Universal Homes reports $4m loss
Auckland residential builder Universal Homes has reported a $4 million net loss for the year to December 2025.
The Chinese-owned company generated annual revenue of $14.1m in house and land contract builds, but its cost of sales was $15.4m. ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel), Debian (dovecot, exim4, frr, and haveged), Fedora (cockpit, freeipa, jpegxl, libre, nextcloud, perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS, perl-Crypt-Argon2, perl-Dist-Build, perl-ExtUtils-Builder, perl-ExtUtils-Builder-Compiler, perl-HTTP-Tiny, perl-libwww-perl, python-starlette, rubygem-yard, rust-sequoia-cert-store, rust-sequoia-chameleon-gnupg, rust-sequoia-octopus-librnp, rust-sequoia-sop, rust-sequoia-sq, rust-sequoia-wot, samba, and transmission), **Red … ⌘ Read more
Northway consortium the preferred bidder for Warkworth to Te Hana expressway
A consortium led by Spanish infrastructure builder Acciona has been selected as the preferred bidder for the Warkworth to Te Hana expressway project.
The Northway consortium has beaten out two other major consortia, Go>North led by French giant VINCI, and Together North led by Australian-headquartered Plenary, to enter into negotiations with the NZ Transport Agency … ⌘ 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
Government backs away from Rotorua courthouse as PPP
The Government has backed off on a promised public-partnership project to build courthouses, instead funding new Rotorua courts directly in the 2026 Budget.
The building of Waitākere and Rotorua courthouses through public-private partnership (PPP) was one of the [headline projects on offer for infrastructure builders](https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/budget-2026/will-budget-2026-solve-the-case-of-the-missing-co … ⌘ Read more
Will Budget 2026 solve the case of the missing courthouse PPP?
Could the case of the missing courthouse public-private partnership be solved on Budget day?
The building of Waitākere and Rotorua courthouses through public-private partnership (PPP) was one of the headline projects on offer for infrastructure builders at a splashy Investment Summit held by the Government in March 2025. ⌘ Read more
From brownfield to green buildings: Onehunga project wins two awards
A new warehouse facility in Auckland’s Onehunga has picked up two awards for its transformation from a brownfield site into the highest Green Star rating for a building.
Along the way, the winning builders moved hundreds of eels and native fish out of harm’s way. ⌘ Read more
Firmus quietly scrubs UN logo ahead of $12 billion IPO push
AI factory builder Firmus, eyeing a $12 billion ASX float, displayed the UN emblem on every page of its website before quietly removing it. ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dovecot, fence-agents, freeipmi, git-lfs, image-builder, kernel, libsoup, osbuild-composer, and python-tornado), Debian (apache2, libdatetime-timezone-perl, lrzip, tzdata, and wireshark), Fedora (dovecot, forgejo-runner, gh, gnutls, krb5, nano, pdns, pyOpenSSL, squid, vim, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (graphicsmagick, kernel-linus, krb5-appl, libexif, libtiff, nano, nginx, ntfs-3g, opam, perl-Net-CIDR-Lite, perl-Starlet, perl-Starma … ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (corosync, dovecot, image-builder, python-tornado, resource-agents, and systemd), Debian (openjdk-11, openjdk-17, and pyjwt), Fedora (pdns, pyOpenSSL, and squid), Slackware (hunspell), SUSE (alloy, avahi, bubblewrap, cmctl, coredns, curl, dpkg, firefox, golang-github-prometheus-prometheus, grafana, libpng12, PackageKit, sed, and xen), and Ubuntu (docker.io-app, nghttp2, python-django, and python-mako). ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-25-openjdk, kernel, osbuild-composer, thunderbird, webkit2gtk3, and wireshark), Debian (chromium, distro-info-data, libde265, mbedtls, and thunderbird), Fedora (awstats, bind9-next, bpfman, buildah, calibre, cef, chromium, composer, corosync, coturn, cups, curl, dnsdist, doctl, erlang, fido-device-onboard, flatpak-builder, freetype, glab, goose, jq, kea, libarchive, libcap, libcgif, libgsasl, libinput, libmicrohttpd, libpng, libpng12, libpng1 … ⌘ Read more
