Glitch sends one person's rates bill to up to 1000 Central Hawke's Bay residents
The council's chief executive, Doug Tate, said they were made aware of an issue with the rating system on Friday morning. 
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Isaiah Aleksenko, 19, is leading the charge among Pacific swimmers at the Mini Games 2025.
© 2025 RadioNZ 11:35am I prevent my cables from fraying with a ballpoint pen
Hey, PCWorlders! A while ago I wrote an article on how I repair my frayed cables with cheap heat-shrink tubing that I buy on Amazon, but that’s more of a fix once my cables have already been damaged.
Nowadays I try to avoid my cables getting to that stage in the first place. I’ve learned a neat trick for that. It’s especially great at preventing fraying at cable ends, where I find it’s most common. The trick is so simple, but it extends the lifespan of my cables 10-fold. And all I need to pull it off is my cable and a ballpoint pen.
What to do:
Get the cable you want to protect and a ballpoint pen.
Unscrew the ballpoint pen and remove the coil inside.
Now gently wrap the coil around the part of the cable you want to prevent fraying (be gentle to prevent the coil piercing the cable at the ends). As I mentioned, you might want to position it up near the connector where the cable gets bent a lot and is most at risk of damage. The coil will prevent excess bending and help keep fraying at bay.
Wrapping a coil around a USB cable.
Dominic Bayley / Foundry
Note: This trick works best with thin rather than thick cables.
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Opera’s latest update adds seamless AI translation and other features
After a period of beta testing, version 120 of the Opera browser is now being rolled out to the public. The biggest piece of news in this particular update is a new built-in translation feature with support for over 40 languages, and the browser is now based on Chromium 135.
To protect privacy, the new Translator feature doesn’t pass any information on to third parties, and the translation itself is processed using AI (in partnership with Lingvanex) on Opera’s European-based servers.
Other improvements in Opera 120 include improved password management, enhancements to Split Screen mode, refinements to Tab Islands, a new Miniplayer for videos, and VPN Pro.
Lastly, Opera 120 includes a fix for a serious zero-day vulnerability (labeled CVE-2025-6554) in the V8 JavaScript engine. For more details, check out the full changelog for Opera version 120.
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Man found with serious leg injury in isolated part of Bay of Plenty
Police are still working to ascertain how the man came to be injured.
© 2025 Stuff.co.nz 3:15pm Nauru signs two landmark agreements in Majuro
The two deals were signed on the margins of the Micronesian Islands Leaders' Forum this week.
© 2025 RadioNZ 8:55am Rats, not weather, to blame for Golden Bay's mobile phone and internet outage
About 1100 households were affected with some residents unable to access 111 emergency services.
© 2025 RadioNZ Fri 6:05pm Solomon King FC in contention for inaugural OFC Professional League
Solomon Islands PM has confirmed that Solomon King FC is one of the 13 clubs now awaiting final selection by the OFC for the pro-league set to kick-off in January 2026.
© 2025 RadioNZ Fri 11:45am Live: SH3 at Awakino Gorge, SH4 closed overnight due to slips, flooding
Bay of Plenty and parts of the East Coast are under orange heavy rain warnings.
© 2025 RadioNZ Fri 5:55am Possible slip causes fault impacting 111 calls, mobile, internet services in Golden Bay
Technicians found a severed cable at Uruwhenua Bridge on State Highway 60.
© 2025 RadioNZ Thu 6:25pm Unison launches free online Safe Sparks safety lessons for kids
Unison Networks launches the free Safe Sparks Digital Programme, teaching children aged 5-11 electrical safety online across Hawke's Bay, Taupo and Rotorua.
© 2025 ITBrief Thu 5:15pm  Slip causes fault impacting 111 calls, mobile, internet services in Golden Bay
Chorus hopes to have the broken fibreoptic cable repaired by late Thursday afternoon as Tasman residents brace for more rain.
© 2025 RadioNZ Thu 4:05pm Woman to appear in court after dead newborn baby found in wheelie bin
A 32-year-old woman has been charged with interfering with human remains after a baby’s body was found outside a home in Auckland’s Freeman’s Bay.
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