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Proton Mail now lets you send and receive Gmail, with one big catch
Proton recently launched a new feature that allows users to access and send emails from their Gmail account directly within Proton Mail. This new feature imports the user’s latest Gmail messages and automatically synchronizes new emails with Proton Mail. The idea is to make it easier for people to gradually move...

Mark Reason: The hypocritical greed of tennis players is insulting to the ordinary worker
As if the salaries of blokes who are good at kicking a spherical ball about are not ludicrous enough, we now have an outbreak of obscenely wealthy tennis players.

Kua ki taurangitia tatou nga karetao hei anamata. Ka tukuna ke te turanga kaiwhakapai tari noa iho
I timata ahau i toku oranga mahi i te 10 o aku tau, e mahi ana - hei kaitonotono kore utu - i nga pamu, i waho o nga haora kura, i nga mutunga wiki, i te taha o taku papa.

‘I was taking a shortcut to your mother’: The loneliness of Brian McLaren’s final years
He survived war-era hardship and raised six children, but Brian McLaren’s family believe he suffered in his final years. The rest home says this is not the case.

DataHub Cloud update boosts analytics agent accuracy
Accuracy gains for enterprise analytics agents could reduce costly wrong answers as DataHub Cloud adds context from query history and metadata.

No Windows 12 at Build, but Microsoft has something else up its sleeve
Ahead of Microsoft Build 2026, which begins tomorrow, Microsoft has officially stated that it will not be unveiling Windows 12. For months now, rumors have been circulating that Microsoft might soon unveil a successor to Windows 11, fittingly called Windows 12. Some observers had expected such an announcement at the Microsoft...

Louisiana data centres could push power costs on households
Households could face higher electricity bills as Louisiana plans a rush of data centre infrastructure, with costs spread to other customers.

Ctera names Tal Sarfaty cyberstorage security chief
The hire underscores CTERA's push into a fast-growing segment as ransomware drives demand for stronger protection of live storage data.

AI giant Anthropic announces plans to list on US stock market
The AI company behind Claude is set to offer the public shares of stock sometime this year.

These All Whites have been best mates for years. Now they’re going to a World Cup
Matt Garbett and Marko Stamenic go back a long, long way.

The future promised robots. Instead we’re getting cleaning jobs
AI was supposed to free us from drudgery, not send us scrambling back towards it, writes Joel Maxwell.

‘Line in the sand’: Children’s Commissioner says social media ban isn't enough
Dr Claire Achmad is pushing the Government to attempt something more ambitious.

Starburst launches Enterprise Intelligence Platform for AI
Enterprises can now run AI on governed data across distributed systems, as the rollout aims to cut cost, risk and duplication in fragmented estates.

Nvidia RTX Spark vs. Gemini Spark: Which is the real future of AI?
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is nothing if not passionate, and as he rattled off the impressive specs for the RTX Spark—a system-on-a-chip that’s powerful enough to run an army of AI agents on laptops and desktops—the outspoken exec described an audacious vision of our AI future. “Here’s my theory,” Huang said...

Claroty launches AI security agent for critical systems
It targets operators where outages can threaten safety and continuity, as industrial and healthcare environments face faster-moving AI-driven attacks.

SSL unveils TCA Tour system, Live V6.2 and trade-in plan
Portable live production crews gain faster deployment and new vocal processing, as SSL adds a trade-in scheme to its System T range.