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Is AI lying to us?
When it comes to AI are we being foolishly trusting?

Our Changing World: Getting ready for H5N1 bird flu
Having swept most of the world, killing millions of wild birds, H5N1 bird flu is creeping closer to our shores.

Greens release fiscal strategy that calls for more public investment
Last month, their 'Green Budget' was ridiculed by the coalition government.

Christopher Luxon ranked Australia's most trusted world leader in new poll
Australians trust NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon more than any other leader on the world stage, according to a new poll.

Rural innovation sets the scene for New Zealand's future
Dozens of innovators showed off their wares at Fieldays, offering solutions to problems - and a bit of hope.

Lenovo’s show-stealing laptop with a rollable screen ships this week
Lenovo’s groundbreaking ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 laptop, with a screen that can be “unrolled” to provide additional screen space, now has a ship date as well as an official price. Lenovo’s rollable, which we saw at CES 2025 and was named among the Best of CES 2025, will ship on June 19 for $3,499 and up, Lenovo and Intel said Monday. You can think of the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 as a laptop with a foldable OLED screen — except that the screen doesn’t fold, but unrolls. While in its compact mode, the Rollable offers a fairly standard 120Hz 400-nit OLED display with 100 percent DCI-P3 color accuracy, measuring 14 inches on the diagonal. Unrolled, the display expands to about 16.7 inches on the diagonal. More importantly, the screen’s aspect ration expands to a portrait mode, allowing you to either use it as one gigantic screen or nestle a pair of smaller landscape windows within its broad expanse. The ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 is basically designed for road warriors, as an alternative to bringing along a second display in your backpack or carryon. Intel said Monday that the ThinkBook Plus was co-engineered between the two companies. Creating additional space inside the laptop was done by shrinking the circuit board and using a higher-density battery to create the extra space. The screen was rated for 30,000 closings and openings of the lid hinge and 20,000 rolls. The ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 includes a Core Ultra 7 “Lunar Lake” processor, up to 32GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD, Lenovo said.

PM Christopher Luxon shrugs off critics as he heads to China
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is pledging to continue a "considered" course amid "choppier waters" worldwide - even as former political leaders call for a rethink.

Are we headed for '2020s stagflation'?
The effects of the Israel-Iran conflict are already being felt at the petrol pumps.

'Kids in sport stay out of court' - Sport NZ to help curb youth offending
The sport and police minister says the $2.9m Sport NZ is redirecting to new initiatives for reducing youth offending will not go into the government's "boot camps".

Why Gen Z isn't aspiring to leadership roles (yet)
A recent study found that only six percent of Gen Z workers aspire to leadership roles in the workplace. The reasons for that are many.

Housing market remains mired, report shows
Quotable Value operations manager James Wilson says prices and sales were not changing much - but there were signs of tentative confidence.