Chance Voight entity evicted
An entity controlled by controversial Chance Voight director Bernard Whimp has been evicted from its Rangiora offices.

In May, the owner of the Cone St commercial premises asked for a High Court order giving it possession of the property and cancelling CVI Management Services LP’s (CVI) lease. ⌘ Read more

ABC News boss unaware he was being replaced, managing director says
Hugh Marks said that Justin Stevens resigned, but his exit was “inevitable” after the pair disagreed on the right direction for Australia’s largest newsroom. ⌘ Read more

Auckland Council’s PC120 decision could be revisited in RMA reforms
The Auckland Council’s decision on contentious housing intensification could be for naught, as resource management reform looms.

Councillors on Tuesday are set to vote on PC120, a plan change to meet housing intensification requirements, after the Government in April passed a law to downgrade the city’s house planning target from two million dwellings [to 1.4m dwellings](https://busin … ⌘ Read more

[$] An update on fanotify
In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Amir Goldstein updated
attendees on the fanotify
filesystem-event monitoring
subsystem. He wanted to describe changes that had come in the last year or
so, as well as upcoming features and some remaining challenges in his
efforts [to use fanotify for hierarchical\
storage management](https://lwn.net/Ar … ⌘ Read more

Compliance-Vorwürfe: ORF-Manager Pius Strobl freigestellt ⌘ Read more

Ruby Fights Supply-Chain Attacks With Filter Offering ‘Cooldown’ Before Installing New Packages
Most supply-chain attacks using Ruby’s package hosting site “exploit a narrow window,” according to a new blog post form Ruby core maintainer Hiroshi Shibata.

So its packaging-managing Bundler tool now offers a filter that blocks new version until it’s been public “for at least N … ⌘ Read more

Eroad board challenger wants to split company, cut costs
Eroad’s largest shareholder wants to split the company, sell or unwind its North American operations, and reduce headcount if a boardroom challenge succeeds.

Alleging mismanagement of the NZX-listed fleet technology company, New York-based Ampfield Management has put forward a turnaround strategy as part of its attempt to remove Eroad’s executive chairman, John Scott, and another director, and install three of … ⌘ Read more

Chez Celio, des cadres terrorisés brisent l’omerta
Contrôle excessif, journées à rallonge, management brutal, propos discriminants… De nombreux témoignages rassemblés par «Mediapart» dénoncent le comportement de David Hermelin, numéro trois de l’entreprise de prêt-à-porter. La direction a été alertée, en vain. ⌘ Read more

GNOME File Previewer Finally Switches TO GTK4, Adds Dark Mode
GNOME Sushi as the file previewer component for the GNOME Files (Nautilus) file manager has now been adapted to make use of GTK4 as well as delivering other enhancements for a nicer file previewing experience on GNOME… ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Related reading (if you’re interested): Let’s Talk about LLMs by James Bennett

First, it quotes the DORA report on the “State of AI-assisted Software Development”:

The research reveals a critical truth: AI’s primary role in software development is that of an amplifier. It magnifies the strengths of high-performing organizations and the dysfunctions of struggling ones.

At the end, it quotes the late Fred Books:

The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.

Ruby’s Bundler adds a cooldown feature
Version\
4.0.13 of Ruby’s Bundler
package-manager has added\
dependency cooldowns in order to help mitigate the effect of
supply-chain attacks:

Most supply-chain attacks against RubyGems exploit a narrow window:
an account is compromised, a malicious version ships, and any
bundle install in the minutes that follow resolves
str … ⌘ Read more

The Night Manager Star Joins Ensemble Cast of New John Le Carré BBC Adaptation
A familiar face from the John le Carré universe is returning for another major spy project. The actor has joined a BBC and MGM+ adaptation that is already in production. The upcoming espionage series is going to be one of the most ambitious and interesting television projects based on le Carré’s work in recent years. […]

The post [The Night Manager Star Joins Ensemble Cast of New John Le … ⌘ Read more

DP World to woo Lyttelton Port
Global port operator DP World is understood to be close to making a formal offer to manage the operations at the Port of Lyttelton for as long as 30 years.

