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Seven yellow cards and counting: Crusaders’ discipline under the spotlight
Chay Fihaki was the seventh Crusaders player to be yellow carded this season, having used his shoulder to stamp Cameron Millar's ticket to Disneyland.

Dozens lose jobs after business owner leaves New Zealand - and $1.9m tax bill
Boss went to Canada over Christmas and never returned.

We're already rationing fuel. We're just doing it badly
The system we have is the worst option available - allocation by wealth.

Church launches confidential review after Stuff investigation, but survivors fear it's a 'PR move'
Church to launch independent review, but the women whose stories prompted it have concerns

Redgate unveils SaaS edition of its database monitor
Redgate launches a managed SaaS version of its Monitor tool, promising simpler deployment and upkeep for complex, mixed database estates.

GPT-5.4 tops AI accounting test but errors remain high
GPT-5.4 leads new AI benchmark on real-world accounting tasks, but its 77.3% score leaves firms facing stubborn reliability gaps.

Native raises USD $42m for cloud security control plane
Cloud security startup Native launches from stealth with USD $42m to unify preventive, intent-based controls across major public clouds.

If you care about your PC, clean up its cables
A tidy PC interior is not only nice to look at, but also makes sense. Good cable management ensures better air circulation, facilitates maintenance, and can even extend the service life of individual components in the long term. Many users underestimate this point, but with a few simple measures, a...

Nvidia’s DLSS 5 isn’t a tool. It’s an invasion
Why is Nvidia’s DLSS 5 causing gamers to go insane? Because it makes a game look how Nvidia thinks it should look—and uses AI to do it. Nvidia’s newly-announced DLSS 5 is an Nvidia feature that injects new details like textures and lighting via generative AI into supported games, all done...

‘I don’t have lunch any more’: Food prices bite as pensioner left with 33 cents after weekly shop
Owen Kinnane spent $102 and could still see the bottom of his trolley.

‘Dark days’: Kiwis share more ‘beyond brutal’, ‘soul-destroying’ job hunt stories
New Zealanders looking for work have flooded Stuff with messages about their struggles.

Killer admitted fabricating story to beat a ‘murder rap’: Son says justice system a ‘f...... joke’
The son of victim Sara Niethe has lashed out at the Crown for striking a plea deal with a man who “admitted he lied to get away with murder”.

Turkey deploys third NATO Patriot system to repel Iranian missiles

Israel says it has killed Iran's intelligence minister

Reports: Israeli jets bomb Iranian gas facilities

Iran's secret service takes action against opposition

Israeli journalists' union condemns police violence

XM Cyber adds AI exposure mapping across hybrid cloud
XM Cyber rolls out AI exposure mapping to track shadow AI, cloud models and MCP servers across hybrid estates in a single attack graph.

Deloitte offloads Auvenir which rebrands as Streamworks Tech
Deloitte has sold its audit software venture Auvenir to its management in a buyout, with the business rebranding as Streamworks Tech.

DNSFilter unveils CyberSight for deeper user insight
DNSFilter has launched CyberSight, a behaviour analytics tool adding full user activity visibility on web and SaaS beyond DNS blocks.

My most useful Chrome extension was stealing my data for years
As someone who works with images for almost every part of my job, I really don’t like Google’s WebP format. It’s fine for what it does, but loading it up in an image editor can often be a headache. So, I use a browser extension to download WebP files as...

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Alteryx unveils revamped Academy to boost AI skills
Alteryx relaunches its Academy with personalised AI learning paths and new credentials as demand for analytics upskilling accelerates.