Tootfinder

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/

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

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…

Reddit is testing a new AI search feature for shopping | TechCrunch
A small group of users in the U.S. will start to see search results that include interactive product carousels with pricing, images, and direct where-to-buy links.

If you’re looking for an ngrok alternative for tunnelling that is affordable and just works (e.g., with Kitten¹), I can highly recommend LocalXpose (https://localxpose.io/).
(Not affiliated with them in any way; just use their tunnels for testing with Kitten on a daily basis.)
PS. If you have a static IPv4 …

LocalXpose: Secure Tunneling & Localhost Tunnel Software
Discover LocalXpose, the trusted tunneling software to expose localhost to internet. Secure tunnels, fast local proxy for safe remote access to servers and IoT.

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…

Reddit is testing a new AI search feature for shopping | TechCrunch
A small group of users in the U.S. will start to see search results that include interactive product carousels with pricing, images, and direct where-to-buy links.

Martin Stransky highlights some recent major achievements for #Firefox on Linux: ""HDR video playback support, reworked rendering for fractionally scaled displays, and asynchronous rendering implementation. All this progress was enabled by advances in the Wayland compositor ecosystem, with new features implemented by Mutter and KWin.
[…]
And there are even more challenge…

GitHub 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

GitHub - r-lib/actions: GitHub Actions for the R community
GitHub Actions for the R community. Contribute to r-lib/actions development by creating an account on GitHub.

"People in North Yorkshire town found to have ‘alarming’ levels of toxic Pfas chemicals in blood"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #PFAS

Похоже, что вчера в @… заблокировали все публичные серверы #Chatmail для #DeltaChat. Я создала два теста для OONI Probe, чтобы вы могли проверить блокировки у себя.
1. Тест Chatmail:

OONI Run | Coordinate website censorship testing
Run OONI Probe

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:

A nice afternoon running some brutal encodes across the homelab. This is initial testing of the 5fist fork of the `svt-av1-psy` encoder with some pretty severe settings. Hoping that the results are worth the wait, but gotta wait until the first few results come out of the workers.
#sisyphus #av1

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

Missouri Prisoners Face Limitations on Access to DNA Testing
A man on death row wanted DNA on evidence in his case tested. He was executed before the court made a ruling.

How Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are testing AI models by having them play Pokémon Blue on Twitch to track a model's ability to reason and make decisions (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/art…

Yea it looks a bit too DIY (at this point it's DIWHY) but it works, and better than the time when i tried and failed soldering the BC PS3, also learned on a lot of mistakes.

Also, you can tell semiconductor people are a bit off WRT their definitions of "normal, safe chemistry".
I recently finished pilot testing of a safer alternative to an existing process that uses HF.
As in, HF is *the safer alternative chemistry*.

Heute vor 68 Jahren: Am 22. Februar 1958 zündete die 2. #Atombombe "Venus" die Teil des Kernwaffentests Project 58 der #USA war. Zwischen 1957/58 wurden 4 Tests unterirdisch/oberirdisch durchgeführt.

from my link log —
k6: a web load testing tool, written in Golang and configured in JavaScript.
https://github.com/loadimpact/k6
saved 2020-11-28 https://

GitHub - grafana/k6: A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript
A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript - grafana/k6

"Pharmaceutical companies move away from horseshoe crab biomedical testing"
#HorseshoeCrabs #Animals #Oceans

Pharmaceutical companies move away from horseshoe crab biomedical testing
Amgen and Abbott are ditching horseshoe crab blood for synthetic alternatives — a win for a 450-million-year-old species edging toward extinction.

Greg Peters says Netflix plans to bring new content types like video podcasts to its vertical video feed, and plans to roll out a new mobile UI later in 2026 (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Netflix Is Testing Vertical Video Features For Mobile
The streamer plans to add video podcasts into its mobile feed and upgrade its mobile user interface.

