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Man's Girlfriend Put His Backpack in What She Thought Was the Trunk of a C8 Corvette. The Hot Engine Nearly Caught Fire! The backpack didn't fare so well. https://www.yahoo.com/autos/people-and-culture/articles/mans-girlfriend-put-backpack-she-162854634.html

In The Street, AI is getting worse as Google and Anthropic nerf AI models and limit usage Evidence is mounting that the subsidization of AI is ending in real time. Will businesses still shell out for it...

Update: The recent death (at age 41 years) of NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch is raising awareness of sepsis, which appears to happen far too often. https://health.yahoo.com/conditions/infectious/sepsis/articles/most-people-misunderstand-sepsis-190046149.html...

Large Language Models (LLMs) are passive, text-based engines that respond to prompts, whereas Agentic AI systems are autonomous and use LLMs as their "brains" to plan, make decisions, and execute multi-step tasks using external tools (derived from Google's AI Overview). Depending on the...

Adele - Skyfall (Live) Quite a voice!

Solar Cycle 25 reached its maximum in October 2024 https://www.sidc.be/article/solar-cycle-25-reached-its-maximum-october-2024 Apparently, the predictions at the beginning of SC25 for maximum were between November 2024 and March 2026 (a 17 month spread). https://www.sidc.be/SILSO/dayssnplot...

2026 JH2, which is approaching its closest distance to Earth today is about 20 meters (66 feet) in diameter. The concern is that it got so close before being detected. https://www.wired.com/story/asteroid-2026-jh2-is-about-to-fly-right-past-the-earth-relatively-speaking/...

A near-earth asteroid was discovered on 10 May 2026. It is expected to pass close to earth, 91,000 ± 4,500 kilometres (56,500 ± 2,800 mi) from Earth on 18 May 2026,. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_JH2 https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=2026+JH2...

Claude is telling users to go to sleep mid-session and nobody, including Anthropic, seems to fully understand why it keeps doing it https://www.yahoo.com/tech/ai/claude/articles/claude-telling-users-sleep-mid-211145615.html It might make sense if the interaction occurs between 0000 and 0600.

Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/someone-asked-physicists-really-believe-140319144.html There's more . . . :rolleyes:

This is too funny! :biggrin: :-p Stanford Study: Overworked AI Agents Develop Marxist Tendencies https://www.yahoo.com/tech/ai/claude/articles/stanford-study-overworked-ai-agents-143428395.html :oldlaugh:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/flight-attendant-hospitalized-cruise-ship-102327821.html It could be any respiratory virus; wait for definitive test results.

Still on track. NASA spacecraft to fly past Mars this week, on voyage to rare metal asteroid https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-spacecraft-psyche-mars-flyby-voyage-rare-metal-asteroid/ https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/psyche/2026/05/08/nasas-psyche-mission-to-fly-by-mars-for-gravity-assist/...

Apparently, there are 11 cases of hantavirus confirmed, including 3 deaths. https://abcnews.com/International/live-updates/hantavirus-mv-hondius-canary-islands/?id=132746955&entryId=132838414 Apparently, the Andes virus is one of the hantavirus variants that can be spread person-to-person. I...

From the CNN article - How big is the MV Hondius Andes hantavirus outbreak? From the NEJM article, it mentions It seems that besides the variety of strains, the emphasis is on hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. Does this imply those symptomatic with HPS can transmit the virus through aersols...