Sponsored: What matters in private credit investing?
Private credit can offer wholesale investors an alternative source of income and diversification beyond traditional markets. But as with any investment, structure matters. For wholesale investors, key considerations include how lending decisions are made, how risk is managed, and whether fund managers are aligned with investors.

The Merx Private Credit Fund provides access to a diversified portfolio of secured loans to New Zealand busi … ⌘ Read more

Councils begin to tally cost of Iran war, rates impact unknown
Councils are beginning to understand the million-dollar cost of the fallout from the Iran conflict.

Auckland Council is anticipating cost increases possibly totalling $50 million in the coming financial year, depending on how long high fuel prices last. Greater Wellington says cost increases on its open contracts have been as high as 23%. ⌘ Read more

BNZ apppoints receivers to farmer’s Dairy Goat Co-op shares
Bank of New Zealand has appointed receivers over a dairy goat operator’s shares in the Dairy Goat Co‑operative, as well as its milk supply rights.

McGrathNicol’s Andrew Grenfell and Kare Johnstone were appointed by the bank on May 11 to the 92,902 shares King Country Partnership (2013) Limited Partnership holds in the Hamilton-headquartered co-op. ⌘ Read more

Airlines consolidate flights into NZ but passengers keep coming
Airlines are trimming capacity, rather than slashing it, in the wake of the fuel crisis, but the industry as a whole is largely in “wait and see” mode, a tourism industry audience has heard.

At a pre-event for the major tourism conference Trenz 2026, Auckland International Airport chief executive Carr … ⌘ Read more

Advanced startups wow Techweek audience across biotech and AI
The breadth and scope of current AI and advanced technology development in New Zealand were highlighted on the opening day of the annual Techweek conference on Monday through a trio of case studies covering biotechnology, family management and efforts to digitise and automate sign language.

[BioOra chief executive and managing director John Robson](https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/startups/tech-st … ⌘ Read more

Receivers sell Airwork to Irish ASL Aviation Holdings
Global aviation services group ASL Aviation Group Holdings has signed a conditional sale-and-purchase agreement to acquire Airwork’s business and assets on a going concern basis. The price has not been disclosed.

The Irish-headquartered group told New Zealand and Australian staff, as well as stakeholders, in a note last week that the sale encompassed Airwork’s NZ and Australian freight operations, business, and exist … ⌘ Read more

Receivers working on selling Tweeddale’s Honey empire
One of the largest beekeeping and honey businesses in the country is up for sale until next month after its bank tipped it into receivership.

Tweeddale’s Honey, based in Taihape, and the directors’ partnership (which owns the land) are both in receivership. ⌘ Read more

Tower plugs Amazon Connect AI into its call centres in global pilot
Seven months in, Tower Insurance says it has saved about 550 days of call time through Amazon’s pilot AI call centre programme.

The insurer is the only business in either New Zealand or Australia to take part in the global pilot of Amazon Connect, a cloud-based AI contact centre as a service (CCaaS.) Only six other organisations worldwide are involved. ⌘ Read more

Russland-Experte Mangott live zu Gast ⌘ Read more

Kuba warnt USA vor militärischem Eingreifen ⌘ Read more

[OC] people seem to be surprised that i’m tall, im 5’9! which makes my tits even more impressive! ⌘ Read more

There is no wrong way to rinse off ⌘ Read more

Schauspielerin Luna Jordan ist tot ⌘ Read more

Maomao’s service (kukiyuusha) [The Apothecary Diaries] ⌘ Read more

The US Is Betting On AI To Catch Insider Trading In Prediction Markets
The CFTC says it is ramping up efforts to catch insider trading and market manipulation in prediction markets, using AI tools, blockchain tracing, and other surveillance systems to flag suspicious bets. It’s also monitoring activity by U.S. traders accessing offshore platforms like Polymarket through VPNs. Wired reports: [T]he Commod … ⌘ Read more

Durchschnittsmiete in Manhattan steigt über 5.000 Dollar ⌘ Read more

États-Unis: face à l’offensive trumpiste contre le droit de vote des Noirs, la mobilisation s’organise
Plus de soixante ans après l’adoption de la loi sur le droit de vote, une décision de la Cour suprême, fin avril, l’a pratiquement vidée de sa substance. Dans les États du Sud, les héritiers de la lutte pour les droits civiques appellent à la mobilisation avant les élections de novembre. ⌘ Read more

Drogenkrieg in Marseille: Prozess gegen Yoda-Clan gestartet ⌘ Read more

Placée dans un foyer marqué par des «défaillances», Clémence, 17 ans, a mis fin à ses jours
En février, Clémence, une adolescente de 17 ans, a été retrouvée morte dans sa chambre du centre social La Croix du Sud, à Bully, à l’ouest de Lyon. Un drame qui révèle les dysfonctionnements majeurs de la protection de l’enfance. ⌘ Read more

My titties are up here ;) ⌘ Read more

WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: The World Health Organization declared on Saturday that the spread of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda was a global health emergency. The announcement was made a day after Africa’s leading public health authority reported that an outbreak in a province in the northeast of the … ⌘ Read more

