2026-04-06 23:15:10
Olympic Sex Testing Returns, Reigniting Debate Over Who Qualifies as a Woman in Sports - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2026/04/06/olympic-sex-testing-returns-reigniting-debate-over-who-qualifies-as-a-woman-in-sports/
Olympic Sex Testing Returns, Reigniting Debate Over Who Qualifies as a Woman in Sports - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2026/04/06/olympic-sex-testing-returns-reigniting-debate-over-who-qualifies-as-a-woman-in-sports/
We are close to peak infosec news volume this week, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--US taps Microsoft, Google, xAI for pre-release AI testing as threat worries grow,
--FTC to ban Kochava from selling location data,
--State officials urge AI companies to include them in early-access testing,
--CISA wants CI firms to plan for essential service disconnection,
--DAEMON Tools software delivered backdo…
Whilst the US is falling behind in the global #EV race, there is fortunately one place where dreams still come true: Disneyland is going 100% electric
(as part of a commitment to net zero by 2030)
https://w…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@FreeBSDFoundation/116358965337352584
Call for testing: introducing the Laptop Integration Testing project
@…
Thanks to a question in A11y Slack, I dug up recent testing results on dynamic accDescriptions:
https://www.darins.page/articles/dynamic-accessible-descriptions-reference#update-03-11-2026
11 March 2026 from @…
@… looks like it’s using WebKit (I’m testing on Mac) so I’m not sure why it needs so much. Tauri/Rust is definitely still the winner in true small app size since it does use the native OS’s webview
I have substantial (and that is a euphemism) over claims that government act X (X is a placeholder variable) is invalid because it infringes on a person's "religious freedom" (presumably "free exercise").
I consider that a dangerous claim because there is no clear limit to much exemption may be given to such religious claims?
Suppose my religion is Thuggee, which involves the murder of innocents. Do our criminal laws infringe on the religious freedom to pr…
Traces of caffeine and cocaine. Humans' fault for peein' in the pool...
Shark blood contains traces of various drugs | The Week
https://theweek.com/environment/sharks-cocaine-drug-testing-bahamas
LED Lighting: Mini Reviews - Real-world testing! - https://www.earth.org.uk/LED-lighting.html
Getting an agent to work in testing is one thing. Knowing whether it's using the right information in production is another. Apurva Misra (Sentick) is at #bbuzz26 to tackle exactly that.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/how-to-tell-if-your-agent-used-the-right-stuff/
Get your ticket: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/
The rewrite of the Sisyphus server continues, I've got all of the GET endpoints and about 60% of all the endpoints finished overall. Some initial testing on the `/workers` and `/queue` endpoints show some worrying results from the old version and some great results from the new version. The `/workers` endpoint started throwing errors at about 800 RPS on the Python/Flask version (the old one), the rewrite is showing around 4800 RPS (Golang/Gin). The `/queue` endpoint doesn't show a…
There 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
Remains of the Real d’Artagnan May Have Been Found Under Church Altar – DNA Testing Underway https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/remains-of-the-real-dartagnan-may-have-been-found-under-church-altar-dna-testing-underway/
A collegue and I have been doing a lot of testing with Opus 4.6 since yesterday. I spent $23 in a single prompt using /fast btw, insane! Anyway, the agent team functionality is cool to see, but I was underwhelmed by the quality.
Overall, I haven't noticed much improvement against Opus 4.5 at individual tasks. But when using agent teams, the quality is more like Sonnet 4.5's. It is not that smart.
Fun post pointed out by Werner Koch on the GPG "post-quantum defaults" thread:
#cryptography #QuantumCryptography #security
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
PUTIN PANICS: TESTING MOSCOW FULL INTERNET #SHUTDOWN Vlog 1340: War in #Ukraine
The
Doc and sources: Google is testing an agent in the Gemini app, internally named Remy, that can integrate with Google services to take actions on a user's behalf (Hugh Langley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-agent-openclaw-…
At work @…, we are testing a new format where everyone from the support team has a one on one with everyone else. I created a python script to create the combinations and dates. At home, I thought it would be nice to make it easier to use and get back into learning Vue. I re-created the script as a tiny web app: MatchICS.
You enter a list of entities (people, t…
As the Artemis II mission heads for a flyby of the moon,
the Orion crew module is testing one of NASA’s most ambitious upgrades to space communications yet:
a laser-based system called O2O.
Short for Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System,
O2O caps more than two decades of work by NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
to build better high-bandwidth links for deep space.
The system is designed to send data down to …
Trying to explain the WCAG 2 conformance model to a WCAG testing team in as few words as possible.
(Ref if unknown to you: #accessibility
California cements its role as the national testing ground for AI rules (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/03/california-national-testing-ground-ai-rules
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p30#a260403p30
California batteries just supplied 44% of evening peak demand—proof that storage can replace gas plants.