After Bluesky injected my feed with post from peoples I don't follow (including some NSFW ones) it stopped and my feed is back to "normal".
I'm mostly sure I randomly was part of some testing of this new upcoming "feature"

Let‘s call it what it is: #Enshitification
#Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and search results - 9to5Mac

Spotify expands its AI-powered Prompted Playlists beta to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada, following initial testing in New Zealand (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/spotify-brings-ai-powered-prompted-pla…

Spotify brings AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.S. and Canada | TechCrunch
Now available in the US and Canada, Spotify's AI-powered Prompted Playlists let users describe what they want to hear using natural language commands.

That's a beautiful aircraft.
Here's a picture from its first flight October 28, 2025, which was subsonic.
The idea is supersonic flight with no sonic booms.

Stop the Government Redefining Animal Testing Sites as “National Infrastructure” #AnimalRights

Animal testing petition - Protect the Wild
Stop the Government Redefining Animal Testing Sites as “National Infrastructure” The Government is quietly pushing through a change to the law that would dramatically restrict the public’s right to protest. A new Statutory Instrument, due to be considered by MPs this week, would amend the Public Order Act 2023 to…

“non-irritating” pepper spray.
How does that work exactly? @… https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Andy Carvin (@acarv.in)
"Our products are formulated with the highest quality, non-toxic ingredients that are non-irritating and non-staining. With our advanced technology and rigorous testing standards, you can trust Zarc for all your correctional facility needs." https://www.zarc.com/t-zarc-professional-pepper-sprays/professional-products-66/category/professional-products-vexor-professional-corrections-72

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

https://www.instagram.com/p/DTy4y3VDpS0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Japan Daily on Instagram: "Abandoned suitcases are becoming a growing issue at Narita Airport, where nearly 900 pieces of luggage have already been collected this fiscal year—about nine times more than four years ago. Police say around 10% of the bags are empty, suggesting intentional disposal, with storage and disposal costs ultimately borne by taxpayers. The problem extends beyond airports to train stations and public spaces, often linked to travelers avoiding disposal fees after shopping. In response, Narita Airport is testing solutions such as clothing compression machines to help travelers save space and avoid buying new luggage. Retailers and repair businesses are also encouraging reuse through free take-back and resale programs, aiming to reduce waste and promote more sustainable travel habits."
49 likes, 0 comments - japandaily_jp on January 21, 2026: "Abandoned suitcases are becoming a growing issue at Narita Airport, where nearly 900 pieces of luggage have already been collected this fiscal year—about nine times more than four years ago. Police say around 10% of the bags are empty, suggesting intentional disposal, with storage and disposal costs ultimately borne by taxpayers. The problem extends beyond airports to train stations and public spaces, often linked to travelers avoid…

Rust unit testing: basic HTTP testing
Real-world application testing - Beginning with Axum
🦀 #rust

Ravens TE Isaiah Likely on impending free agency: Baltimore is home but business is business https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-te-isaiah-likely-on-impending-free-agency-baltimore-is-home-but-business-is-business

Spotify expands its AI-powered Prompted Playlists beta to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada, following initial testing in New Zealand (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/spotify-brings-ai-powered-prompted-pla…

Spotify brings AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.S. and Canada | TechCrunch
Now available in the US and Canada, Spotify's AI-powered Prompted Playlists let users describe what they want to hear using natural language commands.

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/

Greg Peters says Netflix plans to bring new content types like video podcasts to its vertical video feed, and plans to roll out a new mobile UI later in 2026 (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Netflix Is Testing Vertical Video Features For Mobile
The streamer plans to add video podcasts into its mobile feed and upgrade its mobile user interface.

Researchers from ETH Zurich have discovered serious security vulnerabilities in three popular, cloud-based password managers. During testing, they were able to view and even make changes to stored passwords.
https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth

Password managers less secure than promised
Researchers from ETH Zurich have discovered serious security vulnerabilities in three popular, cloud-based password managers. During testing, they were able to view and even make changes to stored passwords. 

