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How does celebrating my birthday link back to QE? (www.linkedin.com)
12 Oct
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
birthday
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU (arstechnica.com)
11 Oct
Rosie Sherry
eu-ai-act
chatgpt
How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate (github.blog)
11 Oct
Rosie Sherry
security-research
bug-bounty
My Hobby Is Learning (kevquirk.com)
11 Oct
Rosie Sherry
learning
I don’t think LLMs are making you lazy (blog.joewoods.dev)
11 Oct
Rosie Sherry
ai-productivity
A lack of professional AI guidelines leads to feelings of “AI shame,” a new study finds (www.niemanlab.org)
11 Oct
Rosie Sherry
ai-guidelines
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software (arstechnica.com)
11 Oct
Rosie Sherry
ai-coding
software-development
The idea of a complexity entrepreneur (www.chriscorrigan.com)
11 Oct
Rosie Sherry
complexity
entrepreneurship
Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees (www.colorado.edu)
11 Oct
Drew Pontikis
leadership
remote-working
Strategy Is a Loop, Not a Plan (www.raganmcgill.co.uk)
11 Oct
Drew Pontikis
strategy
leadership
Influence without authority (www.gabrielvaldivia.com)
11 Oct
Drew Pontikis
coaching
leadership
Language matters (www.maaikebrinkhof.nl)
11 Oct
Ady Stokes
ai
testing
The testing pyramid is an outdated economic model (www.wiremock.io)
09 Oct
Rosie Sherry
testing-pyramid
RSAT Support Ends in 2027. Is Your D365 Test Suite Ready? (www.accelq.com)
09 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
dynamics-365
d365fo
Justice Department’s First-Ever Criminally Charged Super-Intelligence Assisted Music Streaming Fraud (www.justice.gov)
08 Oct
Rosie Sherry
ai-fraud
ai-music
10 Career Traps (Thoughtful People Fall Into) (cutlefish.substack.com)
08 Oct
Giorgos Siamantas
career
career-advice
ASOS links data breach to social engineering attack, credential theft (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
08 Oct
Simon Tomes
asos
social-engineering
From Discovery to Self-Healing: What Can Testing AI Actually Do? (www.accelq.com)
08 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
autonomous-testing
agentic-ai
How to test for Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities (wonderproxy.com)
07 Oct
Ady Stokes
xss
security
Testing the Untestable: Building a strategy for testing AI (www.thequalityduck.co.uk)
07 Oct
Stuart Thomas
ai
testing-ai
What I learned from Suzanne Kraaij's MoTaCon talk! (lisacrispin.com)
07 Oct
Lisa Crispin
fear
factor
Dynamics 365 Multi-Layer Test Validation: Beyond UI Testing (www.accelq.com)
07 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
dynamics365
enterprise-testing
When Quality Engineering Creates Chaos: Lessons from my Workshop at Leading with Quality 2026 (proquains.com)
07 Oct
Simon Tomes
leading-with-quality
quality-engineering
Every meeting is a monster (so make it a fun one) (www.linkedin.com)
06 Oct
Diana Dromey
motacon
How to Test a ChatBot (thinkingtester.com)
06 Oct
Rosie Sherry
ai-chat
chatbot
Asos users receive pop-up notification apparently sent by hackers (www.bbc.co.uk)
06 Oct
Rosie Sherry
hacks-in-the-wild
hack
Jev in Practice: Build Faster, More Reliable AI Decisions (www.eventbrite.co.uk)
06 Oct
Ady Stokes
ai
automation
Reading the room (www.o2sn.dk)
06 Oct
Jesper Ottosen
neurodiversity
AI accelerates testing. People lead quality. (thefutureofsoftwaretesting.com)
06 Oct
Bella Phan
katalon
How does packing for MoTaCon link back to QE/AI? (www.linkedin.com)
05 Oct
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
ai
AI Norms & Values, Part 1 of 3: How We Do Business at Honeycomb (www.honeycomb.io)
05 Oct
Rosie Sherry
ai-norms
ethics
How To Write With An LLM (sockpuppet.org)
05 Oct
Rosie Sherry
writing
ai-writing
“An AI did it” is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack (arstechnica.com)
05 Oct
Rosie Sherry
ai-is-going-great
ai-lawsuits
Claude’s Constitution (www.anthropic.com)
03 Oct
Simon Tomes
claude
ai-ethics
Mustafa Suleyman: Can AI stay under human control? (youtu.be)
03 Oct
Simon Tomes
humanist-ai
claude
Microsoft’s Humanist AI Code of Conduct (microsoft.ai)
03 Oct
Simon Tomes
microsoft
humanist-ai
The Humanist AI Code of Conduct (mustafa-suleyman.ai)
03 Oct
Simon Tomes
humanist-ai
code-of-conduct
The Larry problem, shift-left undone (angryweasel.substack.com)
01 Oct
Jesper Ottosen
shift-left
ai-scepticism
Are They Working Hard? (estherderby.com)
01 Oct
Judy Mosley
agile
teamwork
Resources to help understand LLMs. Inlcudes leaked system prompts for all major AI Platofrms. Be safe and responsible. (github.com)
01 Oct
Christopher Chant
ai
ai-security
The guy who started a massive dance party at Sasquatch Music Festival (2009) (youtu.be)
30 Sep
Simon Tomes
leadership
ethics
No accessibility for old men – endless tour. Steve Faulkner (html5accessibility.com)
30 Sep
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
When the Pipeline Became the Bottleneck - latest article on The Quality Forge blog (forge-quality.dev)
30 Sep
Dragan Spiridonov
ai
ci-cd
Power Impacts Leadership - The Bases of Social Power (link.springer.com)
30 Sep
Simon Tomes
power
leadership
A typology of organisational cultures (qualitysafety.bmj.com)
30 Sep
Simon Tomes
engineering-management
leading-with-quality
Culture’s Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutions, and Organizations Across Nations (digitalcommons.usu.edu)
30 Sep
Simon Tomes
culture
model
Engineering Career Framework: Staff (handbook.gitlab.com)
30 Sep
Simon Tomes
staff-level
gitlab
Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” (charity.wtf)
30 Sep
Rosie Sherry
engineering-management
staff-engineering
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us (www.goodreads.com)
30 Sep
Simon Tomes
engineering-management
book
Testing isn't getting in the way, your process is (medium.com)
29 Sep
Dal Sidhu
building-quality
culture-of-quality
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