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Congress probes whether Kushner fundraising billions while negotiating “peace deals”
As both his father-in-law and father are convicted felons, it is sadly no surprise that Jared Kushner is facing a congressional probe.
 • Jason Weisberger
Britannica sues OpenAI for scraping nearly 100,000 articles
Encyclopedia Britannica — which also owns Merriam-Webster — is suing OpenAI for scraping nearly 100,000 copyrighted articles to train its AI models…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
“We don’t want to be outside”: neighbors can’t stand noisy data center
Lindsay Shaw didn’t mind when a data center went up 100 meters from her front door in Loudoun County, Virginia — she figured it beat a shopping mall.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Harvard: ChatGPT has a “foreign bias” on stock picks
A Harvard Business School study by Charles C.Y.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Boing Boing, March 20, 2026
Metaverse eulogies, medieval sheep, and a hamster in a Godzilla suit
 • Boing Boing
Zuckerberg predicted a billion users. Horizon Worlds never topped a few hundred thousand
When Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook to Meta in late 2021, he called the metaverse “the next frontier” and predicted it would “reach a billion people…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Slop Hurl: horror novel Shy Girl withdrawn after it turns out AI wrote it
“Shy Girl,” a horror novel by Mia Ballard, was withdrawn by publisher Hachette this week after extremely convincing allegations that it was written…
 • Rob Beschizza
Governor who polices others’ lives surprised when a restaurant sets its own rules
Turns out “we reserve the right to refuse service” wasn’t just meant for everyone else.
 • Jason Weisberger
Trump associate allegedly tapped ICE to settle a personal score
A longtime Trump associate reportedly reached out to immigration officials to help detain and deport his ex-girlfriend; not as part of some sweeping…
 • Jason Weisberger
4chan responded to a £520,000 UK fine with a hamster in a Godzilla suit
Preston Byrne, the American lawyer representing 4chan, was asked by UK regulator Ofcom to pay £520,000 in fines under the Online Safety Act.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Startup pays $800/day to bully AI chatbots
The only prerequisite for the job is an “extensive personal history of being let down by technology.” California startup Memvid is offering $100 an hour…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Counting sheep to fall asleep traces back to at least the 12th century
A king can’t sleep, so he demands extra stories from his exhausted storyteller.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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