been the same: robots build faster, waste less,…

Feb 22, 2026 2 min read