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Around 10 cows killed after vehicle crashes into herd outside Palmerston North
Emergency services received reports of a collision between a vehicle and a herd of cows on Napier Road around 8.30pm.

Around 20 cows killed after vehicle ploughs into herd near Palmerston North
The crash is under investigation, police say.

More than 30 poisoned after suspected fake Botox
Health security body UKSHA urges vigilance after 38 cases of botulism recorded in the east and north-east of England.

North Korea bans foreigners from seaside resort weeks after opening
Tourism authorities say foreigners are "temporarily" not allowed to visit the Wonsan Kalma resort.

Man who died in crash near Palmerston North identified
He was Colin Parker, 85, of Palmerston North.

Tauranga’s Baypark speedway lease extended to 2039
Under the deal, Speedway Racing will upgrade the North Stand at their cost.

Injured teenager hiker recounts Ryde Falls, North Canterbury walking track rescue
The Sunday night walk turned into a search and rescue mission to locate two teenagers.

Dearden laments Cowboys issues
North Queensland skipper Tom Dearden admits it will be 'back to the drawing board' after another defeat.

NRL Highlights: Dolphins v Cowboys - Round 20
Dolphins take on the North Queensland Cowboys in Round 20 of the 2025 NRL Premiership at Suncorp Stadium, Sydney.

Inside Cowboys’ 101-point Dolphins nightmare: Four things learnt in derby battle
No troops, no territory, no worries for the Dolphins, as a career-best performance from an unheralded gun starved off a late North Queensland fightback.

Weather: Far North homes without power after severe gales
More than 170 customers south of Cape Reinga are still without power.

Far North homes without power after severe gales
Several hundred homes have lost power after severe gales ripped through the region on Thursday afternoon.

Toxic, highly invasive pest plant found at Far North beach
The plant known as sea spurge has already taken over large swathes of the Australian coast has been discovered at Kapowairua/Spirits Bay for the first time.

Cows on the road struck by vehicle travelling on SH3, leaving 10 dead, driver injured
The driver of the vehicle suffered moderate injuries in the Friday night incident near Palmerston North.

Around 20 cows killed after vehicle crashes into herd outside Palmerston North
Emergency services received reports of a collision between a vehicle and a herd of cows on Napier Road around 8.30pm.

Two drivers seriously injured after early morning crash near Wainui
The two-vehicle collision occurred about 6.20am between the Silverdale on-ramp and the Wainui Road off-ramp, north of Auckland.

Sensors for real-time flood alerts installed on Havelock North streams
Residents can access a dashboard for stream data, starting in September.

Intel CPUs are crashing again during summer heatwaves, Firefox dev warns
Europe’s summer heatwave may be highlighting Intel’s “Raptor Lake” bug in a different way: users may have not paid attention on how to patch it, and their systems are crashing as a result. Gabriele Svelto, an engineer for Mozilla, posted that he could essentially geolocate crash reports (which identify the processor, presumably) and tie them to areas which have suffered from a recent European heat wave. “If you have an Intel Raptor Lake system and you’re in the northern hemisphere, chances are that your machine is crashing more often because of the summer heat,” Svelto wrote on Mastodon. “I know because I can literally see which EU countries have been affected by heat waves by looking at the locales of Firefox crash reports coming from Raptor Lake systems.” “Raptor Lake systems have known timing/voltage issues that get worse with temperature,” Svelto added. “Things are so bad at this time that we had to disable a bot that was filing crash reports automatically because it was almost only finding crashes from people with affected systems.” On the Mozilla bug tracker, one engineer wrote: “Suhaib deployed a change to bugbot that makes it ignore crashes from this CPU so hopefully we won’t get so many going forward.” A fix is available Intel’s “Raptor Lake” bug affected processors during 2024, specifically Intel’s 13th-gen and 14th-gen desktop Core chips — not those found in laptops. Flawed microcode allowed the desktop chips to run at elevated operating voltages, which could cause the systems to crash. The problem, Intel eventually found, was that after an affected chip had crashed, the degradation was irreversible. Last August, Intel extended its warranty on affected processors from three to five years to help alleviate the problem. From June 23 to July 2, Europe suffered its worst heat wave ever, with temperatures climbing to over 104 in countries like Spain, Portugal and France. Europe doesn’t have nearly the prevalence of air conditioning that North American companies do, which means that European enthusiasts were already dealing with ambient temperatures far higher than normal, then tacking on the heat from their CPU and GPU as well. Although there is no remedy for the Raptor Lake bug, it can be mitigated. Intel recommended that users download an updated UEFI/BIOS from their motherboard manufacturer, which would place tighter constraints on the processor to avoid overheating. It’s unknown whether those crashes were in fact unpatched Raptor Lake systems, but Svento’s analysis was probably a good guess. Apply those patches now!