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Australian-based haka ropu dreams of taking NZ national stage
A Brisbane-based kapa haka group has travelled to Tauranga Moana to watch the National Secondary Schools' Kapa Haka Competition.

Firefighters battle multiple blazes across southern France

Tech Life
The prompt that made ChatGPT generate disturbing images. What does this tell us about AI?

MSD boss defends linking staff performance with cutting emergency housing
Chief executive Debbie Power says the agency is executing the government's policy.

Environmental group hails court decision on orange roughy catch-limit
A judge has found a former minister failed to consider protection for important environments, like spawning grounds, when deciding the limit.

Rangatahi use kapa haka to share identity, stories and healing
The country's top secondary school kapa haka groups are preparing to take the stage for Friday's national finals in Tauranga Moana.

Barrister takes health insurer to court over refusal to pay for ADHD diagnosis
The Waikato man says he thinks Southern Cross has denied the claim in bad faith.

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Anthropic launches Claude Science for research teams
Researchers can now analyse data, search literature and draft papers in one place, with outputs kept reproducible on their own infrastructure.

Australia Has So Much Solar It’s Now Giving Households Three Hours of Free Daily Electricity

Macabre night in La Guaira, Venezuela's earthquake epicenter

Clashes linked to a land dispute kill 18 in north-central Nigeria, police say

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'Lingers on their skin': Puzzling odour forces children out of classrooms
Whenuapai School has done two years of tests and finally pinned the source to phenols, likely in the ground under the rooms.

Does your will cover your pet?
Ana Holden says her cats Hannah and Marmite are beloved members of her family, so it made sense to add them into her will.

One in five secondary teacher vacancies unable to be filled - survey
Secondary school principals say they are getting more applicants for teaching jobs, but many are not good enough.

Flood-risk homes defy analysts' expectations, gain value faster than unaffected properties
Buyers' taste for a bargain means property values for houses in flood zones are growing faster than nearby, unaffected areas.

Eyes turn to Immigration's new IT project after it misses first milestone
It follows the axing of the $35m Biometric Capability Update amid allegations that officials had misled ministers and a select committee.

‘Dave doesn’t sleep much’: Tana Umaga opens up on building the All Blacks against the clock
New defence coach Tana Umaga had to offset the excitement and workload of his All Blacks promotion with the heavy emotional toll of Moana Pasifika ending.

Virtual desktops modernised, not retired, survey finds
Most users are still relying on virtual desktops, but patching confidence and rising management costs are pushing IT teams to rethink operations.

Data Theorem launches AI security platform for apps
Security teams are being pushed to react faster as AI-assisted attacks widen the gap between exploit discovery, patching and live defence.