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Italy closes probe into DeepSeek after commitments to warn of AI 'hallucination' risks

State tells High Court it remains dangerous to allow journalists into Gaza without military escort

German UFO centre logged record number of sightings in 2025

Army refuels emergency generators in Berlin after power outage

ManageMyHealth breach: 'A lot of queries' from patients as anxiety about stolen data grows
GPs are being inundated with questions from patients about the ManageMyHealth hack - but they don't have the answers.

This high-risk intersection is getting a $2.7m roundabout
The intersection near Havelock North is the district’s highest-risk locations, with 10 crashes, including one fatality, over the past five years.

Holiday road toll rises to eight after further death
The holiday period officially ended at 6am on Monday.

Starknet back online after four-hour outage, warns some transactions may be affected

BNB token ticks higher as technical upgrades frame tight price compression

Famed Coinbase backer Fred Wilson predicts 2026 UX pivot for crypto

TCL: Our flagship SQD TV ‘ends the debate’ over LED versus OLED
TCL is making some bold claims about its new SQD-Mini LED Series at CES, with the company crowing that its flagship X11L “ends the debate” between OLED’s superior blacks and LED’s superior brightness. The company promises that its SQD Mini-LED achieves 100 percent of BT2020 color (that’s very good), while...

Daron Parton’s cartoons: January 1 - 31
Our cartoonist Daron Parton shares his view on current events.

Watch: Tempers flare in Ashes as Ben Stokes tells Marnus Labuschagne to ‘shut the f... up’
The England captain appeared to tell Marnus Labuschagne to “shut the f...” up in fading light with the visitors struggling for wickets.

Kenepuru Community Hospital's short-staffing unfair on community - union
Health NZ said the accident and medical clinic was without a doctor on Monday morning because the rostered staffer was sick.

Fox’s Jonathan Turley Mocks Maduro for Claiming He’s Still President While in ‘Prison Jumpsuit’

Victoria University honours Dame Theresa, Sir David
Victoria University of Wellington to award honorary doctorates to Dame Theresa Gattung and Sir David Carruthers in December.

13 people injured in crash in Northland
At least six have been taken to hospital.

Thirteen people injured in Far North crash
Two vehicles collided before 8am.

MSI’s bonkers RTX 5090 Lightning Z card breaks the 1,000-watt barrier
MSI brought back one of its most unhinged GPU lineups at CES 2026, and yes, the RTX 5090 Lightning Z is as ridiculous as its name implies. It isn’t trying to be reasonable—it’s trying to be the stuff of legends. The RTX 5090 Lightning Z is MSI’s absolute halo card, built...

Experienced software developers assumed AI would save them a chunk of time. But in one experiment, their tasks took 20% longer

Qualcomm unveils PC chip, humanoid robotics initiative at CES 2026

Vigilante justice, is it okay?
The USA has just demonstrated that the United Nations is a joke, that vigilante justice is the future and that "might is always right".

Pacific news in brief for 12 January
A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including a proposal to ban non-Christian religions in Samoa.

Samsung goes all in on Micro RGB TVs at CES 2026
Micro RGB is shaping up to be the TV industry’s overriding theme at CES 2026, and Samsung is going all in. The new technology resides in the middle ground between increasingly mainstream mini-LED TVs and still ludicrously expensive micro-LED sets. Where micro-LED TVs use self-emissive pixels that can be turned...

An 11-year-old among trio of youths in custody over alleged attempted robbery
Three youths arrested after attempted robbery at Sunnyvale store.

Gross or perfectly acceptable? The great debate on going barefoot in public
Despite our global reputation for being barefoot in public settings, the opinion of New Zealanders is far more nuanced.