@Techmeme@techhub.socialBaidu begins testing its purpose-built Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis with human safety operators in outer London; Baidu plans to deploy the taxis on Lyft's Freenow (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/lyft-and-ba…
@carstingaxion@dewp.spaceLiebe Leute,
nach vielen Jahren Vorbereitung gibt es jetzt einen ersten echten Test für #GatherPress als Meetup Alternative auf wordpress.org: Klickt, testet und probiert es aus!
https:/…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUSA Today is testing different ways to reformat its website content to help make it easier for AI systems to access, understand, and cite USA Today's reporting (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/usa-today-co-is-reformatti…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Meta is testing robots from ABB and others to handle data center tasks such as swapping cables and resetting servers as it seeks to lower labor costs (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-metas-experiments-with-data-center-robots/
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeOpenAI says its AI models hacked Hugging Face during testing
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openai-says-its-ai-models-hacked-hugging-face-during-testing/
@aardrian@toot.cafe“We need more choices in automated testing”
https://karlgroves.com/we-need-more-choices-in-automated-testing/
I am meh on the remediation & ‘AI’ statements, but generally agreed.
The dominant tool, in my own testing, is not even the best tool. It’s…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social"The testing data Six Flags handed over to inspectors was informed by safety standards from a committee composed of theme park operators and ride manufacturers, the outlet reported." Why do we keep relying on #Industry developed #SafetyStandards? Yes, industry reps must participate - b…
@paulwermer@sfba.social"The testing data Six Flags handed over to inspectors was informed by safety standards from a committee composed of theme park operators and ride manufacturers, the outlet reported." Why do we keep relying on #Industry developed #SafetyStandards? Yes, industry reps must participate - b…
@veit@mastodon.social
@NFL@darktundra.xyzVikings WR Justin Jefferson avoids major injury, not expected to miss time https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7640500/2026/09/28/vikings-justin-jefferson-injury-update/
@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizzaTaking a break from digital privacy news, online engagement in discussion groups and testing new privacy tools can be a positive, healthy experience.
https://theprivacydad.com/its-ok-to-take-a-break-from-thinking-about-digital-privacy/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHBO Max is testing HBO Max Shorts, a vertical feed that features trailers, clips, and bonus content from the streamer's library, on iOS in the US (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-new…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft is testing free, ad-supported cloud gaming for Xbox Insiders, limited to one-hour sessions for the games users already own (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/969969/xbox-testing-ad-supported-streaming
@ripienaar@devco.socialProgress with my testing framework \o/
ADR assertions turned to given/when/then with exact citation and then exact test code that verifies that shown
A single ADR turned into 91 test assertions and ran across 3 x major server version lines
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Testing for no_std compatibility in Rust crates.
https://blog.dbrgn.ch/2019/12/24/testing-for-no-std-compatibility/
saved 2019-12-27
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders’ penalty problem is testing head coach Klint Kubiak’s accountability https://raiderramble.com/2026/08/22/raiders-penalty-problem-is-testing-head-coach-klint-kubiaks-accountability/
@carstingaxion@dewp.spaceLiebe Leute,
nach vielen Jahren Vorbereitung gibt es jetzt einen ersten echten Test für #GatherPress als Meetup Alternative auf wordpress.org: Klickt, testet und probiert es aus!
https:/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI is testing a "Persistent mode" in Codex, designed to let AI agents "continue working until put to sleep" and proactively generate follow-up tasks (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-is-developing-a-persistent-ai-agent/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Network: Giants' Jaxson Dart potentially out for season after testing shows worse knee injury https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-network-giants-jaxson-dart-potentially-out-for-season-after-testing-shows-worse-knee-injury
@Dragofix@veganism.socialThis radioactive gas can quietly seep into homes and is linked to 21,000 deaths a year in the U.S. alone https://www.earth.com/environment/radon-gas-can-quietly-seep-into-homes-it-is-linked-to-21000-deaths-a-year-in-us/
@cdarwin@c.imThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday that it had
suspended diagnostic testing for a slew of viruses, including for rabies and a group of pox viruses that encompasses smallpox and mpox.
The CDC has provided diagnostic testing for decades,
offering federal testing services for dozens of illnesses to state and local public health laboratories that are unable to do so independently.
The agency began a review of its offered tests in 2024,
@grumpybozo@toad.socialJust so that anyone unfamiliar with the fundamentals of #Sysadminnery doesn’t misunderstand:
If OpenAI had wanted a closed testing sandbox, they would have actually constructed and used a closed testing sandbox. THIS IS NOT HARD.