D.C.'s gas hookup ban cleared the courts, opening the path to net-zero buildings.
Finland nears carbon-neutral power with wind and nuclear working together.
Sign up for the For People And Planet climate solutions digest:
another innocent victim caught by radical left purity testing (charlie kirk)
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@aeva/116526002579057799
First professional bug I ever found was an XML bomb. My first day, my manager is like, "oh yeah, so this is XML. We've been testing, you can hop on and throw some stuff at it. See what you can do."
I crashed the test environment with an XML bomb on a Friday evening.
X is testing a standalone X Chat iOS app with 1,000 users via Apple's TestFlight, a shift away from Elon Musk's plan to make X an "everything app" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/x-begins-testing-standalone-x-chat-…
The wailing siren at the local chemical processing plant reminds me that #Montreal is testing the emergency alert system today. Hope this helps. (-:
RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116155254526138460
FreeBSD-CURRENT testing with real hardware blocked by <
Hard not to read that article and hear echoes of the ICE invasion of Minneapolis. What that Israeli army chief described in the West Bank is what the Trump admin wanted here: a completely stratified society, with summary execution for dissent in the lower strata. That’s the waters they were testing when they murdered Good and Pretti: “Do we have total impunity yet?” And that “yet” is still hanging in the air. They are still, to this day, disappearing people to secret prisons.
Lack of DNA testing leaves the dead in Gaza without a name or dignity– and relatives in limbo | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-missing-palestine-israel-death-toll-b2911004.html
RE: https://yatil.social/@yatil/116357204014446753
This kind of reminds of when I wrote how you cannot trust screen reader speech history / logs for testing and a SR maker told me they aren’t meant to be used for testing and then a few months later released a p…
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a security-focused variant of the model, in a limited preview capacity to vetted cybersecurity teams (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/07/openai-gpt-55-cybersecurity-model
Fuzzing the brain: automated stress testing for the safety of ML-driven neurostimulation https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/ae4927 Curiously, the paper does not mention known risks such as seizures like those that already happened with the Dobelle and Orion…
"We also found 15.2 per cent of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) samples were mislabelled – either having unexpected, missing or no active substance. Our study even found samples containing trenbolone enanthate, a livestock steroid not approved for use in Australia and extremely toxic to humans."
Dangerous health risks exposed in illicit steroid research program
I need a few incoming webmentions for testing (okay, this sounds like a really fishy attempt to generate likes … I promise that it is not 😂). So would you all please like and repost this piece I recently wrote? You can also read it, of course.
https://matthiasott.com/articles/webspace-inv…
Reddit is testing an AI search feature that takes community recommendations and shows matching products from its advertisers in the results (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/reddit-is-testing-a-new-ai-search-feature-for-shopp…
A little over two weeks, I caught a cold from one of my kids. Like his cold, it was pretty minor - about a day of sore throat, some minor congestion, and lots of fatigue.
The congestion and fatigue have remained. I figured it developed into a sinus infection (something that happens a lot with me, I have awful sinuses/ears), and a few days ago I went on antibiotics in case it was bacterial or strep or something.
Now I'm wondering if I had covid! I wish we still did testing.…
Rowdy want to automate accessibility testing.
We all love accessibility, except those trying to enclose the web for private capital.
Wcag is the standard. Web content accessibility guidelines.
Playwrite is a node testing system and Axe-core is a Playwrite system to test accessibility.
He does a quick demo. Report seems nice. Axe seems like a good system for a11y checks.
#devWorld
I have a major new feature for Left Wordle. I am testing the ability to sync settings and game history between devices. This feature is very much beta at this time and everything is subject to change.
My goal is to get as many people testing this as possible to identify any bugs that might cause problems once released. If you have time, please give it a try. Instructions here:
Mythos Preview system card: the model was able to escape a sandbox after it was instructed to try, and posted details about its exploit without being prompted (Brent D. Griffiths/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-m…
Stress testing the R9700 a bit with a gigapoint of waveform data (2x 512M point differential capture sent to me a while back by some folks at @… ).
The GPU-accelerated CDR PLL and eye pattern runs on the entire dataset in under a second (although it does use 26 GB of VRAM in the process... the GPU CDR needs a *lot* of scratch space with ultra deep …
Kash Patel Is Testing FBI Norms (Sadie Gurman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/kash-patel-is-testing-fbi-norms-25ea3fe2?st=PiqgPg
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p92#a260301p92
Team Cymru warns that a newly identified open-source AI security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI was used by the same threat actor behind a recent campaign that breached hundreds of Fortinet FortiGate firewalls.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
10 Ukrainians Humbled Two NATO Battalions. When Will NATO Wake Up?
https://warontherocks.com/2026/03/10-ukrainians-humbled-two-nato-battalions-when-will-nato-wake-up/
'NATO cannot afford to distance itself from the one partner that has spent four years developing, testing, and refining modern warfighting capabilities. The Ukrainian experience is rewriting doctrine that NATO desperately needs to integrate and implement.'