Quick and easy #PHP code generation testing.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/code-generation-testing

Call for testing KDE installer dialogs
<https://gitlab.com/alfix/kde-installer-dialogs/-/blob/main/cft.md> | <

LED Lighting: Mini Reviews - Real-world testing! - https://www.earth.org.uk/LED-lighting.html

LED Lighting: Mini Reviews
Real-world testing!

Dr Thomas Hartung is an environmental toxicologist at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, who has spent his career trying to replace animal testing with specialised tissue cultures called organoids
and, more recently, with artificial intelligence.
Last May, he announced his most ambitious endeavour yet
—to create a "Human Exposome Project".
It is ambitious because it aims to do for environmental influences on the body what the "Human Genome Project…

"RFK Jr Speaks Out Against Animal Testing, Says Alternatives Are ‘Better’ And ‘More Efficient’"
#Animals
https://plantbasednews.org/news/science/rfk-jr…

RFK Jr Speaks Out Against Animal Testing, Says Alternatives Are 'Better' And 'More Efficient'
US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr (RFK Jr) has said that he is working to wind down animal testing in the US

Testing scheduled Posts in Elk https://github.com/elk-zone/elk

GitHub - elk-zone/elk: A nimble Mastodon web client
A nimble Mastodon web client. Contribute to elk-zone/elk development by creating an account on GitHub.

Testing out NocoDB again (self-hosted) and I guess I'm glad they have a "None of the above" option in the startup survey...
#NocoDB

Oh the joys of a mainframe upgrade.
Defining what type of testing is needed and specific test cases to verify that all functionality for the system is available.
Also, a short briefing note for the upcoming board meeting to describe what is being done, why, when, where the backup will be running from, who is doing what portions and how we verify that it all went smoothly.
It should go smoothly (famous last words), but we will verify that the upgrade was completed and comp…

A useful tidbit that stood out to me in this article:
“Noem [by lying] is training and testing the MAGA base”
Huh − “training and testing”
There’s a dance here: the regime is training its supports in how to think about and talk about current circumstances — but also testing the waters, seeing what sticks, what they’re willing to believe. Recognizing this as a bidirectional dance seems useful. Framing it as “training” instead of “telling” seems useful. Recognizing it as “testing” seems useful.
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/ice-noem-dangerous-playbook

Awww, #Claude, why you gotta do me this way! 14 hrs?!?! What am I supposed to do... sleep?!
Funny enough, we just finished coding my project and now I'm all ready for code review and testing.

That ominous "if" at the end tells me only that even the Linux community doesn't know why these files were taken down. I could make a breakthrough in my YouTube puddle if I spin up some clickbait video right now 😀

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/

Chip testing latest chokepoint as Nvidia, Google designs grow more complex
Quality control takes center stage in advanced AI chipmaking and packaging

I needed to build up our inventory of parts to build our network testing products.
So I discover:
1. The Chinese vendor who makes the motherboards has stopped shipping to the US.
2. The memory I need - pretty basic 16gb DDR 4 and 5 SODIMS - unavailable or more than quadrupled in price.
3. M.2 NVME SSDs - unavailable or much higher prices.
F**k those AI companies especially the one that bought all those memory wafers it can't use just to block its competition…

Me: *puts Windows testing machine to sleep because I'm debugging a complex issue and don't want to loose state*
Windows: "We've got an update for you!"
Me: *declines*
Windows, at 3 am: *wakes up, updates anyways*
Yeah, fuck that.
#Windows

Cowboys Headlines: Pickens punishments to affect tag? Testing Bradley Chubb's fit https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/17/news-headlines-february…

The Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Task Force has published its rules, letting you filter automated rules:
https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/rules/?requirements=a,aa&status=approved&imp…

All ACT Rules
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

So yesterday I learned that #ping != ping.
https://github.com/u-root/u-root/issues/3361
Apparently, even just looking at the -w/-W option, which is different between

from my link log —
Testing Rust with manual coverage marks.
https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/coverage-marks/
saved 2020-06-03 https://

Coverage Marks
In this post, we will discuss an interesting technique for testing test coverage, and the associated Rust crate — cov-mark. The two goals of the post are: Share the knowledge about a specific testing approach. Show a couple of Rust tricks...

