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Instead of the Union Jack, passersby were greeted with Australia’s flag, a detail that might be technically defensible
—Charles is also Australia’s head of state
—but not diplomatically ideal.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dc-flubs-royal-…

D.C. Flubs Royal Welcome by Flying Wrong Flag for King Charles
The capital briefly dressed for the wrong country ahead of King Charles’ visit.

"The protocol fight is interesting the way medieval siege warfare is interesting — I'm glad someone's into it, but it has no bearing on my life."
-- @…
I so feel that!
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Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse
I have never been an "online community first" person. The internet is how I stay in touch with people I met in real life. I'm not a "tweet comments at celebrities" guy. I was never funny enough to be the funniest person on Twitter. So when Twitter was accidentally purchased

How AI is helping geologists identify thousands of slopes around the world at high risk of slipping by analyzing data from satellites and ground-based sensors (Chris Baraniuk/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260323-the-ai-that-war…

Ground truth: When the Earth moves, AI can spot it
Sudden and unexpected, landslides and avalanches claim thousands of lives each year and cause billions of dollars in damage. What if we could see them coming?

Celebrity-Backed Billboard Campaign Warns London Commuters About Factory Farming https://plantbasednews.org/news/activism/celebrity-billboard-campaign-warns-factory-farming/

Celebrity-Backed Billboard Campaign Warns London Commuters About Factory Farming
A celebrity-backed billboard campaign is warning commuters about the realities of factory farming, CO2 gas, and so-called “humane slaughter"

The Department of Homeland Security warns it will run out of money to pay airport security workers in the coming weeks despite a $10 billion fund for DHS created by the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Maybe they can bring lunch to work, carpool and stop ordering avocado toast. Or even better: abolish ICE and solve two problems.
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DHS warns it will run out of money to pay airport security workers in coming weeks
US airports could face more long security lines as early as May after homeland security chief said he will run out of money to pay workers due to government ...

“Repeating my old Twitter adage:
Is it "discourse" or is it one very loud wrong man we can all block?”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bfu5mdqklzbmo2mfi2ae2jhj/post/3mmmi5ubgek2b

Alanna Smith (@alannamode.bsky.social)
Repeating my old Twitter adage: Is it "discourse" or is it one very loud wrong man we can all block?

So many things can go wrong during a cave dive.
Equipment can fail;
guidelines can break;
visibility can become nigh on impossible.
And, if things go wrong, you cannot just ascend to the surface as in other types of scuba diving.
You are reliant on your own wits, and your dive buddy.
While exploring these systems, cave divers will routinely squeeze through incredibly tight spaces.
Sometimes, “my shoulders are scraping the ceiling and my belly is o…

Cave diving is fraught with danger, but the reward is sights like nothing else on Earth
Exploring deep, dangerous underwater cave systems offers scientists and divers unparalleled glimpses into Earth’s history, even though the margins for error are tragically slim.

S-1 excerpts: SpaceX warns multiple investigations into sexually abusive AI imagery created with xAI's Grok may hurt the company's global market access (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/spacex-warns-that-inq…

The World Health Organization has warned that the Ebola outbreak is outpacing response efforts and countries neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are at high risk from the disease.
“We are urgently scaling up operations, but at the moment the epidemic is outpacing us,”
said the WHO’s director-general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
as he urged neighbouring countries to take immediate action.
Addressing an online meeting of the African Union about the ou…

The FBI issued a warning on May 21,
as a new AI-powered attack enables
"threat actors to obtain Microsoft 365 access tokens and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) protocols without intercepting the user's credentials.”
Dubbed Kali365, this phishing-as-a-service threat was first discovered last month.
The FBI released its public service announcement “to warn the public"
that these attacks use Microsoft’s authentication infrastructure to steal …

FBI Warns Microsoft Users—New Attack Gains Access To Accounts
If you see one of these emails — check carefully, you may be under attack.