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What should replace the resume in an AI-first hiring process?
Fake candidates and AI-written applications are exposing how weak resume screening is, forcing employers towards work samples and live verification.

‘Vital hours were lost’: Delays reduced burned farmer’s survival prospects
A coroner found a misdirected ambulance journey and subsequent healthcare delays reduced the survival prospects of a Foxton farmer who suffered severe burns.

I write about AI for a living. Lately, I don’t know what to tell people
There’s a TV commercial making the rounds that makes me inexplicably happy. Misunderstood by his smart speaker, driven to work by a faceless automated taxi, and served the wrong coffee order by a multi-armed robotic barista, a weary and resigned bank customer breaks into a surprised smile when he’s greeted...

OpenMatter adds secure AI & data tools to platform
Enterprises handling sensitive data can now use OpenMatter's platform to manage AI models, protect secrets and run privacy-preserving machine learning.

Google Cloud & Accenture launch Gemini Enterprise group
A 1,000-person engineering push aims to help firms shift Gemini Enterprise from small pilots to company-wide AI deployment.

Reason: How the Springboks repeatedly got away with scrummage murder
OPINION: The Springboks have mastered the dark arts the All Blacks once dominated, and it could cost New Zealand at the World Cup.

Ko te matenga poturi tenei o Te Wiki o te Reo Maori
Kua huri Te Wiki o te Reo Maori mai i te awhi whanui a te motu, ki te tuwehehia e tenei Kawanatanga, ta Joel Maxwell.

‘I feel sick’: Victim speaks out as abuser works at wellness clinic
The decision to grant permanent suppression has left the survivor feeling “sick” and he feels he has been silenced in his ambition to protect others.

Valve's Steam Frame is excellent - but at over £1,000 is VR still too expensive?
The BBC's Tom Gerken is hands-on with the latest virtual reality headset.

Microsoft quietly reveals a redesigned Windows 11 mouse cursor
Back in June, Zac Bowden of Windows Central said Microsoft was rumored to be working on a mouse cursor redesign for Windows 11, with no real evidence except hearsay via “whispers” heard “internally.” But now it seems that tweet is being vindicated by a preview version of the OS. Hearing whispers...

FPT wins AWS DevOps Competency as cloud demand rises
Businesses pushing AI into production need more reliable cloud operations, and FPT says its latest AWS badge strengthens that support.

Prophecy adds AI data prep tools & Snowflake support
Analysts can now inspect AI-generated data changes visually, as Prophecy expands self-service prep tools and adds Snowflake support.

Versos launches NVIDIA NeMo agents for video training
AI teams could cut days from video data preparation as Versos' new agents match natural-language requests to licensed footage and keep provenance attached.

What is AI, how does it work and why are some people concerned about it?
AI is transforming modern life, but not without worry for some that it may be abused or have an adverse environmental impact.

Melbourne reckons it’s the sporting capital of the world. The NFL put that to the test
Melbourne embraced the NFL’s first regular-season game in Australia, turning a Friday morning match into a city-wide sporting spectacle.

Watch: Teddy can’t see his next hand-hold. That isn’t stopping this 13yo climbing
Partially sighted 13-year-old Teddy Hirini feels his way up the climbing wall while receiving directions through an earpiece.

‘We were flabbergasted’: Kiwi scientists make breakthrough on rare brain disorder
X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism, or XDP, gradually damages parts of the brain involved in controlling movement.

The slow death of Te Wiki o te Reo Maori
The Maori language week has gone from mainstream embrace to being ghosted by this Government, writes Joel Maxwell.