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SYOS SA200 drone ready for serial build after trials
SYOS's SA200 heavy-lift drone completes moving-platform autonomy trials, clearing the ship-ready uncrewed helicopter for serial production.

OpenOrigins app aims to prove photos real amid deepfakes
OpenOrigins launches a free app that cryptographically proves photos and videos are real at capture, tackling deepfake-driven distrust online.

Finance and HR Software Stocks Q4 Highlights: BlackLine (NASDAQ:BL)

Humanoid robotics maker Sunday reaches $1.15B valuation to build household robots

Amazon unit withdraws from drone trade group, raises safety concerns

Nelson region to take a tourism hit, as Air New Zealand cancel flights over fuel prices, mayor says
Air New Zealand is cancelling 1100 flights throughout the country over the next two months.

OpenAI buys Promptfoo to bolster Frontier AI security
OpenAI agrees to buy Promptfoo, aiming to embed automated security testing and red-teaming tools directly into its Frontier AI coworker platform.

Crash involving school pupil ignites Ashburton bridge safety concerns
School principal suggests the council could consider installing traffic lights, or at least flashing lights.

Iran-linked wiper cyber attack cripples Stryker plants
Iran-linked wiper cyber attack cripples Stryker plants, disrupting implant production and locking thousands of staff out of global networks.

Alexa’s adults-only ‘Sassy’ personality just roasted my smart home setup
As soon as I activated Alexa’s new and age-gated “sassy” mode, I knew the first thing I wanted to say to her: “Hey loser, let’s go shopping.” Alexa was game. “All right, let’s burn some money,” she replied to my Mean Girls (mis)quote. “The algorithm thinks you need reusable grocery...

ConnectWise unit maps IT pay trends, automation push
Service Leadership's 2026 IT pay report links eased wage inflation and new 'Digital Worker' automation metrics to profitability for providers.

‘The era of bargain-priced PCs is behind us’
Analyst firm IDC said that memory shortages and other obstacles are proving to be more challenging to overcome than previously thought, prompting the firm to lower its PC forecast for 2026 and to declare PC bargains essentially dead. The firm identified a bright spot, but not for consumers: the rising prices...

Webflow buys AI content-generation platform Vidoso to bolster its marketing suite

GoFundMe CEO: New AI tool will boost funding by $125 million this year

Wuthering Heights uni module given content warning for students
A Cardiff University module featuring Wuthering Heights carries 'distressing content' warning

Edera unveils vendor-agnostic control plane for GPUs
Edera debuts a vendor-neutral GPU control plane to boost secure multi-tenancy, speed start-up times and unify mixed-accelerator fleets.

Constructor posts surge on AI retail search momentum
Constructor rides AI retail search boom with 82% customer growth, 116% EMEA revenue jump and 322bn annual product discovery interactions.

Thenvoi unveils shared mesh to connect coding agents
Thenvoi launches Agentic Mesh, a shared layer that lets disparate AI coding agents collaborate in real time across tools and teams.

HackerOne warns of widening AI security & testing gap
HackerOne warns AI rollouts are outpacing security, with 89% of organisations lacking full testing and incidents driving up costs.

AI drives rapid database change, outpacing governance
AI now touches production databases in most firms, but Liquibase warns governance controls lag far behind the velocity of change.

BrightEdge unveils AI tools to track search visibility
BrightEdge launches AI tools to show brands how they appear in generative search answers and how AI agents crawl and interpret their sites.