StanChart To Cut Over 7,000 Jobs, Boost AI To Replace ‘Lower-Value Human Capital’
The London-headquartered lender Standard Chartered announced plans to cut more than 7,000 jobs by 2030, with CEO Bill Winters saying the bank will replace some “lower-value human capital” through automation and AI while offering retraining to affected workers. “It’s not cost-cutting. It’s replacing in some cases lower-val … ⌘ Read more

Not in my 20s anymore, but these tits still turn heads ⌘ Read more

USA und Nigeria töten 175 IS-Terroristen ⌘ Read more

Fedora Retiring Its Deepin Desktop Packages
A year after SUSE decided to remove its Deepin desktop packages over ongoing security concerns, Fedora Linux is now also removing their Deepin packages over similar concerns and lack of activity in maintaining the packages… ⌘ Read more

Medizinischer Notfall: AUA-Zwischenlandung in Berlin ⌘ Read more

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys On Github
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how … ⌘ Read more

Nationalbank-Gouverneur Kocher live zu Gast ⌘ Read more

Google Makes It Easy to Deepfake Yourself
Google’s overhaul of its AI creation software, Flow, includes a new video model and a tool for generating selfie videos called avatars. ⌘ Read more

Hands-On With All of Google’s New Upcoming Android XR Smart Glasses
Here’s your first look at smart glasses coming from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, powered by Google and Samsung’s XR platform. ⌘ Read more

Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore
Vibe-coded results! Super widgets! Bots that never sleep! Google’s vision for the future of Search is hyper-personalized, automated, and extremely AI. ⌘ Read more

Demis Hassabis Thinks AI Job Cuts Are Dumb
The CEO of Google DeepMind tells WIRED that companies should use the productivity gains of AI to do more, not lay people off. ⌘ Read more

Google’s Response to OpenClaw’s 24/7 AI Agent
Google’s always-running, data-hungry AI agent is designed to spend your money and send your emails. ⌘ Read more

[OC] back to basic! Huge tiddies goth girls! i know we were the thing during quarantine, but are we still appreciated?? 🖤 ⌘ Read more

My MILF topless ⌘ Read more

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Fort contre Hollywood, faible face à Bolloré: le paradoxe du cinéma français
Après avoir lutté des décennies durant pour conserver son exception culturelle face aux offensives d’Hollywood, le cinéma français risque désormais de se faire détruire de l’intérieur par la censure du milliardaire d’extrême droite Vincent Bolloré. ⌘ Read more

JK Sugu chan (hiyoko_spot) [Sword art online] ⌘ Read more

Cinéma, édition, médias: «La culture se soulève pour sonner l’alarme»
Alors qu’une tribune de professionnels du cinéma qui veulent «zapper Bolloré» met le feu au Festival de Cannes, des auteurs et autrices, universitaires et journalistes se mobilisent aussi contre la prédation du milliardaire d’extrême droite. Ils et elles témoignent dans notre émission. ⌘ Read more

Israel stoppt Gaza-Hilfsboote, Österreicher festgenommen ⌘ Read more

À Paris, la grève des coiffeuses du boulevard de Strasbourg leur permet d’être régularisées
Après deux mois et demi de grève et d’occupation de leur salon de coiffure, les neuf travailleuses sans papiers du 65 boulevard de Strasbourg ont été régularisées par la préfecture de police en tant que victimes potentielles de traite des êtres humains. ⌘ Read more

Jobabbau befeuert Widerstand gegen KI
Der Jobabbau im Zuge des breiteren Einsatzes von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) geht weiter: Die britische Großbank Standard Chartered kündigte an, über 15 Prozent ihrer Stellen zu streichen und stattdessen auf KI-Agenten zu setzen. Meta, Mutterkonzern von Facebook, will ebenfalls Tausende Stellen streichen. Mittlerweile formiert sich in den USA starker Widerstand gegen KI und auch gegen die dafür nötigen Rechenzentren. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Launches Surface Pro 12, Surface Laptop 8 With Intel Chips
Microsoft is launching three new Intel-powered Surface devices for businesses: the Surface Pro 12, Surface Laptop 8, and a smaller 13-inch Surface Laptop model. These new machines come equipped with newer Intel chips, a few business-focused upgrades, and notably higher starting prices. “The high pricing of these three new Surface devic … ⌘ Read more

Seymour’s red tape ministry now four times bigger than agency it replaced
David Seymour established the Ministry for Regulation in 2024 with the goal of slashing red tape, improving the scrutiny of new laws and boosting the skills of the country’s regulators.

Two years on, while most Government departments are contracting, and Seymour called again this week for “less Wellington bloat, [fewer government departments](https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/bus … ⌘ Read more

Why buying back BNZ misses where real financial power lies
Winston Peters wants to buy BNZ back. The Crown is being asked to recapitalise Kiwibank. Both debates are misaligned with the asset and the layer of the tech stack, writes Andy Higgs, the executive director of Digital Identity New Zealand.

NZ First has now made it official policy to bu … ⌘ Read more

Three Ubco companies in liquidation owing over $35m
Tauranga-based electric motorcycle maker Ubco has been placed in liquidation, owing creditors over $35 million.

The company entered receivership with debts of $35.7m in January 2025 but was rescued by a group of New Zealand investors by July of the same year. ⌘ Read more

Winston Peters signals new way to bridge BNZ buyback $5b gap
More detail has arisen as to how New Zealand First may bridge a hefty $5 billion gap between the price it’s willing to pay for Bank of NZ versus paper valuations circulating in the market.

