Drake addresses what happened amid, and in the aftermath of, his fallout with Kendrick Lamar on new song “What Did I Miss?” — a track the Toronto rapper dropped unexpectedly at midnight (July 5).
On the surprise single Drake calls out those who turned their backs on him: “You n—-s just better not ask for no favors,” he warns. “It’s love for my brothers and death to a traitor.”
“I don’t give a f– if you love me/ I don’t give a f— if you like me/ Askin’ me ‘How did it feel?’/ Can’t say it didn’t surprise me/ Last time I looked to my right/ You n—-s was standing beside me/ How can some people I love/ Hang around pussies who try me?/ Let’s go,” says Drake, wrapping an introspective chorus with one question on repeat: “What did I miss?”
Later, he references sightings at Kendrick’s 2024 Pop Out show, lamenting, “It feels like nobody’s there until you start givin’ out two-tones/ And nobody cares until they in front of your tombstone/ Y’all been on that type of timing for too long/ Iceman, Tiffany blue stones/ I done made plenty s— right out of two wrongs/ S—, let’s go.”
On a third verse, he raps, “What did I miss?/ When I was looking at y’all and cooking with y’all/ And giving out verses and bookings to y’all/ Making sure wires were hit/ Man, what did I miss?/ When you was all in my crib lookin’ at hoes/ Word for word at all of the shows/ You always felt like this, man?/ What did I miss?”
“What Did I Miss?” was penned by Drake, produced by London Cyr, O Lil Angel, DJ LEWIS, FNZ, Elyas, GYZ, Tay Keith, OZ and Patron, and released via OVO/Republic on streaming services.
Ahead of the song’s premiere, fans caught an unannounced livestream on Friday that had Drake clocking in at an Iceman warehouse, where he went from sipping coffee on break to launching into a solo performance of the new track: first surrounded by rifles on the break room TV screen, and then among ice blocks in the warehouse freezer. The footage also had him driving an Iceman truck around the city and making small talk with fans approaching his vehicle: “Iceman, man, you already know,” Drake said at one point. “C’mon, bro, you already know.”
Drake didn’t upload the event to his channels after streaming, but fans captured and shared the clip across social media, speculating “Iceman” is his new album era.
Third time lucky proved the case for Scotland when beating the Māori All Blacks for the first time with a 29–26 win in a game that had everything, not all of it good, in Whangārei on Saturday.
The Māori All Blacks had won their two earlier clashes, in 1998 in Edinburgh and in 2000 in New Plymouth, but coach Gregor Townsend’s understaffed side, with only one starter from their last Six Nations game, showed encouraging depth in the manner of their win.
But the Māori All Blacks didn’t give up without a stunning fight back to push the game to its limit.
Surviving three lineouts five metres from their line in five minutes of injury time, the Scots drove through when the Māori failed to secure the ball at the third, to claim a win.
The home team stormed through a massive 28 phases looking for breakthroughs before a penalty was conceded in injury time. But the Scots survived six minutes and 18 seconds before they secured the ball to claim what was a deserved win.
Clever use of kicks behind the Māori All Blacks backline opened up opportunities, and Scotland made the most of them as they fought back from a lightning start made by the home team.
Thirty-nine seconds was all it took, time for Scotland to field the kick-off and for their halfback George Horne to kick from the base of the ruck, and for the Māori All Blacks to field the ball, and move it to the left where wing Bailyn Sullivan, ran, chipped ahead and regained the bouncing ball to pass inside to supporting halfback Sam Nock who ran in the try.
Scotland lacked possession until around the ninth minute when consecutive penalties allowed them to kick their way into the Māori 22m area and from a ruck a kick was put through by second five-eighths and captain Stafford McDowell for wing Harry Paterson to run through to ground the ball just inside the dead-ball line.
Sticking with their kicking plan from the base of rucks by Horne brought him reward when the Māori botched covering the kick and it was punched through by centre Rory Hutchinson. The ball bounced erratically near the line, and it was Horne who clasped it to his body to score after 23 minutes.
Undeterred, the Māori All Blacks managed to build attacks in the Scots’ half, and drew penalties as the Scots were put under a yellow card warning. From a 31st-minute lineout in the corner, the Māori worked the ball infield before moving it back wide to flanker TK Howden on the sideline, and while tackled, he got a pass inside to lock Isaia Walker-Leawere, who scored.
