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"#captcha art test" by wrong hands: https://wronghands1.com/2025/07/29/captcha-art-test/

Mac & i 3/25: Reisezubehör, Mac-Speicher freiräumen, Mail-Apps im Test, iPad 11
Was taugen das Einsteiger-MacBook und -iPad? Welche Mail-App ist die beste? Und was braucht man unterwegs an Apps und Zubehör? Die neue Mac & i klärt auf.

Automated Test Oracles for Flaky Cyber-Physical System Simulators: Approach and Evaluation
Baharin A. Jodat, Khouloud Gaaloul, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh, Shiva Nejati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20902

Automated Test Oracles for Flaky Cyber-Physical System Simulators: Approach and Evaluation
Simulation-based testing of cyber-physical systems (CPS) is costly due to the time-consuming execution of CPS simulators. In addition, CPS simulators may be flaky, leading to inconsistent test outcomes and requiring repeated test re-execution for reliable test verdicts. Automated test oracles that do not require system execution are therefore crucial for reducing testing costs. Ideally, such test oracles should be interpretable to facilitate human understanding of test verdicts, and they must b…

Kiedy piszesz bibliotekę w #RustLang, bo chcesz bezpiecznego kodu, a zamiast tego dostajesz jakiś paskudny #heisenbug z przekłamaniem danych.
https://…

@… I am using `import.meta.resolve` in my import-module-string package (tested in Vitest) and needed to write a separate test suite using Node’s test runner to test the import.meta.resolve functionality.
h…

heise | heise Update vom 29. August 2025: Lesetipps fürs Wochenende
Der wöchentliche Newsletter von heise mit Pixel 10 im Test, KI findet Schwachstellen, Quälgeistern im Internet, Antriebswende und mobilen Solarpaneelen.

Evaluating Interactions between Automated Vehicles and Cyclists using a coupled In-the-Loop Test Environment
Michael Kaiser, Clemens Gro{\ss}, Lisa Marie Otto, Steffen M\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21859

Evaluating Interactions between Automated Vehicles and Cyclists using a coupled In-the-Loop Test Environment
Testing and evaluating automated driving systems (ADS) in interactions with vulnerable road users (VRUs), such as cyclists, are essential for improving the safety of VRUs, but often lack realism. This paper presents and validates a coupled in-the-loop test environment that integrates a Cyclist-in-the Loop test bench with a Vehicle-in-the-Loop test bench via a virtual environment (VE) developed in Unreal Engine 5. The setup enables closed-loop, bidirectional interaction between a real human cycl…

Ex-Super Bowl champion doubts Travis Hunter's two-way NFL stardom, says Jaguars should 'test his armor'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…

China accepts first sanctioned Russian LNG cargo in test of US response, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/china-accepts-first-sanctioned-russian.html

Trump’s strategy of imposing sweeping tariffs on America’s main trading partners will face a major test in the US courts on Thursday,
four days after the president hailed the “powerful deal” reached with the EU -- and just hours before a new round of punishing import duties is set to come into effect.
Trump has underpinned his tariff policy with an emergency power that is now being challenged as unlawful in the federal courts.
On Thursday the US court of appeals for the fed…

New test unmasks illegal elephant ivory disguised as mammoth #AnimalRights

New test unmasks illegal elephant ivory disguised as mammoth
Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as legal mammoth ivory. Since the two types look deceptively similar, law enforcement struggles to tell them apart, especially when tusks are carved or polished. But scientists may have found a powerful new tool: stable isotope analysis.

OpenAI and Anthropic publish findings from joint safety tests of each other's models, aimed at surfacing blind spots in their internal evaluations (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/27/openai-co-founder-calls-for-ai…

OpenAI co-founder calls for AI labs to safety-test rival models | TechCrunch
In an effort to set a new industry standard, OpenAI and Anthropic opened up their AI models for cross-lab safety testing.

A General Test for Independent and Identically Distributed Hypothesis
Tongyu Li, Jonas Mueller, Fang Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22361 https://

A General Test for Independent and Identically Distributed Hypothesis
We propose a simple and intuitive test for arguably the most prevailing hypothesis in statistics that data are independent and identically distributed (IID), based on a newly introduced off-diagonal sequential U-process. This IID test is fully nonparametric and applicable to random objects in general spaces, while requiring no specific alternatives such as structural breaks or serial dependence, which allows for detecting general types of violations of the IID assumption. An easy-to-implement j…

Dann finden wir es doch heraus, landet ein Beitrag mit nur dem Hashtag:
#test
einfach auf
https://feddit.org/c/testing@kbin.earth?

Finally some good negative results #COVID19

Brazil offers America a lesson in democratic maturity. It is a test case for how countries recover from a populist fever.
https://economist.com/leaders/2025/08/28/brazil-offers-america-a-lesson-in-democratic-maturity
from The Ec…

Brazil offers America a lesson in democratic maturity
It is a test case for how countries recover from a populist fever

After a discussion about why omitting coverage for tests is not a good idea, I added a tip to our test tutorial: https://python-basics-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/test/pytest/coverage.html#coverage-tip

Coverage
We have created an initial list of test cases. The tests in the tests/api directory test Items via the API. But how do we know whether these tests comprehensively test our code? This is where code ...