Executives from the Australian and Singaporean offices of the Dubai-headquartered company, one of the world’s largest container port operators, are believed to be in Christchurch finalising the offer. ⌘ Read more

Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager
Article URL: https://castor.web.cern.ch/content/home.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403753

Points: 11

# Comments: 1 ⌘ Read more

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 4, 2026
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: MeshCore; x32 ABI; Open-source security; Package-manager metadata; More LSFMM+BPF coverage; Loadable crypto module.

• Briefs: Lightwell; jqwik protestware; RedHat package compromise; DistroWatch; Fedora election; Rust 1.96.0; rsync; Vim Classic 8.3; Quotes; …

• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patch … ⌘ Read more

Sponsored: How the University of Auckland is helping shape NZ aviation’s future
Anyone who buys a ticket to fly nationally or overseas has a stake in ensuring Airways New Zealand have strong senior leadership – and they are certainly ensuring they do.

That’s because Airways NZ manages the airspace above New Zealand, playing a critical role in guiding more than 400,000 flights a year across 30 million sq km of sky. Their air traffic management and navigational ser … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yes.

Maybe management should replace itself with AI…

Okay. I have lost the “battle” against “AI” at work and I will no longer try to “fight” any of it.

It is simply what people want. They want to use it. And that’s the end of it.

And why do they want it? Because it makes their job easier. And why is that? In very large parts, it’s because we have accumulated a metric fuckton of technical debt due to decades long mismanagement. We were (and are) operating in “emergency mode” all the time. There simply was no time to clean things up or to rethink designs. We always have to go with the cheapest and quickest solution. We are never ahead of things: Earlier this year, I started an initiative and wanted to tackle some issue that I could see coming. I was shut down because this wasn’t “urgent”. Very soon after, this exact thing became that exact problem – but now, there was no time anymore to do it properly because NOW it’s urgent, so, once again, we had to go with a quick and dirty solution.

It’s always like that and I had brought it up again and again. And now we have a huge spaghetti mess that hardly anyone understands anymore.

Nobody – except AI. It can still make some sense of this and, obviously, this is useful to people.

So, any argument I make against AI is completely pointless to begin with. I’m such a fool for not having seen this earlier.

The last argument I made today was: “Look, we already have so much technical debt and spaghetti systems, we really, really must clean this up. If we throw AI on top of this now, it’ll only get so much worse.” And once more, I was shut down. My intentions were “admirable”, but “there’s no time for that”.

Okay. Good luck with that. They’ll keep doing it this way. At some point, it’ll either explode entirely and some poor soul has to clean it up, or it’ll explode and they’ll have no other choice but to throw everything away and start from scratch – assuming they can still afford that.

In other words, none of this about AI, really, nor caused by it. Our department’s massive spike in AI usage is just a symptom of the underlying management issues. And since those aren’t being addressed, nothing will change and this whole mess will only get worse.

(I blame all this on management, because, well, that’s who’s to blame. I do not have a solution for it, though – and assigning blame without constructive criticism always sucks big time. I don’t like doing this. If you had put me into that particular management position, I wouldn’t have been able to solve any of this. The thing is, though, I’m not an expert on management and it isn’t my job – I’m just the “princess” who solves your technical issues.)

[$] BPF in the agentic era
Alexei Starovoitov gave “less of a presentation, more of a scream of
realization” at the BPF track of the 2026
Linux Storage, Filesystem,\
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. He shared a set of ideas for how BPF could
change to avoid being swept away by the sea-change in programming represented by modern
large language models (LLMs) and the coding agents based on them.
In a follow-up session, the discussion covered
more problems with how coding agents use tools … ⌘ Read more

Liam Neeson’s Action Movie With Rihanna Is a Huge Hit on Streaming
Battleship has emerged as one of the most-watched films on Amazon Prime Video in the United States. The sci-fi action film featuring Liam Neeson and Rihanna has climbed the Amazon Prime Video charts in the United States. The film has managed to outperform several newer titles on the platform, highlighting strong viewer interest. Battleship ranks […]

The post [Liam Neeson’s Action Movie With Rihann … ⌘ Read more

Intel XPU Manager Adds Support For Arc Pro B65 + Arc Pro B70
Intel this week rolled out new versions of their open-source XPU Manager and Linux NPU driver software… ⌘ Read more

