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All Black legend’s World Cup advice to resurgent Wallabies
Dan Carter says Australian rugby needs to embrace the 2023 disaster in order to prosper on home soil in a year’s time.

Country Life: Bouquets, balms and bliss at The Potion Room
A Nuhaka teacher turns flowers and plants grown in her garden into budget bouquets, balms and healing treatments in her at-home Potion Room.

Man in hospital with serious injuries after assault in Onehunga
A person was taken to hospital with serious injuries after an assault in Auckland’s Onehunga.

Religious scholars met with Anthropic. What they heard stunned them
NYT: Anthropic consulted religious scholars to make the case Claude could be conscious.

Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell died from multi-organ failure, inquest hears
The Welsh rockstar suffered complications from "necessary" surgeries, an inquest into his death heard.

Black metal mourns pioneering Venom frontman
Newcastle rock giants Venom describe Conrad Cronos Lant as "fearless and unmistakable".

Most enterprise storage sits idle, CTERA study finds
Active data makes up just 4.4% of enterprise storage, raising costs, security exposure and AI search quality concerns for firms.

Manufacturers back MCP-linked AI for productivity gains
Connected product data is now seen as the key to productivity gains, with manufacturers citing faster decisions, development and launches.

Alison Hammond has heart check-up in hospital after leaving TV's This Morning
The host says she is "fine" but getting checked after leaving This Morning midway through Friday's show.

Engage2Excel expands StorONE storage platform to 1PB
The move could help the workforce solutions provider stretch existing flash capacity across production, backup and disaster recovery as data grows.

From 1C frosts to 22C: Cold blast to make way for spring sunshine
A cold change is sending temperatures several degrees below normal across parts of New Zealand, with frosty mornings ahead before warmer weather returns next week.

Flames and smoke billow from Masterton pub fire
Firefighters are at the scene of a large fire in a Masterton pub.

Country Life: Canterbury Clash of the Colleges inspires future farmers
More than 200 students from schools across Te Waipounamu attended the Canterbury Clash of the Colleges.

Can the Chiefs of rugby union and rugby league co-exist?
NZ Rugby seeks an amicable solution to the dispute with the NRL over the name of the new PNG Chiefs franchise.

‘Bloody good shake’: Magnitude 5.3 quake rattles parts of the North Island awake
More than 7000 people have reported feeling the quake, with about 3000 reporting moderate shaking.

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Acumatica embeds AI across cloud ERP in 2026 R2 update
Mid-market users will get embedded AI, a new analytics layer and industry-specific upgrades as routine ERP tasks shift onto Acumatica's 2026 R2 platform.

DataCebo launches SDV 2.0 for synthetic enterprise data
Keeping customer and transaction data in-house, the software aims to cut the need for copied databases as firms train AI models.