Test-Time Consistency in Vision Language Models
Shih-Han Chou, Shivam Chandhok, James J. Little, Leonid Sigal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22395 https://

Test-Time Consistency in Vision Language Models
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive performance across a wide range of multimodal tasks, yet they often exhibit inconsistent behavior when faced with semantically equivalent inputs, undermining their reliability and robustness. Recent benchmarks, such as MM-R3, highlight that even state-of-the-art VLMs can produce divergent predictions across semantically equivalent inputs, despite maintaining high average accuracy. Prior work addresses this issue by modifying model architect…

A Graph-Based Test-Harness for LLM Evaluation
Jessica Lundin, Guillaume Chabot-Couture
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20810 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20810

A Graph-Based Test-Harness for LLM Evaluation
We present a first known prototype of a dynamic, systematic benchmark of medical guidelines for 400+ questions, with 3.3+ trillion possible combinations, covering 100\% of guideline relationships. We transformed the WHO IMCI handbook into a directed graph with 200+ nodes (conditions, symptoms, treatments, follow-ups, severities) and 300+ edges, then used graph traversal to generate questions that incorporated age-specific scenarios and contextual distractors to ensure clinical relevance. Our gr…

Intention-Driven Generation of Project-Specific Test Cases
Binhang Qi, Yun Lin, Xinyi Weng, Yuhuan Huang, Chenyan Liu, Hailong Sun, Jin Song Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20619

Intention-Driven Generation of Project-Specific Test Cases
Test cases are valuable assets for maintaining software quality. While numerous automated techniques have been proposed for generating tests (either by maximizing code coverage or by translating focal code into test code), practical tests are seldom driven by coverage alone. In real projects, each test reflects a developer's validation intention for a specific behaviour and embodies rich, project-specific knowledge: which specific APIs to call and what assertions truly matter. Without consideri…

Mittwoch: Cyberangriff auf Telco-Konzern Orange, Ankers Verzicht auf 3D-Drucker
IT-Einbruch ohne Datenverlust Ankers UV- statt 3D-Druck YouTube mit KI-Alterskontrolle Gematik mit mehr Datenschutz MIDI-Keyboard im Test Bit-Rauschen

So Starship exploded 4 times at last test launch? Like 1 time before the launch, and then 3 times during the test?
Is this fine

Researchers Quietly Planned a Test to Dim Sunlight Over 3,900 Square Miles - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/27/2146205/researchers-quietly-planned-a-test-to-dim-sunlight-over-3900-square-miles

Resource-Efficient Hadamard Test Circuits for Nonlinear Dynamics on a Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer
Eleftherios Mastorakis, Muhammad Umer, Milena Guevara-Bertsch, Juris Ulmanis, Felix Rohde, Dimitris G. Angelakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19250

Resource-Efficient Hadamard Test Circuits for Nonlinear Dynamics on a Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer
Resource-efficient, low-depth implementations of quantum circuits remain a promising strategy for achieving reliable and scalable computation on quantum hardware, as they reduce gate resources and limit the accumulation of noisy operations. Here, we propose a low-depth implementation of a class of Hadamard test circuits, complemented by the development of a parameterized quantum ansatz specifically tailored for variational algorithms that exploit the underlying Hadamard test framework. Our find…

38% speedup on one of my test setups from a single-character code change.
This bug hiding in libscopehal for ages meant that if you tried to preallocate a buffer to avoid constant resizes, you'd end up reallocating even if the buffer was already the right size. If you're doing this every filter invocation, it adds up.

AcceleratorBuffer: don't reallocate pointlessly if we try to reserve … · ngscopeclient/scopehal@52b550f
…exactly our current size

CR7 in Grödig? - Sinti und Roma müssen für Ronaldo-Test weichen #News #Nachrichten

#Wikipedia Editors Reject Founder's AI Review Proposal After ChatGPT Fails Basic Policy Test
https://slashdot.org/story/446032

Wikipedia Editors Reject Founder's AI Review Proposal After ChatGPT Fails Basic Policy Test - Slashdot
Wikipedia's volunteer editors have rejected founder Jimmy Wales' proposal to use ChatGPT for article review guidance after the AI tool produced error-filled feedback when Wales tested it on a draft submission. The ChatGPT response misidentified Wikipedia policies, suggested citing non-existent sourc...

Is the client vendor now responsible for you getting scammed when their agent gives away your financial information to scam sites?
https://guard.io/labs/scamlexity-we-put-agentic-ai-browsers-to-the-test-they-clicked-they-paid-they-fa…

"Scamlexity": When Agentic AI Browsers Get Scammed
We Put Agentic AI Browsers to the Test - They Clicked, They Paid, They Failed

Det burde man nok have forudset. Myndighederne anbefaler at danskerne gŸr noget. Kyniske virksomheder udnytter situationen og prakker danskerne alt muligt skrammel på. #betalingsmur #beredskab

Nødradioer dumper test: De støjer, flimrer og fejler | Ingeniøren
14 nødradioer med solceller og håndsving er testet. Ingen lever op til de europæiske radioregler, og ejerne vil blive slemt overrasket over den dårlige FM-modtagelse.

In preparation for Python 3.14 and official free-threading / nogil support, I present argon2-cffi-bindings 25.1.0!
It comes with 3.14t wheels (and new ARM64 wheels for Windows for good measure). Currently, this is mostly to unblock everyone who wants to test things since it depends on a beta version of CFFI for 3.14 .
There’s no need for changes to argon2-cffi proper.

