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Endor Labs launches AURI to secure AI-driven coding
Endor Labs unveils AURI, a security intelligence platform embedding reachability-led checks into AI coding assistants and CI/CD pipelines.

Phishing scammers weaponize ICE ragebait
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with CBP, have been deployed as a dominating police force by the Trump administration. Since 2025 they’ve snatched both immigrants and US citizens and killed dozens of people. So when customers of a marketing system were told that a “Support ICE” button would appear...

Terra Security gains first AWS nod for AI threat tests
Terra Security becomes first AWS partner validated for Autonomous Security Validation, as AI-driven continuous threat testing gains pace.

OpenAI launches Codex desktop app for Windows devs
OpenAI brings its Codex desktop app to Windows, targeting the nearly half of professional developers who use the platform daily.

Luxon says Cabinet colleagues back him, won't stand down as National's leader
The Prime Minister says he is 'absolutely not' considering standing down after a poll result putting National in the 20s.

The great property breakup
New Zealanders finally seem to be dialling down their obsession with owning houses to create wealth.

Amanda Seyfried's 'prosthetic butthole' isn't a joke
Costuming nudity is important for actors.

The Oscars are coming up and it's anyone's game
With the Academy Awards right around the corner, it's difficult to find another year when the race was this wide open, this late in the game.

Celebrating the value of diverse perspectives on International Women's Day
International Women's Day must move beyond symbolism to drive year-round action on diversity, better decisions and truly inclusive leadership.

This free tool shows exactly what’s eating up your storage space
SpaceSniffer is a great free tool that visualizes the space on your storage drive to better understand how files and folders are structured. It uses what’s called a Treemap visualization layout that displays different files, folders, and subfolders as colored rectangles. The larger the item, the larger the rectangle. It’s a...

Digital.ai unveils AI tool to harden mobile app builds
Digital.ai launches Quick Protect AI to harden Android and iOS apps post-build, embedding automated security into CI/CD pipelines.

Lyten's USD $5bn deal to build Swedish battery hub
Lyten buys Northvolt's Swedish battery assets in a USD $5bn deal, planning a Skellefteå hub fusing cell plants with vast AI data centres.

Copilot is now Microsoft’s peanut-butter cup
“You’ve got peanut butter in my chocolate! You’ve got chocolate in my peanut butter!” A somewhat obscure Gen X reference, true. But that’s what’s going on with the most recent iteration of the Microsoft Copilot app within Windows. Historically, Copilot has lurked within the various apps and services within Windows: in Office...

Get Up street art festival returns to New Plymouth
Twenty-six graffiti artists are transforming the New Plymouth CBD into a living gallery.

Pene Pati watched himself in new doco: 'God, this kid is stubborn'
The Samoan-Kiwi opera singer says Tenor: My Name Is Pati is a story more about courage than talent.

MariaDB to acquire GridGain to power low-latency AI
MariaDB moves to buy in-memory specialist GridGain in a bid to deliver sub-millisecond latency for agentic AI and real-time workloads.

The privacy nightmare hiding inside California’s new kid-safety rule
I love my home state of California. But sometimes its best intentions go awry. It’s not surprising that California’s legislature passed the Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) last October—age verification is currently a popular focus within governments. (And the reason for Discord’s current struggles.) But its approach had multiple PCWorld...