An extra advantage came when replacement No. 8 Alexander Masibaka was sin-binned for a high tackle during the play.
But the home team couldn’t maintain the pressure, and Scots fullback Ollie Smith was able to give his side a pre-halftime boost when securing a 50-22 kick. From the resulting lineout, the ball was moved wide, and Hutchinson was able to put another kick through to space where wing Arron Reed profited from the bounce to score for a 24-12 lead at the break.
In direct contrast to their first-half start, the Māori All Blackswere punished for their undisciplined start off a poorly directed pass to the in-goal area by Nock. First five-eighths Rivez Reihana attempted to kick the ball out, but under pressure, it didn’t clear the in-goal, and Howden batted the ball over the dead-ball line, earning a yellow card in the process.
Moments later, with Scotland still in the 22m area, Bailyn Sullivan deliberately knocked the ball down to join Howden in the bin.
Scotland was initially unable to benefit as Hastings knocked the ball on in a promising position. The Māori All Blacks cleared their line and then stole a lineout from Scotland, but Nock’s 52nd-minute kick proved too deep and Scotland spread the ball to the left where Hutchinson, Reed and Horne combined for the latter to score his second try.
Restored to full strength, the Māori All Blacks had a lineout five metres from the line and skipper and hooker Kurt Eklund completed the maul with a try out wide and Reihana landed a sideline conversion.
Scotland looked to open up the home team on the flanks, but the defence held, and then when a kick found wing Daniel Rona just inside his 22m area, he had the time to spear a kick into touch in the Scotland 22m area for a 50-22m turnover.
The Māori All Blacks surged onto the ball and with several pick-and-goes on the line, they moved it wide with a long pass from Zarn Sullivan finding Gideon Wrampling on the flank, and he scored, with replacement Kaleb Trask’s conversion getting the Māori within three points and setting up a fascinating conclusion.
Scorers: Māori All Blacks 26 (Sam Nock, Isaia Walker-Leawere, Kurt Eklund, Gideon Wrampling tries; Rivez Reihana 2 con; Kaleb Trask con) Scotland 29 (Harry Paterson, George Horne 2, Arron Reed tries; Adam Hastings 3 con, pen). HT: 24-12
Wales boss Rhian Wilkinson says her side must learn lessons from their opening defeat.
“I mean, like the very first question we get at the draw is what a group, right? And we have a hard group, there’s no getting away from that,” she said.
“To concede a goal right before half is always painful.
“We have to create more opportunities and we have to make sure that those moments of lapses get fewer and fewer. But this is the world stage.
“This is the big event and, you know, it’s intimidating. It’s the first game, but equally this is what we want.”
Wilkinson is confident her players will improve against France in St Gallen on Wednesday night.
“Getting into the half at 0-0 would have gone a long way. In the second half, that quick goal definitely hurt us,” she added.
“We have a huge, huge mountain in front of us in this tournament and we’re excited about that. We want to play at the world stage and to be courageous in doing that.”
Wilkinson says she was “emotional,” seeing the Welsh fans, with almost 4,000 making the trip to Lucerne and knows this is a chance to showcase the country.
“We’re here now and forever Wales women have made it to a major tournament. These women will turn this around. I’m not worried about that,” she added.
“It’s disappointing to lose 3-0, but it’s not calamitous. It is a new opportunity for us to go towards the next which will be another huge test.
“I don’t want to be disrespectful, but many people don’t know where Wales is on a map. And that’s what we get to show people now.”
Julian McMahon‘s former co-stars and more of Hollywood are mourning his loss.
The Australian actor died on Wednesday in Clearwater, Florida, following a battle with cancer, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed. He was 56.
McMahon was known for portraying villain Doctor Doom in 2005’s Fantastic Four and 2007’s sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. He also played Christian Troy in Ryan Murphy’s Nip/Tuck and Cole Turner in Charmed. His more recent credits were in The Residence and The Surfer.
Ioan Gruffudd, who played Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic in the superhero films, posted a tribute on Instagram: “Even though we played each other’s nemeses, there was always so much lightness and laughter working together. Every encounter with him was a joy,” he wrote. “It was an honor to be Dr. Richards to his Dr. Doom. My heart goes out to his wife and family. God speed Julian.”