Bag of Coins: A Statistical Probe into Neural Confidence Structures
Agnideep Aich, Ashit Baran Aich, Md Monzur Murshed, Sameera Hewage, Bruce Wade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19774

Bag of Coins: A Statistical Probe into Neural Confidence Structures
Modern neural networks, despite their high accuracy, often produce poorly calibrated confidence scores, limiting their reliability in high-stakes applications. Existing calibration methods typically post-process model outputs without interrogating the internal consistency of the predictions themselves. In this work, we introduce a novel, non-parametric statistical probe, the Bag-of-Coins (BoC) test, that examines the internal consistency of a classifier's logits. The BoC test reframes confidenc…

Heute vor 54 Jahren: Am 29. Juni 1971 kam es zum #Atomtest "Camphor". Die Operation #Emery war eine US-Serie von 24 Atomtestdetonationen zwischen 1970/71. Sie wurden auf dem Nevada Test Site (NST) unterirdisch durchgeführt und dienten der Waffenentwicklung.

Logical Reasoning with Outcome Reward Models for Test-Time Scaling
Ramya Keerthy Thatikonda, Wray Buntine, Ehsan Shareghi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19903 https://

Logical Reasoning with Outcome Reward Models for Test-Time Scaling
Logical reasoning is a critical benchmark for evaluating the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), as it reflects their ability to derive valid conclusions from given premises. While the combination of test-time scaling with dedicated outcome or process reward models has opened up new avenues to enhance LLMs performance in complex reasoning tasks, this space is under-explored in deductive logical reasoning. We present a set of Outcome Reward Models (ORMs) for deductive reasoning. To tra…

A Reckless Judicial Nomination Puts the Senate to the Test (David French/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/opinion/bove-trump-judges-confirmation.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p92#a250629p92

Cash and Cognition: The Impact of Transfer Timing on Standardized Test Performance and Human Capital
Axel Eizmendi Larrinaga, Germ\'an Reyes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21393

Cash and Cognition: The Impact of Transfer Timing on Standardized Test Performance and Human Capital
This paper shows that the timing of monetary transfers to low-income families affects students' cognitive performance on high-stakes standardized tests. We combine administrative records from the world's largest conditional cash transfer program with college admission exam results of 185,000 high school students from beneficiary families. Exploiting random variation in payment dates, we find that receiving the transfer in the days preceding the exam increases test scores by 0.01 standard deviat…

WhichYear 6/30/25
3566 pts
9.0 avg. years off
3️⃣ ⚪ ⚪ ⚪ 1️⃣
https://whichyr.com

Which Year - Photo Year Guessing Game
Guess the year real-world photos were taken. Test your history knowledge with a daily challenge featuring a new set of photos each day.

Detection of a dark matter sub-halo near the Sun from pulsar timing: #DarkMatter been found in our galactic neighborhood? https://www.science.org/content/article/has-huge-blob-dark-matter-been-found-our-galactic-neighborhood - if confirmed, vast cloud could test predictions about the Milky Way’s hidden architecture.

UChicago researchers have developed a new liquid biopsy test that uses RNA modifications to detect early-stage colorectal cancer with 95% accuracy with a simple blood draw
https://biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/liquid-biopsy-rna-cancer

Innovative liquid biopsy test uses RNA to detect early-stage cancer
UChicago researchers have developed a new liquid biopsy test that uses RNA modifications to detect early-stage colorectal cancer with 95% accuracy.

Exploring AI-Enabled Test Practice, Affect, and Test Outcomes in Language Assessment
Jill Burstein, Ramsey Cardwell, Ping-Ling Chuang, Allison Michalowski, Steven Nydick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17108

Exploring AI-Enabled Test Practice, Affect, and Test Outcomes in Language Assessment
Practice tests for high-stakes assessment are intended to build test familiarity, and reduce construct-irrelevant variance which can interfere with valid score interpretation. Generative AI-driven, automated item generation (AIG) scales the creation of large item banks and multiple practice tests, enabling repeated practice opportunities. We conducted a large-scale observational study (N = 25,969) using the Duolingo English Test (DET) -- a digital, high-stakes, computer-adaptive English languag…

Okay, the magnets won't be in until Wednesday but got the 3D printed D-pad installed. Tracked down my old XBox Pro controller, fit the metal D-pad (D-dish?) onto it, and gave it a short test running around the map in Sea of Stars...
If you have a stock D-pad on the Legion Go, this is definitely a must have. The diagonals now exist and the D-pad is nice to use now. Is it the greatest? No, but it's about a 1000x better than it was.
The 3D print was found here:

Das passiert, wenn nazis an die Macht kommen.
>>Rassistischer Hintergrund? <<
>>Dänemark nimmt grönländischer Mutter Neugeborenes nach umstrittenem Test weg<<
Obwohl der Test für Grönländerinnen gesetzlich verboten war, interessien Nazis solche Verbote nicht. Mit Leuten, die mich auffordern, die SPD-geführte Regierung in Dänemark nicht als Nazis zu bezeichnen, diskutiere ich nicht.

