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

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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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‘The Oral Tradition That Built Software May Not Survive AI’
A historian-turned-software engineer warns that “so little is ever written down” by professional programmers in a new article for Fast Company:

Perhaps there’s an early design doc, but then it turns out that everything was substantially revised before work began. Maybe there are a few wiki pages explaining known issues, some of which were solved a long … ⌘ Read more

It’s Not Just X. It’s Y
Article URL: https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just-data-its-post-training/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350149

Points: 9

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Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M
Article URL: https://peninsulaforeveryone.org/blog/atherton-spent-145k-to-delay-caltrain-electrification-the-rest-of-us-paid-400-million-and-waited-3-extra-years/

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ChatGPT for Google Sheets Exfiltrates Workbooks
Article URL: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/gpt-for-google-sheets-data-exfiltration

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349487

Points: 5

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, a ride indeed. Exactly, this affected each and every Atom feed and only Atom feeds. All RSS feeds worked like nothing ever happened. This std::string to time_t to std::string to time_t dance only happens for Atom feeds. RSS feeds, on the other hand, go right from std::string to time_t and be done. That’s precisely what the second option is aiming to propose for Atom feeds, too.

I will clarify that tomorrow in the article.

It’s very interesting what kind of quirks accumulate in software over the years. Especially quirks, the basically noone knows of anymore. Until something explodes and gets rediscovered. Luckily, that doesn’t happen all that often.

‘Backrooms’ Stuns with $81M Debut
Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/film/box-office/backrooms-box-office-record-opening-weekend-obsession-jumps-star-wars-crumbles-1236763355/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348864

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Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/despite-price-hike-steam-deck-is-already-sold-out-in-north-america/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348704

Points: 7

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Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don’t kill my xlock
Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/104185/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347961

Points: 8

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Sergey Brin told Google staff that working 60 hours a week is the ‘sweet spot’
Article URL: https://fortune.com/article/sergey-brin-60-hour-work-week-ai-rto/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347531

Points: 8

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King’s Birthday Honours 2026: ANZ’s Karleen Everitt honoured for services to Māori, business
Being made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and business is as much about whānau, hapū and iwi as it is about Karleen Everitt’s own service, she says.

“The award itself, in recognition of my contribution to Māori and business overall, really does reflect a journey that I’ve taken,” Everitt, head of ANZ NZ’s Te A … ⌘ Read more

King’s Birthday Honours 2026: Starship Foundation’s Bryan Mogridge made CNZM
A leading figure behind the Starship Foundation, which fundraises for the children’s hospital, has been the recipient of a King’s Birthday accolade.

Businessman Bryan Mogridge became a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit on Monday for services to children’s health, governance, and philanthropy. ⌘ Read more

Meta tests AI subscriptions and rolls out new paid plans for Facebook, Instagram
By Dean Seal and Meghan Bobrowsky

Meta Platforms has started the rollout of subscription plans for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and is testing new subscriptions for users of its AI chatbot as the company seeks to recoup some of the costs from its expensive AI buildout. ⌘ Read more

King’s Birthday Honours 2026: NZ business leaders celebrated
Commercial barrister Jim Farmer, KC, Mainfreight director Bryan Mogridge and Barfoot & Thompson managing director Peter Thompson are among businesspeople celebrated in this year’s King’s Birthday honours.

No knights or dames will be honoured from the business community, with doctor Paul … ⌘ Read more

European banks could cut 20% of jobs on AI, Morgan Stanley says
By Isabella Farr

The rapid spread of artificial intelligence may enable European banks to reduce their headcount by as much as a fifth over the “shorter term,” according to Morgan Stanley analysts. ⌘ Read more

Thoughts on the lobbying debate
Being a kindly soul who has spent many years around Wellington in journalism, public relations and then journalism again, twice, my first reaction to last week’s news of unrecorded meetings and documents between corporate lobbyists and the Prime Minister’s Office left me cold.

People forget to write things down that they ought to. ⌘ Read more

Don’t forget the value of design
Ten billion dollars. That’s what design contributed to the Kiwi economy in 2016, more than farming.

We know this because in 2017, a consortium paid PwC to put a dollar figure on the design disciplines’ contribution to the economy.

They added it all up, revealed the result at a launch in Wellington, and – according to those in the room – watched the Minister of Finance … ⌘ Read more

Talk Is Cheap: The Operational Impact of LLM Use
Article URL: https://unessays.substack.com/p/talk-is-cheap

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347155

Points: 5

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The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI
Article URL: https://darylcecile.net/notes/speed-of-prototyping-age-of-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347153

Points: 8

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Daily pill can double survival time for deadliest cancer, trial shows
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/31/daily-pill-daraxonrasib-double-survival-time-pancreatic-pancreas-cancer-clinical-trial

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