Tootfinder

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

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

LED Lighting: Mini Reviews
Real-world testing!

"Transit is 95 percent safer than cars today, without a single algorithm. If AVs pull riders off the subway and onto robotaxi apps, the safety math goes in the wrong direction."
And the "if" is all but certain to be true, because that's exactly what happened last time companies drove down labor costs and regulation of taxi services. (Uber and Lyft)

With Waymo Testing Halted, We Have A Rare Chance To Get Ahead of the 'Driverless Revolution' - Streetsblog New York City
Two experts say we don't have to fear AVs, but we do have to prepare for them so we don't repeat the mistakes of the past.

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.

AI penetration testing company CodeWall says its agent was able to hack into one of Bain's internal AI tools, following a similar hack at McKinsey (Ellesheva Kissin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e73ddecf-8c41-4ecb-ada3-77a163c8d69f

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/

When the truck pulls away from the building at CERN,
the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva,
all eyes will be on its precious cargo,
a one-tonne device containing some of the most exotic material on Earth.
The 20-minute test run around the campus, pencilled in for later this month,
will mark the world’s first attempt to transport #antimatter,
a substanc…

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116567003935258364

Testing tells you what your code does. Formal verification tells you what it can never do wrong. Emilie Ma is at #bbuzz26 to make the case that LLMs are making formal verification genuinely accessible.
Learn more here: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/correctness-too-cheap-to-meter-formal-verification-and-llms/

@… testing anything in particular?

Stolen to add #AltText. https://mastodon.social/@vicfroh/116400343952503512

from my link log —
Deterministic primality testing for limited bit width.
https://www.jeremykun.com/2026/04/07/deterministic-miller-rabin/
saved 2026-04-10

Sources: Intel has begun testing production of "low-end/legacy iPhone, iPad, and Mac processors"; Apple thinks TSMC's resources will continue tilting toward AI (@mingchikuo)
https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/2054987772289810884

郭明錤｜Ming-Chi Kuo (@mingchikuo) on X
AI Is Reshaping Advanced-Node Resource Allocation: Apple, Intel, and TSMC in a Three-Way Shift

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…

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 backdoor to thousands, Breach forced Coupang to lose money, much more

Sources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley, and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI's finance sector push, but financiers are rarely using it for work (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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…

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/

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/

Remains of the Real d'Artagnan May Have Been Found Under Church Altar - DNA Testing Underway
Real name Charles de Batz de Castelmore, this close aid of the Sun King Louis XIV, who was killed during the siege of Maastricht

TikTok plans to roll out TikTok Ad-Free, a £3.99-per-month subscription for UK accounts aged 18 or older in the coming months, after testing the option in 2023 (Sean Keach/The Sun)
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/39046267/tiktok-ad-free-subscription-remove-ads/…

If you are phasing out old hardware where users could remotely run VMs for testing purposes, there is ALWAYS that one user that
a) has been using their VM in prod for years
b) doesn't reply to any message about decommissioning sent to all users
c) doesn't install updates, patches, hotfixes or anything "because I have it just the way I like it"
d) will raise all hell when you shut down the machine
e) insists that you hot-migrate their VM to the new i…

Google releases a Windows desktop app with a macOS Spotlight-like search box for the web, Google Drive, and local files, a screen sharing feature, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/04/14/google-app-desktop-windows/

‘Google app for desktop’ launches on Windows
After testing got underway in September, the  “Google app for desktop” is now launching for “Windows users globally in English.”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/06/labs-testing-thousands-of-unregulated-substances-amid-peptide-craze

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…

Disneyland begins testing electric Autopia ride vehicle prototypes
Disneyland is designing, engineering and testing a fully electric ride vehicle prototype.

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

LED Lighting: Mini Reviews
Real-world testing!

A daring mission to lift NASA’s sinking Neil Gehrels #Swift Observatory is now one step closer to launch this June: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/2026/05/08/katalyst-wraps-testing-at-nasa-goddard-for-swift-boost-mission/ and https://www.katalystspace.com/post/katalyst-robotic-spacecraft-passes-testing-milestone - on May 4, Katalyst Space Technologies completed environmental tests of its LINK robotic servicing spacecraft at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; LINK will meet up with Swift and attempt to raise its orbit.

"Volvo starts on-road testing of hydrogen trucks"
#Volvo #Trucks #Hydrogen

Volvo starts on-road testing of hydrogen trucks
Volvo Trucks has begun on-road testing of models with hydrogen combustion engines, as it works towards a commercial launch before 2030.