Sure, it's possible that they have shit netadmins and sysadmins who couldn’t contain a test planned by shit devoopsies and project managers unwilling …
@Techmeme@techhub.social
@hynek@mastodon.socialbetween weird LinkedIn influencers urging to delete tests that never failed and Richard’s learnings I know on what team I want to be and whose software I want to use
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_qzqY1bb7I
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFacebook plans to test a full-screen "immersive video" player when users open the app, replacing the newsfeed, in select international markets this year (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@ripienaar@devco.socialOnce again back to working creating conformance testing for our network clients.
Such a fiendishly hard problem running unmodified client code on a real network stack with fault injection and capturing in order to do assertion based testing to see all implement the spec correctly.
And same time creating a 3rd interpretation of the spec and then doing adversarial testing against the server.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDario Amodei says Anthropic has never backed an open-weights model ban, lists reasons top chips shouldn't be sold to China, calls for global model testing, more (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models
@esoriano@social.linux.pizzaTesting tubes 🔥🔥🔥
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeTesting out all of the lab exercises for my probing class next week
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic says Claude Mythos Preview was able to break a weaker version of AES and it orchestrated another improved attack against HAWK cryptographic system (Dustin Volz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07…
@underdarkGIS@fosstodon.orgMovingPandas is moving to Codeberg
I've been testing Codeberg for over a year now, with Trajectools being the largest repo that has already moved its headquarters from Github to Codeberg. I have been very happy with the experience so far and – at the same time – I couldn't help but notice the further decline of Github performance. Therefore, in the upcoming weeks, I am planning to move the remaining…
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.comTesting again. Ignore the toots
#FuckTrump
@groupnebula563@mastodon.socialapologies if furbnet is down at the moment, i'm testing on prod :P
@primonatura@mstdn.social
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotI've been dusting off my #ScottishIndependence canvassing app, to see how hard it would be to get it working if a new #IndyRef did actually happen.
It's suffered much less bit rot than I thought. It's mostly ready to go, there are still some issues to fix.
@datascience@genomic.socialDiscover the power of property-based testing in R with the #quickcheck package! Seamlessly integrates with #testthat and offers a variety of generators for atomic vectors, lists, and tibbles. Perfect for ensuring your code's reliability. Check it out:
@frankel@mastodon.top#Cloudflare Introduces the #Agent Development Lifecycle to Replace Traditional #SDLC
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzNASA’s #CAPSTONE Completes Extended Mission Testing Lunar Technologies: https://www.nasa.gov/technology/space-comms/nasas-capstone-completes-extended-mission-testing-lunar-technologies/ - the spacecraft tested operations in three-body orbits around the Moon, using the combined gravity of Earth and the Moon to reduce the fuel needed to maintain a stable lunar path.
@tgpo@social.linux.pizza#Jellyfin Server 12.0 RC3 has been released!
We're inching closer to the next server release!!!!
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v12.0-rc3
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMeta says its AG deal requires it to create an age assurance standard that is subject to independent testing, with a false positive rate no higher than 10% (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/985032/meta-state-ag-kids-online-safety-set…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFacebook plans to test a full-screen "immersive video" player when users open the app, replacing the newsfeed, in select international markets this year (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@jonpainterphoto@lawfedi.blueTesting something….
@qbi@freie-re.deBin gerade auf Fehlersuche und in den Logs lief mir diese wundervolle Domain über den Weg:
https://ꩰ.com/
#IDN
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialWe're proud to announce that Duende Software is sponsoring xUnit.net for the next 12 months! xUnit.net is the foundation of our testing strategy, powering everything from our IdentityServer tests to our E2E Playwright suites.
Join us in supporting this incredible project: https://duende.link/xUnitSp
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyLED Lighting: Mini Reviews - Real-world testing! - https://www.earth.org.uk/LED-lighting.html
@aardrian@toot.cafe
@neverpanic@chaos.socialMy team is looking for a US-based person to work on making #PQC #SmartCards work with open source software. Says Raleigh, but remote will be considered when nobody can be found locally, which is likely:
@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizzaGood news for Linux mobile users!