Pharmaceutical companies move away from horseshoe crab biomedical testing https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/03/pharmaceutical-companies-move-away-from-horseshoe-crab-biomedical-testing/

I’ve been testing 3d-printed whistle variations; preparing a batch for drop-off to some local helpers for distribution.

The English in this article is so poor, there are several paragraphs I had to read several times to get any sense out of them. AI or the four(!) reporters named? Interesting topic, but nothing much added in this piece.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/13/politic…

Pentagon bought device through undercover operation some investigators suspect is linked to Havana Syndrome
The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting spies, diplomats and troops that are colloquially known as Havana Syndrome, according to four sources briefed on the matter.

Thanks to @…, I'm now the owner of a Steam Deck! 🤯 Just loaded 100 games on it from the collection, and now the true test, as many are older indies - only a few of the ones I loaded are sure to work. 😂 But testing them all and finding out will be interesting.
#Steam

New cases of syphilis in Alberta drop after introduction of rapid testing with immediate treatment:
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/2025/12/new-cases-syphilis-in-alberta-drop-after-introduction-of-rapid-testing-immediate-treatment.html

RE: #Emacs: After successfully testing it a few times, I just released an extension of the code which visualizes t…

🤖 testing G(get) S(hit) D(one) 💩 💪
it’s a token burner 🔥
But in the end, I have to agree: IT GETS SHIT DONE 😂 🚀
#ai

What are Out-of-band Application Security Testing (OAST) domains? Out-of-band application security testing (OAST) is a method for finding exploitable vulnerabilities in a web application by forcing a target to call back to a piece of infrastructure controlled by the tester. OAST domains (sub-domains most often) are often free and hosted by OAST tool providers like interact.sh. What happens when something is free on the Internet? It gets abused.
Let’s make tOAST of the most commonly ab…

GreyNoise Labs Weekly OAST (Well-known Out-of-band Interaction Domains) Report • Week Ending 2026-02-20 – GreyNoise Labs
GreyNoise observed 3,882 sessions from 24 unique IPs across 33 Interactsh OAST campaigns targeting the GreyNoise Global Observation Grid between February 14-20, 2026. Unlike previous weeks where multi-IP campaign clusters dominated, this week’s activity consists entirely of single-IP operations, with every campaign mapping to exactly one source IP. Two Censys-confirmed bulletproof hosting providers (Private Layer, RouterHosting/Cloudzy) anchor the high-priority infrastructure, while a commerc…

Discover 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:

GitHub - armcn/quickcheck: Property Based Testing in R
Property Based Testing in R. Contribute to armcn/quickcheck development by creating an account on GitHub.

Ever since the last cluster reinstall a few weeks ago Home Assistant has been running slower. Since it's been running on a Raspberry Pi 4, I decided to get a refurbished ThinkCentre to replace the node. Currently doing some testing, so far so good:

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

I blogged again! About my hike last Monday in the cold. On the hike I tested warming pads in the shoes which were almost great (almost because I should have adjusted them on the way down).
But NOT getting cold feet was really preciousss!
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/testing

Meta plans to expand ads on Threads to all users globally starting next week; Threads began testing ads in the US and Japan a year ago (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/threads-rolls-out-ads-to-all-users-worldwide/

Threads rolls out ads to all users worldwide | TechCrunch
Ads on Threads will roll out gradually to users over the coming months, Meta says.

"marshmallow testing" isn't testing "grit"
it's a test for learned precarity: whether the child feels like they can trust the promises of adults.