😠 Wegovy and Ozempic owner dealt blow as next-gen weight-loss drug is branded ‘obsolete’
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/23/wegovy-ozempic-weight-loss-drug-novo-nordisk-cagrisema

Wegovy and Ozempic owner dealt blow as next-gen weight-loss drug is labelled ‘obsolete’
Novo Nordisk’s shares fall sharply after testing of CagriSema falls short of investors’ expectations

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

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…

Sources: at least two US federal agencies and three congressional committees have reached out to Anthropic to test Claude Mythos, quietly bypassing Trump's ban (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/14/anthropic-mythos-federal-agency-te…

Very cool - a few of us did some rather auspicious testing of our peertube instance for live streaming yesterday! It's an impressive platform by the good folks in the Framasoft community! Now we need to test how it scales.

I really dont understand the infatuation people have with this 'task' command, the UX is so so poor.
$ task -l
* build-bundles: Build testing bundles
$ cat taskfile.yaml | yq '.tasks|keys'
- b
- fast-bench
- bench
- bench-graph
....28 more
Ridiculous

Installed a much needed new 72 pin connector on the ole front loader NES yesterday. Naturally the connector is Chinesium crap, so I was not entirely shocked that it failed to work correctly right away. Testing a known working, clean pins game I got blank screen. Messing about with the tray, I got a response when it was about 3/4s of the way to the final locked position. Fine.
Figuring it required a bit of "breaking in" so that games would properly load in the locked position…

The SMC Blind Spot: A Failure Mode Analysis of State-of-the-Art Beat Tracking
Jaehoon Ahn, Tae Gum Hwang, Moon-Ryul Jung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12287 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.12287 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.12287
arXiv:2605.12287v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Over the past two decades, the task of musical beat tracking has transitioned from heuristic onset detection algorithms to highly capable deep neural networks (DNN). Although DNN-based beat tracking models achieve near-perfect performance on mainstream, percussive datasets, the SMC dataset has stubbornly yielded low F-measure scores. By testing how well state-of-the-art models detect beats on individual tracks in the SMC dataset, we identify three distinct failure modes: octave errors, continuity errors, and complete tracking failure where all metrics fall below 0.3. We reveal that state-of-the-art models tend to generate "confident-but-wrong" activations. Furthermore, we show that the standard DBN's default minimum tempo of 55 BPM prevents it from inferring the correct tempo for 21\% of SMC tracks, forcing double-tempo predictions on slow music. By exposing such fundamental oversights, we provide concrete directions for improving beat and downbeat detection, specifically emphasizing training data diversification and multi-hypothesis tempo estimation.
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New Amtrak trains coming soon to Pacific Northwest, but not in time for World Cup
Summer capacity in the region will remain limited due to a railcar shortage. New trainsets are still expected later in the year.
first new Airo train in revenue service will happen on the Amtrak Cascades line in late summer or fall.
In total, eight new trainsets, two new locomotives, & a spare cab car are coming to the Pacific Northwest. Amtrak placed a large order for new trains in 2021…

People tell me that #AI code is fine, because you can run automatic tests. But tests can only tell you if code is doing the thing you want it to do.
To know what it SHOULD do, we used to have requirements. But now requirements are themselves vibe-coded slopotypes.
People were hoping that this would get them higher velocity, but testing the requirements in production only produces waste an…

Checking an LLM's work is a systemic, not an individual, problem.
Only a culture of design critique can prevent sloppy AI-generated problem definitions.

Can we call Windows abandonware now?
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116380259791929422

This is a terrific paper, by four of the best people in the field of statistical inference.
#statistics
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9305905/

Reverse‐Bayes methods for evidence assessment and research synthesis
It is now widely accepted that the standard inferential toolkit used by the scientific research community—null‐hypothesis significance testing (NHST)—is not fit for purpose. Yet despite the threat posed to the scientific enterprise, there is no ...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Althaser/115674242119863157
call for testing
Sylve - FreeBSD management plane

- CachyOS is cool
- Tests it on Virtualbox, uses it for 30 minutes
- Installs Virtualbox Guest Addition
- It hangs on reboot, can't boot back into it.
- 15 min of research, nothing's working.
- Okay, maybe not that cool.
Back to my OpenSUSE testing. Maybe I'll revisit it later, but I don't ever seem to have good experiences with Arch based distros.

