Honeybees routinely battle infectious fungi, bacteria, mites and viruses Anthony Brown/Alamy Two seemingly innocuous viral infections in adult honeybees may be secretly insidious, meddling with the insects’ airborne athletics. One virus makes them fly faster, while the other pumps the brakes. Honeybees routinely battle infectious fungi, bacteria, mites and viruses – some of which can…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is looking into two political action committees for allegedly violating the law by assisting Texas state Democrats’ travel out of the state in an effort to avoid a quorum during a redistricting standoff. The groups are the Powered by People PAC, led…
President Donald Trump has secretly authorized military force against Latin American drug cartels designated by the United States as foreign terrorist organizations, according to reports. The move, reported by the New York Times, would give U.S. forces permission to engage the cartels, which traffic drugs like fentanyl across the US-Mexico border, “The president is determined…
Few recent software releases have been as hyped as OpenAI’s launch of its GPT-5 model. “GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD level expert,” said CEO Sam Altman in a recent press briefing. Is this new release as big of an upgrade…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Many of the Texas Democrats who fled the Lone Star State to Democrat-stronghold states amid a Republican redistricting effort are complying with the political stunt out of fear of being primaried by “someone even crazier” within the party, Republican Texas state Rep. Briscoe Cain told Fox News…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 Friday that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg cannot move forward with possible contempt proceedings against the Trump administration. The case involves the administration’s alleged violation of an emergency court order blocking the administration from using a…
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Background stars appear as streaks because the telescope was tracking the comet NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA)/Joseph DePasquale (STScI) Telescopes trained on the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS have revealed that it looks much like comets found in the outer reaches of our own solar system. However,…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, one of the leading Republican contenders for governor, has filed a lawsuit against Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, challenging the legality of his GOP rival’s campaign funding. Carr asked a federal judge to permanently block Jones’ ability to spend money from his leadership…
Revised instructions for troubleshooting the warp confabulator AI Weirdness: the strange side of machine learning You have landed upon a bonus post! In bonus posts, I include extras as a thank-you to AI Weirdness supporters. It’s your…
I’m not the only one who’s noticed that some people, even journalists, will ask chatbots like ChatGPT why they did something, and then treat the chatbot’s explanation as if it means anything. Or they’ll ask the chatbot to generate an apology, and then treat its apology as if the chatbot is really reflecting on something…
