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Aucklanders get first look inside new Karanga-a-Hape Station
Thousands of Aucklanders are expected to tour the new $5.5b Karanga-a-Hape Station, featuring New Zealand's longest escalator and a Kauri snail-inspired ceiling.

PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider
"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.

Pacific Music Awards thriving on stage, struggling behind the scenes
The Pacific Music Awards marked it 22nd year this week but organisers say the event is struggling financially

Teen rider dies after being hit by vehicle in Volta a Portugal race
Local media reports said 19-year-old Finlay Tarling was run over by a car that entered the road.

‘Gutted to be going home’: All Blacks wing suffers tour-ending shoulder injury
Caleb Clarke will return home early from South Africa after suffering a serious shoulder injury.

Hato Hone St John braced for another spike in ambulance callouts
Hato Hone St John's major incident declaration will remain in place throughout the weekend, as winter illness drives record demand for ambulances.

Fabian Holland: All Blacks lock reflects on Dutch links to apartheid
Fabian Holland says New Zealand is home - but he remains proudly Dutch.

DHL Express triples Shenzhen air cargo capacity with terminal expansion

$2b Mill Rd: See all 287 Auckland properties being bought by taxpayers for project now on ice
See where the Govt spent $131m buying homes – for a road it's just deferred again.

Does everything give you static shock? You can minimise getting zapped
Everyone at some point in their week has gotten that pesky shock, that little zap you get from touching your car, another person, or even a random object.

Europe is baking. Is New Zealand next as ‘super El Niño’ looms?
Europe is baking through record heat, drought and fires. Could New Zealand be next? Experts explain what summer could bring.

‘Grand Designs on a low budget’: Meet the homeless man who built his own treehouse
Shayne spent a year building an extraordinary treehouse in the bush – complete with kitchen, woodburner, shower and balcony.

NVIDIA launches Linux GeForce NOW app with cloud tweaks
Linux gamers will get smoother access to streamed titles, as Nvidia moves GeForce NOW out of beta and trims cloud gaming lag.

Rugby: Caleb Clarke out of South Africa tour with shoulder injury
In a major blow, winger Clarke is the third All Blacks player forced to return home ahead of the test series against the Springboks.

Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.

Sydney-based boxing trainer calls for head to roll in Fiji
There's a call for Fiji Boxing chair to resign, after a Melbourne fiasco involving Fijian boxer James Singh

Country Life: Growing the good bugs, feeding the bad
The livestock on Chris Thompson's farm can be counted in the millions if not billions. At a greenhouse near Karaka he and his team rear a fighting force of beneficial bugs to beat back pests, the natural way.

ArmourCode gets verified Claude access for cyber defence
Verified access to Anthropic's Claude models should sharpen ArmourCode's exploitability scoring as security teams race to cut alert noise.

‘This is my home’: One man’s battle to live on family land the council has deemed too risky
For the past three years Robert Wong has been a man on a mission, and his drive shows no sign of diminishing.

People hate data centres - do we need to build them anyway?
With over $10 trillion in spending forecast by 2030, the global data centre boom is arguably the biggest infrastructure spend in human history.

Keychron made a 100-key macropad for just $65, and it’s already gone
Well, somebody has been trawling the depths of the Mechanical Keyboards subreddit. Keychron has a history of incorporating features and techniques from the modding and building community into its designs, but this 10×10 mechanical macropad might be the most obvious adaptation I’ve ever seen of a DIY attitude into a...