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Nothing's untestable

Vidhi Katkoria Technical Writer Nothing's untestable As the co-founder of HashiCorp, Mitchell has been instrumental in the development of tools that many of us use daily, like Vagrant, Terraform, Vault, and more. He also helped shape the initial testing strategies for them, gaining hard-won insights into testing complex software along the way. At BugBash, where everyone is a testing nerd (or at least wants to be), most of us have come across that one piece of code that cannot be tested. What d

"Mansplaining Audacity": President of Signal Watches in Bemusement as Random Man Explains Her Company's AI Strategy to Her

The act of mansplaining is alive and well on social media. Since what feels like the dawn of time, overconfident men have condescendingly explained how things work, even when they're woefully wrong and unqualified. Look no further than a baffling exchange on Bluesky after Meredith Whittaker, the president of encrypted chat platform Signal and chief advisor to the AI Now Institute, promised "no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does." It was a striking comm

A cryptocurrency scam that turned a small town against itself

Online scams are as old as the internet, but the rise of crypto has given con artists a valuable new tool — digital coins that can be transferred instantly, without oversight from banks legally obligated to monitor transactions for malfeasance. In 2023, crypto fraud cost American investors an estimated $4.8 billion, according to the F.B.I. The scams are so common that law-enforcement authorities have taken to calling them by a pithy name: Pig butchering, a rough translation of an expression wide