Observatory Weekly: Understanding exploratory testing, security risks, chatbot transcripts blunders, and more!

What the MoTaverse has been sharing this week

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In The Observatory, the MoTaverse community shows up to share links they are reading all the time.

The value is not only in the links shared in the moment, but also in the accumulation of links that become searchable knowledge over time.

There are currently 2815 searchable links.


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The top 15 links from the Observatory this week:

  1. Did Anthropic just create a juicy new risk for software testers? β€” AJ Wilson
  2. When the update of the UI redesign was so fast that they missed privacy β€” WonderProxy
  3. Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations β€” Anthropic
  4. Notes on AI Coding Skills & Plugins by Riskhikesh V. β€” Rishikesh Vajre
  5. Build A PyTest Framework From Scratch Part 1 β€” Ujjwal Kumar Singh
  6. Hundreds Of Anthropic Chatbot Transcripts Showed Up In Google Search β€” Forbes
  7. Exploring the AI Minimum Viable Community (MVC) β€” Rosie Sherry
  8. ChatGPT Health Goes Nationwide: Your Medical Records Lose HIPAA Protection β€” TechTimes
  9. How does registering for a conference like MoTaCon link back to QE for me? β€” Deborah Reid
  10. Digital government services increase accessibility gap β€” Computer Weekly
  11. Rethinking security for the age of AI β€” Microsoft
  12. Steering Claude Code: when to use CLAUDE.md, skills, hooks, and subagents β€” Claude
  13. Understand exploratory testing, and unlock its true value β€” Stuart Thomas
  14. From a player to a coach - 5 ideas from the Quality Coach`s Handbook β€” Oleksandr Romanov
  15. On being humbled with AI (SmartBear + BearQ) β€” Lina Zubyte
  16. What sixty automated runs found in a site built to break them β€” Lana Begunova

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