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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
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
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