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Zeichen für „Super-El-Nino“ mehren sich
Die Hinweise auf einen besonders starken „El Nino“ verdichten sich. Das zeigt vor allem die Bilanz der Meerestemperaturen im Mai: Einige Male wurde der bisher gemessene Höchstwert überschritten. Obwohl die direkten Auswirkungen von „El Nino“ in Form von Extremwetterereignissen weit von Europa entfernt auftreten, sind die Folgen weltweit spürbar. Medien berichten sogar von einem bevorstehenden „Super-El-Nino“ – mit Sicherheit lässt sich das Ausmaß des Klimaphänomens aber noch nicht voraussagen. ⌘ Read more

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Remote Work, Not AI, Has Sidelined Recent College Graduates, Research Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The buzz on college campuses is that AI is disrupting the job market for young college graduates. But new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finds that the culprit may be something else: remote work. An analysis of federal employment data, paired with a deep dive int … ⌘ Read more

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TSB Heartland merger to form $18.3b regional challenger bank
The proposed tie-up of Heartland Bank and TSB Bank will create the sixth-largest deposit taker in New Zealand with more than $18 billion in total assets and a bent for scooping up regional market share.

The merged entity – styled as a challenger bank focused on the regions – would be known as TSB Heartland Bank. ⌘ Read more

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Hermes Desktop – 从安装到使用,完整的 Hermes-Agent 桌面客户端
Hermes Desktop 是一款 Hermes 桌面客户端,支持 Windows、macOS、Linux,能连接远程 Hermes,也可以为本地电脑安装新的 Hermes,可以管理聊天、会话、配置文件、模型、记忆、内存、技能、工具、日程安排、消息网关等。支持3D办公室。@Appinn Herme ⌘ Read more

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X.Org Server Starts June With Nine New Security Vulnerabilities Discovered Via AI
There are nine new security vulnerabilities impacting the X.Org Server as well as the XWayland component. Yep, more than a decade after X.Org Server security issues began coming to light with a security research acknowledging it’s a disaster and “it’s worse than it looks”, it continues holding true… ⌘ Read more

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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

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AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE Linux Performance
Yesterday AMD kicked off Computex 2026 in announcing the Radeon RX 9070 GRE alongside a number of other product announcements. With the Radeon RX 9070 GRE going on sale today, the review embargo has now lifted on this new RDNA 4 consumer graphics card slated to be priced around $549 USD. Here is an initial look at the Linux performance benchmarks of this new AMD graphics card offering. ⌘ Read more

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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

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The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After The Raid
Twenty years after Swedish police raided The Pirate Bay’s Stockholm data center and seized its servers, the site remains online. In fact, the 2006 crackdown arguably made it more famous, helping turn it into “one of the most resilient and iconic websites on the internet,” reports TorrentFreak. From the report: On May 31, 2006, less than three years after The Pir … ⌘ Read more

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Hackers Simply Asked Meta’s AI To Take Over High-Profile Instagram Accounts
“Hackers used Meta’s AI support chatbot to change email addresses associated with high-profile Instagram accounts, such as Barack Obama’s White House account, allowing them to change the passwords and gain control over the accounts,” writes Slashdot reader fropenn. Other accounts affected include the Chief Master Sergeant of … ⌘ Read more

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Nvidia macht Intel und Apple Konkurrenz
Nvidia will seine marktbeherrschende Stellung beim Thema künstliche Intelligenz (KI) weiter ausbauen: In der Nacht auf Montag präsentierte der Hersteller eigene Chips für herkömmliche Laptops und PCs – und positioniert sich damit als Konkurrenz zu Intel, AMD und Apple. Nvidia-Chef Jensen Huang sprach bei der Präsentation von einem „Superchip“, angesichts aktuell enormer Preise für Hardware ist unklar, ob der „RTX Spark“ den Markt umkrempeln wird. ⌘ Read more

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Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids EDAC Driver Changes Readied For Linux 7.2
Ahead of Intel Diamond Rapids server processors launching in 2027, the Linux kernel continues getting into shape for these next-gen Xeon processors. The latest enablement work taking place for Diamond Rapids is readying the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) driver support for propagating memory errors/correction information under Linux… ⌘ Read more

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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

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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

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Florida Sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, Accusing Them of Putting Profit Over Safety
Florida’s attorney general has sued (PDF) OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company prioritized growth and market value over user safety and failed to adequately warn about risks tied to ChatGPT. The lawsuit, the first by a U.S. state over OpenAI safety concerns, is separate from a criminal investigation … ⌘ Read more

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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

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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

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