Gamification enhances user engagement and task performance in prosthetic vision testing https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.20.25342740v2 "Three Argus II users completed circle localization and motion direction discrimination in clinical and gamified ver…

Gamification Enhances User Engagement and Task Performance in Prosthetic Vision Testing
Purpose Visual function testing in retinal prosthesis users relies on repetitive psychophysical tasks that are cognitively demanding and fatiguing. Gamification may increase engagement, but its effects on perceptual performance in implanted users remain unclear. Methods Three Argus II users completed circle localization and motion direction discrimination in clinical and gamified versions. Visual stimuli, trial structure, and response requirements were matched within each participant; gamified…

Quick and easy #PHP code generation testing.
https://peakd.com/php/@crell/quick-and-easy-php-code-generation-testing

OK, so. As if the Trump regime hadn’t already dumped enough of their shit on us here in Minneapolis…there’s now talk about them sending •active duty military• to invade (“protect”) our city.
Maybe this is bluster. Maybe this is testing the waters. We have no idea how real these plans are, or if or when this would actually happen. I don’t think the regime does either. Regardless, we take this threat seriously: they’re stupid enough they just might do it. This nightmare could get worse.
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Meta plans to expand ads on Threads to all users globally starting next week; Threads began testing ads in the US and Japan a year ago (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/threads-rolls-out-ads-to-all-users-worldwide/

Threads rolls out ads to all users worldwide | TechCrunch
Ads on Threads will roll out gradually to users over the coming months, Meta says.

FEDERAL: It's Time to End Animal Testing for Cosmetics! #AnimalRights

Advocacy | National Anti-Vivisection Society
NAVS is a leading voice for Anti-Vivisection Advocacy

Demis Hassabis says there aren't "any plans" to put ads in Gemini and, in response to OpenAI testing ads, says "maybe they feel they need to make more revenue" (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/googles-ai-boss-no-plans-for-ads

Google's AI boss: No plans for ads in Gemini
During our convo in Davos, Demis Hassabis and I chatted about ads in AI, Google's new deal with Apple, humanoids, and Gemini 4.

LED Lighting: Mini Reviews - Real-world testing! - https://m.earth.org.uk/LED-lighting.html

LED Lighting: Mini Reviews
Real-world testing!

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-…

Early testing of the $40 USB microscope camera: i need to work out a better mount than the piece of trash it came with but the actual image isn't half bad for the price. I can definitely make this work for recording/streaming.

Federal prosecutors have repeatedly filed charges (and appealed adverse rulings),
arguing that
⚠️knowingly crossing the border is sufficient to prove criminal intent.
More than 20 legal scholars and former prosecutors told reporters they could not identify a conventional
law-enforcement or military goal that would justify their persistence.

The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law
One man, who admitted he had entered the U.S. illegally and was ready to be deported, sat in jail for 40 days over unfounded allegations of trespassing on military land. The Justice Department keeps pursuing similar cases, puzzling legal experts.

OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-testing-ads-us/

Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work
OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.

OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-testing-ads-us/

Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work
OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.

Canadian government introduces groundbreaking legislation to ban cosmetics animal testing and trade #AnimalRights

Canadian government introduces groundbreaking legislation to ban cosmetics animal testing and trade
Animal protection organizations and cosmetics industry applaud tabling of landmark legislation

I've been messing with wget and HTTrack for archiving web sites... An artist friend of mine passed away last year and I have this fear his web site might disappear some day, and I want a copy of it.
The images are not hosted on his domain though, they are on a SquareSpace domain, but I think I've got HTTrack working to grab them all.
Still need to figure out the exact formula, so it'll take a bit of testing.

I’m seeing more comments to my blog from people asking for the latest support / bug / gap / etc for testing I’ve performed.
I write these posts so people can do it on their own.
I look forward to people commenting with their own (rigorous) testing results instead. Some day.

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

"Testing the waters: can pumping chemicals into the ocean help stop global heating?"
#Chemicals #Environment #Oceans

RunSybil, whose AI agent runs continuous autonomous penetration testing on live apps to find and document vulnerabilities, raised $40M led by Khosla Ventures (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/18/e…

Exclusive: AI cybersecurity startup RunSybil, founded by OpenAI’s first security hire, raises $40 million led by Khosla Ventures
RunSybil was cofounded by security researchers who worked at OpenAI and Meta. It automates penetration testing.