So I first now removed the 3rd keyoxide test...removed it both from the server and the device now...
In this same post I will also put details on the removal of the final test, keeping only the main keyoxide...and it has now been removed.
Now my profile looks sane again.
#Keyoxide

Generating Highly Structured Test Inputs Leveraging Constraint-Guided Graph Refinement
Zhaorui Yang, Yuxin Qiu, Haichao Zhu, Qian Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21271 https://…

Generating Highly Structured Test Inputs Leveraging Constraint-Guided Graph Refinement
[Context] Modern AI applications increasingly process highly structured data, such as 3D meshes and point clouds, where test input generation must preserve both structural and semantic validity. However, existing fuzzing tools and input generators are typically handcrafted for specific input types and often generate invalid inputs that are subsequently discarded, leading to inefficiency and poor generalizability. [Objective] This study investigates whether test inputs for structured domains can…

Watching 36 cars with active Advanced Driver Assistant Systems (#ADAS) being tested in real live situations is ... revealing. Huge differences in outcomes (crashes etc.) and paying more money does not guarantee a better outcome. Watch the video with English subtitles switched on, it's hilarious.

heise | Kochautomat: Bosch Cookit im Test
Der Cookit war schon immer der schärfste Konkurrent des Thermomix TM6. Aber kann er mit Vorwerks neuestem Modell TM7 mithalten?
https://www.heise.de/r…

Gravitational Microlensing of the Galactic Centre $\gamma$-Ray Excess: A New Test for Point-Like or Extended Emission?
Nada Salama, Florian List, Geraint Lewis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19577

Gravitational Microlensing of the Galactic Centre $γ$-Ray Excess: A New Test for Point-Like or Extended Emission?
We present a potential test of the origin of the $γ$-ray Galactic Centre Excess (GCE). We demonstrate how gravitational microlensing by stellar mass objects along the line of sight to the Galactic Bulge can distinguish between the possibility of extensive emission due to dark matter self-annihilation from more prosaic astrophysical sources, namely millisecond pulsars. Such an astrophysical origin would result in emission from a population of small, currently unresolved point-like sources - in …

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[2/4]:
- MetaSel: A Test Selection Approach for Fine-tuned DNN Models
Amin Abbasishahkoo, Mahboubeh Dadkhah, Lionel Briand, Dayi Lin

Wow! The latest go blog has an excellent writeup explaining a test/synctest feature.
Testing Time (and other asyncronicities) - The Go Programming Language
#go

Testing Time (and other asynchronicities) - The Go Programming Language
A discussion of testing asyncronous code and an exploration of the `testing/synctest` package. Based on the GopherCon Europe 2025 talk with the same title.

Anthropic tests AI running a real business with bizarre results https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/anthropic-tests-ai-running-a-real-business-with-bizarre-results/

Anthropic tests AI running a real business with bizarre results
Anthropic tasked its Claude AI model with running a small business to test its real-world economic capabilities.

gardening trivia of the day / no I don't want to get into roses I am just rabbit holing rose varieties and gardens for no reason
#TIL #roses

No Boats, Just Lies...
#Sims4 #TheSims4 #Comicstrip

A test of seven AI chatbots' abilities to identify news photos' location, date, and photographer showed all failed to consistently identify photos' provenance (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/why-ai-models-are-bad-at-verifyi…

Why AI models are bad at verifying photos
Many of the latest large language models, including OpenAI’s recently released GPT-5, tout an impressive capability: reasoning about images. We have seen viral trends of AI models geolocating obscure vacation pictures, impressive demos of LLMs correctly analyzing blurry or cropped photos, and promising results on benchmark tests. These seem to be fueling punditry on whether […]

A clusterability test for directed graphs
Mario R. Guarracino, Pierre Miasnikof, Alexander Y. Shestopaloff, Houyem Demni, Cristi\'an Bravo, Yuri Lawryshyn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20111

A clusterability test for directed graphs
In this article, we extend a statistical test of graph clusterability, the $δ$ test, to directed graphs with no self loops. The $δ$ test, originally designed for undirected graphs, is based on the premise that graphs with a clustered structure display a mean local density that is statistically higher than the graph's global density. We posit that graphs that do not meet this necessary (but not sufficient) condition for clusterability can be considered unsuited to clustering. In such cases, ve…

Who Wore It Best? The Greatest NFL Players by Jersey Number, 0-24 https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/greatest-nfl-players-wear-every-jersey-number-0-24

X is testing using Community Notes to highlight posts that are liked by users with different perspectives (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/24/x-to-test-using-community-notes-to-find-the-posts-everyone-likes/

X to test using Community Notes to find the posts everyone likes | TechCrunch
X is piloting a new feature that will help to identify the platform's best posts. The system is similar to how Community Notes fact-checking works.

Empathy in Explanation
Katherine M. Collins, Kartik Chandra, Adrian Weller, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Joshua B. Tenenbaum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21081 https://

Empathy in Explanation
Why do we give the explanations we do? Recent work has suggested that we should think of explanation as a kind of cooperative social interaction, between a why-question-asker and an explainer. Here, we apply this perspective to consider the role that emotion plays in this social interaction. We develop a computational framework for modeling explainers who consider the emotional impact an explanation might have on a listener. We test our framework by using it to model human intuitions about how …

Agentic Program Repair from Test Failures at Scale: A Neuro-symbolic approach with static analysis and test execution feedback
Chandra Maddila, Adam Tait, Claire Chang, Daniel Cheng, Nauman Ahmad, Vijayaraghavan Murali, Marshall Roch, Arnaud Avondet, Aaron Meltzer, Victor Montalvao, Michael Hopko, Chris Waterson, Parth Thakkar, Renuka Fernandez, Kristian Kristensen, Sivan Barzily, Sherry Chen, Rui Abreu, Nachiappan Nagappan, Payam Shodjai, Killian Murphy, James Everingham, Aparna Raman…