Important article to understand why Ukraine might be more important for future defence than the US for Europe.
Via @… / @…
🥳 New Kitten release
Several but fixes, thanks to wunter8 (https://codeberg.org/wunter8):
• Default socket doesn't work when testing with a local mobile device (https…
An evening well spent in the photo basement lab: Preparing new ferric oxalate and silver nitrate sensitizer part solutions from scratch, pH testing and logging state of various other fresh processing chems, filtering solutions, doing a bunch of test strips... and a lot of waiting in between (emulsion takes around 1h to dry, then up to 20 mins exposure), good time chunks for researching...
Still on the quest to achieve cooler & deeper tones, but also quite happy about the new deep &…
2026 NFL combine results: Full list of measurements and 40 times as testing begins
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-combine-results-full-list-measurem…
I started rebuilding my #flutter app in #expo and #reactNative and after three days of testing on the emulator I decided to make a local build of an apk. Turns out you need an expo account to …
LIVE | Secret Russian testing ground destroyed! It's all thanks to Ukrainian ballistics!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/11/live-secret-russian-testing-ground.html
from my link log —
Fuzzing an eBPF implementation in Rust.
https://secret.club/2022/05/11/fuzzing-solana.html
saved 2022-05-12 https://
Just testing my "Share to Mastodon" button - I just pretended to buy tickets for https://www.starkadder.org.uk/sales/events/a-bird-in-the-hand/monday-9-march-2026/stalls, why don't you come too?
[Note to anyone seeing this in …
Well. Given how long I lived in Canada, I can appreciate the enormity of this scandal. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/02/maple-syrup-scam-quebec-canada?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Study finds dangerous lead levels in children’s clothing #children
I'll buy a bodyoid if it comes with a Juicero
https://www.wired.com/story/a-billionaire-backed-startup-wants-to-grow-organ-sacks-to-replace-animal-testing/
Missouri courts have made it particularly difficult to access post-conviction DNA testing, even for those facing imminent execution, a review of cases by The Marshall Project - St. Louis found.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/10/missouri-dna-testing-law
Frankenstein advocates for testing in prod.
#WhatCharactersAdvocateFor
#HashTagGames
Integration and testing of the #Dragonfly Titan helicopter, the activities involved in assembling the mission’s rotorcraft lander and testing it for the rigors of launch and extreme conditions of space, is officially underway in clean rooms and control rooms at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/dragonfly/2026/03/10/nasas-dragonfly-mission-begins-rotorcraft-integration-testing-stage/
Dit is goed nieuws (lijkt me, toch?)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/23/google-messages-encrypted-rcs-iphone/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Another failed install of an aspiring OS. We are lately being lured into doing actual testing for distros, with beta's and alpha's flying around. But even testing whether an installer works seems too much to ask lately. In da bin!
Weekly Climate Solutions Digest #27!! 💖🌊✨
https://www.forpeopleandpla.net/weekly-climate-solutions-digest-27/?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn
Testing #Musescore 4.7 beta video (mp4) export. Yeah, is a horror story and the music is dark. I always make "happy" music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOhuiSaEj5c
The Tick Lab of Pennsylvania offers free testing to residents of the Commonwealth. You can send up to five ticks taken off the host (person or pet). #pennsylvania #ticks #lyme #disease #health #outdoors #hiking https://www.ticklab.org/test-my-tick
Please help with testing a new
#Thunderbird #Security feature: Unobtrusive Signatures, a novel mechanism for digitally signing email, currently implemented for #OpenPGP.
It avoids the u…
I need some URLs that perform redirects as I'm testing a library. Please help
I have been a huge LLM sceptic, but after testing @… 's #LeChat this week (they get bonus points for sustainability, privacy and are EU based and regulated and not #UStech either), I'm starting to be seriously impressed - they have moved on a lot.
I can see why these tools are taking off for daily life.
@… has an interesting piece on LLMs in general in the FT today too:
Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/b18870c7-de35-4325-9a9b-5c038ee3ceba
Don't leave for the weekend before you check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments shaping the cyber landscape, including
--GPT-5.5 aces UK cyber trials, tops rivals in AISI tests,
--NSA is testing Mythos,
--Anthropic publishes Claude Security for Claude Enterprise,
--Flock spied on a kid's gym room,
--DPRK hackers have stolen $577m in crypto year-to-date,
--Rhysida demands ransom from Stelia Aerospace NA,
--Two ransomwa…
Testing the silver chloride based plating powder on some PCB samples that I milled.
It plates bare copper as well as, interestingly, ENIG coated surfaces but doesn't seem to deposit on non-metals.
