Hanson’s fundraising blitz raises over $945,000 on day of launch
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s latest fundraising play underscores her surging popularity. ⌘ Read more

One Nation says anti-Albanese campaign raised nearly $1m in one day
One Nation claims its anti-Albanese fundraiser has raked in nearly $1 million in a single day. ⌘ Read more

Home Affairs could pay out tens of millions to former detainees, criminals, after High Court ruling
The judgment could pave the way for more cases against the government. ⌘ Read more

Hanson’s fundraising blitz raises half a million in eight hours
Pauline Hanson’s latest fundraising play raised more than half-a-million dollars in just eight hours, underscoring the renegade politician’s surging popularity. ⌘ Read more

Government puts up $51m to push adoption of on-farm methane technologies
The Government is launching a $51 million Early Adoption Accelerator to push take-up of on-farm methane reduction technology.

The lack of incentives was a major talking point at the Agriculture and Climate Change Conference in Wellington in late April. ⌘ Read more

New Zealand invests $143m in agricultural productivity
The New Zealand government has announced a $143 million investment in six commercial projects aimed at optimising land use and boosting productivity in the food and fibre sector.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Agriculture Minister Todd McClay highlighted the importance of the sector, which accounts for over 80% of the country’s exports. ⌘ Read more

Great White Sharks Have Been in the Mediterranean Sea for Millions of Years—but Sightings Are Incredibly Rare
A recent video of a great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea offers the possibility of deriving valuable information for conservation strategies. ⌘ Read more

Blake Lively’s Controversial Movie Comes to Hulu Today
Sony Pictures’ 2024 romantic drama movie starring Blake Lively has been added to Hulu‘s library. During its theatrical run, the film grossed around $351 million worldwide against a budget of $25 million. What Blake Lively movie is now on Hulu? Starting today, Lively’s controversial film It Ends with Us is now available to stream on […]

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Hulu Adds Kate Beckinsale’s Divisive Action Movie Today
A Sony Pictures action horror movie starring Kate Beckinsale has been added to Hulu‘s library. During its theatrical run, the 2017 movie received negative reviews from critics. It only grossed over $81 million worldwide against a reported budget of $35 million. What Kate Beckinsale movie is now on Hulu? As of today, 2017’s action horror […]

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NHS Prescribes Half a Million Copilot Licenses For Its Paperwork Headache
NHS England plans to roll out Microsoft Copilot to 505,000 clinicians and support staff after a 30,000-person pilot claimed the AI assistant saved users an average of 43 minutes a day on administrative work. The Register reports: The rollout won’t happen overnight. NHS England said that each trust will receive a central allocation of … ⌘ Read more

Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day
Article URL: https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/08/solar-energy-saves-europeans-135-million-a-day/

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Couple donate $40 million to MND research
Queensland couple Quentin and Kylie Birt donated $40 million to motor neurone disease charity Fight MND after Neale Daniher’s death. ⌘ Read more

CityFitness fined $1.12m for misleading ‘transaction fee’
The biggest gym business in New Zealand, CityFitness, has been fined $1.12 million for charging customers a misleading “transaction fee”.

The company was found to have misled customers about the price of its gym memberships and the reason for charging an additional fee. ⌘ Read more

Lululemon NZ profit jumps 45% despite US brand challenges
Retailer Lululemon athletica has had a 45% increase in the net profit of its New Zealand segment year on year.

The Canadian brand reported net profit after tax of $3.2 million in NZ for the period ended Feb 1, 2026, up from $2.21m the previous year. ⌘ Read more

Kylie Kwong among consultants dumped as Powerhouse cuts controversial program
The $2.6 million program sparked concerns that consultants were supplanting the roles of professionally accredited curators. ⌘ Read more

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App
Last Thursday, Wired reported that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased facial recognition system called NameTag into software installed on millions of phones. In a follow-up report, Wired says the tech giant has now removed the face-recognition-related code, while saying “no final decision” has been made about whether the feature will launch. Fr … ⌘ Read more

Scary Movie’s Box Office Success Reveals Key Lesson That Hollywood Struggles With
Scary Movie is off to a great start at the box office following a successful opening weekend. Unfortunately, there is a key lesson from the movie that Hollywood continues to struggle with. After 26 years, audiences still love Scary Movie. The sixth movie in the parody franchise opened to $55 million at the domestic box […]

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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

Italy’s Bending Spoons, Owner of AOL and Vimeo, Files For Nasdaq IPO
Bending Spoons, the Italian app studio behind acquisitions like Eventbrite, Vimeo, WeTransfer, Evernote, and AOL, has filed to go public in the U.S. after growing into a subscription-heavy app conglomerate with more than 500 million monthly active users. TechCrunch reports: In its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Bending Spoons … ⌘ Read more

