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Anthropic report - Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 (www.anthropic.com)
11 Sep
Simon Tomes
anthropic
ai-misuse
Anthropic blocks possible attempt to use AI to make biological weapons (www.bbc.co.uk)
11 Sep
Rosie Sherry
anthropic
ai-is-going-great
Automation-First QA Is a Mindset Shift, Not a Framework (medium.com)
11 Sep
Deborah Reid
automation-first
quality-engineering
Quality People: Rahul Parwal on Filtering the Noise in Testing's AI Moment (katalon.com)
11 Sep
Bella Phan
katalon
Practices I Abandoned with Agents: An Ode to Test-Driven Development (adamtornhill.substack.com)
10 Sep
Simon Tomes
tdd
repl
Bill Gates' Five questions about AI—and my answers (youtu.be)
10 Sep
Simon Tomes
ai
ai-scepticism
W3C Accessibility Guidelines 3.0 working draft (www.w3.org)
10 Sep
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
How to test file uploads (wonderproxy.com)
09 Sep
Ady Stokes
how-to
file-uploads
Recognizing Women Who Shape Testing Community (www.linkedin.com)
09 Sep
Guljeet Nagpaul
ai
testing
Skills from A Smart Bear (skills.asmartbear.com)
09 Sep
Rosie Sherry
skills
founders
Matt Pocock's AI Agent Claude Skills (github.com)
09 Sep
Simon Tomes
claude
claude-skills
NATS technical fault causes widespread disruption at UK airports (airlinerworld.com)
09 Sep
Simon Tomes
nats
production-issues
AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read) (www.rickmanelius.com)
08 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai
ai-dr
Embracing the Code Review Bottleneck (www.honeycomb.io)
08 Sep
Rosie Sherry
code-review
bottleneck
The Safest Job from AI may be Writing (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
08 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai-careers
career
AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems (www.sylvainkalache.com)
08 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai
ai-systems
No Bull: Why I Built an AI Tool That Argues With Me (nimbleapproach.com)
08 Sep
Simon Tomes
llm-evaluation
critical-thinking
D365 Testing: Are you validating the outcome or just the steps? (www.linkedin.com)
08 Sep
Guljeet Nagpaul
dynamics365
software
Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive (www.wired.com)
07 Sep
Preeti Gupta
ai
How do my wedding shoes link back to QE? (www.linkedin.com)
07 Sep
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
sustainable-tech
Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn’t mean it’s any good. (github.blog)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
alt-text
automated-checks
Qpilot - AI agent that runs your manual test cases in a real browser (github.com)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai-agent
ai-tool
Apparently We Need a Testing Mindset After All (www.linkedin.com)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
testing-mindset
Testing Knowledge Isn’t (Just) a Testing Skill (testerstories.com)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
software-testing
How to Make Your SKILL.md Interactive (filiphric.com)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai-skills
AI success depends on data foundations (blog.scottlogic.com)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai
ai-data
How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality (github.blog)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
ai
ai-efficiency
Slack emoji maker (simonwillison.net)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
emojis
slack
Quality falls through the gaps (qualityeng.substack.com)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
quality
quality-engineering
Looking Back on a Reorganisation (nicolalindgren.com)
04 Sep
Rosie Sherry
career
Engineers grieve a job that no longer exists (leaddev.com)
03 Sep
Jesper Ottosen
engineering
test-engineering
TestMu Conf'26 Recordings (youtube.com)
03 Sep
Ady Stokes
conference
testmu
ChangeAtlas: Mapping a release onto your system’s dependency graph (testtechie9.wordpress.com)
02 Sep
Justin Holsgrove
system-thinking
risk-analysis
Quality Talks: The Next Chapter - Ep 1 (youtu.be)
02 Sep
Stu Day
podcast
quality
Free QA Skills for AI Coding Agents (github.com)
01 Sep
Jesper Ottosen
security
skills
How does a wasp in the bathroom link back to QE? (www.linkedin.com)
01 Sep
Deborah Reid
problem-solving
quality-engineering
The teams that understand how to build and validate resilient, machine-friendly infrastructure today will lead the next generation of web architecture.i (medium.com)
01 Sep
Aj Wilson
ai
software
New MOT Denver Chapter (lnkd.in)
31 Aug
Komal chowdhary
chapter-denver
newmotchapter
Are Test Management Tools Becoming Obsolete? (emnaayadi.com)
29 Aug
Jesper Ottosen
tools
test-management-tool
OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought (www.theverge.com)
28 Aug
Rosie Sherry
ai-security
ai-is-going-great
Job Hunt With a Bot? (debbie.codes)
28 Aug
Rosie Sherry
job-hunting
Quality Management System has the same parts but how it is operating is changing (fishouthebox.medium.com)
28 Aug
Rosie Sherry
quality-management-system
qms
Testing Is a Role, Not a Person (testerstories.com)
28 Aug
Rosie Sherry
testing-role
software-testing
And, not But (angryweasel.substack.com)
28 Aug
Rosie Sherry
and
but
Control and complexity: tension in systems design (ferd.ca)
28 Aug
Rosie Sherry
systems-thinking
Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident (metr.org)
28 Aug
Giorgos Siamantas
ai-security
ai-agents
The hidden complexity of input fields: All the questions I ask before I trust it (wonderproxy.com)
27 Aug
Ady Stokes
input-handling
testing
Staff engineers shift from solving problems to shaping systems (leaddev.com)
26 Aug
Jesper Ottosen
staff-level
problem-solving
Can Multiple AI Models Improve Enterprise Trust? (www.technewsworld.com)
25 Aug
Preeti Gupta
ai
Testing for Disruption🎉 (www.o2sn.dk)
25 Aug
Jesper Ottosen
resilience
disaster-recovery
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