Today is Friday, July 11, 2025.
It is the 192nd day of the year.
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WHAT’S ON TAP
NOTABLE & NOTEWORTHY: New details about the leadership shakeup at X.
PAUL MCCARTNEY extends his tour and DOLLY PARTON is taking a break from songwriting. More in SHOWBIZ.
“The View” ladies talk about crying at work in CASTING CALL.
The banal conversation between world leaders revealed in ROYALS.
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UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal reports that LINDA YACCARINO’s departure as CEO of X had a lot to do with the new business structure of the platform.
Earlier this year, ELON MUSK’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, took over formal control of X. The change was functionally a demotion for Yaccarino, who had new managers to report to in the parent company. It also shifted the importance of her role away from wooing advertisers, as the new plan bets big on customers paying for premium access to A.I. features.
Of course, there was also the constant frustration with Musk’s own unpredictable behavior, both in what he posted on X and how he treated his team. [via WSJ]
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Researchers in Florida have discovered the biggest flock of flamingos in over a decade, in the northern section of the Everglades.
While conducting a routine survey of wading birds, the crew identified 125 American flamingos bunched together. A typical group includes a few dozen.
The debate continues whether a native flamingo population is rebounding in Florida after being largely eliminated by hunters in the 1700s. [via Miami Herald]
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A Chicago home-flipper says his latest fixer-upper was listed for sale without his knowledge – and it has nothing to do with identity or title theft.
Frank Diaz regularly peruses the Multiple Listing Service looking for deals on property and was shocked to see one of his own on the platform. It was listed for $200,000 in an all-cash deal, including photos and walk-through videos. When he went back to the property, a realtor’s lockbox was on the doorknob and the locked had even been changed. But Diaz has never spoken to the listing agent, Anthony Kirkland, and he certainly had no interest in selling the project.
For his part, Kirkland insists that someone had posed as the owner and the listing came down as soon as he found out about the issue, but would not say who authorized the listing.
For now, Diaz thinks he at least has a trespassing case, but just wants to be sure this doesn’t happen again. He’s filed an ethics complaint against the realtor with the Chicago Association of Realtors. [via CBS Chicago]
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Seven members of the security service that guards prominent Swedish officials are under investigation after they posted workout data on fitness app Strava, which includes geolocation features.
The security slip-up revealed the running routes for Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, as the guards jogged alongside him. Another incident revealed the private vacation spots for the nation’s monarchs (they’re fond of the French Riviera and the Seychelles islands).
A rep for SÄPO, the Säkerhetspolisen, says, “Our Service is now taking the necessary steps to ensure that our procedures are followed closely, so that this does not happen again.” [via NBC News]
WORTH REMEMBERING: In 2018, American soldiers took heat when their workouts on the Strava app revealed the location of US military bases.
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A new study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology details personality traits that make someone “cool.”
Some of those traits, which were found to be the same from country to country, include being more “extroverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open, and autonomous.”
Based on the findings, the international team of researchers determined that being “cool” is something people are born with as those “attributes are personality traits.” [via CNN]
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