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Pace of government digitisation a 'real cause for concern', says Manage My Health inquiry
A report into Manage My Health's cyber breach says AI is being flagged as an emerging risk that could amplify existing vulnerabilities if governance frameworks are not strengthened now.

Affordable and easy to access: Why peptide users say they’re injecting unregulated drugs
Many are illegal, untested and potentially dangerous, yet a growing number of New Zealanders are accessing unapproved peptides through social media.

Google adds Cloud Logging for BigQuery Python UDFs
The update lets data pipelines keep running when bad rows appear, while malformed Python UDF records are captured in Cloud Logging for later repair.

Manage My Health breach exposed flaws in dormant accounts and privacy processes
The final inquiry says the breach damaged trust in health portals and disproportionately affected Northland patients and whanau.

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Fortanix adds CNCF Confidential Containers support
Businesses handling sensitive AI data can now run Kubernetes workloads inside trusted execution environments with added attestation and key controls.

Google Cloud backs Reflection's Beam for coding agents
Developers could see faster, cheaper agentic coding sessions after Google Cloud added day-one support for Reflection's open-weight Beam model.

How far should you go for the best deal on fuel?
Currently fuel prices vary by as much as 35 cents per litre but finding the most affordable gas could involve a drive out of your way.

Explainer: Why your car's Warrant of Fitness may cost less starting 1 November
Explainer - There are big changes on the way for vehicle inspections.

Google adds interactive MCP apps to Gemini Enterprise
The upgrade gives enterprise users a live workspace for visual tasks, cutting back-and-forth in Gemini Enterprise while keeping edits synced.

Google warns LLM judges are biased & unreliable
The guidance says automated scoring can miss unsafe outputs and reward verbosity, making AI evaluation less objective than many businesses assume.

Quantinuum claims world record in quantum error correction
That could speed the push towards useful fault-tolerant machines, after the company reported five errors in one million operations on Helios.

Google says AI coding tests must track execution paths
Google says teams should judge AI coding agents on what they execute, after internal tests showed final replies can hide successful tool use.

David Seymour says don't vote National to 'play it safe', ACT vote will grow right bloc
The ACT Party leader’s message comes as talk of strategic voting gains momentum across the political spectrum during the knife-edge race.

Fatigued crew sprayed boat boiler that hadn't cooled before explosion - TAIC
Three crew members were injured in the accident on board the Malta-flagged M.V Olivia, which happened in May last year.

Google Cloud sets out three-layer AI agent plan for biotech
Biotech researchers could gain tighter control over sensitive data and slower simulations as Google Cloud separates planning, computation and oversight.

Anthropic adds 11 partners to Claude for financial advisers
Advisers should spend less time toggling between systems as the expanded service links portfolio, planning and custodial data in one interface.