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (anaconda, dnf5, firefox, flatpak-builder, libexif, minetest, nss, plasma-setup, python-blivet, rpki-client, and xorg-x11-server), Oracle (bind, kernel, osbuild-composer, thunderbird, webkit2gtk3, and wireshark), Red Hat (java-25-openjdk), SUSE (cacti, cacti, cacti-spine, cockpit-machines, cockpit-podman, cockpit-tukit, csync2, flannel, gdk-pixbuf, go1.25-openssl, go1.26-openssl, haproxy, kernel, libcap, libpng16, libtree-sitter0_26, libvirt, ncu … ⌘ Read more
Several Meta Employees Have Started Calling Themselves ‘AI Builders’
An anonymous reader shares a report: Meta product managers are rebranding. Some are now calling themselves “AI builders,” a signal that AI coding tools are changing who gets to build software inside the company. One of them, Jeremie Guedj, announced the change in a LinkedIn post last week. “I still can’t believe I’m writing this: as of toda … ⌘ Read more
I built Audiofern to make it simple to turn PDFs into audiobooks. Upload a document, get clean, chapterized narration with natural voices, and share it via a hosted player—or download M4A/M4B and keep it forever. Files are private by default, and pricing is transparent: pay once by audio hour or subscribe to build a listening library.
As AI Companies Borrow Billions, Debt Investors Grow Wary
While stock investors have pushed AI-related shares to repeated highs this year, debt markets are telling a more cautious story as newer AI infrastructure companies find themselves paying significantly elevated interest rates to borrow money. Applied Digital, a data center builder, sold $2.35 billion of debt in November at a 9.25% coupon – roughly 3.75% above … ⌘ Read more
Why sci-fi novelist Iain M. Banks was an ‘astounding’ world-builder
The New Scientist Book Club is currently reading the late Iain M. Banks’s Culture novel The Player of Games. Fellow science fiction author Bethany Jacobs reveals how his work inspired her ⌘ Read more
Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word ‘Automatic’
An anonymous reader shares a report: Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, is asking Automatic.CSS – a company that provides a CSS framework for WordPress page builders – to change its name amid public spats between Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg and Automatic.CSS creator Kevin Geary. Automattic has two T’s as a nod to Matt.
“As you know, our client owns and … ⌘ Read more
Builder.ai collapses after revelation that its “AI” was hundreds of engineers ⌘ Read more
“AI” coding chatbot funded by Microsoft were Actually Indians
London-based Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, has filed for bankruptcy after reports that its “AI-powered” app development platform was actually operated by Indian engineers, said to be around 700 of them, pretending to be artificial intelligence. The startup, which raised over $445 million from investors including Microsoft and the Qatar Investm … ⌘ Read more
GTK markup language Blueprint becomes part of GNOME
This week’s This Week in GNOME mentions that Blueprint will become part of GNOME. Blueprint is now part of the GNOME Nightly SDK and is expected to be part of the GNOME 49 SDK. This means, apps relying on Blueprint won’t have to install it manually anymore. Blueprint is an alternative to defining GTK/Libadwaita user interface via .ui XML-files (GTK Builder files). The goal of blueprint is to provide UI definitions that require l … ⌘ Read more
