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Explainer: What is a hung Parliament and could it actually lead to a new election?
Explainer: What happens if nobody can agree who should be in charge of the country.

Once thought safe, South Island's giant weta are disappearing
The "large and charismatic" insects were last surveyed in 1992, when they were considered beyond threat from predators.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after affair scandal
The company said Huang’s resignation was “effective immediately” and named Colette Kress as interim chief executive.

Stellantis taps Amperity for customer data overhaul
The deal could help the carmaker reduce fragmented records and improve service, loyalty and campaign targeting across its brands.

NiCE launches next-generation Cognigy for AI agents
Businesses can now manage AI agents across customer journeys with greater oversight, as the upgraded platform adds tracing, governance and reusable skills.

Most questions about RNZ's budget blunder could be answered by Christmas - expert
A former executive director at Audit New Zealand says the terms of reference will dictate what can be achieved, but expects most of the review could be completed before Christmas.

How AI visionary Jensen Huang was undone by his own bad decisions
Zoe Kleinman explains how the man who built Nvidia from the ground up lost everything in a matter of days.

Cloudinary to integrate media tools with Amazon CloudFront
The tie-up could cut setup time for teams serving images and video through CloudFront, while reducing custom code and extra media tools.

HOL Guard 3.58.0 adds tighter checks for AI agents
The update tightens local safeguards before AI agents can run commands, install plugins or touch workspaces, reducing the risk of unsafe actions.

Three-week vote count no barrier to negotiations - expert
The 20-day wait for the final vote count is about accuracy, not just special votes - and if politicians are anxious there's nothing stopping negotiations starting now.

New Plymouth-built storage tanks headed for Australian fertiliser plant
The project has been heralded as great news for the Taranaki engineering sector.

AI takes another hit
It's really a black friday for former NVIDIA head Jensen Huang

Axway launches AI platform to rein in costs & risk
Rising AI bills and stricter oversight are pushing enterprises to seek tools that can track usage, data access and compliance.

Percona adds high-availability PMM to cut monitoring outages
Monitoring teams can now keep alerts flowing during server failures as Percona's PMM 3.10.0 adds high-availability support in Kubernetes.

Google Cloud previews blue-green upgrades for Cloud SQL
Businesses using Cloud SQL for MySQL can now test major upgrades in parallel, with sub-second downtime for some customers during cutover.

Defence Force personnel primed to cover for striking fire crews
The firefighters union has signalled 10-hour strike action, starting 27 November, over its long pay dispute.

Thousands of operations delayed during winter flu season
Health NZ figures show about 5000 fewer planned procedures were done in July and August, compared with May and June.

ChatGPT’s edits going too far? This prompt keeps them surgical
With the right prompt, you can get ChatGPT to act as a smart “search and replace” tool, snipping out unwanted words or making other document-wide edits. The problem, of course, is making sure ChatGPT (or Claude or Gemini) doesn’t make other, unwanted edits, subtly tweaking your words or otherwise altering your...

Google makes AlloyDB Omni Web UI generally available
Administrators can now inspect self-managed PostgreSQL clusters in a browser, with Google's new read-only console for AlloyDB Omni aimed at Red Hat and container deployments.