U.S. Midterms Have a Cyber Problem, but It’s Not at the Ballot Box
Article URL: https://blog.checkpoint.com/exposure-management/the-2026-u-s-midterms-have-a-cyber-problem-but-its-not-at-the-ballot-box/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365237

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Crystal Nights by Greg Egan
Article URL: https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/CRYSTAL/Crystal.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364754

Points: 3

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Former Sacred Hill executive charged with fraud
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has filed charges against Richard Foddy, a former executive and director of Sacred Hill Vineyards.

Foddy is facing 18 charges of false accounting, with six of those charges having an alternate charge of obtaining by deception. ⌘ Read more

Green Cross sells The Doctors to Tend Health in $270m iwi-backed deal
Tend Health co-founder Cecilia Robinson says the firm is delighted to keep NZ’s largest primary health care provider in NZ hands.

On Tuesday Tend Health announced an iwi-backed $270 million acquisition of The Doctors from NZX-listed [Green Cross Health.](https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/markets/green-cross-health-tamaki-health-group-why-private-equity-has-an-enduring-appetite-for-healt … ⌘ Read more

Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/06/01/can-the-stockmarket-swallow-anthropic-spacex-and-openai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364055

Points: 5

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ComCom says grocery competition shows ‘little change’
The Commerce Commission’s third Annual Grocery Report has found that New Zealand’s lack of supermarket competition is yet to improve.

“There has been little observable change in core competition metrics over the year”, ComCom wrote in its executive summary of the report, relea … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/openai-frontier-models-and-codex-are-now-available-on-aws/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363132

Points: 13

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Heartland Group, TSB Bank propose $620m merger
Heartland Group Holdings has signed a $620 million agreement to merge its Heartland Bank with TSB Bank, creating a challenger bank with a regional focus.

The proposed new bank would be known as TSB Heartland Bank, and Heartland said it would increase banking competition and choice for New Zealanders. ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Tuesday, June 02
Which was the first self-governing country in the world to grant women the right to vote in parliamentary elections?
Table Mountain overlooks which of the following cities? Cape Town, Toronto or Rio de Janeiro?
Which animal lives in a drey?
Which country will celebrate its semiquincentennial in July?
Where was New Zealand’s first capital?
What name was given to films in the 1930s, 40s and 50s that were made as a companion to a main feature in a double-bill programm … ⌘ Read more

Anthropic files to go public in blockbuster year for IPOs
By Kate Clark and Corrie Driebusch

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence lab recently valued at nearly US$1 trillion (NZ$1.6t), said Monday it has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, setting up a blockbuster year for IPOs. ⌘ Read more

Ombredanne: An AI agent ported our codebase from Python to Rust
Over on the AboutCode blog, lead
maintainer Philippe Ombredanne writes
about an agentic LLM system porting the ScanCode\
Toolkit to Rust. In the process, the LLM (or the people behind it)
infringed the ScanCode trademark, stripped copyright and license notices,
“and started an outreach campaign, without ev … ⌘ Read more

Debug Project
Article URL: https://debug.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362347

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DataMasque raises $7m
Auckland startup DataMasque solved a real-life privacy and security problem for people who build software – or, more recently, for those who need to get a new AI-based app up to speed.

That helped it land marquee clients like payroll giant ADP, New York Life and the Best Western hotel chain in the United States and One NZ here. ⌘ Read more

Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts
Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/hackers-used-metas-ai-support-bot-to-seize-instagram-accounts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361346

Points: 7

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[$] Representing the true signatures of kernel functions
Optimizing compilers can, under some circumstances, infer when a parameter to a
function is not needed, and remove it. This is all well and good until the
kernel’s tracing or BPF subsystems need information on how to call the function
or where its arguments are stored.
Alan Maguire and Yonghong Song spoke at the 2026
Linux\
Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit about their work on
recording information regarding c … ⌘ Read more

GitHub and the Crime Against Software
Article URL: https://eblog.fly.dev/githubbad.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361064

Points: 6

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Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)
Article URL: https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360137

Points: 6

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Seven stable kernels for the first day of June
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.0.11, 6.18.34, 6.12.92, 6.6.142, 6.1.175, 5.15.209, and 5.10.258 stable kernels. As usual, each
contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to
upgrade. ⌘ Read more

Cybersecurity startup Blacklock aims to raise $5m for new AI software spinoff
Wellington-based cybersecurity startup Blacklock is separating its software development operations into a new company and is planning a US$3 million (NZ$5m) capital raise to develop and scale its products.

