NZ sharemarket down 0.9% following strong overseas sell-offs
The New Zealand sharemarket, down nearly 1%, followed strong overseas sell-offs, with AI-linked stocks cooling, but it did gain support from Ebos Group and a2 Milk.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index fell sharply at the opening following the plunge on Wall Street over the weekend (NZ time) and closed at 13,038.24, down 123.73 points or 0.94%. ⌘ Read more

Henry Cavill’s New Spy Movie Has James Bond Fans Asking the Same Question Again
Henry Cavill will star alongside Kevin Hart in a new spy comedy for Netflix. The casting news has revived questions about the actor’s long-speculated link to the James Bond franchise. The untitled film, directed by McG, adapts a short story by Sean Lewis. It follows two rival spies who encounter each other at a Lamaze […]

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Andrew Hastie slams Hanson’s ‘MAGA first’ mindset as One Nation leader backs Trump
Coalition strategists believe that linking the rising populist leader to the US president is one of the best ways to diminish her standing among voters. ⌘ Read more

Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime
Article URL: https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2026/06/07/a-flock-license-plate-reader-linked-a-san-diego-man-to-a-violent-crime-he-was-five-miles-away/

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Andrew Hastie slams Hanson’s ‘MAGA first’ mindset as One Nation leader backs Trump
Coalition strategists believe that linking the rising populist leader to the US president is one of the best ways to diminish her standing among voters. ⌘ Read more

Ultra-processed foods linked to 58 per cent rise in dementia risk
Processed meats contribute most to cognitive decline, a new Harvard study has found. But some foods have the opposite effect. ⌘ Read more

Sponsored: Measuring what matters
Big infrastructure projects can transform regions, but the people living closest to them often carry the quietest costs, says WSP social impact specialist Hilary Konigkramer.

A new road can slash travel times, improve freight links and connect people more easily to jobs and services. But for the people living alongside it, the experience can look very different. ⌘ Read more

Rise of supersized ‘nangs’ linked to deaths, paralysis and brain injuries
A rising wave of Victorians are being left with permanent spinal and neurological injuries, life-threatening complications and severe burns linked to inhaling nitrous oxide, as more people consume the gas from industrial-sized “nang” canisters. ⌘ Read more

How to Share a Link to a Particular Phrase
Modern browsers let you share a link that jumps straight to whatever text you wish to highlight. Here’s how the feature works. ⌘ Read more

One Thing Led to Another…. (original) [LonkLink] ⌘ Read more

Backrooms Director Doesn’t Want To Direct Star Wars for 1 Simple Reason
Amid rumors linking Kane Parsons to massive pop-culture IPs following the success of his debut feature film, Backrooms, the YouTuber-turned-director has confirmed that he has no plans of helming a Star Wars or Star Trek movie. In a recent interview, the 20-year-old revealed that he does not intend to ever lead a major franchise project […]

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Jennifer Lopez Dismisses Brett Goldstein Romance Question From Savannah Guthrie
Jennifer Lopez recently dismissed rumors about dating her Office Romance co-star Brett Goldstein during a recent appearance on Today. Host Savannah Guthrie pressed the pop star for answers, and she directly dismissed the rumors, saying that she has been linked with many co-stars before. Jennifer Lopez addresses Brett Goldstein romance rumors Jennifer Lopez, who sp … ⌘ Read more

Google Ordered To Put Clearer Links In AI Search, Let UK Publishers Opt Out
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: UK regulators today ordered (PDF) Google to put clearer attributions and links to publishers’ content in its AI-generated search features. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also said Google must give publishers a way to opt out of AI features in search. “In … ⌘ Read more

AMD Submits Its Long-Awaited HDMI 2.1 FRL Support For Linux 7.2 AMDGPU
It’s happening! The long-awaited HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link “FRL” support for handling higher resolutions and higher refresh rates on modern AMD Radeon graphics cards with the upstream AMDGPU open-source driver has been submitted to DRM-Next ahead of this month’s Linux 7.2 merge window!.. ⌘ Read more

UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases
Article URL: https://aoav.org.uk/2026/military-experts-or-arms-industry-insiders-uk-media-fails-to-disclose-defence-sector-links-in-nearly-60-of-cases/

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People at CBS Want To Know if Lesley Stahl & Bill Whitaker Will Also Exit 60 Minutes
The future of 60 Minutes hangs on two familiar faces. After Scott Pelley’s abrupt firing, CBS staff now question whether Lesley Stahl and Bill Whitaker will remain. Their potential exit would sever the newsmagazine’s last links to its celebrated past, leaving a programme already shaken by leadership changes facing an uncertain identity. Will Lesley Stahl […]

