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Phoenix women ready to end 48-week wait for a win in Australia
All you need to know as the Phoenix look to bounce back from their first defeat of the A-League Women season.

The rocker ‘stoked’ to be returning to NZ: ‘I always loved any chance to spend time down there’
Dave "Phoenix" Farrell doesn’t bat an eyelid when playing in front of tens of thousands of people.

How a bitter school dispute spiralled into court action, ‘skulduggery’ and a trespass notice
After a long fight, a school staff member will return to work, despite the senior management threatening to resign.

‘Likely to cause injury or death:’ Boarding house used by vulnerable people deemed dangerous
Building owner says if he didn’t take people in “they’d be on the street.”

One in three teens uses AI chatbots daily, with ChatGPT dominating
A new study from the Pew Research Center shows that three in 10 American teens use AI chatbots every day, Techcrunch reports. Four percent say they do so almost constantly. Among respondents, 59 percent say they use Open AI’s ChatGPT, more than twice as many as runner-up Google Gemini, which is...

Oracle shares slide on $15B increase in data center spending
Company raises its capital expenditure forecast as it doubles down on AI infrastructure bet.

Oh no! Hackers snuck malware inside uber-popular Windows app Notepad++
This is not a drill! The makers of the popular text editor Notepad++ are warning that the Notepad++ updater, which goes by the name WinGUp, links to malware servers. This is a case of traffic hijacking. Hackers occasionally redirected WinGUp traffic to malicious servers, which then led to the download...

Corsair’s new case has a 14.5-inch touchscreen on the side. I don’t get it
I’ve been building computers for the better part of two decades. And most of them look like little avant-garde refrigerators. I don’t do RGB, and I definitely don’t do screens on the inside. So my immediate reaction to the Corsair Frame 3000D LCD RS ARGB is…well, to take a deep...

Accenture & Snowflake launch joint AI data unit
Accenture and Snowflake form a 5,000-strong AI data unit for enterprises, with Caterpillar among early clients and a new global CoE planned.

Auckland FC get captain back as stretch of three away matches begins
Follow live coverage of the A-League Men round eight match in Gosford.

Coach allegedly attacked at junior game unable to teach the game she loves
Haley Gleeson was allegedly struck from behind and knocked unconscious by a man with an umbrella after a junior match got heated.

Thirteen years, zero days off: Rotorua teen’s perfect school attendance record
Eighteen year old Casey Paul has wrapped up her entire school life without missing a single day, a streak she says grew from a simple routine into a milestone worth celebrating.

How to detect a fake SSD or flash drive before you get burned
It’s not just on dubious trading platforms such as Temu. Even Amazon can be infiltrated by dubious dealers who advertise SSDs with large storage capacities as supposed bargains. These cheat packs do not come from Amazon’s own warehouse, but from external service providers who offer their counterfeit products via the favorable...

Why Netflix wants HBO: It’s about more than just TV shows and movies
If you want to know how Netflix’s plan to acquire Warner Bros. will affect you, I suggest not getting your answers from Netflix. Last weekend, the streaming giant emailed customers implying the deal was done (subject line: “Welcoming Warner Bros. to Netflix”) even though that’s far from being settled. Its press...

Build the ultimate compact gaming PC with ZOTAC GAMING’s GeForce RTX™ 5060 Ti & 5050 GPUs
It’s hard to find a graphics card that can do everything. The most powerful ones are usually hot, loud, and expensive, while the smallest ones just don’t have the performance you need to deliver high-resolution gameplay experiences. ZOTAC GAMING’s new GeForce RTX™ 50 Series GPUs are built to give the...