‘I Kick Myself Every Single Day’: Obsession Art Director Criticizes Pay After Box Office Success
Obsession is expected to make $250 million, but its art director is not happy with the pay. The indie horror breakout hit, made on a budget of just $750,000, has rewritten box office rules with strong word-of-mouth. However, some crew members involved with the film are not celebrating its success. What did Obsession’s art director [ … ⌘ Read more

Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’
Jeff Bezos is backing Flourish, a new “neuro AI” startup with $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, that aims to reinvent AI by studying the brain’s architecture and building systems that learn continuously while using far less power than today’s large language models. The company’s long-term bet is that neuroscientis … ⌘ Read more

Nintendo paie 35 millions d’euros et clôt un litige pour pratique commerciale trompeuse
La justice française reprochait au fabricant japonais une «communication tardive et parcellaire»” “au sujet d’un dysfonctionnement de sa console de jeu vidéo Switch. Une enquête avait été ouverte en 2020 après une plainte de l’UFC-Que choisir pour pratique commerciale trompeuse. ⌘ Read more

Peacock Scores Another Hit as Love Island USA Sets Huge Streaming Record
The new season of Love Island has hit it off in an unprecedented way, as it tallied 824 million minutes viewed since it launched on June 2, 2026. The viewership marks a sharp 74% increatment from Season 7 of the show. This also makes Love Island Season 8 the Peacock’s most-streamed original season ever through […]

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Taylor Swift’s Toy Story 5 Music Video Has Already Broken Historic Records
Taylor Swift’s new Toy Story 5 single has broken multiple streaming records within hours of release. The track, “I Knew It, I Knew You,” was released with an exclusive music video that drove millions to streaming platforms overnight. The song, co-written with longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff, is Swift’s return to her country origins. It accompanies […]

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Zuru grows annual profit to $2.49m despite flat external sales
New Zealand-owned global toy manufacturer Zuru has grown its net profit 34.8% year on year, latest results show.

The toy and consumer goods business reported a net profit of $2.4 million for 2025, up from last year’s profit of $1.8m. ⌘ Read more

Masters of the Universe’s Box Office Makes It Very Tough to Break Even
Masters of the Universe‘s opening weekend numbers paint a tough picture for the film’s road to profitability. Its global debut and reported budget reveal a significant gap between earnings and its break-even threshold. Masters of the Universe’s box office struggles to justify its budget Masters of the Universe opened to $54.3 million globally during its […]

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Obsession Is Focus Features’ Biggest Movie Ever With Massive Profitability
Curry Barker’s $750K horror romance just shattered a major studio record that stood for nearly a decade. The film’s unprecedented box office run and massive profitability continue rewriting history across global markets. Obsession becomes Focus Features’ highest grossing movie worldwide Curry Barker’s horror romance Obsession has crossed $224.7 million worldwide, Deadline reports. The Blumhouse Ato … ⌘ Read more

Three-bedroom lower north shore home sells for $2.39 million
Three young upsizers battled it out at Saturday’s auction to buy a classic redbrick house in Lane Cove, with the buyer going $40,000 above reserve to secure the keys. ⌘ Read more

Michael Creates a Record No Lionsgate Ever Movie Did, Not Even Hunger Games
No Lionsgate movie has ever done what Michael just did. The Jackson biopic crossed a worldwide box office threshold no film in the studio’s history has reached before. Michael almost reaches $900 million, will also beat Bohemian Rhapsody Lionsgate’s Michael Jackson biopic Michael now stands at $897.9M worldwide after its seventh weekend, according to Deadline. The Antoine Fuqua film earned a $ … ⌘ Read more

Ryman launches $100m bond offer
Retirement village and aged care provider Ryman Healthcare has launched a $100 million retail bond offer, which will be increased to $150m if the offer is oversubscribed.

The offer of six-year, secured, unsubordinated bonds opened on Monday and closes on June 11. The bonds will be issued on June 22. ⌘ Read more

Bright Dairy extends $130m loan to Synlait for two years
Bright Dairy’s shareholder loan to Synlait Milk will be pushed out for another two years as the Dunsandel processor looks to refinance by the end of the month.

In the lead-up to its recapitalisation, Bright provided Synlait with a $130 million shareholder loan as it worked to deleverage its balance sheet. ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Monday, June 08
How many kilograms does the average cloud weigh? 250,000, 500,000 or 1 million kilograms?
True or false: Earlobes have no biological purpose.
What has lived longer on Earth, sharks or trees?
True or false: 99.999% of the deep ocean floor has not been explored.
Which European country is considered the happiest place on Earth?
True or false: Most ginger cats are female
What is a rainbow on Venus called? A methane bow, a glory, or a punch dust arc?
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James Bond Videogame ‘007 First Light’ Sells 2.2M Copies, Earns $150M
The new James Bond-themed videogame 007 First Light had a budget of 1.3 billion Danish krone — a little more than USD $202 million, reports IGN, citing a report from Denmark’s public service broadcaster. “Denmark’s TV 2 said that makes 007 First Light the most expensive entertainment product in the country’s history” — and the game “still ha … ⌘ Read more