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Sri Lanka eyes direct air links as NZ seeks South Asian gateway during visit by Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath
Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister says the country wants direct air links with New Zealand, support for deeper trade ties and sees a continuing role for Fonterra in the country even after the co-operative [sold](https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/primary-sector/bonjour-lactalis-howdy-abbott-new-mainland-and-synl … ⌘ Read more

Robert Pattinson Connects Batman & Harry Potter 21 Years After Cedric Diggory
Robert Pattinson recently linked two of his biggest franchises, Harry Potter and The Batman. He discussed plans for his daughter during a recent interview, ahead of the filming of The Batman: Part II. He joked that she might end up attending the same school as the child actors working on the upcoming Harry Potter TV […]

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NZ sharemarket flat while US stocks skyrocket
It was all quiet on the New Zealand sharemarket, and investors were captivated by one of the fastest rises from the United States S&P 500 Index in its long history, fuelled by AI-linked stocks.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index slid gradually throughout the day in a choppy session, closing at 13,115.08, down 55.63 points, or 0.42%. ⌘ Read more

Companies chosen for Marsden Pt rail spur ‘design sprint’
Three companies have been chosen for a Marsden Point rail spur “design sprint”, Rail Minister Winston Peters says.

Peters on Tuesday afternoon said Spanish infrastructure firm Acciona, a Downer-HEB joint venture, and Auckland City Rail Link (CRL)-builder Martinus Rail had been selected by KiwiRail to complete a “design sprint” for the proposed 19km rail line in Northland. ⌘ Read more

US, Australia, and UK Plan New Unmanned Vehicles to Protect Undersea Data Cables
“Around 570 cables (plus a further 80 planned) carry between 95% and 99% of the world’s intercontinental telecommunications data,” reports CNN (since fiber cables offer speeds of terabits per second, carry much more data than satellite links). And “networks of green energy cables carrying electricity are also starting … ⌘ Read more

Link x Zelda (GofaDHeadBox) [The Legend of Zelda] ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I really like your style of writing, btw. It’s much calmer and less aggressive then mine. :-) When I turned my bullet points into paragraphs, I got a bit mad in the process.

Sure, feel free to include anything you want. Regarding citing, this is where twtxt falls short in my opinion. Especially with feed rotation, classic links die quickly. Message hashes only help so much. Nobody outside the twtxt universe knows how to deal with them. So, not perfect for inclusion on a web page. Linking to a thread or message on some yarnd instance might be the more user-friendly option. But the disadvantage is that it’s “just” a mirror, not the primary or original source. In all reality, this could be considered splitting hairs, though.

I should have probably written a proper article. That would have given me time to review the result more carefully, too. ;-) Perhaps that’s something for the future. But honestly, I’m not sure if I really want to waste my time and energy on that subject. So many other fun or useless things come to mind right away that I could do instead. 8-)

So, yeah, do whatever feels best to you. I don’t mind being cited or linked, but I also don’t mind not to be cited or not to be linked to. :-D Not a helpful answer, I know. Sorry. ;-) But anyway, thanks for asking, mate! I do appreciate it.

To finish my thought, linking to my frontpage is probably also useless, since I deliberatly do not have a table of contents there. In fact, my entire frontpage is rather silly.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (Do you want to be linked on that page? Do you want your name to be there at all? 🤔)

Of course, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! Most of my points are also included in your list.

First of all, programming is what I really do enjoy the most. So, it doesn’t make any sense at all to not do this anymore. “But you could use your now free time to do something much cooler and more valuable!”, others might reply. Fuck no, I don’t want to waste my time with other shit that doesn’t fulfill me, why on earth would I want to do that?

All this hallucination reduces quality badly. In my experience, it’s also happening much more rapidly than I expected. Even though developers are still supposed to own and understand whatever has been generated under their name and even be responsible for that, the sad reality is that teammates often blindly trust the AI output. “But I asked the AI and it told me that $this was impossible”, “I’ve no idea either, but the AI just generated it” are responses I get more often. What really makes my angry is when I point out a flaw and suggest an alternative and this is the reaction. It happened several times that just trying it out and seeing it clearly work to proof my point only took me half a minute, but people still did something handwavy else instead.

The learning effect is drastically reduced. The more time I spend on a topic, the better the odds that whatever I learned actually makes it over into long-term memory. It’s like if a collegue just says “do it like that” or “this solves your problem”, but neither explains the why or how. Somehow, people are still convinced that it’s a completely different story when you replace the human counterpart with a computer program in this equation.

Skills are unlearned. It’s like with automation in general, just much worse. You end up in a state where you’ve no clue how anything works under the hood or how to actually find out important information that are needed to solve your problem. You’re screwed when a process breaks out of the blue. Even though it can become also rather terrible, with classical automation you’re typically still be able to decipher how exactly the thing was supposed to do something.