Blacklock was set up to streamline and automate services, including penetration testing, also known as white-hat hacking. The new spinoff company is known as Cyra. ⌘ Read more

Aon NZ retrenches regional presence in nationwide office shake-up
Aon New Zealand is scaling back its nationwide office network, consolidating smaller regional branches into larger hubs in 2026.

In a written statement, the global insurance and consulting firm said the changes were designed to meet client needs and would take place throughout the year. ⌘ Read more

Ara Ake funding cut in favour of solar panels on schools
The Government is discontinuing funding for New Zealand’s national energy innovation centre, Ara Ake, and redirecting some of the money into installing solar panels on school buildings.

Ara Ake was established by the Government in 2020 in New Plymouth, Taranaki, as a Crown-funded future energy innovation centre focused on accelerating the energy transition. ⌘ Read more

Attention is a leadership skill. Your phone is undermining it
I didn’t step away from my smartphone for a year because I dislike technology. I did it because I wanted to lead and perform at a higher level.

As leaders and executives, our effectiveness depends on clarity of thought, presence in decision-making, and the ability to focus on what truly matters. ⌘ Read more

A July Official Cash Rate increase looks to be a done deal
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s central forecast is predicated on a July rate hike.

The Official Cash Rate (OCR) is currently 2.25%, and forecasts indicate it will average 2.51% over the September quarter, which is only possible with a 25-basis-point increase on July 8. ⌘ Read more

Hotel boss owes $69m over property tied to Auckland bar murder
A hotelier and property magnate owes almost $70 million to lenders over a property that was the scene of a grisly murder.

IPG Securities director Sunil Govind Parbhu, also known as Dennis Parbhu, owes approximately $69.1m to creditors, according to the receiver’s reports. ⌘ Read more

Winston Peters rules out KiwiSaver use in BNZ buyback plan
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has ruled out any KiwiSaver involvement in his multi-billion-dollar plan to buy Bank of NZ back from its Australian owner.

“There’s no way till kingdom come that’s going to happen,” Peters said when asked about the potential for a KiwiSaver element to the proposed transaction. ⌘ Read more

Budget smugglers: inside the trans-Tasman tax boxes
Budget 2026 landed in New Zealand with none of the dramas associated with its Australian counterpart, delivered a couple of weeks previously.

Unlike the radical tax reforms handed down by Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers on May 12, NZ Finance Minister Nicola Willis held a steady-state course tax-wise. ⌘ Read more

DuckDuckGo makes its ‘no-AI’ search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/01/duckduckgo-makes-its-no-ai-search-engine-easier-to-access-as-its-traffic-booms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359130

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The Newest Instagram “Exploit” Is the Goofiest I’ve Seen
Article URL: https://www.0xsid.com/blog/meta-account-takeover-fiasco

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359102

Points: 61

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Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/confidential-draft-s1-sec

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358646

Points: 8

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Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to ‘completely’ block Strait of Hormuz
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/iran-us-negotiations-strait-of-hormuz.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357637

Points: 32

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DistroWatch turns 25
The DistroWatch site is celebrating its\
25th anniversary. “All in all, it has been an incredible ride. Many
of you who read these pages regularly know that downloading and testing
distributions is a highly addictive pastime. I have been an avid
distro-hopper for the last 25 years and I don’t see myself abandoning this
activity for many more years to come.” Congratulations to Ladislav
Bodnar and all the others who have kept that resource going for so long. ⌘ Read more

