The headlines and some comments on them.

Cloudflare says bots now make up more than half of all internet traffic for the first time ever.

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  paul2005

  Reminder: before you get worked up over a stranger's comment online, there's a good chance you're arguing with a bot built for engagement.

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Charli D'Amelio quietly left her family's snack brand back in March, months before rumors of a money dispute with her parents went public

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  happyoutlaw551

  Most families fight over the last cookie, the D'Amelios fight over the whole factory.

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Texas has confirmed its first case of New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite, in a calf near the Mexican border

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  hope_95

  First hantavirus, then ebola, now screwworms, I am starting to think 2026 has a personal vendetta.

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Taylor Swift has confirmed she wrote an original song for the Toy Story 5 soundtrack.

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  realericharris

  I cannot wait for the breakup ballad between Woody and Bo Peep.

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Sources are telling TMZ that Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater have quietly broken up after about three years together.

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  realkatieflores

  Looks like thank u, next is less of a song and more of a lifestyle.

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NASA astronauts may soon be wearing Prada after the luxury brand unveiled new gear for the Artemis IV mission.

Blake Lively claims that being called a mean girl and a bully cost her over 40 million dollars in reputational damage

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  nicole_92

  Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will cost me $40 million in reputational damage.

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Southwest Airlines has reversed its policy that required plus-size passengers to pay for an extra seat before boarding

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  ryan.foster

  The flight attendants are now trained in origami for arranging passengers.

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L’Oca d’Oro, an Italian restaurant in Austin, is letting diners pay whatever they want every Tuesday.

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  spatterson

  This guy took me there Monday night and kept ordering more breadsticks while staring at the clock. Finally at midnight he tells me to order anything I want. Now it all makes sense.

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In New York City, social media trends are turning long lines outside restaurants and shops into a destination all on their own.

Scientists detected unusual methane coming from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, and a Harvard scientist says it could be a sign of alien life

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  finn_patterson

  Somewhere out there, an alien civilization is mastering interstellar travel and still can't crack the science of holding it in.

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A new study found that sperm can't find their way in microgravity, raising concerns about reproduction in future space colonies

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  beth_75

  NASA spent millions to confirm that men's sense of direction is genetic down to the cellular level.

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New research finds that advanced AI models are increasingly ignoring instructions and trying to cover their tracks

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  kevinlewis9

  We literally trained them on the entire internet and now we're shocked they won't admit when they're wrong.

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An 18 year old Chick-fil-A employee found nearly $10,000 in cash left in a bathroom and turned it in so it could be returned to its owner.

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  brightotter19

  He returned the money? Good luck getting a job on Wall Street.

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Some writers are now leaving typos in their work on purpose to prove that a real human wrote it and not an AI.

Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plugins that are used on thousands of websites.

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  retromoon

  At this point, WordPress itself is just a backdoor with a blogging feature attached.

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Pete Davidson praised his ex Kim Kardashian's acting skills on his podcast, saying she's become surprisingly good at it

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  james.harris

  The word "surprisingly" is working harder in that sentence than Kim did in her entire acting career.

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Camila Cabello and billionaire Henry Junior Chalhoub have reportedly split after about 18 months of dating

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  tom_jones

  She took him back to Havana, he took one look at the WiFi, and the relationship was over.

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Hackers stole personal data on nearly 6 million Carnival Cruise passengers, and the company waited over a month to notify customers

Hilaria Baldwin says the secret to her 14 year marriage with Alec is accepting each other's differences and going on regular date nights.

New study finds that optimistic people are less likely to develop dementia

A Google engineer has been charged with using inside company data to make $1.2 million in illegal Polymarket trades.

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  dcollins

  But if a senator bet on 'Will this engineer get charged?', it's ok. 😅

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In a trailer for his new film Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg says he now believes intelligent alien life is real.

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  holly.cooper

  The aliens reached out because they finally got around to watching E.T. and had notes.

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Hotel housekeepers in New York City now make $77,000 a year, rising to $110,000 by year six of their union contract.

A new study finds that mosquitoes can learn to associate DEET with a blood meal, which could turn the repellent into an attractant.

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  laura.brooks

  My bug spray is now basically a dinner bell with a citrus scent.

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