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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
How does splitting an orange link back to QE? (lnkd.in)
25 Aug
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
question-asking
The AI Organization, part I (blog.omarshams.ai)
24 Aug
Rosie Sherry
ai-organization
How AI Is Changing Open Source (enblog.eischmann.cz)
24 Aug
Rosie Sherry
ai
opensource
Hackers are using “evolved” capabilities in AI-generated malware to hit US critical infrastructure at an unprecedented scale — “active threat” currently hitting energy, water and agricultural industries (www.techradar.com)
24 Aug
Rosie Sherry
hacking
ai-malware
Building an agentic SDLC with a QA engineering mindset (stackoverflow.blog)
24 Aug
Rosie Sherry
ai-quality-engineering
quality-engineering
When social platforms reward reaction, blogging rewards reflection (alexandrelion.com)
24 Aug
Rosie Sherry
blogging
social
What coffee taught me about building products? (bitshift.ing)
24 Aug
Hanisha Arora
product
creative-thinking
Book link: Bob and Alice learns Secure coding & application security (shehackspurple.ca)
21 Aug
Jesper Ottosen
security
application-security
The Archaeologist and the Witness (www.rocketpoweredjetpants.com)
21 Aug
Rosie Sherry
software-development
Are you using AI? Do not forget your whip (skyecleary.substack.com)
20 Aug
Simon Tomes
ai-scepticism
critical-thinking
Interesting idea of "signal engineering" as a non-deterministic approach to testing (softwaresignalengineering.org)
20 Aug
Lisa Crispin
ai-automation
test-automation-tool
Accessibility Game Theory: Sheri Byrne-Haber (disabled) (www.linkedin.com)
19 Aug
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
How to test colour contrast: There's more to it than you think. (wonderproxy.com)
19 Aug
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
TestMu Conf 26 is live now (might work for recordings) (app.zuddl.com)
19 Aug
Ady Stokes
conference
ai
Testing Times 19th of August 2026 (www.linkedin.com)
19 Aug
Ady Stokes
testing
news
How does the eclipse relate to QE? (www.linkedin.com)
18 Aug
Deborah Reid
continuous-learning
automation
Sainsbury's branch halts AI use as shopper ejected (www.bbc.co.uk)
17 Aug
Rosie Sherry
ai-is-going-great
How to Use AI With Your Brain (thinkingtester.com)
17 Aug
Rosie Sherry
ai
ai-thinking
Navigating Claude Code: The Full Workflow (hackernoon.com)
17 Aug
Simon Tomes
claude-code
claude
Cyberattacks expose U.S. water vulnerabilities (www.axios.com)
16 Aug
Rosie Sherry
cyber-attack
security
The Bechdel Test for Building a Real Developer Community (hackernoon.com)
16 Aug
Rosie Sherry
devrel
What It Really Means to Be a 10x DevRel (hackernoon.com)
16 Aug
Rosie Sherry
devrel
Beads: A Git-Friendly Issue Tracker for AI Coding Agents (betterstack.com)
14 Aug
Simon Tomes
beads
ai-coding-agents
SQLite: How it works, by Richard Hipp (youtu.be)
14 Aug
Emily O'Connor
sqlite
talk
Testing authentication "unhappy paths" using a mock (wonderproxy.com)
14 Aug
Ady Stokes
authentication
mocking
How we tracked down a 16-year-old SQLite bug (tailscale.com)
14 Aug
Emily O'Connor
bug
bugs-in-the-wild
The War of Art (stevenpressfield.com)
14 Aug
Simon Tomes
book
imposter-syndrome
Best Service Virtualization Tools for Enterprise Testing (www.parasoft.com)
14 Aug
Chantal Wauters
service-virtualization
api
Why the best companies are investing in Quality Engineers, not just all out AI (www.linkedin.com)
14 Aug
Ady Stokes
quality-engineering
ai
An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it (arstechnica.com)
14 Aug
Rosie Sherry
ai-is-going-great
From Blame to Resilience: Why High-Performing Teams Run Blameless Retrospectives (womenintesting.beehiiv.com)
13 Aug
Simon Tomes
retrospectives
high-performing-teams
Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident (youtu.be)
13 Aug
Giorgos Siamantas
ai
ai-security
Hooked on Webhooks for Email content (testtechie9.wordpress.com)
13 Aug
Justin Holsgrove
email
email-testing
Desktop Automation: TestLeft with SmartBear (testtechie9.wordpress.com)
13 Aug
Justin Holsgrove
desktop-application-test-automation
desktop
The one community word to outshine all others (simontomes.com)
13 Aug
Simon Tomes
gratitude
gratitude-practice
A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets. (arstechnica.com)
12 Aug
Rosie Sherry
security
email-testing
AI Learning Plan for Testers (Free Resources Only) (testingtitbits.com)
12 Aug
Rahul Parwal
ai-roadmap
A11y Innovators Edition 2 (www.linkedin.com)
12 Aug
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
Testing Times August Newsletter (www.linkedin.com)
12 Aug
Ady Stokes
testing
news
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