[$] Caching for extended attributes
Extended\
attributes (xattrs) provide a way to attach key/value metadata to
inodes—files, directories, and the like—in a filesystem. As with many
Linux filesystems, the FUSE filesystem
supports xattrs. In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, FUSE maintainer Miklos
Szeredi led a discussion a … ⌘ Read more

[$] Trying to make sense of package-manager metadata
Package managers for operating systems and programming languages have been
around for decades. Each package manager, and its accompanying packaging format,
has been shaped by the needs of its respective ecosystem, but there is a growing
need to make use of package metadata for more than software management: for
example, in vulnerability scans, software bills of materials (SBOMs), and more. On
May 19, Damián Vicino spoke at the [Open Source Summit North America](https://events.linux … ⌘ Read more

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

Points: 4

# … ⌘ Read more

[$] 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

Botnet of More Than 17 Million Devices Dismantled
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Authorities in the Netherlands said they dismantled a botnet that comprised more than 17 million devices and were managed by 200 servers in a joint operation by the police and the National Cyber Security Center. The action, announced Thursday, came about after a security researcher reported the sprawling network to authorit … ⌘ 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

# Comments: 2 ⌘ 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

Duralex, une Scop mal ficelée
Plombée par la frilosité des banques et des pouvoirs publics, ainsi que par un management qui n’a pas appliqué les principes coopératifs à sa gouvernance, la fameuse verrerie française est sur le point de retomber en redressement judiciaire. ⌘ Read more

NixOS 26.05 Released With 20,442 New Packages, Stage 1 Now Based On systemd By Default
NixOS 26.05 is out today as the latest version of this Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager… ⌘ Read more

nenya - A lightweight, highly secure AI API Gateway/Proxy written in Go
A lightweight, zero-dependency AI API Gateway written in Go. Nenya sits between your AI coding clients and upstream LLM providers, adding secret redaction, context management, agent routing, and MCP tool integration — all with transparent SSE streaming. Security-hardened: non-root execution, mlock for secrets, seccomp + no-new-privileges. 1 points posted by Rafael Gumieri ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m kind of flag you bring thi sup, because you simply can’t. You wouldn’t even be able to in an atypical neural network either (which is what ehse things are anyway). The problem here really isn’t the so-called “AI” (I wish we’d stop calling it AI), but the flawed usage(s) thereof. I believe I even stated earlier in this thread that sometimes it may not do what you expect, it’s “probabilistic” not “deterministic” – those pushing for greater use need to understand this, those not happy with the “push”, should educate the ignorant here (especailly managers pushing for weak, insecure and bad uses).

‘We’re really proud’: TradeWindow targets WiseTech
TradeWindow’s management is confident the trade software minnow is on the path toward breaking even, as it goes head-to-head with its larger Australian rival, WiseTech Global.

The dual-listed company, which counts some of New Zealand’s biggest exporters, including Silver Fern Farms, Zespri and Sealord, among its customers, reported a net after-tax loss of $2.6 million in the financial year ended March 31. ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.2’s Open-Source Nouveau Driver To Finally Support The NVIDIA GA100
Sent out today was the last drm-misc-next pull request ahead of the Linux 7.2 merge window getting underway in June. As part of this last batch of small Direct Rendering Manager graphics/accelerator driver changes is finally enabling the NVIDIA GA100 within the Nouveau driver… ⌘ Read more

[$] 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 … ⌘ Read more

[$] Separating memory descriptors from struct page
The kernel’s memory-management subsystem is currently partway through a
multi-year project to replace the page structure (which represents
a page of physical memory) with memory\
descriptors. At the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Vishal Moola ran a
fast-paced session in the memory-management track to describe the current
state of that work and wha … ⌘ Read more

Du Val statutory management costs $4.12m
The statutory management of failed property group Du Val has cost the Government $4.12 million to date, Budget documents show.

In August 2024, the Government placed 70 Du Val entities into the rarely used regime amid an ongoing investigation by the Financial Markets Authority (FMA). ⌘ Read more

Bond programme revised down for first time since 2021
The Government’s bond programme reduced gross issuance to $159 billion from $165b in December, according to the Debt Management Office.

Economists had forecast it might increase by up to $10b. ⌘ Read more

Stride Property Group lifts annual profit to $31.3m, confirms 8c dividend
Stride Property Group posted an improved full-year profit in a period it describes as one of strategic progress, during which it paid an 8-cent-per-share combined cash dividend.

