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Nathan’s hot dog stock just hit an all-time high
 because it’s selling dogs in Ukraine.

Lululemon sued Costco for copying their designs
 and this dupe crackdown reminds us of Netflix.

Cloudflare just invented cybersecurity to bock AI crawling
 it’s the first ever anti-bot cloak of protection.

Plus, the average movie theater shows 30 minutes of previews and ads before the movie.


$NATH $LULU $COST $NET


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