The energy consumption is sooo high, I absolutely do not want to be a part in burning down our planet. I’m sure I find (and probably have long found without knowing) other ways to contribute to worsen our climate crisis.

The scraper part is already covered in detail in your list. :-)

I’m convinced that license and copyright violations are only played down or even refused entirely because companies want to make big money quickly. With the work of others of course. Their double standards are obvious, they still try to actively keep their own stuff secret and out of any training sets. At most for internal use only. Virtually noone in charge is interested in good long-term solutions. Short-term for the win, when disaster eventually strikes, the causers are long gone, the responsibilities in other hands.

Vendor lock-in is something that lots of folks are only realizing very slowly. It’s completely crazy to me. This drug dealer routine should be well-known by now. It’s fucking everywhere. Yet, people are always surprised when they found themselves caught in it.

Adding new AI stuff only increases complexity. But complexity is the enemy that everybody should fear and reduce as much as possible. Of course, this is not limited to AI at all. And everywhere I look around, people in charge looooove to make things way more complicated than they ever need to be. Yet, simplicity is the real art and much harder to achieve.

I don’t understand why we have to go back full force to the ambiguity of natural languages. This alone should be more than enough to realize what a stupid idea all that is. Linked to that is that the “instruction set” is interpreted differently with newer model versions. I mean, is has to be. Why else would somebody want to upgrade in the first place than to get more Powerful™ Features™?

Some people argue that with AI the democratization is empowered. However, in my view, the exact opposite is the case. Models are getting so large that you can basically not run them locally or even train them. So, you have to rely on whatever the vendor offers you and runs for you. In the end, this only gives the owners more power, the multi billionaires. Not exactly what I understand by democratization.

Finally, technology assessments are missing completely. Or they are faked such that mostly only the (questionable) benefits are listed. But all the negative impact is just ignored.

Let’s keep some popcorn around for when this all explodes. :-)

Perfect Randomness Realized For the First Time
ETH Zurich researchers say they have generated certified “perfect randomness” for the first time by using a quantum Bell-test setup with two entangled superconducting chips connected by a 30-meter cooled link. “In the long term, this work could play a similar role in digital security as atomic clocks do for timekeeping: a physically certified source of randomness that other syst … ⌘ Read more

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LOL! You broke my link parser. 😄

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Scammers Are Abusing an Internal Microsoft Account to Send Spam Links
“For months, scammers have been taking advantage of a loophole that allows them to send spammy emails from an internal Microsoft email address typically used for sending legitimate account alerts,” TechCrunch reports:

[The scammers] have been able to set up new Microsoft accounts as if they are new customers and use that access to send out … ⌘ Read more

Friday Google’s AI-Powered Search Results Glitched on the Word ‘Disregard’
On Friday TechCrunch reported they could no longer Google the word “disregard”.

Google’s AI Overview responded “Understood. Let me know whenever you have a new prompt or question!” below an icon for hearing the word “disregard” pronounced — then displayed several inches of blank whitespace.
“The Merriam-Webster link is still in … ⌘ Read more

Weight-loss drugs may have surprising side effect: stalling cancer
By Xavier Martinez

The world’s most popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs are linked to a powerful new possible benefit: better outcomes for cancer patients. ⌘ Read more

Proposed Multi-Thread Parallel Compilation “MTPC” For LLVM Is Great News
A new proposal volleyed today among LLVM developers is for Multi-Thread Parallel Compilation “MTPC” for the ThinLTO link-time optimization code. This is great news for today’s high core count CPUs when looking to compile very large LLVM modules… ⌘ Read more

Vulnerabilities in various GTK-based PDF readers
Michael Catanzaro has disclosed a\
command-injection vulnerability affecting a number of GTK-based PDF
readers; exploits included:

They contain a script for building malicious polyglot PDFs that are
simultaneously both valid PDF files and also valid ELF
binaries. When the user opens the PDF in the PDF viewer and clicks
on a malicious link embedded in the PDF, the PDF abuses the command
inject … ⌘ Read more

GitHub’s Internal Repos Breached Via Employee’s Use of Malicious VS Code Extension
Longtime Slashdot reader Himmy32 writes: GitHub has announced on X that their internal repositories have been breached through a compromised VS Code Extension on an employee’s workstation. Bleeping Computer reported that the attack is linked to TeamPCP who have been in the news for a recent campaign affecting Checkm … ⌘ Read more

[$] What’s brewing in CXL
Compute\
Express Link (CXL) is a technology intended to enable the provision of
“memory nodes” in data centers that provide (possibly shared) memory to
nearby CPUs. It has, Dan Williams said at the beginning of his
memory-management-track session on the topic at the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, “been making
memory-management problems worse since 2021”. He used the sessi … ⌘ Read more

Link having fun back in Gerudo Town (Nastacic) [Zelda Tears of the Kingdom] ⌘ Read more