Ten Mysterious Stone Circles from Around the World
Stone circles of all sizes exist all over the world, most dating from the Stone and Bronze Ages. Since many of their builders did not leave behind any written accounts of them, they stand as silent witnesses to the great unknowns of our antiquity. Who built them? How? And most importantly, why? In most cases, […]
The post [Ten Mysterious Stone Circles from Around the World](https://listverse.com/2025/03/05/ten-mysterious-stone-cir … ⌘ Read more
淺談 Go 語言 Optional 模式和 Builder 模式
在 Go 語言中，Optional 模式和 Builder 模式都是用於對象構建和配置的重要設計模式，但它們各自具有獨特的特點和應用場景。但是使用起來也是非常的類似，就好比電動車和摩托車，都能讓你不費太多力氣的騎行，把你送到目的地，這篇文章我們就來討論一下這兩個模式的本質區別和不同的使用場景。我們首先聲明一個結構體，後面我們就研究使用兩種不同方式來創建這個結構體的實例：type Person st ⌘ Read more
設計模式 in Go: Builder
建造模式，處理與創建對象及對象實例化過程相關的問題，通常尋求以分離業務代碼和對象創建邏輯，或將複雜的構造邏輯封裝在可重用組件中的方式。讓我們繼續來學習第 3 種創建型模式——Builder 模式（建造者模式）。 問題背景: 創建的對象有時比較複雜，可能需要按照特定順序對所有依賴項進行逐一構建，創建依賴項後再最終構建期望的對象。創建這些最終對象及依賴對象，需要很多參數。如果通過構造函數的參數列表 ⌘ Read more
Mozilla Bets the Future of the Web is A.I. Generated Content
A.I. website builders, A.I. award banquets, A.I. investments. And Firefox pushed aside. ⌘ Read more
Builder 模式在 Go 語言中的應用
Builder 模式是一種創建型模式，即用來創建對象。Builder 模式，中文翻譯不太統一，有時候被翻譯爲建造者模式或構建者模式，有時候也被翻譯爲生成器模式。爲了不給讀者造成困擾，我還是直接叫它 Builder 模式好了。《設計模式：可複用面向對象軟件的基礎》 一書中對 Builder 模式的意圖闡明如下： 將一個複雜對象的構建與它的表示分離，使得同樣的構建過程可以創建不同的表示。經典 Bui ⌘ Read more
‘Iconic’ Aussie home builder goes bust
A much-loved Aussie home builder has been forced to call it quits after 30 years of business. ⌘ Read more
Canadian cities ‘not gatekeepers,’ head of mayors’ group tells Poilievre
The president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities says his members are community builders and not gatekeepers, a term Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has commonly used to attack municipal bureaucrats. Scott Pearce made the comment at a news conference the federation held in Ottawa ahead of the spring budget, as the group calls for more federal in … ⌘ Read more
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New repository: aquilax/regex-builder - WIP
AppImage-Builder 1.0 released
Tool for packing applications (and all of their dependencies) inside an AppImage ISO file. ⌘ Read more
Image rebase and improved remote cache support in new BuildKit
We’ve just shipped new versions of the BuildKit builder engine, Dockerfile 1.4 frontend, and Docker We’ve just shipped new versions of the BuildKit builder engine, Dockerfile 1.4 frontend, and Docker Buildx CLI. Each of these comes with many new features. In this blog post, I’ll show one of them, a new copy mode in Dockerfiles, […]
The post [Image rebase and improved remote cache support in new BuildKit](https://w … ⌘ Read more
Infrastructure as Code on AWS using Go and Pulumi
1 points posted by Elton Minetto ⌘ Read more
Black History Month Spotlight: Honoring Black creators, activists, and community builders ⌘ Read more…
Gotta try this new Mautic email builder ⌘ https://github.com/Webmecanik/plugin-grapesjs-builder
Though the hackers are forgotten, many colonist mythologies feature the pyramid builders or ‘precursors’, inscrutable hyperdrive saints
We stripmined the Moon and in it, found a continent-sized gear. The Builders had just left it there after finishing the Round Earth Project.
[At which point world builder brain piped up and was like “hey it works essentially like crypto! magic compatible!”]↵https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/712422004343840769
Nix 0.16 released
Nix\
0.16 has been released, featuring a much faster evaluator
and support for configurable parallelism inside builders. See
the release\
notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more