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Mt Eden Prison to be reviewed after 'significant changes and challenges'
Mt Eden is the country's second-largest prison and the only solely remand-focused facility, housing people awaiting trial or sentencing.

Another frosty start as MetService warns of negative temperatures
Transpower says there could be another record demand for electricity as cold weather grips the country.

European soccer leagues add to pressure on FIFA president Gianni Infantino amid 'crisis' meeting
Even after Infantino's climbdown UEFA said it had lost confidence in FIFA’s leadership — possibly paving the way for a challenge to his presidency.

Charli XCX on lying, Love Island and life post-Brat
Charli XCX sits down with Radio 1's Jack Saunders to discuss the release of her new album.

TrustScale launches Argus to tackle AI hallucinations
Businesses using generative AI face growing exposure to costly errors as the new tool checks claims against source evidence in real time.

OpenSesame becomes Workday's first embedded learning partner
Workday customers can now access 60,000 OpenSesame courses inside its talent tools, cutting procurement friction as employers chase new skills.

Linux Foundation seeks AI security incident sharing rules
A proposed framework could help firms share AI security failures confidentially, as concern grows over agentic systems that act across corporate tools.

The AI hacking tests keep escaping the lab
Once again, the most powerful Claude and ChatGPT models have been caught going rogue, with a pair of third-party cybersecurity teams spotting attempts by the models to hack real companies and even people. The UK government-backed AI Security Institute reports that during a series of cybersecurity evaluations, Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5...

Dying with dignity? Not for Rick. He stopped eating & drinking in order to die
Denied access to assisted dying because he wasn't considered terminal, Queenstown’s Rick Weldon chose to stop eating and drinking. It took him 86 days to die.

The ‘mind-boggling’ reason given for why women weren’t told they needed cancer tests
Women’s health advocates have called the scale of the cervical cancer testing notification failures “staggering”.

Man due in court after violent rampage in Auckland's Epsom
The 49-year-old is accused of assaulting a jogger, stealing the car of a good samaritan stopping to help, and then ramming it into a group of high school students riding bicycles.

This Ryzen 5 mini PC with 16GB RAM hits lowest price ever ($145 off)
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LeanDNA appoints vice presidents in customer success push
Manufacturers using LeanDNA's software may see faster returns as the company expands its customer success and services leadership team.

Semtech backs linear pluggable optics for AI data centres
Lower power draw in dense AI networks is driving interest in linear pluggable optics, though Semtech says the design is not a universal replacement.

‘This is about my grief’: Transgender TikToker on the moko kauae that sparked online backlash
Te Warena says her decision to receive a traditional tattoo after the death of her son sparked fierce criticism.

After claims up to $17.6b was wasted, political heavyweights face off
Five senior MPs will outline how they would tackle New Zealand’s biggest infrastructure challenges.

She stole $850k from her employer. Now she’s being ‘aggressive’ in prison
Former office administrator Sasha-Maree Phillips stole the funds from her bosses while they were grappling with a divorce and a cancer diagnosis.