[$] Reconsidering x32 — again
The x32 ABI was meant
to be the best of both worlds, providing the expanded registers and
instruction set of the x86-64 architecture while preserving the lower
memory use of 32-bit systems. The Linux kernel has supported x32 since the
3.4 release in 2012. The initial excitement around x32 did not last,
though, and kernel developers are considering removing that support — and
not for the first time. Even the most unloved features tend to have a few
users, though, m … ⌘ Read more

The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid
Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-remains-resilient-20-years-after-the-raid/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357154

Points: 7

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No Raise, No Promotion: 1 in 4 White-Collar Workers Are Stalling Out
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/white-collar-workers-career-nyu-study-a81a7d9c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357063

Points: 22

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Multiple redhat-cloud-services npm packages compromised (StepSecurity Blog)
StepSecurity is reporting
that a number of npm packages in the @redhat-cloud-services
scope include malware that runs automatically on every npm install:

The payload is a multi-stage credential harvester that sweeps
GitHub Actions secrets along with AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes,
HashiCorp Vault, npm, and CircleCI tokens, and it is purpose-built to
evade det … ⌘ Read more

Nvidia Cosmos 3
Article URL: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/develop-physical-ai-reasoning-world-and-action-models-with-nvidia-cosmos-3/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356654

Points: 6

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NPM packages from RedHat have been compromised
Article URL: https://github.com/RedHatInsights/javascript-clients/issues/492

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356625

Points: 73

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Fedora F44 election interviews published
The Fedora Project has published
interviews with candidates running for the open seats on the Fedora\
Council, Fedora Engineering\
Steering Committee, Fedora\
Mindshare Committee, and [EPEL\
Steering Committee](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/epel-policy-steerin … ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 9.0, firefox, flatpak, httpd, and thunderbird), Debian (chromium, corosync, cyborg, dovecot, exim4, git-lfs, imagemagick, kernel, keystone, linux-6.1, php-twig, python-aiohttp, sentry-python, swift, and symfony), Fedora (chromium, djvulibre, docker-compose, giflib, haveged, libsoup3, libssh2, mingw-objfw, netatalk, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-m … ⌘ Read more

Nvidia announces new AI chip for personal computers
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmp9mppvzro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48354967

Points: 4

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Why Are Large Language Models So Terrible at Video Games?
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-video-games-llms-togelius

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48354405

Points: 6

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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence – Hay festival
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/31/meta-legal-action-forces-facebook-whistleblower-to-stay-silent-at-hay-festival

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353965](https://news.ycombinato … ⌘ Read more

Malaysia enforces ban on social media accounts for children younger than 16
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-social-media-ban-16-bfaa7b01163b61b5d53c4ecfa870d133

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353497

Points: 13

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Nvidia RTX Spark
Article URL: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/rtx-spark/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352939

Points: 16

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AI-Driven Security Disclosures, NVIDIA Vera & Linux 7.1 Features That Made An Exciting May
May 2026 is now in the books after writing 275 original Linux/open-source minded news articles and another 20 featured-length benchmark articles / Linux hardware reviews. There was a lot of exciting topics in May to keep the month interesting and as we approach the Phoronix 22nd birthday this week… ⌘ Read more

Marcus Aurelius Had Anxiety Too – Stoicism for People Who Overthink
Article URL: https://stvrrll1ght.substack.com/p/marcus-aurelius-had-anxiety-too-stoicism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352379

Points: 5

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Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc6
The 7.1-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. Linus said: “Well, I wouldn’t call this ‘small’, but it is
certainly smaller than rc5 was. And I don’t think there’s anything
particularly scary here, so maybe we’re still on track for a normal release
cycle. Let’s see.” ⌘ Read more

Shift from a Leader-Follower to a Leader-Leader Approach
Article URL: https://www.practicalengineering.management/p/shift-from-a-leader-follower-to-a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351858

Points: 7

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Karpathy LLM Wiki pattern integrated into Obsidian agenic workflow
Article URL: https://github.com/pssah4/vault-operator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351115

Points: 4

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Chuwi Minibook X: the netbook we deserve
Article URL: https://tylercipriani.com/blog/2026/05/28/chuwi-minibook-x/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350598

Points: 5

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