Words I did not enjoy reading this week, from a leading artificial intelligence company:
“During our testing, we found that Mythos Preview is capable of identifying and then exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser when directed by a user to do so.”

What Anthropic’s new nightmare means, in plain English
Anthropic shared with the world what it learned from its breakthrough model. Would China?

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:

The new server is online and so far the testing looks good. All the endpoints seem to be working and all of the workers and frontend are showing the correct information. I still need to do a complete test run to include encoding just to verify everything, but I'll do that after work today.
#golang #gin

another innocent victim caught by radical left purity testing (charlie kirk)

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 some ideas in case my next linear algebra publication needs a photo
(... or category theory?) 🐈

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

Fun post pointed out by Werner Koch on the GPG "post-quantum defaults" thread:
#cryptography #QuantumCryptography #security

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.

@… 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

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.

How the special election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene is testing the power of Trump's endorsement (Jeff Zeleny/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/politics/trump-marjorie-taylor-greene-georgia-special-election
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p130#a260310p130

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…

Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott
There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking our servers wave after wave, systematically requesting page after page, relentlessly filling their data stores while we watch our access logs fill up.

Threads is testing a Meta AI integration similar to X's Grok, letting users mention Meta AI in a post or a reply to get more context, in five countries (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/threads-tests-a-meta-ai-i…

Threads tests a Meta AI integration that works similarly to Grok | TechCrunch
The feature is designed to help people get real-time context about trends and breaking stories, as well as receive recommendations, all within conversations.

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/

🥳 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…

wunter8
Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

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.

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.

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

CyberStrikeAI tool adopted by hackers for AI-powered attacks
Researchers warn 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.

Sources: Apple is testing four AI glasses designs with rectangular and oval frames, multiple colors, and a camera system with vertically oriented oval lenses (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

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 @…

Dynamic accessible descriptions reference - Darin Senneff
I recently needed to test the support of a dynamic accessible description – a element’s description that is initially one (or no) value, then changes to…

Replaced article(s) found for eess.AS. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.AS/new
[1/1]:
- Unifying Diarization, Separation, and ASR with Multi-Speaker Encoder
Muhammad Shakeel, Yui Sudo, Yifan Peng, Chyi-Jiunn Lin, Shinji Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20474 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/115110974009150613
- CALM: Joint Contextual Acoustic-Linguistic Modeling for Personalization of Multi-Speaker ASR
Muhammad Shakeel, Yosuke Fukumoto, Chikara Maeda, Chyi-Jiunn Lin, Shinji Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22792 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116000207024295325
- How Much Does Machine Identity Matter in Anomalous Sound Detection at Test Time?
Kevin Wilkinghoff, Keisuke Imoto, Zheng-Hua Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16253 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116096185732811365
- LMU-Based Sequential Learning and Posterior Ensemble Fusion for Cross-Domain Infant Cry Classific...
Niloofar Jazaeri, Hilmi R. Dajani, Marco Janeczek, Martin Bouchard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02245 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116169771215037748
- Adapting a Text-to-Audio Model for Room Impulse Response Generation
Kirak Kim, Sungyoung Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09708 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessAS_bot/116209762413602825
- Repurposing Image Diffusion Models for Training-Free Music Style Transfer on Mel-spectrograms
Heehwan Wang, Joonwoo Kwon, Sooyoung Kim, Jungwoo Seo, Shinjae Yoo, Yuewei Lin, Jiook Cha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15913 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/113548024475383386
- DeePen: Penetration Testing for Audio Deepfake Detection
M\"uller, Kawa, Stan, Doan, Jung, Choong, Sperl, B\"ottinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20427 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/114097333876265997
- Re-evaluating Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for Automatic Speech Recognition
Yuu Jinnai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19471 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115422969877240889
- Aliasing-Free Neural Audio Synthesis
Yicheng Gu, Junan Zhang, Chaoren Wang, Jerry Li, Zhizheng Wu, Lauri Juvela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20211 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/115773521971327576
- TiCo: Time-Controllable Spoken Dialogue Model
Kai-Wei Chang, Wei-Chih Chen, En-Pei Hu, Hung-yi Lee, James Glass
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22267 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/116283643505371784
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The US' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is testing ACCESS, an outcome-based payment model for AI-driven medical care, with 150 tech companies (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/medi

Medicare's new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea | TechCrunch
There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coordinates a housing referral, or makes sure someone picks up their medication. ACCESS creates that mechanism for the first time.

from my link log —
Understanding systemd-resolved, split DNS, and VPN configuration.
https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2020/12/17/understanding-systemd-resolved-split-dns-and-vpn-configuration/
saved 2020-1…

Jenny O’Connell-Nowain was ready to go to jail.
She had been prepared to spend six months in the custody of the Shasta county sheriff’s office.
One of the top prosecutors in this part of far northern California had presented the evidence against her in a weeklong trial,
and a jury had delivered a guilty verdict.
A judge offered probation, but O’Connell-Nowain did not agree to the terms.
Her crime?
Sitting on the floor in front of the dais of the board o…

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

LED Lighting: Mini Reviews
Real-world testing!

