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Microsoft Allegedly Leaked Dutch Civil Servants’ Data To the US
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cybernews: The technology giant Microsoft has been accused of leaking the data of civil servants working for the Netherlands’ regulatory agencies to the US House of Representatives. The civil servants affected by the leak work at the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) and the Dutch Data Protection Autho 
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GĂłrny: why Gentoo?
Gentoo developer MichaƂ Górny has written a lengthy\‹article explaining the philosophy and purpose of the Gentoo Linux
distribution, in response to a\‹thread on Mastodon:

Gentoo is a source-first distribution, which means the primary
method of installing software is to build it from source. Of course,
that doesn’t mean manually building stuff, following some kind of
how-to: finding all t 
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Le WWF vire sa présidente pour son engagement antiraciste
Alexandra Palt a dĂ©missionnĂ© le 28 mai de son poste au sein de l’ONG environnementale. Son geste intervient alors que le conseil d’administration de la WWF France s’apprĂȘtait Ă  l’évincer Ă  la suite de sa participation Ă  une manifestation antiraciste. ⌘ Read more

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Housing sector pleased with Budget initiatives to encourage growth
The residential property sector is welcoming announcements in the Budget to further boost housing growth.

The Government has allocated $400 million to a fund that will return development levies to councils, encouraging them to invest in the infrastructure needed for more housing. ⌘ Read more

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IBM, Red Hat Commit $5 Billion To Secure Open Source Supply Chains
IBM and Red Hat are committing $5 billion to a new initiative called “Project Lightwell,” which aims to secure open-source software supply chains with AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, triage, patch validation, and upstream maintenance. Longtime Slashdot reader wiggles shares a press release from IBM: IBM and Red Hat today announced Project 
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Chinese regulators investigate Auckland’s Tiger Brokers in offshore clampdown
Chinese regulators have launched a probe into Auckland-based Tiger Brokers over alleged illegal cross-border business activities as part of a wider clampdown on offshore trading platforms allegedly helping investors sidestep Beijing’s capital controls.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) announced on Friday it was cracking down on several offshore bro 
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Startups win, science funding static in Budget 2026
Startup entrepreneurs had some good news in Budget 2026, while scientists were largely treading water amid major sector reforms.

According to the NZ Association of Scientists (NZAS), funding for NZ’s science and innovation system was about $30 million higher in 2026 than last year and was tracking slightly below inflation. ⌘ Read more

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Budget 2026: Sector glad for $6.8b capital commitment, now to actually spend
Finance Minister Nicola Willis says the 2026 Budget’s $6.8 billion in capital spending is being directed to projects that are “ready to go”.

The capital package in the Budget delivered onThursday contained major transport items, including a $1.7b express 
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NZ’s early AI adopters are already reaping the benefits
When Air New Zealand updated its uniforms last year, it faced a large and potentially expensive job: updating its library of 18,000 brand images.

“So, what are we going to do?” the airline’s data and AI lead, Mike Parsons, asked rhetorically at one of the last formal Techweek26 sessions in Auckland last week. ⌘ Read more

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Wide Fonterra forecast range points to volatility ahead
Fonterra Co-operative Group’s opening forecast milk price is a “solid number”, but the wide range around it is “very real”, its chief financial officer says.

The co-op will open the new dairy season with the same range as at the start of the outgoing season, between $8/kgMS and $11/kgMS, but with 
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The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are
The US military has long known that cheap fixes could stop location data from exposing its troops. It adopted almost none—and now says adversaries are using the data to target soldiers during a war. ⌘ Read more

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Financements libyens: «Pour Nicolas Sarkozy, c’est de la faute de tout le monde, jamais de la sienne»
Fabrice Arfi a rĂ©vĂ©lĂ©, avec Karl Laske, l’affaire des financements libyens de Nicolas Sarkozy dans «Mediapart», en 2011. Alors que le procĂšs en appel de l’ancien prĂ©sident vient de se terminer, il tire les enseignements de ces semaines d’audiences. ⌘ Read more

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Robinhood Now Lets Your AI Agents Trade Stocks
Robinhood is launching beta support for a new feature that will let AI agents make payments and trade stocks on users’ behalf. The company is also rolling out a virtual credit card for AI agents, with spending limits and approval controls. TechCrunch reports: Robinhood said users on its platform can now create a separate account for their AI agents and connect them to a dedicated wa 
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Le naufrage politique de Tony Blair
S’invitant dans les dĂ©bats aprĂšs l’échec Ă©lectoral du Parti travailliste, l’ancien premier ministre britannique veut plus d’intelligence artificielle, moins d’ambitions Ă©cologiques et sociales, et moins d’immigration. Un conservatisme qui rejoint les intĂ©rĂȘts de ses donateurs. ⌘ Read more

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FBI nahm Ex-CIA-Agenten fest
Ein frĂŒherer hochrangiger Mitarbeiter des US-Auslandsgeheimdiensts CIA soll bei seiner Arbeit Goldbarren und andere Vermögenswerte veruntreut haben. Bei der Durchsuchung seines Wohnhauses im US-Bundesstaat Virginia seien 303 Goldbarren sichergestellt worden, berichteten in der Nacht auf Donnerstag mehrere US-Medien. Der Wert des Goldes werde auf mehr als 40 Millionen Dollar (rund 34 Mio. Euro) geschĂ€tzt. Das FBI nahm den Mann den Berichten zufolge fest. ⌘ Read more

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Intel Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 Linux Gaming Performance
In recent weeks we have been exploring different areas of the Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics performance on Linux from various OpenCL and Vulkan to Level Zero compute benchmarks, scaling up to four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards, comparing to NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell, and other relevant tests. While not intended for gaming, many Phoronix readers keep raising requests for seeing the Arc Pro B70 performance for Linux gaming given the lack of any consumer BMG-G31 GPU. So fo 
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DOJ Charges Google Employee With $1.2 Million Polymarket Bet On Search Term
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud on Wednesday, alleging that he made $1.2 million off of bets using insider information on Polymarket. Prosecutors claim that Michele Spagnuolo, a staff information security engineer at Google, used confidential information to 
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Israelische Angriffe auf Beiruter Vororte
Israel hat am Donnerstag erstmals seit Wochen wieder ein GebĂ€ude in den sĂŒdlichen Vororten der libanesischen Hauptstadt Beirut angegriffen. Das israelische MilitĂ€r erklĂ€rte, der Angriff habe VerbĂŒndeten der proiranischen Hisbollah-Miliz im Libanon gegolten. Zuvor hatte es bereits Angriffe im SĂŒdlibanon gegeben. Israel hatte dabei einen Großteil des SĂŒdens zur „Kampfzone“ erklĂ€rt. Seit Mitte April gilt eine Waffenruhe, diese ist aber brĂŒchig. ⌘ Read more

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[$] Policies for merging new filesystems
In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage,\‹Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Amir Goldstein wanted to
discuss his proposed\‹documentation on adding new filesystems to the kernel. There are a
number of unmaintained and untestable filesystems already in the kernel,
which are a burden to VFS-layer developers who are trying to make sweeping
changes, suc 
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