LED Lighting: Mini Reviews - Real-world testing! - https://m.earth.org.uk/LED-lighting.html

LED Lighting: Mini Reviews
Real-world testing!

A study testing four AI chatbots on 2,267 news stories in English and French: ChatGPT credited news outlets 1% of the time, Gemini 6%, Grok 7%, and Claude 16% (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/202…

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok are all bad at crediting news outlets, but ChatGPT is the worst (at least in this study)
"ChatGPT, one of the most widely used models, covered distinctive content in 54% of responses but almost never credited the originating newsroom."

The joys of working on an open source project that interfaces to obscure, sometimes obsolete hardware: regression testing is almost impossible.
Sure, we can catch regressions in the GUI easily. But if a big fix to a driver breaks things for a different scope supported by that driver, there's no way to test without having one of those scopes around to validate things against.
And there's way too many models of instrument out there for building any kind of CI cluster to be …

fettling my emacs config
i have some old elisp that un-bolds faces, and it's turning them white when i prefer it to just make them brighter
so i'm testing a replacement and trying to find a bold face that isn't already bright
it's surprisingly hard!

Demis Hassabis says there aren't "any plans" to put ads in Gemini and, in response to OpenAI testing ads, says "maybe they feel they need to make more revenue" (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/googles-ai-boss-no-plans-for-ads

Google's AI boss: No plans for ads in Gemini
During our convo in Davos, Demis Hassabis and I chatted about ads in AI, Google's new deal with Apple, humanoids, and Gemini 4.

{testthat} is great for automatic testing. Here are some tricks for the heavy user: #rstats

Donald Trump abruptly, and very imprecisely announced in a social media post,
“Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.”
The suggestion that the United States might break with a more than three decade-long moratorium on explosive tests sparked a global wave of uncertainty, anxiety, and speculation about the impacts of a potential return to explosive nuclear testing.
This com…

Scientists Say Public Engagement and Pressure Are Key to Reducing Nuclear Risks
Nuclear experts are urging the public to demand concrete steps to reduce the risk of devastation due to nuclear weapons.

LED Lighting: Mini Reviews - Real-world testing! - https://m.earth.org.uk/LED-lighting.html

LED Lighting: Mini Reviews
Real-world testing!

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-…

X begins testing standalone X Chat app on iOS | TechCrunch
The new app promises a way to send and receive messages without being distracted by your timeline.

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/

Robinhood (HOOD) starts testing its own blockchain as crypto push deepens
The Robinhood Chain, built on Ethereum-based Arbitrum, aims to become key plumbing for around-the-clock trading and plugging tokenized stocks into DeFi.

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 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 tests ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI says it is starting to test ads for its Free and Go subscription tiers.

YouTube launches a Premium paywall for song lyrics on YouTube Music, after testing it in recent months; users get five free lyrics before they have to subscribe (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/07/youtube-music-lyrics-premium/

YouTube Music lyrics now require a Premium subscription 
After testing in recent months, YouTube Music looks to be widely rolling out a Premium paywall for lyrics...

A mystery 1T-parameter AI model called Hunter Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on March 11, sparks speculation that DeepSeek is quietly testing its V4 model (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

YouTube launches a Premium paywall for song lyrics on YouTube Music, after testing it in recent months; users get five free lyrics before they have to subscribe (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/07/youtube-music-lyrics-premium/

YouTube Music lyrics now require a Premium subscription 
After testing in recent months, YouTube Music looks to be widely rolling out a Premium paywall for lyrics...

Novee, which utilizes proprietary AI models to perform automated penetration testing, emerges from stealth with a $43M Series A and an $8.5M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/01/14/nove…

Exclusive: Novee grabs $51.5M to combat AI-led cyberattacks
YL Ventures, Canaan Partners and Zeev Ventures took part.