Michael Chiklis, who played Ben Grimm/The Thing in the Fantastic Four films, shared a photo of himself, Jessica Alba and McMahon on Instagram. “I’m devastated to hear of the passing of my friend Julian. Life is so precious and fragile. My condolences to his family. RIP Jules,” he captioned the post.
Nip/Tuck co-star Dylan Walsh shared a statement with THR, which reads: “Dear Jules, I know you like to flout the boundaries but this time you’ve gone too far. Let’s meet at the Biltmore, have a martini and we’ll talk this through. We’ll laugh hard, the valet will bring up your Hummer, and right behind my hatchback with car seats and bird shit on the window, we’ve laughed at this too many times. Now it’s just us. You’ll kiss me on the cheek and say ‘Bye Dyl.’ Good bye Jules.”
Nicolas Cage, his co-star on this year’s The Surfer, shared in a statement to THR, “Such deeply saddening news. I spent six weeks working with Julian, and he was the most talented of actors. Our scenes together on The Surfer were amongst my favorites I have ever participated in, and Julian is one of my favorite people. He was a kind and intelligent man. My love to his family.”
McMahon’s Charmed co-star Alyssa Milano shared a carousel of photos of her with the actor on her Instagram, writing in part, “Julian McMahon was magic … We spent years together on Charmed — years of scenes, stories, and so many in-between moments. He made me feel safe as an actor. Seen as a woman. He challenged me, teased me, supported me. We were so different, and yet somehow we always understood each other,” she recalled. “Julian was more than my TV husband. He was a dear friend. The kind who checks in. The kind who remembers. The kind who shares. The kind who tells you the truth, even when it’s uncomfortable — but always with love.”
Holly Marie Combs, another Charmed co-star, posted to Instagram: “One of a kind is an understatement. Your unyielding zest for life and crazy making sense of humor will be sorely missed,” she wrote with photos of the cast and of McMahon with Shannen Doherty, who died last year. “The joy and laughter you were the direct cause of will always be remembered. I hope you find our lady friend and dance in those rose petals.”
And Rose McGowan of Charmed, shared a tribute to her Instagram Story that reads: “Oh Julian you force of brilliance, wild talent and humour. For you, your family and loving fans all over the world, I pray comfort.”
His Nip/Tuck co-star Kelly Carlson posted a reel on Instagram of the two. While his Residence and The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat co-star Uzo Aduba wrote, in part, “Such a talent, but also just so much love for life. Energy. Intelligence. Sending all of my love to those who worked with, knew, and loved Julian. May you rest in perfect peace, with confidence it was a race well run.”
Queen Elizabeth II couldn’t cope with Prince Harry wound
Queen Elizabeth II was utterly heartbroken by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Her Majesty, who passed away in 2022 due to old age, was upset as her grandson and his wife dragged down the Royal name.
Royal commentator Phil Dampier told The Sun: “I just think that she worked her whole life trying to make sure that the monarchy succeeded after her.
“And the legacy was the most important thing to her and the Commonwealth, of course, as well.
He added: “It must have been absolutely heartbreaking for her to see what was happening with Prince Andrew and what was happening with Harry and Meghan leaving in her final years.
“To cope with that as she was approaching the end and Prince Philipdied and all this happened right at the end of her life.
“I think it must have been absolutely heartbreaking for her,” noted the expert.
Erin Routliffe and Michael Venus have been knocked out of the mixed doubles in the first round at Wimbledon, losing 6-4 6-4 to Luisa Stefani from Brazil and Britain’s Joe Salisbury.
It was an unusual mixed doubles match played on Saturday, in front of a packed crowd on Court 16. Venus had his serve broken in the first game of each set and both times the Kiwis couldn’t get the break back.
Routliffe and Venus had two break points when Stefani was serving at 2-1 in the opening set and after that, the British/Brazilian team didn’t give up another break point.
“They played really well,” Venus said after the match.
“I don’t know what their first serve percentage was (69%), but it felt like we weren’t getting many looks at second serves.
“They were very clinical, they made first serves and their service partner finished a lot of points. They didn’t really give us anything.”
