The headlines and some comments on them.

The CEO overseeing Grand Theft Auto doesn't drink, smoke, play video games, or even own a gun

Apple is blocking many vibe coding apps from the App Store, and developers are furious

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  alex_77

  Maybe Apple discovered that these apps weren't charging a weekly subscription for a flashlight, and immediately panicked.

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A New York man is on trial for allegedly running a secret Chinese spy outpost in Manhattan, but his lawyer says it was just a place to play ping-pong

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  ameliabennett16

  His lawyer's next client swears the nuclear submarine in his garage is a bath toy.

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A startup says it has built a beanie that can translate your brain signals into text

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  paul1974

  I can barely write my own thoughts down, and now a beanie is going to do it better than me and make me look bad.

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A TikTok crowdfunding campaign to buy Spirit Airlines has raised over $300 million in pledges

The hot new breakup line is "it is not you, it is my startup" as young founders end relationships to focus on their startups

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  pebble88

  I got dumped so he could focus on his startup, which has twelve co-founders, zero users, and a ping pong table.🏓

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An Oxford physicist argues that quantum mechanics splits you into parallel versions of yourself with every interaction

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  clairecampbell49

  My therapist sent me this article and told me finding the real me is gonna take a while because now we have to search the whole universe.

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Dozens of online retailers are using AI to pose as small businesses and charge more for lower quality products

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  mwilliams

  Funny how Brittany from Vermont hand-pours candles out of a Shenzhen warehouse.

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A Georgia mayor fired the entire police force after officers complained on Facebook about his wife

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  michael_97

  Did he march in like Will Smith and yell "Keep my wife's name out your damn Facebook feed!"

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Sally Field says she never laughed at Robin Williams on the Mrs. Doubtfire set, even when he tried to crack her up

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  dan.henderson

  Honestly that's just method acting, real wives have not laughed at a husband's joke since 1962.

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Recent Bigfoot sightings in Ohio have reignited the debate over whether the creature is real.

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  stephen.bailey

  The Ohio tourism board is dressing interns in gorilla suits as we speak.

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CEOs say AI leaves them choosing between laying off workers or pushing the ones they keep to do much more

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  boltfig

  Before AI it was called restructuring, before that it was called synergy, before that it was called Tuesday.

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Ben Affleck gave Jennifer Lopez his entire stake in their $60 million mansion for free as part of their divorce settlement.

The Justice Department is criminally investigating major beef companies for allegedly colluding to raise US beef prices

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  jentorres14

  With those prices I think the only thing getting grilled this summer is the executives.

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A new survey has found that public restrooms are one of the top places where women form social connections with strangers.

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  brandon_70

  My wife went to the bathroom at a wedding and came back with a book club, a dermatologist, and a lead on a husband better than me.

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More restaurants are telling customers to put their phones away, and some are locking them up, for a more immersive night out.

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  zenpirate751

  Great, now my wife will have to describe the reel she wants to show me, which is somehow even worse.

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Experts are warning that AI could wipe out millions of white collar jobs first.

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  ibailey

  The guys who told coal miners to learn to code are now googling how much plumbers make.

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Cloudflare is laying off more than 1,100 workers as it ramps up the use of AI.

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  kim_campbell

  I just pray that if they file for unemployment they don't get hit with a 'verify you're human' Cloudflare captcha, because that question just got way too personal.

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A ping pong robot is stunning the world after defeating elite human players in matches.

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  bob1980

  Somewhere in a basement in Beijing a six year old is being told he has to train harder.

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An MIT study found that students who used ChatGPT to write essays showed less brain activity and couldn't remember what they had written.

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  morgan1990

  I know plenty of college grads who'd pay good money to forget every essay they ever wrote.

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Middle school students safely stopped their school bus after the driver had an asthma attack and passed out

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  sarah_95

  In one day these parents went from 'you're not ready to drive' to texting them 'hey I've had two beers can you come get me from Applebee's.'

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A new study found that two-thirds of prediction market bettors lose money, while just 3% take most of the profits

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  kevin_94

  At least at a casino they bring you free drinks, here you just get free notifications reminding you it's time to lose money again.

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Justin Timberlake posted a Mother's Day tribute to Jessica Biel amid reported marital struggles following his 2024 DWI arrest

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  mysticshark811

  Maybe Justin and Britney should get back together and put the car keys under Jamie's conservatorship.

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New research shows that lobsters do feel pain, and scientists are calling for a ban on boiling them alive.

McDonald's is offering a $2.50 McDouble as a limited-time deal, but customers say it was 99 cents a decade ago

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  orbital77

  At these prices the Hamburglar is sticking to Wendy's like the rest of us.

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