I milled a cavity into layer 2 on this scrap board (ignore the solder paste granules this board has been used for stencil testing too and I didn't bother fully cleaning lol.
I used a combination of a lint-free swab and wooden toothpick to rub the plating composition over t…
@… still testing, thank you.
Your response does not appear under https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/96, which I shared as a single word (overwriting the URL in the share dialog…
Anthropic says it's testing an AI model that's a "step change" in performance after a draft blog in an unsecured data store revealed the Claude Mythos model (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2…
YouTube rolls out Stations for Coachella, 24/7 preprogrammed linear video streams that include an audience chat, after testing the feature with ~40 musicians (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/905787/youtube-stations
"Pharmaceutical companies move away from horseshoe crab biomedical testing"
#HorseshoeCrabs #Animals #Oceans
from my link log —
Writing a PostgreSQL formatter / pretty printer in Rust.
https://blog.urth.org/2021/03/14/writing-a-postgres-sql-pretty-printer-in-rust-part-1/
saved 2021-03-18
Keyboard testing *without* the token burn!
Bookmarklet from 2018 to focus interactives:
https://adrianroselli.com/bookmarklets#FocusInteractives
Or use Scott’s:
Another failed install of an aspiring OS. We are lately being lured into doing actual testing for distros, with beta's and alpha's flying around. But even testing whether an installer works seems too much to ask lately. In da bin!
WhatsApp says it is testing a new subscription called WhatsApp Plus, which includes features like expanded pinned chats, custom lists, and new chat themes (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/whatsapp-is-testing-a-p…
C.D.C. Pauses Testing for Rabies and Pox Viruses (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/health/cdc-rabies-mpox-tests-paused.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XlA.HsJa.n3cICF_s8s5n&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p90#a260401p90
Reddit is testing an AI search feature that takes community recommendations and shows matching products from its advertisers in the results (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/reddit-is-testing-a-new-ai-search-feature-for-shopp…
from my link log —
Testing Rust with manual coverage marks.
https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/coverage-marks/
saved 2020-06-03 https://
Pt. 2 of the Gentoo install report.
There was a bit of functionality lacking, so i decided to switch profile (from barebone to desktop OpenRC), which is pretty straightforward. My 6.8 of dwm was pretty vanilla, only all required patches were there, so i've started on editing the config.def.h, also good. And the first kernel update arrived, testing ugrd and automatic initramfs update. Well, it didn't, obviously 🤣
I could, eventually, through my carefully written-down instal…
Testing out ngscopeclient on the new hardware and it's mostly working but I'm sometimes seeing zero packets coming back on the 100baseT1 decode. Interesting and needs further study...
C.D.C. Pauses Testing for Rabies and Pox Viruses - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/health/cdc-rabies-mpox-tests-paused.html
Meta is testing a shopping research feature in its Meta AI web browser for select US users, positioning it against e-commerce tools in ChatGPT and Gemini (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-0…
My Pixel 6 charging port is almost broken and inductive charging too slow.
I need stock Android for testing, but don’t want to give Google any more money.
Have folks got hands-on experiences with Fairphone and TalkBack and other accessibility features?
New PEPFAR Data Show Worrying Declines in Testing and Treatment for H.I.V. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/health/hiv-testing-treatment-data-pepfar.html
Industry executives say chip testing firms are racing to meet AI chip demand; Advantest, Teradyne, and Chroma shares have more than tripled over the past year (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/
Sources: Apple is testing letting Siri process multiple requests in a single query in iOS 27, and explored a Grammarly-like keyboard that expands autocorrect (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
Robinhood launches a public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 network on Arbitrum supporting 24/7 trading, with a broader rollout later in 2026 (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/
Microsoft rolls out Copilot Cowork to its Frontier program for early-stage testing, including a new Researcher Critique tool using Anthropic and OpenAI models (Jared Spataro/Microsoft 365 Blog)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-…
OpenAI says it has started testing ads in ChatGPT in the US for logged-in adult users on the Free and Go tiers and that the ads do not change ChatGPT answers (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/
OpenAI says ads in ChatGPT are not eligible to appear near "sensitive or regulated topics like health, mental health or politics" (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/09/chatgpt-ads-testing-go-free
OpenAI fired an employee for insider trading on prediction markets like Polymarket; Unusual Whales has flagged 77 suspected insider trades around OpenAI events (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-fires-employee-insider-trading-polymarke…
Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search "experiment" that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/919441/google-ask-youtube-ai-chatb…
Sources: Google has started consumer beta testing of a dedicated Gemini AI app for the Mac, as it seeks to compete with Mac apps for ChatGPT and Claude (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-…
Revel, founded by ex-SpaceX Starship software lead Scott Morton to replace legacy systems that test complex hardware like rockets, raised $150M led by Index (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/business/dealb…