Fewer Brumbies, only three Tahs and Suaalii on the bench. The Wallabies team I would pick on form
The outstanding form of Queensland Reds centre Filipo Daugunu means $5 million man Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii should not start for the Wallabies against Ireland in July. ⌘ Read more

Google Will Pay SpaceX $920 Million Per Month For Compute
Ahead of its upcoming IPO, SpaceX announced that Google will pay the company $920 million per month for access to roughly 110,000 Nvidia GPUs and related compute infrastructure. Google says the agreement is short-term “bridge capacity” to meet stronger-than-expected demand for Gemini Enterprise, while SpaceX is using deals like this and its Anthropic contra … ⌘ Read more

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/google-to-pay-spacex-920-million-a-month-for-xai-compute-capacity.html

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La coûteuse passion de Xavier Niel pour les paparazzades
Le magnat a injecté 3,7 millions d’euros pour éponger les dettes de Bestimage, l’agence de Michèle Marchand. Dans le même temps, le milliardaire a fait circuler avant publication les précieuses photos non signées visant le député Charles Alloncle, qu’il avait virulemment mis en cause à l’Assemblée nationale, révèle «Mediapart». ⌘ Read more

Marvel Unveils Its Own Version of Backrooms Amid Box Office Success
Marvel’s latest post proves even the MCU can’t escape the Backrooms. The studio shared haunting liminal space images on X as A24’s Backrooms dominates the box office with $141 million worldwide. Marvel shares Backrooms from Loki Marvel Entertainment posted four liminal space images on X with the caption “Liminal spacetime” on June 5, 2026. The […]

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Eli Roth’s New Movie Trailer Explores What Happens Behind Closed Doors After We Die
Eli Roth’s new documentary pulls back the curtain on what could happen to our bodies after death. The trailer reveals a funeral industry unprepared for the millions of Baby Boomers nearing life’s end. The film, helmed by Jessica Chandler, will premiere at the Tribeca Festival in New York on June 9. It comes at a […]

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Auckland meat firm collapses owing $5.3m, director declared bankrupt
An Auckland meat wholesaler is in liquidation owing at least $5.3 million, less than a year after a business by the same director collapsed with debts of almost $1m.

Receivers were appointed to Merit Meats Ltd on March 24, followed by liquidators on May 29. ⌘ Read more

Analysts raise IkeGPS forecasts on sharper earnings and AI gains
Forsyth Barr analysts have raised their spot valuation on IkeGPS after the technology company delivered a “strong” full-year result.

The dual-listed utility pole assessment technology firm more than halved its net after-tax loss in the 12 months ending March 31, 2026, to $7.5 million from a net loss … ⌘ Read more

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones. ⌘ Read more

200.000 Millionäre in Österreich
Boomende Aktienmärkte haben den Club der Dollar-Millionäre weltweit und auch in Österreich kräftig wachsen lassen. Weltweit 25,3 Millionen Menschen verfügten laut einer Analyse des Beratungsunternehmens Capgemini 2025 über ein anlagefähiges Vermögen von mindestens einer Million Dollar (860.000 Euro). In Österreich waren es 200.000. ⌘ Read more

Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’
With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope. ⌘ Read more

Quantum Computing Is Having Its Public Market Moment
Quantinuum, a quantum computing startup, is losing millions. Investors want in anyway. ⌘ Read more

NZ sharemarket drops 0.1% amid rising tensions
New Zealand followed the trend of falling sharemarkets offshore – with South Island iwi Ngāi Tahu selling a chunk of Sanford shares for more than $60 million.

As further air strikes rained on parts of the Middle East, the S&P/NZX 50 Index was down 13.47 points or 0.1% to 13,101.61, helped by a late rise in the brokers’ matching session. ⌘ Read more

MacBook Neo is So Popular That Apple Reportedly Doubled Production
According to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple has reportedly doubled 2026 MacBook Neo production from 5 million to 10 million units after stronger-than-expected demand for its $599 budget laptop. MacRumors reports: On an earnings call in late April, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook said that customer response to the MacBook Neo was “off the c … ⌘ Read more

Commerce Commission moves to cap Visa, Mastercard business card fees
The Commerce Commission is proposing new interchange fee caps on Mastercard and Visa commercial credit cards that will lower costs for businesses by some $40 million a year.

The draft decision said New Zealand businesses paid about $125m a year in interchange fees to accept Mastercard and Visa commercial credit cards. ⌘ Read more

Michael Jackson: The Verdict Begins Streaming Today, How to Watch
A new Michael Jackson documentary is now available for streaming. Titled Michael Jackson: The Verdict, it is a three-part docuseries tackling the controversial 2005 criminal trial of the legendary singer. This comes over a month after the theatrical debut of the Michael biopic starring Jaafar Jackson, which grossed around $850 million. Where to watch the […]

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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