Its full-year profit after tax was $31.3 million, up $9.6m from $21.7m in FY25. Net rental income was $58.9m, down from $69.1m. Management fee income was $22.9m, from $20.4m. ⌘ Read more

Andrew Morton’s 2004 OLS keynote
I recently presented a brief tribute to Andrew Morton at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory\
Management, and BPF Summit; it included a suggestion that reading (or
re-reading) his 2004 Ottawa Linux Symposium keynote would be instructive.
This talk, given immediately after the Kernel\
Summit session that decided to fundamentally change the kernel’s
development model, tells a lot about how the kernel project got to where … ⌘ Read more

[$] Further progress toward removing the page map count
The mapcount field was created to track the number of mappings
(page-table entries) that refer to the given page. Among other things, a
mapcount of zero means that the page has no references and can be
reclaimed. Maintaining mapcount has become increasingly
challenging and expensive as the memory-management system has grown in
complexity, so Hildenbrand has been looking for ways to get rid of it.
This session was, he said, maybe one of the last times he will have to
bring … ⌘ Read more

[$] Better automatic management of transparent huge pages
Huge pages can improve performance by increasing translation lookaside
buffer (TLB) utilization and reducing memory-management overhead.
Transparent huge pages (THPs) are supposed to make huge-page usage,
well, transparent, Nico Pache said at the beginning of his session in the
memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. That transparency has
never worked as well as many wo … ⌘ Read more

Electricity Authority introduces new rules for gentailers: non-discrimination obligations
The Electricity Authority has stuck to its guns and introduced non-discrimination obligations on the four gentailers when they deal with independent retailers.

The obligations (NDOs) require Contact, Genesis, Mercury and Meridian to supply risk management contracts (hedges) on an even-handed basis to all buyers, meaning they cannot favour their own … ⌘ Read more

[$] Reviewing kernel patches with LLMs
In a plenary session at
the
2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, the state of patch
review using large language models (LLMs) was discussed. It is a topic that has been swirling around in the
kernel community for much of the year. The plenary, which was led by Roman
Gushchin, Chris Mason, Josef Bacik, and Sasha Levin, resulted in a quite bit
of discussion, so much that a second fil … ⌘ Read more

[$] Tier-aware memory-controller limits
Joshua Hahn began his session in the memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that the memory
controller for control groups is intended to provide resource allocation,
accounting, and protection from interference by other tasks. But
it was not really designed for tiered-memory systems; he is looking for a
way to improve that situation. ⌘ Read more

Will Big Tech Layoffs Bring a Culture Shift to Anxiety and Job Insecurity?
Tech industry layoffs may be worse at large tech companies than the rest of the IT industry. The New York Times argues those layoffs have now shifted the culture at Big Tech companies, after interviewing more than two dozen of their workers. “Cooperation and collegiality are on the wane; chumminess between employees and managers … ⌘ Read more

Eroad faces ‘distraction’ as largest shareholder tries to overhaul board
Eroad’s chair says a reset towards the New Zealand and Australian market is being distracted by a shareholder’s board takeover effort.

Alongside publishing full-year results on Monday that showed flat revenue and a $161.1 million loss, the fleet technology company said its largest single shareholder, Ampfield Management, was seeking to overhaul its board. ⌘ Read more

The app that helped me manage my jet lag
By Natalie B. Compton

In my decade of travel writing, I never really put much effort into “beating” jet lag - despite the toll it routinely took on my trips abroad. ⌘ Read more

Linux Mint Making Improvements To Its File Manager, Theme & Dialogs
The Linux Mint project today published their May 2026 status report to outline recent work done to this Ubuntu/Debian-based Linux platform and much of their focus in recent weeks on enhancements to their Cinnamon desktop environment… ⌘ Read more

Caltech Could Lose Control of JPL For First Time In Decades
NASA plans to open competition for the contract to operate JPL for the first time in nearly a century, meaning Caltech’s historic role managing the iconic deep-space lab could come to an end when its current agreement expires in 2028. According to JPL, Caltech has managed the lab since the its inception in the 1930s, and has done so for NASA since the ag … ⌘ Read more