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

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/

Sunday, which is building autonomous home robots, raised a $165M Series B led by Coatue at a valuation of $1.15B, and aims to begin testing in homes this year (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

RE: https://mastodon.social/@FreeBSDFoundation/116358965337352584
Call for testing: introducing the Laptop Integration Testing project
@…

Sources: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and other banks are testing Anthropic's Mythos model internally; JPMorgan Chase is the only bank named in Project Glasswing (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-1…

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…

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…

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 ransomware negotiators sentenced to prison, much more

Keyboard testing *without* the token burn!
Bookmarklet from 2018 to focus interactives:
https://adrianroselli.com/bookmarklets#FocusInteractives
Or use Scott’s:

CSS Bookmarklets for Testing and Fixing
I regularly have to test sites in development, review some third-party site, or just use a site in my day-to-day time wasting (and banking) rituals. I’ve relied on viewing the page’s source or popping into my browser’s dev tools to find a missing element, copy un-transformed text, check for inline…

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 …

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.

Palo Alto Networks says in its testing, three weeks of frontier AI-assisted analysis matched a full year of manual penetration testing, with broader coverage (Sam Rubin/Palo Alto Networks Blog)
https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/2026/05/frontier-ai-defense/

A New Era of Security: Frontier AI Defense
Palo Alto Networks introduces Frontier AI Defense to counter autonomous AI cyber threats. Get continuous protection and autonomous remediation against machine-speed attacks.

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

"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.

Nuro says it has begun testing its self-driving tech on public roads in Tokyo, marking the US-based company's first international autonomous deployment (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116155254526138460
FreeBSD-CURRENT testing with real hardware blocked by <

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 …

NASA’s Artemis II laser communications system is beaming 4K video from the moon
A new laser system aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft is sending sharper video and more data back to Earth

TikTok plans to roll out TikTok Ad-Free, a £3.99-per-month subscription for UK accounts aged 18 or older in the coming months, after testing the option in 2023 (Sean Keach/The Sun)
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/39046267/tiktok-ad-free-subscription-remove-ads/…

Apple releases iOS 26.5, introducing end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging in beta with supported carriers; the setting is enabled by default (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/11/ios-26-5-adds-end-to-end-encryption-for…

iOS 26.5 adds end-to-end encryption for RCS messaging, rolling out now - 9to5Mac
iOS 26.5 is now available to everyone after six weeks of beta testing. The update adds fresh wallpapers, new features...

@… also <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rjhc9o/linuxkpi_iwlwifi_rtw8x_call_for_testing/>

Sources: AirPods with cameras reached an advanced testing stage; the cameras will feed data to Siri to help answer questions, rather than take photos or video (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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…

Exclusive: Anthropic acknowledges testing new AI model representing ‘step change’ in capabilities, after accidental data leak reveals its existence
Anthropic is testing 'Mythos," a previously undisclosed and highly-capable AI model, the company said after accidental data leak reveals model's existence

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…

WhatsApp is testing a premium subscription, put it is mainly cosmetic | TechCrunch
WhatsApp is testing a subscription after Meta debuted a similar subscription for Instagram earlier this year

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-…

Google is building an AI agent that could be its answer to OpenClaw
Employees are testing a new "24/7 personal agent" internally called "Remy" that can integrate across Google's other services.

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.

Sources: WH is preparing to order US agencies to partner with AI companies on cybersecurity; the EO wouldn't require pre-release model testing by the government (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-0…

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

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

OpenAI makes its Mythos rival more widely available to cyber defenders
Recent security testing suggests that GPT-5.5. model is nearly as good at finding and exploiting software bugs as Anthropic's Mythos Preview.

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…

Anthropic says its latest AI model is too powerful for public release and that it broke containment during testing
Anthropic said Claude Mythos is too good at hacking and that's why you won't be able to use it anytime soon.

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…