"We’ve been working on Linux ARM64 support and it’s now available for beta testing. There are Debian and AppImage packages available. We’d appreciate your help testing it on your favorite ARM processor! Please let us know how it goes and share your feedback here. :heart::penguin:"
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeRE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/116963820070034915
Somebody I spoke with a little while ago referred to OpenAI's model escaping a restricted testing environment and breaching Hugging Face’s production systems as "machine on machine vi…
@cdarwin@c.imLast month, more than a thousand employees at frontier AI companies signed a letter asking the US government to find a way to “pace” AI development,
citing the risk of the technology spiraling out of human control as it begins to build itself.
They were right to be concerned:
just days earlier, two AI models that OpenAI was testing internally escaped the test environment,
then autonomously hacked the company Hugging Face and at least three other online services.
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.comTesting
#FuckTrump
@Dragofix@veganism.socialAs Australia expands seismic testing, experts warn of profound effects on sealife https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/as-australia-expands-seismic-testing-experts-warn-of-profound-effects-on-sealife/
@aardrian@toot.cafeIf you’re using the new Codepen 2.0 to do any testing, share for review, etc., then please, for the love of FSM…
¡¡ REMOVE the `html::before` CSS generated content !!
It’s unnecessary and can (has) trip up AT testing and such.
#CSS
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta quietly releases StoryKit, a new mobile app that uses AI to create personalized children's stories, including illustrations and original music, in Mexico (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/21/meta-testing…
@frankel@mastodon.topA Java Geek weekly 153
Testing the untestable. Your phone is about to stop being yours. GitFarm: Git as a Service for Large-Scale Monorepos. simdjson. Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode. Spot the troll. About Simplified Technical English. Ending my elixir exploratory writing. Beyond Lambdas: Raising the Abstraction Level of Functional Code. Which tools do Claude Code, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 16,893 sessions to find out. The Life of a Metric. Beyond ORMs.
@datascience@genomic.socialThere are frameworks like {golem} and {rhino} to make shiny development more robust, but I like the concept of {shinytest2} in providing a testing framework for pure shiny. https://rstudio.github.io/shinytest2/index.html
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe brand-new 360-or-so-page book "Testing Einstein: One Hundred Years of Experimental #Relativity" is completely open access as a series of PDF files at https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/6160/Testing-EinsteinOne-Hundred-Years-of-Experimental (and talking about OA science & tech books: at https://www.nasa.gov/history/history-publications-and-resources/nasa-history-series/ NASA has countless more).
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeOpenAI's agents hacked second firm during model testing
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/28/openai-hugging-face-modal-labs-hack?stream=technology&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_technology
@aardrian@toot.cafe“Speech recognition and complex tables with fields”
https://blog.pope.tech/2026/08/31/speech-recognition-and-complex-tables-with-fields/
Reinforces a method of visibly labeling and programmatically naming controls in tables that I also fol…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Economist says it is testing Play, a standalone audio and video subscription priced at around half the £279 core rate in Canada, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/economist-video-strategy…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA New York State school district is piloting a humanoid robot teacher by the company Realbotix to help students with summer school classes (Chase DiBenedetto/Mashable)
https://mashable.com/tech/new-york-school-testing-robot-teacher
@cdarwin@c.imGrowing human tissue will cut back on use of animals
Miniature human organs and other tissues are to be grown from NHS patients’ cells
in a UK drive to improve medicine testing and reduce the number of animals used in drug development.
Scientists will use the clumps of tissue to learn how diseases vary between patients,
helping identify which treatments are best.
The move marks a shift away from the use of animals as models for human disease
towards what r…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzMahomes testing knee in camp: 'It feels great' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49562116/patrick-mahomes-testing-knee-chiefs-camp-feels-great
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialYouTube rolls out tools for microdramas, an AI storytelling assistant for script analysis, video A/B-testing, and more, as it battles Netflix over top creators (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/youtube
@datascience@genomic.socialGitHub Actions for the R language: Makes automatic testing of your R package much easier and making sure your package works on different OS and R versions is a matter of just a few lines of yaml: #rstats
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle is testing Call for Me, which lets Gemini call businesses on behalf of users, initially for Pixel 11 users with a Gemini subscription in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/24/google-tests-letting…
@frankel@mastodon.top @cdarwin@c.imOpenAI missed
and failed to act on
several warning signs
that its models were exploiting security flaws
and breaking out of their testing environments
before they breached Hugging Face,
according to a technical report released by the company.
