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‘Where’s the f...... game?’: Sky Sport Now viewers miss entire first half of All Blacks game
Furious Sky Sport Now subscribers are demanding refunds after waking early for the All Blacks-Lions game – only to be shown cycling instead.

Dolly Parton: A life in pictures
The singer rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most beloved entertainers in the world.

New Zealand's ATM dead zones
In some parts of the country people are 75km or more from an ATM, and hundreds of thousands have to travel at least 5km.

Government considers effectiveness of teacher education
Education Minister Erica Stanford has repeatedly criticised what she says is the low quality of initial teacher education.

Heavy rain, snow on the way as winter storm closes in
The West Coast is first in line for days of heavy rain, before a cold snap brings snow to inland Canterbury and Otago and threatens travel on alpine roads.

Storing carbon in sea could have huge potential for fighting climate change - report
"Marine carbon dioxide removal may be a future tool to help reduce atmospheric carbon levels," says a Royal Society of New Zealand report.

West Coast in for a lashing of heavy rain over next three days
Other parts of the South Island won't get off lightly, with a cold snap bringing heavy snow to the Canterbury High Country until Friday morning.

Why did the Windows 95 CD have a Weezer music video on it?
Windows 95 just turned 31 years old and we’re revisiting that iconic operating system with a question: Ever wondered why the Windows 95 installation CD also contained a Weezer music video, a trailer for the Rob Roy film, and cartoons by Bill Plympton? You know, stuff that has absolutely nothing...

Google Cloud adds quick AI migration cost assessments
Automated service mapping and near-instant cost modelling aim to cut migration planning from weeks to minutes for cloud users weighing data centre exits.

The lonely, tragic death of talented and kind Pete Marsh
Pete Marsh was a talented and sensitive man whose demons could not be assuaged.

Person needs hospital care after house fire in Auckland
Fire and Emergency was called to a blaze in a two-storey house in the suburb of Bucklands Beach around 4am.

Anthropic’s potential $2 trillion IPO could turn staff into millionaires—now the AI firm is asking candidates what they’d do if stock fell to zero

SpaceX to build $100 billion Starship rocket complex in Louisiana

Dolly Parton: The life of a legendary country singer
Iconic country musician Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80, her family announced on her social media.

'Totally wrong': Community up in arms about stormwater runoff into native forest park
Resource consent for Warkworth housing development allows runoff into forest where an 800-year-old kauri tree grows.

Apple’s new Mac minis are primed for local AI. I specced one for $2,899
The Mac mini became the surprise local AI hero earlier this year, packing a relatively large pool of RAM into a small, always-on, reasonably affordable form factor that was catnip for OpenClaw AI users. Since then, both AMD and Nvidia have teed up their own AI-centric Mac mini rivals, with AMD’s...

Government looks to tighten up wholesale investment rules
There's concern the current rules are too permissive, but a report warns the move could attract "significant industry pushback".

Safe opens London Peak with free public sector passes
Free passes for public sector staff and cheaper one-day tickets aim to widen attendance at Safe's 2027 London data conference.

Designer's diamond watch cut off wrist, court told
Three men allegedly stole the Richard Mille watch straight from Catalin Botezatu's wrist.

'Obsessive' Billie Piper stalker jailed for 12 months
Philip Jerome admits breaching a stalking prevention order designed to protect the ex-Doctor Who star.

Windows 95 turns 31 years old. Here’s what made it a phenomenon
Just over 31 years ago, on August 24th, 1995, Microsoft began selling Windows 95 in the US. At midnight, many computer shops across the US opened their doors to sell the first Windows 95 floppy discs at “Midnight Madness” events. Windows 95 sold like hot cakes right from the start—in...