Agentic Program Repair from Test Failures at Scale: A Neuro-symbolic approach with static analysis and test execution feedback
Aim: With the advent of LLMs, sophisticated agentic program repair has become viable at large organizations with large codebases. In this work, we develop an Engineering Agent that fixes the source code based on test failures at scale across diverse software offerings internally. Method: Using Llama as the base, we employ the ReAct harness to develop an agent. We start with a test failure that was triaged by a rule-based test failure bot. We then set up an agentic harness and allow the agent …

When Is Causal Inference Possible? A Statistical Test for Unmeasured Confounding
Muye Liu, Jun Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20366 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

When Is Causal Inference Possible? A Statistical Test for Unmeasured Confounding
This paper clarifies a fundamental difference between causal inference and traditional statistical inference by formalizing a mathematical distinction between their respective parameters. We connect two major approaches to causal inference, the potential outcomes framework and causal structure graphs, which are typically studied separately. While the unconfoundedness assumption in the potential outcomes framework cannot be assessed from an observational dataset alone, causal structure graphs he…

Non-Hormonal Male Birth Control Pill Passes Key Test
https://gizmodo.com/non-hormonal-male-birth-control-pill-passes-key-test-2000633856

heise | Plastisch pinseln: iPad-App Feather im Test
Sie malen gerne, wollen es aber dreidimensional? Mit der iPad-App Feather zeichnet man begehbare 3D-Welten.
https://www.heise.de/tests/Plastisch…

heise | heise Update vom 29. August 2025: Lesetipps fürs Wochenende
Der wöchentliche Newsletter von heise mit Pixel 10 im Test, KI findet Schwachstellen, Quälgeistern im Internet, Antriebswende und mobilen Solarpaneelen.

MIRAGE: Scaling Test-Time Inference with Parallel Graph-Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Chains
Kaiwen Wei, Rui Shan, Dongsheng Zou, Jianzhong Yang, Bi Zhao, Junnan Zhu, Jiang Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18260

MIRAGE: Scaling Test-Time Inference with Parallel Graph-Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Chains
Large reasoning models (LRMs) have shown significant progress in test-time scaling through chain-of-thought prompting. Current approaches like search-o1 integrate retrieval augmented generation (RAG) into multi-step reasoning processes but rely on a single, linear reasoning chain while incorporating unstructured textual information in a flat, context-agnostic manner. As a result, these approaches can lead to error accumulation throughout the reasoning chain, which significantly limits its effec…

The Trump administration is planning to change the visa system for skilled foreign workers,
a program at the center of a dispute between immigration hard-liners and tech industry leaders,
said the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Joseph Edlow, the director of U.S.C.I.S., said the test to become a U.S. citizen was "too easy" and should change.
“The test as it’s laid out right now, it’s not very difficult,”
Mr. Edlow said on Thur…

Trump Administration Plans Changes to H-1B Visas and U.S. Citizenship Tests
In an interview with The New York Times, the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said the test to become a U.S. citizen was too easy.

Russia test-fires Kalibr and Uran missiles during naval exercises in the Sea of Japan: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/russia-testfires-kalibr-and-uran.html

The much anticipated tenth test flight of the #Starship - an assessment in https://milesobrien.substack.com/p/starship-at-the-crossroads-can-test - could come at 23:50 UTC tonight: SpaceX's webcast will be at https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1yoKMPRjeYYxQ while others are already running at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qmknQKRsIM and https://www.youtube.com/live/C7WmlTp7ue0 and https://www.youtube.com/live/QFFysWdL4wI

Independence Testing for Mixed Data
Dana Bucalo Jeli\'c, Marija Cupari\'c, Bojana Milo\v{s}evi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20609 https://arxi…

Independence Testing for Mixed Data
We consider the problem of testing independence in mixed-type data that combine count variables with positive, absolutely continuous variables. We first introduce two distinct classes of test statistics in the bivariate setting, designed to test independence between the components of a bivariate mixed-type vector. These statistics are then extended to the multivariate context to accommodate: (i) testing independence between vectors of different types and possibly different dimensions, and (ii) …

A test of seven AI chatbots' abilities to identify news photos' location, date, and photographer showed all failed to consistently identify photos' provenance (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/why-ai-models-are-bad-at-verifyi…

Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 29.06.1958 kam es bei Enewetak zum Atomtest Operation Hardtack I, "Hickory". Dieser Test war Teil einer Serie von 35 #Atomtests, die die USA im Sommer 1958 auf den #Marshallinseln im Pazifik durchführten.

Is Lindblad for me?
Martino Stefanini, Aleksandra A. Ziolkowska, Dmitry Budker, Ulrich Poschinger, Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, Antoine Browaeys, Atac Imamoglu, Darrick Chang, Jamir Marino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22436

Is Lindblad for me?
The Lindblad master equation is a foundational tool for modeling the dynamics of open quantum systems. As its use has extended far beyond its original domain, the boundaries of its validity have grown opaque. In particular, the rise of new research areas including open quantum many-body systems, non-equilibrium condensed matter, and the possibility to test its limits in driven-open quantum simulators, call for a critical revision of its regimes of applicability. In this pedagogical review, we r…

Interactive Adversarial Testing of Autonomous Vehicles with Adjustable Confrontation Intensity
Yicheng Guo, Chengkai Xu, Jiaqi Liu, Hao Zhang, Peng Hang, Jian Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21814