Venus and Routliffe felt there were times when they were getting close to having more break points, but Stefani and Salisbury stayed solid.
“We were on the borderline a couple times of kind of getting going,” Venus said.
“It doesn’t help when you go down a break, they’re playing ahead and they just kept rolling.
“They played well, we were playing from behind a little bit,” Routliffe added.
“But we had chances on Luisa’s serve once, Joe served unreal.
“When you’re guessing where he’s going to go, it’s hard to get that and even when we chipped, he did a really good job of, like, taking overheads. I felt like he finished the second ball really well.”
The defeat ends Routliffe and Venus’s mixed doubles campaign for 2025, leaving Routliffe still alive in the women’s doubles.
On Monday (UK time), Routliffe and Gaby Dabrowski will play Irina Khromacheva from Russia and Hungary’s Fanny Stollar for a place in the quarterfinals.
All it can take is a phone call. That’s what Qantas learned this week when the personal information of up to 6 million customers was stolen by cybercriminals after attackers targeted an offshore IT call centre, enabling them to access a third-party system.
It is the latest in a series of cyber-attacks on large companies in Australia involving the personal information of millions of Australians, after the attack on Optus, Medibank and, most recently, Australia’s $4t superannuation sector.
The Qantas attack came just days after US authorities warned the airline sector had been targeted by a group known as Scattered Spider, using social engineering techniques, including impersonating employees or contractors to deceive IT help desks into granting access, and bypassing multi-factor authentication.
New technology brings old methods
While companies may spend millions keeping their systems secure and software up-to-date to plug known vulnerabilities, hackers can turn to this form of attack to target, often, the weakest link – humans.
Social engineering is not new. It predates the internet, involving tricking someone into providing compromising information.
The most common way people would see social engineering in practice is through phishing attacks – emails that are designed to look official to lure unsuspecting people into providing their login and passwords.
The phone-call version of social engineering, known as vishing, can be more complicated for the attacker, requiring research into a company and its employees, and tactics to sound convincing over the phone to get the unwitting worker to let them in.
The arrival of easy-to-use artificial intelligence products, including voice cloning, will only make this easier for attackers.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s most recent data breaches report, covering the second half of 2024, noted a significant rise in reports of breaches caused by social engineering attacks, with government agencies reporting the most, followed by finance and health.
The Qantas breach – that compromised information including names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and frequent flyer numbers – in isolation might not in isolation lead to financial loss, but the growing number of data breaches in Australia means hackers are able to collate data collected across the breaches and potentially launch attacks on unsuspecting new targets.
Data breaches causing more data breaches
In April, the nation’s superannuation funds became aware of the dangers of hackers collecting compromised login details from other breaches to gain access to super accounts, in what is termed credential stuffing.
The industry was fortunate only a handful of customers suffered losses, together approximately $500,000 – likely a combination of the funds locking down systems, and the high proportion of fund holders who have yet to reach the age where they can access their super.
The Albanese government, however, has been warned that the attack was a canary in the coalmine for the financial sector. In advice to the incoming government in May – released this week under freedom of information laws – the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (Apra) warned super assets were at risk.
“Cyber-attacks at large superannuation funds, that look likely to increase in scope and frequency, highlight that capability in the management of cyber and operational risks must improve,” Apra said.
“While the number of member accounts that had funds fraudulently withdrawn was small, the incident highlighted the need for this sector to uplift its cybersecurity and operational resilience maturity.
“This need will only grow as the sector increases in size, more members enter retirement and the sector takes on greater systemic significance with inter-linkages to the banking sector.”
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Apra had warned the sector in 2023 of the importance of multi-factor authentication – something some of the funds had failed to implement before the April attack.
The regulator said there were also sustained cyber-attacks on banking and insurance businesses, and third-party providers that were “continuing to test resilience and defences as attackers develop new technologies and approaches”.
Who is most at risk?
Healthcare, finance, technology and critical infrastructure, such as telecommunications, were most at risk from cyber threats, according to Craig Searle, global leader of cyber advisory at global cybersecurity firm Trustwave.
“The technology sector is uniquely exposed due to its central role in digital infrastructure and interconnected supply chains,” he said. “An attack on a single tech provider can cascade to hundreds or thousands of downstream clients, as seen in recent high-profile supply chain breaches.
