Flying fruit heist, smuggled McNuggets & too much Creed

Hi Wrecklings!

Is everyone ready for getting an extra hour of sleep this weekend? Well, for those who celebrate Daylight Savings!

• “A massive Cartoon Network leak exposes decades of behind-the-scenes animation files”

• “Instagram is sorry it gave users too much Creed”

• “‘Only two potties?’: Flight diverts to New York for bathroom emergency”

• “Daughter Of Dead BBC & ‘Paddington’ Star Accuses Royal Mail Of Resurrecting Her Father’s Voice Using AI: “It’s Outrageous””

• “Always read the small print: The extraordinary case of the bungling council that sold a run-down house for £395,000... and threw in a school worth millions by mistake when the solicitor ‘signed the wrong form’”

• “Delta passenger stole airport tug and drove around tarmac before crashing, official says”

• “Two Renoir paintings stolen from French museum have been found, six arrested”

• “U.S. FAA investigating after Delta plane ‘clipped’ Air Canada aircraft at LAX”

• “Some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they believe artificial intelligence will cure cancer”

• “Connecticut to give out 1.5M free eggs after market manipulation investigation”

• “Getty Images to File for Bankruptcy, Go Private in Restructuring Deal”

• “Working from home? Sydney trader fired after laptop gives away his Singapore getaway”

• “Disney Readies $20 Million Bid for Character.ai Assets After Chatbot Company Files for Bankruptcy”

• “‘They locked me in’: ConvenientMD staff goes home, leaving Keene woman in exam room”

• “US hits Bank of America with $1.2 billion fine, saying it violated money laundering, sanctions laws”

• “FBI arrests OpenAI employee suspected of planting a surveillance bug”

• “‘Love Is Blind’ Connecticut man dumped after fiancée says he looked like Mitt Romney”

• “Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia confrontation”

• “Connecticut Apple Orchard Accuses Hot Air Ballon Company Of Pulling Off Fly-By Fruit Heist”

• “Casper Woman Mad Over Tattoo She Claims Looks Like “A P3nis On My Neck””

• “Workers at OpenAI, Anthropic made to ditch company logos as it makes them targets for spies, seduction”

• “McNuggets, booze smuggled by drone into Canada's most secure prison: union”

• “White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Was an Affiliate Marketer for a Fitness MLM”

• “280 volunteers move an Ottawa bookshop’s 7,400 books by hand”

• “Unions To Yale: “We’ll Turn This Campus Upside Down””

• “‘You Can See Everything’: Nathan Fielder Was So Skeptical He Could Break New Ground in Elizabeth Holmes Story, He Negotiated a Kill Switch with A24”

• “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders take legal action against My Chemical Romance over onstage costumes”

• “Netflix users are watching less, not opening the app as often”

• “Major Banks Find Rogue AI Agents Inside Customer Accounts—And They’re ‘Horrified’”

• “Casper Residents Divided Over Skeleton S3x 0rgy On SUV”

• 🔏“She Was the DEA’s Premier Crypto Detective. The Clues Led Straight to Her Own Family”

• 🔏“The Chocolate Conspiracy Everyone in my life agreed: It tastes different now. I ventured into the molten belly of our crumbling world to find out why.”

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More Serious Stories

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• “Banned ‘Natural Healing’ Guru Who Claimed Baking Soda Could Treat Cancer Is Now Giving Health Talks in Britain”

• “US Professor Accused Of Urinating On Student’s Backpack, Investigation Uncovers 6 Earlier Cases”

• “How S1utCon, a flirting boot camp for awkward men, became AI safety’s latest fight”

• “Florida woman uses Claude as her diary. The diary tipped off the FBI.”

• “Ex-fiancé of Rep. Nancy Mace and 2 others charged with sex crimes she described in House speech”

• “Wyoming grad student accused of poisoning colleague arrested after attempting to flee to China”

• “Netflix to lay off roughly 1,000 employees, or 6% of workforce”

• “Meta’s smart glasses were recording conversations without the wake phrase, company admits”

• “Woman Says Ex Used BMW’s App to Stalk Her and Control Car Features, Then Dealership Told Her to Buy a New One”

• “Police seize robot that groped 16-year-old girl, investigate whether young men were at the controls”

• “Man, 49, Sold Everything and Travelled 1,243 miles to Meet His AI Girlfriend Who Had Never Spoken to Him”

• “Outrage after Meta suspends No Kings Instagram account during protests”

• “TikTok Restores ‘Musk’ Doc Account “After An Error” Resulted In Suspension”

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