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Chez Orange, le déploiement massif de l’IA fait resurgir le spectre de la souffrance au travail
L’entreprise déploie massivement des outils d’intelligence artificielle. Traumatisés par la vague de suicides des années 2000, salariés et syndicats dénoncent la surveillance croissante, l’accélération des cadences et les risques pour la santé des professionnels de l’entreprise. ⌘ Read more

Abgestürzte Drohne in Litauen hatte Sprengsatz ⌘ Read more

Soft ginger MILF tits on full display. ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.6 LTS To Linux 7.1 Bechmarks: Performance Up 13% On AMD Threadripper Over Three Years
The Linux 7.1 kernel performance has been looking quite good on the various Intel/AMD systems I have tested over the past three weeks. Linux 7.1 does bring some solid improvements over Linux 7.0 prior in different workloads and haven’t encountered any worrisome regressions compared to the current Linux 7.0 stable kernel. For those wondering the longer-term picture, here are benchmarks of Linux 7.1 Git compared to recent Linux … ⌘ Read more

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Il y a soixante ans, Mao et les Black Panthers s’alliaient contre «les impérialismes blancs»
Dans «Mao, Panthères noires et Tigre de papier», Clément Broche retrace l’histoire de l’alliance éphémère entre le mouvement états-unien et la République populaire de Chine en pleine Révolution culturelle. Juste avant qu’un rapprochement entre Pékin et Washington y mette fin. ⌘ Read more

Todesstrafe als politisches Instrument
Die Zahl der Hinrichtungen im Iran ist stark gestiegen, seit Beginn des Krieges noch einmal stärker. So will die Führung in Teheran laut UNO und Menschenrechtsorganisationen einerseits ihre Autorität wiederherstellen, andererseits jeden Widerstand im Land im Keim ersticken. ⌘ Read more

Stocker auf Gesprächstour mit Christa Kummer ⌘ Read more

The Catastrophic Swatch x Audemars Piguet Launch Was Entirely Predictable and Utterly Avoidable
So why didn’t Swatch do anything to avoid it? ⌘ Read more

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Gym sex (KeinV) [KeinV] ⌘ Read more

I may be old but I never hide my titties behind bras ⌘ Read more

US-Energiekonzern NextEra übernimmt Dominion ⌘ Read more

[$] Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more
The kernel’s swap subsystem is charged with managing anonymous pages in
secondary storage when those pages are (hopefully) not being used and the
memory they occupy is needed elsewhere. This long-unloved subsystem has
seen a resurgence of developer interest in recent times, so it is not
surprising that it was the topic of three separate sessions in the
memory-management track at the
2026 [Linux Storage,\
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit](https://events.linuxfoundat … ⌘ Read more

Geplante Streamingabgabe spaltet Gemüter der Fachverbände ⌘ Read more

I’m just adding to the scenery here ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, gimp:2.8, jq, kernel, and rsync), Debian (chromium, ffmpeg, firewalld, kernel, nginx, openjpeg2, openssh, php7.4, and redis), Fedora (apptainer, chromium, coturn, dnsmasq, firefox, kernel, libgit2_1.8, libmetal, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-js-challenge, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, open-amp, perl-Net-CIDR-Lite, pgbouncer, pypy, python-jupytext, python-uv-build … ⌘ Read more

Mommy tits anyone…. ⌘ Read more

Firefox 151 Now Available With Document Picture-in-Picture API
Firefox 151 release binaries are now available as the latest monthly update to Mozilla’s open-source web browser… ⌘ Read more

Angriffe auf Schulen in Nigeria: Dutzende Entführte ⌘ Read more

Fine I’ll pop one out (35 yo, married) ⌘ Read more

Iranische Friedensnobelpreisträgerin aus Spital entlassen ⌘ Read more

Spanien schuldet Shakira 60 Millionen Euro
Mehrere Jahre hat sich die kolumbianische Sängerin Shakira gegen Vorwürfe der spanischen Steuerbehörden gewehrt. Ein Gericht in Madrid gab der 49-Jährigen nun recht. Neben einem Freispruch umfasst das am Montag bekanntgewordene Urteil auch die Rückzahlung bereits bezahlter Strafen inklusive Zinsen und Prozesskosten. Laut Angaben von Shakiras Anwalt geht es um rund 60 Millionen Euro. ⌘ Read more

Domina (ratatatat74) [overwatch] ⌘ Read more

Malediven: Leichen von vier italienischen Tauchern gefunden ⌘ Read more

Déchets nucléaires: à Bure, on s’interroge sur les conséquences pour les populations dans six cents ans
Un expert indépendant conteste les méthodes de calcul sur le risque d’intrusion dans le futur site d’enfouissement Cigéo. Il reproche à l’agence de gestion des déchets de ne pas démontrer ses affirmations. ⌘ Read more

Linux AF_ALG Crypto Code Removing Zero-Copy Support Out Of Security Concerns
Given all the recent Linux kernel security concerns and new bugs being discovered, the Linux cryptographic subsystem is proactively dropping zero-copy functionality from AF_ALG due to growing security concerns… ⌘ Read more

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