Commenting exclusively to BusinessDesk, NZ First leader Winston Peters said every aspect of a possible transaction to buy back BNZ from National Australia Bank (NAB) would be considered. ⌘ Read more

Business of Government: Public service Budget blues, rethinking the OIA and more
You don’t need a weatherman

Nicola Willis’s announcement of “fundamental” public service reform can be read through several lenses. ⌘ Read more

Ample Meats losses deepen as 2024 accounts finally filed
The Chinese-owned Taranaki meat processor that blamed its accountants for delayed financial statements deepened its loss in 2024 as revenue dropped, according to newly filed accounts.

Ample Group posted a loss of just over $1.9 million in the 12 months to the end of September 2024, compared with … ⌘ Read more

AI requires us to take ‘considered risks’ – Deloitte CEO
We are living through one of the most significant technological shifts in our careers, and it is happening at a rapid pace, Mike Horne, chief executive of Deloitte New Zealand, told Techweek26 attendees.

There was a palpable sense at the conference that the pace of technological innovation had accelerated to the point where its many potential impacts were becoming hard to comprehend. ⌘ Read more

Cross the Ditch, tax‑free(ish)!
Australia’s proposal to slap a 30% floor on capital gains makes New Zealand the friendlier side of the Ditch for company founders – at least for now.

Australia’s 2026 Federal budget tore up the old deal where, if an Australian investor held an asset for more than 12 months, they paid tax on only half the gain. ⌘ Read more

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Die Rückkehr der „Star Wars“-Filme
„Star Wars“ im Kino, zum ersten Mal in sieben Jahren: Da steht sofort die Frage im Raum, ob „The Mandalorian and Grogu“ von Regisseur Jon Favreau wirklich zur Saga gehört und an alles anschließt, was diese seit den 70er Jahren ausmacht – oder ob der Film nur das Spin-off einer Spin-off-Serie ist, die ausschließlich eingefleischte Fans interessiert. ⌘ Read more

Firefox 151.0 released
Version\
151.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Significant changes
include the ability to clear and restart a private-browsing session, better
fingerprinting protection, control over the apparent location when using the
Firefox VPN, and more. ⌘ Read more

Kurz nach Trump: Putin in China eingetroffen ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Surprises With Its First Server Linux Distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
Microsoft is turning Azure Linux into a general-purpose, Fedora-based cloud distribution available to all Azure customers, while also productizing Flatcar as Azure Container Linux for immutable container hosts. “When Microsoft joined the Linux Foundation, there was this big conspiracy theory that somehow the Linux Foundat … ⌘ Read more

Tell the truth, would you tittyfuck my breasts? ⌘ Read more

Remis à la France en 2022, l’activiste palestinien Ramy Shaath est désormais menacé d’expulsion
Incarcéré pendant deux ans en Égypte à la suite de la révolution de 2011, le militant avait été libéré et remis à Paris. Mais son action de solidarité avec la Palestine est jugée suspecte par les autorités, qui ont entamé une procédure pour l’expulser du territoire. ⌘ Read more

Taïwan: opposé à la Chine, le parti présidentiel célèbre ses dix ans au pouvoir
Fort de trois victoires consécutives, le Parti démocrate progressiste refuse fermement la perspective d’une réunification avec la Chine de Xi Jinping. Il doit composer avec un Parlement dominé par l’opposition et des électeurs qui attendent davantage de qualité de vie. ⌘ Read more

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[$] openSUSE “terms of site” raise complaints about age restrictions
Many people in the Linux community began using the operating system—and
contributing to open source—at a tender age, often well before
their 16th birthday. Thus, a recent change in openSUSE’s terms of site (ToS)
that required users of the project’s web site to be “at least 16
years of age or the age of majority” in their jurisdiction has
raised objections. The terms have since been modified, though users
must still have paren … ⌘ Read more

AMD Announces The EPYC 8005 Series SKUs From 8 To 84 Cores
Back in late February AMD announced the EPYC 8005 “Sorano” series to succeed EPYC 8004 Siena. At the time details were light while today AMD published the SKU table and more details on the EPYC 8005 series… ⌘ Read more

„Weiteren Schlag verpassen“: Trump droht Iran erneut ⌘ Read more

Fucking Silver Wolf (Kimoshi きもし) [Honkai: Star Rail] ⌘ Read more

I may be only 5 ft tall but I have a rack lol ⌘ Read more

OpenBSD 7.9 Released With Support For Up To 255 x86_64 CPU Cores, WiFi 6
Theo de Raadt announced the release today of OpenBSD 7.9 as the latest feature update to this unique BSD platform… ⌘ Read more

Former OpenAI Staffers Warn xAI’s Poor Safety Record Could Complicate SpaceX’s IPO
The ex-employees, who cofounded a new AI watchdog group, say investors deserve more information about xAI’s safety practices before SpaceX goes public. ⌘ Read more

Before Mass Layoffs, Meta Reassigns 7,000 Workers To Focus On AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Meta told employees on Monday that it was reassigning 7,000 workers to focus on new initiatives around artificial intelligence, the latest change in a company transformation spurred by the powerful technology. Employees will be moved to four new organizations focused on building new A.I. … ⌘ Read more

Spanische Justiz ermittelt gegen Ex-Premier Zapatero ⌘ Read more

[$] In search of faster this_cpu operations
The kernel’s this_cpu\
operations are meant to speed access to per-CPU variables. They are
more optimal on some CPUs than others, though. During a
memory-management-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Yang Shi proposed a
fundamental, and somewhat controversial, change to how these operations
work in order to provide better performance on … ⌘ Read more

A pair of perfection (Wamudraws) [The Legend Of Zelda] ⌘ Read more