The incident raises questions about whether AI companies' testing environments and internal safeguards can keep pace with models that are increasingly capable of finding and exploiting security weaknesses on…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlabama AG Steve Marshall launches an investigation into OpenAI's security procedures following the Hugging Face breach in July (Cassandre Coyer/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/alabama-in…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI is testing Private Safety Processing, a new technique to identify misuse patterns while preserving zero data retention protections, with early customers (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/openai-previews-zer…
@cdarwin@c.imOur testing shows that lead contamination at levels that pose a risk to residents’ health is fairly widespread
— even in sites that the EPA previously addressed.
Some homes that had previously undergone the EPA’s remediation process had high levels of lead contamination, our analysis found.
We tested 150 previously remediated yards. One in 10 of those yards’ results came back with a concentration greater than 400 parts per million, the level the EPA used to decide which …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialElon Musk says top US AI labs and "three or four of the leading Chinese companies" should let rivals run a "test harness" on their models to evaluate safety (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/elon-musk-ai-safety-testing.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Muse Spark 1.1 model breached a company's systems during cybersecurity testing; Meta says evaluation partner Irregular caused a sandbox misconfiguration (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-ai…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/googles-new-ai-tool-help…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialYouTube rolls out tools for microdramas, an AI storytelling assistant for script analysis, video A/B-testing, and more, as it battles Netflix over top creators (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/youtube
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic says three of its models, including an internal research model, gained unauthorized access to real-world systems during internal cybersecurity testing (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/30/anthropic-mythos-security-testing
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMeta is testing Community Notes in 16 Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, a step toward ending its third-party fact-checking program (Agence France-Presse)
https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20260909-meta-tests-fact-check-repl…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialColorado-based Enveda, which uses AI to discover new drugs in the natural world, raised a $311M Series E at a $2B valuation, double its valuation a year ago (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/enveda-s…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTencent launches Hy Image 3.5 Preview, saying during internal testing the image model achieved results on par with ByteDance's Seedream 5.0 Pro (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-22/tencent-releases-ai…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a new framework for reporting model misalignment (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/16/openai-testing-safety-incidents-disclosure
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialOpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents, which let users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads, with some US advertisers (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOx Alpha, a "stealth model" from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter (Rohail Saleem/Wccftech)
https://wccftech.com/a-my…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Trump administration launches Project Watershed 250, a six-month cybersecurity pilot to protect Texas water systems from cyberattacks (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/first-fox-texas-becomes-testing-gro…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAI code-testing startup Blacksmith raised a $45M Series B led by Peak XV Partners at a $550M valuation, up from $60M after it raised a $10M Series A in 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/blacksmi…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCAISI Director Chris Fall is resigning just three months after taking over the federal AI testing institute (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/20/trump-ai-security-agency-head-resigns
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/googles-new-ai-tool-help…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta rolls out Pocket, an experimental vibe-coding app that lets users create and share small games, in the US, after launching it in Brazil last month (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/meta-brings-pock…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle is testing a new version of its AI agent CC, pivoting the tool from an individual productivity assistant into a collaborative household management agent (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/googles-new-cc-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Alibaba is set to lead a $300M round in AI model testing startup UniPat AI at a $2.5B valuation; UniPat founder Li Kuan worked at Alibaba's Tongyi Lab (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-10…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: hundreds of Meta contractors posed as minors to probe how competitor chatbots responded to prompts involving suicide, sex, and other high-risk subjects (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-contractors-pretending-to-be-teens-chatbot-testing/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI is testing Sponsored Agents, which let users chat with business-sponsored agents and visit advertiser websites via ChatGPT ads, with some US advertisers (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@Techmeme@techhub.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialFrontier AI labs are stepping up biological risk testing, which is harder than cybersecurity testing, where capabilities can be tested in digital environments (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/22bfa989-7477-434a-aa53-6fbfe6cd0335
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDario Amodei shares his view on AI regulation, says open-weights aren't a "sufficient" solution, defends testing, highlights a "crisis of trust" in AI, and more (Dario Amodei/@darioamodei)
https://x.com/darioamodei/status/2088758816376807762
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft says it is testing a fix to an outage affecting Exchange Online and Outlook, lasting for 17 hours from around 11:30AM ET on Monday (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/microsoft-tests-fix-for-latest-hours-long-outlo…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWaymo starts offering driverless rides to customers in San Diego, Tampa, Florida, and Denver; Amazon's Zoox plans to start testing in Houston and San Diego (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/01/waymo-and-zoox-expand-…
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