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Christopher Luxon denies Pacific Islands Forum's clout weakened by five leaders' absence
The prime minister is instead talking up his confidence in turning the group into a centralising force for the region.

Fresh legs or go again? Dave Rennie’s massive All Black selection dilemma
With the series tied 1-1, All Black coaches are weighing up squad fatigue against team cohesion ahead of a physical third test in Jo’burg.

Passenger killed after impaired driver sped through red light into heavy truck
Brayden Kenneth Tawa, 27, died at the scene of the crash at the intersection of Hewletts Rd and Aerodrome Rd in Mount Maunganui on December 27, 2023.

Luxon demands answers from Air NZ. New Zealanders deserve the same from him
I was surprised to hear the Prime Minister’s unusually blunt assessment of Air New Zealand’s latest financial result, Ian Taylor writes.

‘My life has been ruined’: Migrant says he fears loan sharks after losing $111,000 in failed NZ business
Thanh van Tran says he borrowed heavily to invest in a Christchurch redevelopment project, only for the company to collapse weeks after he arrived in New Zealand.

A timeline of the 19 days it took for the minister to say sorry for ‘extremely unsatisfactory’ benefit cuts
Louise Upston has apologised to beneficiaries who had payments wrongfully suspended due to processing delays at MSD.

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Why Springboks coach’s rule-bending leaves sour taste
If Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus believes he has honoured the ethics of fair play during the Rugby's Great Rivalry series, he's also done a magnificent job of camouflaging them under a pile of green and gold compost.

AWS launches Graviton5-powered R9g cloud instances
Customers running memory-heavy databases and analytics could gain up to 25% more compute per vCPU as AWS expands its Arm-based cloud server line-up.

Stealing greenstone ‘like p...ing on someone’s war medals’
There’s a thriving black market in raw pounamu, with a 10kg slab worth up to $25,000 in China.

How ‘million-dollar money mule’ duped four retirees out of their life savings
The bank deposit deal looked too good to be true. It was.

Innovid adds Meta ads MCP to NIVO AI for marketers
Advertisers can now check Meta campaign health and spot optimisation opportunities inside NIVO without juggling separate dashboards.

Everyone assumed the Windows taskbar copied a rival OS. Microsoft says no
In a recent social media thread, Microsoft veterans Brad Silverberg, Joe Belfiore, and Dave Plummer shared a few anecdotes and clarifications about how the taskbar became part of Windows. The taskbar, first introduced with Windows 95, allowed users to keep track of multiple active programs simultaneously, making it one of the...