Interactive Adversarial Testing of Autonomous Vehicles with Adjustable Confrontation Intensity
Scientific testing techniques are essential for ensuring the safe operation of autonomous vehicles (AVs), with high-risk, highly interactive scenarios being a primary focus. To address the limitations of existing testing methods, such as their heavy reliance on high-quality test data, weak interaction capabilities, and low adversarial robustness, this paper proposes ExamPPO, an interactive adversarial testing framework that enables scenario-adaptive and intensity-controllable evaluation of auto…

A Slice-Based Change Impact Analysis for Regression Test Case Prioritization of Object-Oriented Programs
S. Panda, D. Munjal, D. P. Mohapatra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19056 ht…

A Slice-Based Change Impact Analysis for Regression Test Case Prioritization of Object-Oriented Programs
Test case prioritization focuses on finding a suitable order of execution of the test cases in a test suite to meet some performance goals like detecting faults early. It is likely that some test cases execute the program parts that are more prone to errors and will detect more errors if executed early during the testing process. Finding an optimal order of execution for the selected regression test cases saves time and cost of retesting. This paper presents a static approach to prioritizing th…

AI-Driven Media & Synthetic Knowledge: Rethinking Society in Generative Futures
Katalin Feher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19877 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

AI-Driven Media & Synthetic Knowledge: Rethinking Society in Generative Futures
Generative AI is not just a technological lea- it is a societal stress test, reshaping trust, identity, equity, and authorship. This exploratory PhD seminar examined emerging academic trends in AI-driven synthetic media and worlds, emphasizing ethical risks and societal implications. In Part One, students explored core concepts such as generative AI, fake media, and synthetic knowledge production. In Part Two, they critically engaged with these challenges, producing actionable insights. The two…

The next question after Turing's question: Introducing the Grow-AI test
Alexandru Tugui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16277 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.162…

The next question after Turing's question: Introducing the Grow-AI test
This study aims to extend the framework for assessing artificial intelligence, called GROW-AI (Growth and Realization of Autonomous Wisdom), designed to answer the question "Can machines grow up?" -- a natural successor to the Turing Test. The methodology applied is based on a system of six primary criteria (C1-C6), each assessed through a specific "game", divided into four arenas that explore both the human dimension and its transposition into AI. All decisions and actions of the entity are re…

LLM-based Property-based Test Generation for Guardrailing Cyber-Physical Systems
Khashayar Etemadi, Marjan Sirjani, Mahshid Helali Moghadam, Per Strandberg, Paul Pettersson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23549

LLM-based Property-based Test Generation for Guardrailing Cyber-Physical Systems
Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are complex systems that integrate physical, computational, and communication subsystems. The heterogeneous nature of these systems makes their safety assurance challenging. In this paper, we propose a novel automated approach for guardrailing cyber-physical systems using property-based tests (PBTs) generated by Large Language Models (LLMs). Our approach employs an LLM to extract properties from the code and documentation of CPSs. Next, we use the LLM to generate P…

Anthropic tested Claude's ability to manage a physical "storefront" to mixed results, as the AI struggled with pricing strategy and inventory management (Ryan Daws/AI News)
https://www.artificialintelligence-news.co

Anthropic tests AI running a real business with bizarre results
Anthropic tasked its Claude AI model with running a small business to test its real-world economic capabilities.

Overview of ADoBo at IberLEF 2025: Automatic Detection of Anglicisms in Spanish
Elena Alvarez-Mellado, Jordi Porta-Zamorano, Constantine Lignos, Julio Gonzalo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21813

Overview of ADoBo at IberLEF 2025: Automatic Detection of Anglicisms in Spanish
This paper summarizes the main findings of ADoBo 2025, the shared task on anglicism identification in Spanish proposed in the context of IberLEF 2025. Participants of ADoBo 2025 were asked to detect English lexical borrowings (or anglicisms) from a collection of Spanish journalistic texts. Five teams submitted their solutions for the test phase. Proposed systems included LLMs, deep learning models, Transformer-based models and rule-based systems. The results range from F1 scores of 0.17 to 0.99…

KI-Update kompakt: Gemini Live, AI Mode, GPT-5-Test, KI-Psychosen
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.…

Heute vor 67 Jahren: Am 30.05.1958 kam es bei Enewetak zum Atomtest Operation Hardtack I, "Tobacco". Dieser Test war Teil einer Serie von 35 #Atomtests, die die USA im Sommer 1958 auf den #Marshallinseln im Pazifik durchführten.

50 years ago #OTD at 16:09 UTC #Soyuz 19 and the final #Apollo spacecraft docked in orbit in the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project or Экспериментальный полёт «Союз»–«Аполлон» (the Americans and Soviets never agreed on which s/c comes first): https://www.nasa.gov/apollo-soyuz-test-project/ = various NASA materials, https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/astp.htm = many links, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sp-4209.pdf = a biiiig book, https://www.facebook.com/AstroDrewMorgan/posts/pfbid0wcN12LcAfRYYTmiWS71GQ47P42jukXVhd2QWA7eBzgg1wbdZAKq8LXVGTC9o7tKtl and https://www.facebook.com/ralf.heckel1/posts/pfbid02jcFp85PRy2UBUs4JVhPQcBnmddC8sQbPL3Vx26XoFMvbbsToNJmpLMDrRfce98HPl and https://www.facebook.com/groups/176051159106442/posts/24331420949809459 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/48800622850/posts/10162318303047851 = more visuals, https://www.youtube.com/live/Mu7iEyaOmDM = an online event, https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/not-that-into-peace-doves-the-apollo-soyuz-patch-nasa-rejected/ and https://www.spacerockethistory.com/2025/02/space-rocket-history-457-apollo-soyuz-test-project-soviet-concerns-with-apollo/ and http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-071425a-apollo-soyuz-test-project-astp-official-flight-kit-ofk-apk.html and https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/science/apollo-soyuz-test-project-1975-anniversary.html?smid=bs-share = articles and https://scicomm.xyz/@Nick_Stevens_graphics@mastodon.art/114858897568849751 = a contemporary cartoon.

