The price of instant gratification
One million Kiwis use a Buy Now Pay Later scheme, but not everyone is convinced the regulations governing them are adequate to protect users from harm. 
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Gisèle Pelicot among headliners at this year's Hay Festival
Other speakers at the event include Malala Yousafzai, Nazanin Zaghari-Rarcliffe and Emma Thompson.
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Anthropic sues US government for calling it a risk
The artificial intelligence company has been in a public fight with US government leaders over use of its tools like Claude
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When will the Steam Machine land? Valve doesn’t seem to know
The most exciting hardware for PC gamers this decade is the Steam Deck, a portable handheld gaming PC that’s almost singlehandedly created a product category. Valve’s console-ish follow-up, the revived Steam Machine, was almost as exciting when it was announced last year. But we’re getting towards the end of Q1...
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The iPhone is designed for those clinging onto older phones
Apple's newest addition could be a good upgrade option for many people, technology expert Trevor Long says.
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Local government minister Simon Watts can't guarantee rates cap won't increase social housing rents
Simon Watts said the final rates cap policy is still being designed, but didn't anticipate it would cause higher costs for those living in roughly 10,000 council-owned rental homes.
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NZ economy 'on precipice' as markets wobble, oil price rises
An economist says there would be a wider inflation effect for New Zealand, beyond the increase in petrol prices that has already begun.
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Watch out for this ‘1.1 TB’ laptop scam on Amazon
Way back in the 90s, a program called SoftRAM claimed to double your memory without any additional hardware. It, uh, didn’t. (It basically just fooled the memory display and did nothing to improve performance.) I’m reminded of this flimflammery as HP laptops with “1.1TB” of storage pop up on Amazon...
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ChatGPT’s explicit ‘adult mode’ gets postponed once again
If you’ve been waiting to try out the upcoming “adult mode” in ChatGPT, you’ll unfortunately have to wait a little longer. Engadget reports that OpenAI has once again postponed the launch of this new mode that promises to allow adult (read: erotic) conversations with the chatbot.
A spokesperson for OpenAI announced...
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Live Nation reaches settlement in US monopoly case
The live events company, which owns Ticketmaster, will open parts of its business to rival companies.
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One in two large businesses successfully attacked by cybercriminals in last year
Kordia's 10th annual New Zealand Business Cyber Security Report indicates 61 percent suffered a serious business disruption, including extortion in one-in-five cases.
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More scope for private sector to ease public healthcare woes, report says
The Westpac report found the public health system was under growing presssure, with an ageing population and wider social challenges pushing demand ever further beyond capacity.
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