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Charli XCX on lying, Love Island and life post-Brat
Charli XCX sits down with Radio 1's Jack Saunders to discuss the release of her new album.

OpenSesame becomes Workday's first embedded learning partner
Workday customers can now access 60,000 OpenSesame courses inside its talent tools, cutting procurement friction as employers chase new skills.

LeanDNA appoints vice presidents in customer success push
Manufacturers using LeanDNA's software may see faster returns as the company expands its customer success and services leadership team.

‘This is about my grief’: Transgender TikToker on the moko kauae that sparked online backlash
Te Warena says her decision to receive a traditional tattoo after the death of her son sparked fierce criticism.

Dying with dignity? Not for Rick. He stopped eating & drinking in order to die
Denied access to assisted dying because he wasn't considered terminal, Queenstown’s Rick Weldon chose to stop eating and drinking. It took him 86 days to die.

The ‘mind-boggling’ reason given for why women weren’t told they needed cancer tests
Women’s health advocates have called the scale of the cervical cancer testing notification failures “staggering”.

Joseph Parker cleared to fight again after drug suspension lifted
Parker had tested positive for traces of cocaine in a voluntary anti-doping test taken on the day of his defeat to Britain's Fabio Wardley in London.

Northern Trust launches banking APIs with NAV first client
Fund administrators can now pull banking data in real time as Northern Trust's new APIs go live with NAV Fund Services first to adopt them.

French industrial production rebounds 0.1%

AvePoint launches AI data classification & recovery
Pressure is mounting on businesses to secure AI data and recover faster after cyber incidents, as static labels and ad hoc restoration prove too slow.

TrustScale launches Argus to tackle AI hallucinations
Businesses using generative AI face growing exposure to costly errors as the new tool checks claims against source evidence in real time.

Linux Foundation seeks AI security incident sharing rules
A proposed framework could help firms share AI security failures confidentially, as concern grows over agentic systems that act across corporate tools.

Semtech backs linear pluggable optics for AI data centres
Lower power draw in dense AI networks is driving interest in linear pluggable optics, though Semtech says the design is not a universal replacement.

The AI hacking tests keep escaping the lab
Once again, the most powerful Claude and ChatGPT models have been caught going rogue, with a pair of third-party cybersecurity teams spotting attempts by the models to hack real companies and even people. The UK government-backed AI Security Institute reports that during a series of cybersecurity evaluations, Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5...

After claims up to $17.6b was wasted, political heavyweights face off
Five senior MPs will outline how they would tackle New Zealand’s biggest infrastructure challenges.

She stole $850k from her employer. Now she’s being ‘aggressive’ in prison
Former office administrator Sasha-Maree Phillips stole the funds from her bosses while they were grappling with a divorce and a cancer diagnosis.

‘Huge appetite’ for new limits on standing for Parliament, says Shane Jones
Under current law, any New Zealand citizen who is old enough to vote can stand as a candidate. Jones has said NZ First will campaign to change this.

Newgen named notable vendor in Forrester archiving report
AI tools are making archived records more valuable, as Forrester's latest landscape places Newgen among 26 vendors in a mature market.

Samsung’s brand-new 990 SSD just hit its lowest price yet: $370 for 2TB
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