heise | Beziehungshelfer: Networking-App Dextr im Test
Das Adressbuch Dextr verknüpft Kontakte und visualisiert sie als Netzwerk. Wir haben die iOS- und iPadOS-App getestet
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Model-Free Hovering and Source Seeking via Extremum Seeking Control: Experimental Demonstration
Ahmed A. Elgohary, Rohan Palanikumar, Sameh A. Eisa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20836

Model-Free Hovering and Source Seeking via Extremum Seeking Control: Experimental Demonstration
In a recent effort, we successfully proposed a categorically novel approach to mimic the phenomenoa of hovering and source seeking by flapping insects and hummingbirds using a new extremum seeking control (ESC) approach. Said ESC approach was shown capable of characterizing the physics of hovering and source seeking by flapping systems, providing at the same time uniquely novel opportunity for a model-free, real-time biomimicry control design. In this paper, we experimentally test and verify, f…

Sequential Diagnosis with Language Models
Harsha Nori, Mayank Daswani, Christopher Kelly, Scott Lundberg, Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Marc Wilson, Xiaoxuan Liu, Viknesh Sounderajah, Jonathan Carlson, Matthew P Lungren, Bay Gross, Peter Hames, Mustafa Suleyman, Dominic King, Eric Horvitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22405

Sequential Diagnosis with Language Models
Artificial intelligence holds great promise for expanding access to expert medical knowledge and reasoning. However, most evaluations of language models rely on static vignettes and multiple-choice questions that fail to reflect the complexity and nuance of evidence-based medicine in real-world settings. In clinical practice, physicians iteratively formulate and revise diagnostic hypotheses, adapting each subsequent question and test to what they've just learned, and weigh the evolving evidence…

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
CachyOS im Test: Wie schnell kann ein Linux sein?
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SATORI: Static Test Oracle Generation for REST APIs
Juan C. Alonso, Alberto Martin-Lopez, Sergio Segura, Gabriele Bavota, Antonio Ruiz-Cort\'es
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16318

SATORI: Static Test Oracle Generation for REST APIs
REST API test case generation tools are evolving rapidly, with growing capabilities for the automated generation of complex tests. However, despite their strengths in test data generation, these tools are constrained by the types of test oracles they support, often limited to crashes, regressions, and noncompliance with API specifications or design standards. This paper introduces SATORI (Static API Test ORacle Inference), a black-box approach for generating test oracles for REST APIs by analyz…

RoD-TAL: A Benchmark for Answering Questions in Romanian Driving License Exams
Andrei Vlad Man, R\u{a}zvan-Alexandru Sm\u{a}du, Cristian-George Craciun, Dumitru-Clementin Cercel, Florin Pop, Mihaela-Claudia Cercel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19666

RoD-TAL: A Benchmark for Answering Questions in Romanian Driving License Exams
The intersection of AI and legal systems presents a growing need for tools that support legal education, particularly in under-resourced languages such as Romanian. In this work, we aim to evaluate the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in understanding and reasoning about Romanian driving law through textual and visual question-answering tasks. To facilitate this, we introduce RoD-TAL, a novel multimodal dataset comprising Romanian driving test quest…

heise | PV für unterwegs: Solar-Campingtisch TX-252 mit Doppelfunktion im Test
Am Solar-Campingtisch TX-252 kann man sowohl essen als auch Geräte wie Smartphones aufladen.
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Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
CachyOS im Test: Wie schnell kann ein Linux sein?
https://www.

YATE: The Role of Test Repair in LLM-Based Unit Test Generation
Michael Konstantinou, Renzo Degiovanni, Jie M. Zhang, Mark Harman, Mike Papadakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18316

YATE: The Role of Test Repair in LLM-Based Unit Test Generation
Recent advances in automated test generation utilises language models to produce unit tests. While effective, language models tend to generate many incorrect tests with respect to both syntax and semantics. Although such incorrect tests can be easily detected and discarded, they constitute a "missed opportunity" -- if fixed, they are often valuable as they directly add testing value (they effectively target the underlying program logic to be tested) and indirectly form good seeds for generating…

heise | Beyerdynamic Aventho 100 im Test: Kompakter Bluetooth-Kopfhörer mit ANC
Mit dem Aventho 100 liefert Beyerdynamic einen leichten und kompakten On-Ear-Kopfhörer ab, der mit langen Laufzeiten und ANC punkten will. So schlägt er sich.

