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

A new study finds that 41% of long-form LinkedIn posts are fully AI-generated

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  delta905

  Honestly, the AI posts are an upgrade, at least the bots haven't started a thread with "My four-year-old asked me a question that shattered my entire business philosophy."

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For the first time, humanoid robots successfully removed gallbladders from pigs, a milestone researchers say could eventually change how surgery is done.

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  the.star

  The real dystopian milestone will be when insurance charges extra for the humanoid robot because it has a better success rate than a human doctor.

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SpaceX Has Lost $1 Trillion in Value Since Its Post-IPO Peak

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  lindarobinson27

  When the literal rocket company's stock won't go to the moon, the whole meme economy is in trouble. 🚀🌙

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Rosie O'Donnell says she quit her talk show in 2002 after learning she had $100 million in the bank

A Ryanair passenger was partially sucked out of a broken window after an engine failure, and his wife had to hold onto his feet to keep him inside the plane.

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  ella.stewart

  The passenger received extra legroom, fresh air, and a window seat. I bet Ryanair finds a way to charge him for all three.

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Brad Pitt reportedly has no plans to ever get married again after his bitter divorce from Angelina Jolie left him estranged from their six kids.

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  realemmaharris

  Two years of marriage, 10 years of divorce, at this point the lawyers have been in his life longer than the kids.

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Scientists have updated the official guidelines for what to do if we ever detect a signal from aliens, and the top recommendation is simply not to reply.

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  katie1992

  Our official strategy is leaving aliens on read like a guy who just isn't ready for something serious.

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A retired technician who was helping a quantum physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory went missing last year, sparking wild speculation online

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  bill_henderson

  He is simultaneously missing and not missing until someone opens the shed.

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A new survey found that nearly 90% of Americans have no idea that hot dogs are linked to cancer and heart disease.

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  reallaurenlopez

  People know it's bad for them, just like smokers know smoking is bad, but addiction is a thing.

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Some dog owners are spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars on luxury wellness treatments for their pets, from red light therapy to high-end sleep beds

An airline offered passengers $1,250 in travel credit plus a $1,000 prepaid Visa card to voluntarily give up their seats on an overbooked flight

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  quickforest

  The passengers who checked bags are watching this unfold like they just witnessed a bank heist they were not invited to.

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Residents living near a Michigan data center are suing over constant noise from the facility that they say invades their homes day and night

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  sam1997

  They grew suspicious after they asked AI to identify the noise and suddenly for a few minutes the noise stopped.

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Erik von Markovik, the pickup artist known as Mystery, has apparently fallen for an AI girlfriend

Border agents in south Texas found $10.8 million worth of cocaine hidden inside a cabbage shipment

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  realjuliabrown

  Imagine getting cocaine and cyclospora in the same cabbage. Now you’ve got two reasons to run to the bathroom.

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A music producer accidentally deleted Taylor Swift's wedding invitation thinking it was spam, and now his wife is furious they missed the ceremony

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  chrisphillips10

  He thought it was spam. His wife is calling it a cruel summer.

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Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable planet just 25 light years away that could be one of Earth's closest cosmic neighbors

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  calmforest370

  Mars is about 140 million miles away. This thing is around 147 trillion miles away. Calling it Earth's “Next-door neighbor” is a big stretch. 😂

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A Manhattan judge has ordered the Greenwich Village restaurant Babbo to hand over security footage that could identify who stabbed a union's inflatable Scabby the Rat mascot last year.

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  leocox87

  This whole case could have been solved if Scabby had been wearing Meta glasses like every other rat on the street.

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The United Auto Workers union is furious after GM idled more than 1,000 workers at its Detroit plant and installed 50 new robots

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  riley.hernandez

  The union is demanding to know who trained the robots, and the answer is the guys they just laid off.

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Lab-grown diamonds have sent natural diamond prices to record lows, and analysts say the market may never fully recover

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  ruby1974

  Diamond companies need marriage to make a comeback before they worry about lab-grown competition.

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A couple drove their truck right between a black bear and a moose calf to scare off the predator and reunite the calf with its mom

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  sunnystar923

  Now I get why bears keep breaking into pickups, they know those things can stop them for having a fresh meal.

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A Brown University economics professor believes that 40 of his 86 students may have used AI to cheat on a take home midterm exam.

An American Airlines Boeing 737 captain shared a paystub on X revealing a yearly salary of $458,000, sparking widespread surprise online

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  funkythunder

  For 458 grand I'd land the plane while narrating it like a jazz DJ too.

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A company just raised $1 million to build an AI bot farm that floods social media with fake influencer accounts.

A California HOA is suing a family for raising their fence to stop coyotes from jumping in and killing their goats

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  choward

  I am not surprised that an HOA would take the side of the coyotes, they have a lot in common.

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