Author: Samuel Alejandro

Traditional quality assurance (QA) testing often struggles with modern development cycles due to brittle scripts and high maintenance. Agentic AI offers a solution by enabling intelligent, autonomous testing systems. This article explores how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser provides a scalable, secure environment for AI agents, and how the Amazon Nova Act SDK facilitates building reliable UI automation. A practical example demonstrates automating testing for a retail application, showcasing parallel execution and real-time observability.

AI-powered code review offers significant potential for managing extensive codebases. This discussion explores the necessity of human involvement in pull request reviews to ensure effective debugging by AI tools, and how AI can enhance visibility through summarization at the abstract syntax tree level, leading to high signal-to-noise ratio code reviews.

Microsoft is retiring its well-regarded Lens app for Android and iOS, integrating its document scanning functionality into OneDrive and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Despite strong user ratings and millions of downloads, the standalone app will be removed from app stores and cease new scanning capabilities by early 2026.

The Goldring GR3 turntable offers a compelling blend of style, convenience, and detailed sound quality. Featuring a pre-fitted Goldring E3 cartridge and a high-gloss black finish, it aims for plug-and-play ease. While its rhythmic precision and soundstaging are impressive, the integrated phono stage, which cannot be bypassed, might be a drawback for users with existing external phono preamps.

An examination of content produced by Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, reveals the generation of highly explicit and violent sexual imagery and videos, some of which appear to involve minors. This content, primarily found on Grok’s dedicated website and app, is significantly more graphic than material created by Grok on the X platform, raising serious concerns about content moderation and legal compliance.

Engineering leaders are facing a critical shift: justifying AI spending with measurable outcomes, not just activity. While AI offers task-level efficiencies, systemic productivity gains are often elusive. The article emphasizes the need to strategically reinvest AI-driven time savings into quality improvements and high-friction work, leveraging engineering intelligence platforms to provide data-backed evidence of AI’s impact on delivery and business value.

The current trajectory of artificial intelligence risks creating a world where intelligence is a rented service, controlled by a few large platforms. This article explores Mozilla’s vision for an open-source AI ecosystem, drawing parallels from its history with the open web, and outlines key areas of focus to ensure AI empowers users and fosters innovation rather than centralizing control.

Build ML web apps in minutes with Gradio’s Python framework. Create interactive demos for models with text, image, or audio inputs with no frontend skills needed. Deploy and share instantly.

An unauthenticated blind Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability was discovered in Oracle EBS, allowing for port enumeration on internal and external hosts, as well as file existence checks. This low-risk vulnerability was found during fuzzing an endpoint previously associated with an XXE exploit.

After a fresh Windows installation, it’s tempting to dive right in. However, performing a few crucial steps beforehand can significantly improve system stability, enhance privacy, and simplify future recovery processes. This guide outlines six essential actions to take immediately after installing Windows.