LLM4VV: Evaluating Cutting-Edge LLMs for Generation and Evaluation of Directive-Based Parallel Programming Model Compiler Tests
Zachariah Sollenberger, Rahul Patel, Saieda Ali Zada, Sunita Chandrasekaran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21447

LLM4VV: Evaluating Cutting-Edge LLMs for Generation and Evaluation of Directive-Based Parallel Programming Model Compiler Tests
The usage of Large Language Models (LLMs) for software and test development has continued to increase since LLMs were first introduced, but only recently have the expectations of LLMs become more realistic. Verifying the correctness of code generated by LLMs is key to improving their usefulness, but there have been no comprehensive and fully autonomous solutions developed yet. Hallucinations are a major concern when LLMs are applied blindly to problems without taking the time and effort to veri…

Quantum-Based Software Engineering
Jianjun Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23674 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.23674

Quantum-Based Software Engineering
Quantum computing has demonstrated potential for solving computationally intensive problems more efficiently than classical methods. Many software engineering tasks, such as test case selection, static analysis, code clone detection, and defect prediction, involve complex optimization, search, or classification, making them candidates for quantum enhancement. In this paper, we propose Quantum-Based Software Engineering (QBSE), a potential research direction for applying quantum computing to cla…

heise | Austauschen statt wegwerfen: Powerbanks mit Wechselakkus im Test
Streikt die Powerbank, landet sie meist im Schrott. Nachhaltiger gehts mit einer leicht zu öffnenden Powerbank für 18650-Akkus.
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Replaced article(s) found for cs.SE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SE/new
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- CoCoEvo: Co-Evolution of Programs and Test Cases to Enhance Code Generation
Kefan Li, Yuan Yuan, Hongyue Yu, Tingyu Guo, Shijie Cao

Resolving Build Conflicts via Example-Based and Rule-Based Program Transformations
Sheikh Shadab Towqir, Fei He, Todd Mytkowicz, Na Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19432 https:/…

Resolving Build Conflicts via Example-Based and Rule-Based Program Transformations
Merge conflicts often arise when developers integrate changes from different software branches. The conflicts can result from overlapping edits in programs (i.e., textual conflicts) or cause build and test errors (i.e., build and test conflicts). They degrade software quality and hinder programmer productivity. While several tools detect build conflicts, few offer meaningful support for resolving cases like those caused by method removal. To overcome limitations of existing tools, we introduce …

Boosting Skeleton-Driven SMT Solver Fuzzing by Leveraging LLM to Produce Formula Generators
Maolin Sun, Yibiao Yang, Yuming Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20340 https://…

Boosting Skeleton-Driven SMT Solver Fuzzing by Leveraging LLM to Produce Formula Generators
Satisfiability Modulo Theory (SMT) solvers are foundational to modern systems and programming languages research, providing the foundation for tasks like symbolic execution and automated verification. Because these solvers sit on the critical path, their correctness is essential, and high-quality test formulas are key to uncovering bugs. However, while prior testing techniques performed well on earlier solver versions, they struggle to keep pace with rapidly evolving features. Recent approaches…

Afterburner: Reinforcement Learning Facilitates Self-Improving Code Efficiency Optimization
Mingzhe Du, Luu Tuan Tuan, Yue Liu, Yuhao Qing, Dong Huang, Xinyi He, Qian Liu, Zejun Ma, See-kiong Ng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23387

Afterburner: Reinforcement Learning Facilitates Self-Improving Code Efficiency Optimization
Large Language Models (LLMs) generate functionally correct solutions but often fall short in code efficiency, a critical bottleneck for real-world deployment. In this paper, we introduce a novel test-time iterative optimization framework to address this, employing a closed-loop system where LLMs iteratively refine code based on empirical performance feedback from an execution sandbox. We explore three training strategies: Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), and G…

Search-Based Fuzzing For RESTful APIs That Use MongoDB
Hernan Ghianni, Man Zhang, Juan P. Galeotti, Andrea Arcuri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20848 https://…

Search-Based Fuzzing For RESTful APIs That Use MongoDB
In RESTful APIs, interactions with a database are a common and crucial aspect. When generating whitebox tests, it is essential to consider the database's state (i.e., the data contained in the database) to achieve higher code coverage and uncover more hidden faults. This article presents novel techniques to enhance search-based software test generation for RESTful APIs interacting with NoSQL databases. Specifically, we target the popular MongoDB database, by dynamically analyzing (via automated…

Black-Box Bug-Amplification for Multithreaded Software
Yeshayahu Weiss, Gal Amram, Achiya Elyasaf, Eitan Farchi, Oded Margalit, Gera Weiss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21318 https…

Black-Box Bug-Amplification for Multithreaded Software
Bugs, especially those in concurrent systems, are often hard to reproduce because they manifest only under rare conditions. Testers frequently encounter failures that occur only under specific inputs, even when occurring with low probability. We propose an approach to systematically amplify the occurrence of such elusive bugs. We treat the system under test as a black-box and use repeated trial executions to train a predictive model that estimates the probability of a given input configuration …

Testing Is Not Boring: Characterizing Challenge in Software Testing Tasks
Davi Gama Hardman, Cesar Fran\c{c}a, Brody Stuart-Verner, Ronnie de Souza Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20407

Testing Is Not Boring: Characterizing Challenge in Software Testing Tasks
As software systems continue to grow in complexity, testing has become a fundamental part of ensuring the quality and reliability of software products. Yet, software testing is still often perceived, both in industry and academia, as a repetitive, low-skill activity. This perception fails to recognize the creativity, problem-solving, and adaptability required in testing work. Tasks such as designing complex test cases, automating testing processes, and handling shifting requirements illustrate …