“Overall, the sectors most at risk are those with high-value data, complex supply chains, and critical service delivery.”
Searle said attackers like Scattered Spider deliberately targeted third-party systems and outsourced IT support, as seen in the Qantas breach, representing a risk for large companies.
“The interconnected nature of digital supply chains means a vulnerability or misconfiguration in a partner or contractor can trigger a domino effect, exposing sensitive data and operations far beyond the initial breach,” he said.
Christiaan Beek, senior director for threat analytics at cybersecurity firm Rapid7, said third-party systems had become an integral part of many organisations’ business operations and, as a result, were increasingly targeted by threat actors.
“It’s essential for organisations to apply the right levels of due diligence in assessing the security posture of such third-party systems to reduce the risk of their information being compromised.”
Searle said organisations needed to shift from reactive to proactive cybersecurity, apply software patches promptly and enforce strong access control such as multi-factor authentication.
Beek agreed organisations needed to be proactive, with executives held accountable for cybersecurity in their organisations, as well as board oversight.
“The novel tactics observed by modern-day cybercrime groups escape the typical confines of security management programmes,” he said. “The no-limits approach of these criminals pushes us to rethink the typical boundary of defence, in particular surrounding social engineering and the ways in which we can be taken advantage of.”
For beginners, it can seem like a good idea (and an exciting prospect) to buy a company that tells a good story to investors, even if it currently lacks a track record of revenue and profit. Unfortunately, these high risk investments often have little probability of ever paying off, and many investors pay a price to learn their lesson. While a well funded company may sustain losses for years, it will need to generate a profit eventually, or else investors will move on and the company will wither away.
In contrast to all that, many investors prefer to focus on companies like NZX (NZSE:NZX), which has not only revenues, but also profits. While profit isn’t the sole metric that should be considered when investing, it’s worth recognising businesses that can consistently produce it.
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Generally, companies experiencing growth in earnings per share (EPS) should see similar trends in share price. That means EPS growth is considered a real positive by most successful long-term investors. NZX managed to grow EPS by 13% per year, over three years. That’s a good rate of growth, if it can be sustained.
Top-line growth is a great indicator that growth is sustainable, and combined with a high earnings before interest and taxation (EBIT) margin, it’s a great way for a company to maintain a competitive advantage in the market. The good news is that NZX is growing revenues, and EBIT margins improved by 3.4 percentage points to 25%, over the last year. Ticking those two boxes is a good sign of growth, in our book.
In the chart below, you can see how the company has grown earnings and revenue, over time. For finer detail, click on the image.
NZSE:NZX Earnings and Revenue History July 5th 2025
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Of course the knack is to find stocks that have their best days in the future, not in the past. You could base your opinion on past performance, of course, but you may also want to check this interactive graph of professional analyst EPS forecasts for NZX.
Insider interest in a company always sparks a bit of intrigue and many investors are on the lookout for companies where insiders are putting their money where their mouth is. That’s because insider buying often indicates that those closest to the company have confidence that the share price will perform well. However, insiders are sometimes wrong, and we don’t know the exact thinking behind their acquisitions.
In the last twelve months NZX insiders spent NZ$48k on stock; good news for shareholders. This might not be a huge sum, but it’s well worth noting anyway, given the complete lack of selling.
The good news, alongside the insider buying, for NZX bulls is that insiders (collectively) have a meaningful investment in the stock. As a matter of fact, their holding is valued at NZ$38m. This considerable investment should help drive long-term value in the business. As a percentage, this totals to 7.7% of the shares on issue for the business, an appreciable amount considering the market cap.
As previously touched on, NZX is a growing business, which is encouraging. In addition, insiders have been busy adding to their sizeable holdings in the company. These factors alone make the company an interesting prospect for your watchlist, as well as continuing research. You should always think about risks though. Case in point, we’ve spotted 1 warning sign for NZX you should be aware of.
Keen growth investors love to see insider activity. Thankfully, NZX isn’t the only one. You can see a a curated list of New Zealander companies which have exhibited consistent growth accompanied by high insider ownership.
Please note the insider transactions discussed in this article refer to reportable transactions in the relevant jurisdiction.
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