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AI uncovers massive flaw in web's foundational code (www.axios.com)
25 Oct
Rosie Sherry
ai-security
security
Chinese hacker hits over 100 company websites using AI agents — Deere and SharkNinja among top brands affected in attack (www.techradar.com)
25 Oct
Rosie Sherry
hacking
ai-security
“We were looking at it wrong”: The explosive claim that’s upended the AI world (www.technologyreview.com)
25 Oct
Rosie Sherry
ai-security
openai
AI Is Changing Everything About Hacking. No One Knows What Happens Next (www.404media.co)
25 Oct
Rosie Sherry
security
ai-security
The world is not a beta test (www.gapingvoid.com)
25 Oct
Rosie Sherry
strategy
quality
AI Norms & Values, Things We Hold True (www.honeycomb.io)
25 Oct
Jesper Ottosen
ways-of-working
Free Course: Quality Governance at Enterprise Scale (shiftsync.tricentis.com)
24 Oct
Rahul Parwal
ai-chapter
governance
Quality Talks: Finding your voice, confidence, community and contribution (youtu.be)
24 Oct
Chris Pratt
podcast
community
An AI skill and CLI tool to make good documentation easy to produce, maintain and use (merlon-docs.github.io)
23 Oct
Lisa Crispin
documentation
ai
LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale - by Anthropic (www.anthropic.com)
23 Oct
Dragan Spiridonov
ai
llm
The Fix Passed Retesting. What Broke Next? (www.accelq.com)
23 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
regression-testing
retesting
Creating rules that stick (filiphric.com)
23 Oct
Rosie Sherry
agentic-ai
ai
Manual of Me, 2026 (www.o2sn.dk)
23 Oct
Rosie Sherry
manual-of-me
diversity
Shifting code review "left", and why we need humans involved (www.linkedin.com)
22 Oct
Lisa Crispin
pr
code
What is PHP and why did it spark a global cyber-security scramble? (www.bbc.co.uk)
22 Oct
Ady Stokes
security
cyber-security
An AI Agent Fixed the Test. How Do You Know It Didn’t Hide a Bug? (www.accelq.com)
22 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
accelq
agentic
PHP2Shell - Critical vulnerabilities in PHP (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619): detection, analysis, and remediation (securitylabs.datadoghq.com)
21 Oct
Simon Tomes
security
php
Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now (www.php.net)
21 Oct
Jesse Berkeley
security
php
How to test for Clickjacking vulnerability (wonderproxy.com)
21 Oct
Ady Stokes
clickjacking
security
Oracle AI World is days away. What can AI really take off your testing team’s plate? (www.accelq.com)
21 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
oracle
testing
AI minister warns 'likely' UK's cyber defences will be breached (www.bbc.co.uk)
21 Oct
Ady Stokes
ai
security
Bringing Code Review to Claude Code (claude.com)
20 Oct
Rosie Sherry
code-review
ai-code-review
Long live the engineering manager (leaddev.com)
20 Oct
Drew Pontikis
engineering-management
Are AI-generated tests saving time, or shifting the work to review? (www.accelq.com)
19 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
ai
testing
Disyearnment: the yearning for more discernment in an age of domentum (simontomes.com)
19 Oct
Simon Tomes
disyearnment
discernment
The Pruggern Statement (agiletestingdays.com)
19 Oct
Ady Stokes
testing
ai
How does playing Wordle link back to QE? (www.linkedin.com)
19 Oct
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
continuous-learning
How Much Testing Is Enough? The Stoic Case for Knowing When to Stop (www.linkedin.com)
19 Oct
Jesper Ottosen
coverage
enough
Fridge hack costing millions and sparking fires stemmed from poor security (arstechnica.com)
18 Oct
Rosie Sherry
hacks-in-the-wild
Bug turns one of the biggest fears about Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses into reality (arstechnica.com)
18 Oct
Rosie Sherry
bugs-in-the-wild
meta
“Impossible to Hide Secret …”: Uncovering Security and Privacy Issues in LLM-Native IDEs (stackoverflow.blog)
18 Oct
Rosie Sherry
security
ai-security
Free Course: Steer AI Agents to Write Tests You Can Trust (shiftsync.tricentis.com)
18 Oct
Rahul Parwal
ai-agents
ai-steering
Stop re-pasting context into AI prompts (www.youtube.com)
16 Oct
Bella Phan
katalon
Taking Back Control of My Job Search. (fishouthebox.medium.com)
15 Oct
Rosie Sherry
jobs
careers
The AI Eval Mindset: Moving from Vibe Checks to Automated Quality Gates (www.accelq.com)
15 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
ai
testing
Playwright Smart Reporter v3 (github.com)
15 Oct
Simon Tomes
playwright
playwright-smart-reporter
How to test with a screen reader (wonderproxy.com)
14 Oct
Ady Stokes
a11y
accessibility
How to Avert an AI Software Disaster (www.youtube.com)
14 Oct
Diana Dromey
thunders
ai-generated-code
How to test a cookie banner that behaves differently in every country (wonderproxy.com)
14 Oct
Simon Tomes
cookies
localisation-testing
What could your RSAT migration miss even when every test passes? (www.accelq.com)
14 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
rsat
dynamics
High-level Individual Contributors (o2sn.dk)
13 Oct
Jesper Ottosen
staff-level
motacon
What's in the box! (www.linkedin.com)
13 Oct
Luke Lattimer
motacon
A backlogged brownie builds no joy (www.linkedin.com)
13 Oct
Luke Lattimer
motacon
When building things was the fun part (bitshift.ing)
13 Oct
Hanisha Arora
building-with-ai
building-software
What Is Vibe Testing, and What Can It Catch After AI Writes the Code? (www.accelq.com)
13 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
vibe-testing
ai-testing
When a job ad says Engineering Manager, are you sure which job they mean? (www.linkedin.com)
12 Oct
Rosie Sherry
engineering-management
If developers have autonomy, mastery and purpose, what do you need testers for? (smallsheds.garden)
12 Oct
Jesper Ottosen
developer
drive
These 9 Claude Mods are blowing people's minds (www.youtube.com)
12 Oct
Cassandra H. Leung
ai
claude-code
MCP Testing: Did Your AI Agent Get the Right Answer the Wrong Way? (www.accelq.com)
12 Oct
Guljeet Nagpaul
mcp-testing
model-context-protocol
How does celebrating my birthday link back to QE? (www.linkedin.com)
12 Oct
Deborah Reid
quality-engineering
birthday
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