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IT teams wary as automation races ahead, SolarWinds says
Data privacy and accuracy fears are slowing uptake as nearly half of IT professionals question AI tools now entering their workplaces. 
© 2026 ITBrief Thu 3:05am 

-Nigeria's president uses young technocrats to control economy

I shall have my own AI
The Aardvark man-cave will soon feature its own air-gapped LLM AI system. 
© 2026 Aardvark Thu 2:45am 

-Jeff Bezos says space data centers are years away

Akamai warns of surging DDoS attacks on financial firms
Sustained assaults are disrupting online banking and payments as EMEA becomes the main target for DDoS campaigns against lenders. 
© 2026 ITBrief Thu 1:35am 

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Harry Styles tour to review staging after fan complaints
BBC Newsbeat understands changes will be made in time for the star's London shows in June and July. 
© 2026 BBCWorld Thu 12:35am 

Optimizely says AI agent use jumps 42% as adoption grows
Marketing teams are increasingly using AI to automate routine campaign work, with Optimizely saying customer-built agents now dominate activity on Opal. 
© 2026 ITBrief Wed 11:15pm 

MPs ask Channel 4 for answers over 'horrifying' Married At First Sight allegations
A committee of MPs says claims about the show raise "serious concerns" about reality TV practices. 
© 2026 BBCWorld Wed 10:35pm 

US groups urge investigation into child safety and spending on Roblox
Roblox said it had "clear policies" banning actual and simulated gambling, as well as rules governing paid random items. 
© 2026 BBCWorld Wed 10:35pm 

Look out, Canva: Google Pics’ AI editing is scary good
In March, Canva made a big deal of Magic Layers, and its ability to treat different elements of an image as editable layers. On first blush, Google’s new Google Pics app looks like it can do the same — and then some. Google Pics is a new, standalone Google app, powered... 
© 2026 PC World Wed 10:35pm 

Bill to legally define 'man' and 'woman' passes first reading
A new bill defining gender has been advanced to the Select Committee, following rigorous debate in the House on Wednesday night. 
© 2026 Stuff.co.nz Wed 10:25pm 

-Samsung faces strike after pay talks with union fall apart
-Sberbank seeks Chinese chips to power Russia's GigaChat AI model
-3 Stocks to Take Advantage of the $72 Billion Quantum Computing Industry

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-French lawmakers back Macron choice to run Bank of France
-Caño Cristales, Colombia’s ‘River of Five Colours’
-What's happening to UK petrol and diesel prices?
-Saudi restaurant body selects Tabsense AI POS tech for 6,000 venues
-Bristol Myers to deploy Anthropic's Claude AI model to speed up drug discovery
-Intel, Micron, and other semiconductor stocks extend bounce ahead of Nvidia earnings
-OpenAI opens first overseas AI lab in Singapore, commits $234M
-Billionaire Block founder Jack Dorsey suggests radically reshaping manager roles in the age of AI

Mediaocean names Iván Markman as Chief Operating Officer
The appointment comes as the ad-tech group steps up its AI push across products used by more than 100,000 people worldwide. 
© 2026 ITBrief Thu 1:55am 

Alteryx unveils agentic automation tools for analysts
Many firms are still wrestling with trust and governance as analysts spend 3.7 hours a week correcting AI outputs, survey data shows. 
© 2026 ITBrief Thu 1:05am 

Ditch QWERTY and improve your typing with this keyboard app
Have you ever stopped to wonder why we all use the same inefficient keyboard layout? QWERTY wasn’t built for comfort or speed, it was built for typewriters… in the 1870s. Keeping common letter pairs such as ‘T’ and ‘H’ apart was a way to keep typebars from jamming. And, as... 
© 2026 PC World Thu 12:15am 

14 nifty USB-C gadgets you didn’t know you needed
I don’t know how your tech drawers look, but mine are filled with wires I’ll likely never use again because technology has advanced quite a bit. Thankfully, USB-C seems to be here to stay since there is no wrong way to plug these things in. It’s not just smartphones, tablets,... 
© 2026 PC World Wed 11:15pm 

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Youth council claims Napier mayor called them a ‘bunch of idiots’ - he disagrees
Napier Mayor Richard McGrath says an off-the-cuff comment was intended as light-hearted banter, not as serious criticism. 
© 2026 Stuff.co.nz Wed 10:25pm 

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Cate Le Bon is on the other side of heartbreak and heading to NZ
The Welsh musician captures the "disorientating, repetitive, obsessive" state she experienced after a break-up on her latest album, Michelangelo Dying. 
© 2026 RadioNZ Wed 10:15pm 

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