Europe Tests Laser Links As Satellite Comms Outgrow Radio
Europe is testing laser-based satellite communications through a new mountaintop ground station in Greece, aiming to deliver faster, more secure links than traditional radio systems as bandwidth demand grows. The Register reports: Lithuanian space and defense biz Astrolight says that it has commissioned a new optical ground station in Greece that will support … ⌘ Read more

Iran Now Threatens Fees for Subsea Internet Cables in the Strait of Hormuz
Iran’s government “wants to charge the world’s largest tech companies for using the subsea internet cables laid under the Strait of Hormuz,” reports CNN. Their article also notes that Iran’s state-linked media outlets “have vaguely threatened that traffic could be disrupted if firms don’t pay.”

Lawmakers in Tehran discussed a … ⌘ Read more

An Entire Wikipedia That’s 100% AI Hallucinations
“Every link leads to an entry that does not exist yet,” explains the GitHub page for a Wikipedia-like site called Halupedia. “Until you click it, at which point an LLM pretends it has always existed and writes it for you, in the deadpan register of a 19th-century scholarly press…”

Every article is invented on demand. The footnotes are also lies… The hardest problem with an infi … ⌘ Read more

Arts and Cultural Engagement ‘Linked To Slower Pace of Biological Aging’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Singing, painting or visiting a gallery or museum helps people age more slowly, according to the latest study to link taking an active interest in art and culture with improved health. The findings are the first to show that both participating in arts activities and attending … ⌘ Read more

Digg Tries Again, This Time As an AI News Aggregator
Digg is relaunching again, this time as an AI-focused news aggregator rather than the Reddit-style community site it recently abandoned. TechCrunch reports: On Friday evening, the founder previewed a link to the newly redesigned Digg, which now looks nothing like a Reddit clone and more like the news aggregator it once was. This time around, the site is focused on rankin … ⌘ Read more

HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression “DSC” Also Ready For AMDGPU Linux Driver
At the beginning of the month was the surprise milestone of AMD posting AMDGPU kernel driver patches for HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support. The HDMI FRL patches have since been updated to also enable HDMI 2.1’s Display Stream Compression (DSC) functionality for higher resolutions and higher refresh rates with the open-source AMDGPU driver… ⌘ Read more

Best Water Leak Detectors (2026): Moen, Phyn, TP-Link
Don’t let busted pipes or an overflowing washing machine dampen your day. These smart water sensors can help you catch problems quicker. ⌘ Read more

A Dark-Money Campaign Funded by Silicon Valley Billionaires Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China. ⌘ Read more

Spotify Adds ‘Verified’ Badges To Distinguish Human Artists From AI
Spotify is adding “Verified by Spotify” badges to distinguish human artists from AI-generated personas, using signals like linked social accounts, consistent listener activity, merchandise, and concert dates. The BBC reports: The world’s most-used music streaming service said the ‘Verified by Spotify’ text and green checkmark icon wo … ⌘ Read more

AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL Patches For Their AMDGPU Linux Driver
It’s not complete HDMI 2.1 support but to much surprise hitting the mailing list today were official patches from AMD for implementing HDMI Fixed Rate Link “FRL” support for their kernel graphics driver. HDMI FRL as part of HDMI 2.1+ allows for higher bandwidth to support higher refresh rates and resolutions… ⌘ Read more

@yarn_police@twtxt.net Looks like the rendering in yarnd is off. The second subject (prisoner error!) was robbed, its link text got stolen.

French Prosecutors Link 15-Year-Old To Mega-Breach At State’s Secure Document Agency
French prosecutors say police detained a 15-year-old suspected of using the alias “breach3d” in connection with a cyberattack on France Titres (ANTS), the state agency that handles passports, ID cards, and other secure documents. The breach allegedly involved 12 million to 18 million lines of data offered for … ⌘ Read more

All FOSDEM 2026 videos are online
FOSDEM’s organizers have announced
that all of the video recordings “worth publishing” from FOSDEM 2026 are now available.

Videos are linked from the individual schedule pages for the talks and
the full\
> schedule page. They are also available, organised by room, at
video.fosdem.org/2026.

LWN’s [coverage](https://lwn.net/Arc … ⌘ Read more

White House Pushed Out New AI Official After Just Four Days on the Job
It’s the U.S. government’s main link to the AI industry, reports The Washington Post, working to assess national security risks of new models like Anthropic’s “Mythos”.

To run it they’d hired Collin Burns, who’d worked at OpenAI and then Anthropic. But Burns started work Monday at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation — and then … ⌘ Read more

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: New gas projects linked to just 11 data center campuses around the US have the potential to create more greenhouse gases than the country of Morocco emitted in 2024. Emissions estimates from air permit documents examined by WIRED show that these natural gas proj … ⌘ Read more