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Driver dies after petrol tanker rolls on Bay of Plenty highway
State Highway 5 near Whakarewarewa is closed while contractors clear the scene.

Ryan Fox makes rough start in quest for the big prize
Kiwi golfer is well off the pace as he tries to book at spot at the lucrative Tour Championship.

‘It could’ve gone either way’: Coward punch victim lucky to survive
For Ben Leng and the family of Daniel Nganeko, the Government's law change can't come fast enough.

Person dies after petrol tanker rolls on state highway near Rotorua
The highway remains closed with diversions in place at both the northern and southern ends of SH5.

Earnscleugh Castle lovingly restored to former glory near Clyde
Marco Creemers and Ryan Sanders have spent five years on their historic dream home near Clyde.

Three of New Zealand's biggest emitters no longer have to reveal their climate impact
It comes after the government ended compulsory reporting for the farming sector.

Combating organised crime: Call for government and businesses to pool data
It's calling for a "data lake" and tweaks to privacy laws so agencies and businesses can work together to help combat organised crime.

This speedy 1440p OLED gaming monitor is almost $200 off today
I have yet to see an OLED gaming monitor go below the $400 mark, and I’ve been on the lookout since almost a year ago. With everything going on in tech and tariffs, I’d say $480 is about as good as you can hope for right now—and if you happen to be in the market right now, Newegg has one for you. This ASRock 27-inch 1440p OLED monitor is on sale for $479.99, a cool 25% off the retail price. This just about hits the baseline for gaming-focused OLED monitors right now, with a 2560×1440 resolution and fast 240Hz refresh rate. That’s far from the fastest on the market, but it’ll make your gaming PC sweat if you try to load up a recent triple-A game with all the graphical fixins. It also offers a little more than just the basics, with USB-C support and a built-in KVM switch, though with just 15 watts of power delivery it’s not an ideal companion for a single-cable laptop setup. However, it is a pretty good pick if you like to play both PC and console games at your desk, thanks to double DisplayPort and HDMI inputs. You also get a standard VESA mount included, in case you want to add on a monitor arm. Overall, at this price, it’s a solid get. Newegg hasn’t put a time limit on this deal, but since it’s currently the cheapest OLED around, I wouldn’t be surprised if it went pretty quickly—so grab it quick if you’re interested. If you’re looking for something else, check out PCWorld’s picks for the best monitors. Get this 27-inch 1440p 240Hz OLED gaming monitor for $480Buy now from Newegg

AMD’s X3D continues to dominate desktop PCs
AMD’s share in the desktop PC market climbed by a mammoth total of 9.2 percentage points versus last year, a ringing endorsement for AMD’s Ryzen chips and especially its X3D lineup of gaming processors. AMD snatched headlines for its first-quarter performance, where its desktop market share grew by 4.1 percentage points, or just 0.9 of a percentage point from the previous quarter. During the second quarter, AMD’s share climbed 4.2 percentage points in just a single quarter, and 9.2 percent from the second quarter of 2024. In all, AMD now owns basically a third of the desktop PC market, at 32.2 percent. That represents record revenues for AMD, according to the company, and a record high in terms of unit share, according to Mercury Research, which produced the market-share estimates. Intel, too, found something to be proud of: a quarter-over-quarter increase in mobile processors, which has been a key focus of the company over the past few years. But Mercury’s numbers also sparked some questions about Arm: Chromebook sales shrank, and the percentage of Arm chips in Chromebooks also fell. Overall, Chromebooks, PCs, and Macs using Arm saw their market share percentage slightly dip to 13.2 percent, down from 13.9 percent. AMD continues to rapidly gain ground in desktop Overall, AMD’s share of the X86 market increased to 24.2 percent, up 2.9 percentage points from a year ago. In client shipments (desktop, mobile, and server) it was virtually the same, with AMD gaining 2.8 percentage points to 23.9 percent. Intel owns 75.8 percent of the overall X86 market and 76.1 percent of the client market, according to Mercury. Essentially, AMD is aligning itself with the gaming market more than ever before. Mercury noted that AMD had reported a mammoth 73 percent sequential revenue increase in its gaming segment for the second quarter, primarily driven by the SOCs that AMD ships into the Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation platforms. That, combined with AMD’s desktop share, resulted in a big win for AMD. AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D “obliterated” Intel’s best in late 2024, and the momentum has continued. That has to be due to the lukewarm reception of Intel’s lackluster gains in its 13th- and 14th-gen desktop Core chips, as well as the current “Arrow Lake” processors. Mobile is where AMD has treaded water, never really making substantial inroads into Intel’s market share. Qualcomm and Arm PCs have done slightly better, at least in mindshare. But Intel continues to keep owning the laptop market, maintaining the traditional 80/20 ratio that has defined the X86 market for seeming decades. “This may be due in part to consumer mix-related weakness, and Intel’s business-related share gains — typically the first half of the year strongly favors business PCs over consumer,” Mercury principal analyst Dean McCarron wrote in a note to clients and journalists. “On-year AMD’s share was very slightly higher. Both suppliers seem to have seen stronger high-end activity in the quarter, with Intel seeing more Arrow Lake PCs on the market and AMD seeing an increase in Strix Halo [the Ryzen AI Max processor] and Fire Range.” Neither company made much movement in servers from the first to second quarter, although AMD’s share in the server market climbed 3.2 percentage points to 27.3 percent, leaving Intel with the remaining 72.7 percent. Outside of strong growth in the IoT/SOC market, “it was a very normal second quarter for the conventional X86 market,” Mercury’s McCarron wrote.