This Week’s Texted Discoveries
We are constantly sharing relevant stuff we find — here’s this week’s fetch
Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival
A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.
Andy Greenberg
London Climate Action Week Foiled by Climate Change
As record-breaking heat crushes Europe, organizers are moving events online to avoid exposing people to dangerously high temperatures.
Isabella Ward
Factually! with Adam Conover
Comedy Podcast · Updated Weekly · Comedian Adam Conover talks to the most interesting experts and thinkers on Earth about today’s most pressing topics. From the rise of AI to the fight for workers’ rights, from porn bans to microplast…
sweet-potatie
A really important conversation
Why the tech industry can’t keep up with the AI backlash
AI’s externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
Casey Newton
Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee Roster
This page contains the PCAC roster.
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Functional medicine scammers and associated grifters, please step forward!
Dave Eggers: ‘Once you have a machine think and write for you, you’re cooked as a species’
As his new novel is published, the US author talks about nurturing the next generation of creatives, debating Sam Altman – and why he writes on a boat in San Francisco Bay
Sophie McBain
Artificial Superintelligence and the Problem of Digital Solipsism
Why Synthetic Minds May Never Know the World
Mehrdad Mahmoudi
Why scholarly publishing needs an independent certification authority - Research Information
A universal certification framework is needed to distinguish trusted publishers from bad actors, writes Darrell Gunter
Hmmmm, I wonder where he got this idea?
Utah marks a year of battling measles, with no clear end in sight
Utah has spent the past year fighting measles outbreaks in almost every county. And experts say there’s no clear end in sight.
Devi Shastri
Dr. John Ioannidis Says Obsessive, Self-Anointed “Science-Based” Blamers Are a Total Embarrassment for Science
The anatomy of a DARVO.
Jonathan Howard
Anthropic releases Claude Science, a product aimed at researchers, the pharma industry
Anthropic released Claude Science, an application that optimizes its large language model for scientists and, especially, those doing research at pharma companies.
Matthew Herper, Brittany Trang
When you are accused of making the kiddos stupid, pivot to "Wait, but we do science!"