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Police announce system review after concerns over senior officer's case handling
Police have reopened 40 cases of child protection complaints, alongside 12 adult sexual assaults and two other types of crime.

Residential construction costs continue to rise, index reveals
The latest Cordell Construction Cost Index indicates residential construction costs rose 1.1 percent in the three months to June.

BBC's serious challenges laid bare in annual report
The BBC issues a call to arms for a new funding model to replace the licence fee, media editor Katie Razzall says.

Firefighter's 'bulls...' battle for life insurance papers before brain surgery
Kat Fleming needed her insurance documents before a major operation, but was told she faced a 28-minute phone wait or a five to 10 day delay.

Facebook Marketplace buyer sexually assaulted seller in her home
A woman was showing items for sale when a prospective buyer indecently assaulted her before fleeing the property.

Baffling discovery has scientists asking if AI is already conscious
A baffling new discovery has researchers warning its time to start asking whether chat-bots are actually alive.

Samsung 990 SSD review: Good, but not great. Is AI to blame?
At a glanceExpert's Rating Pros Good PCIe 4.0 performance Higher-than-average TBW rating Top-tier vendor Cons Slows drastically off secondary cache Priced like TLC Only three-year warranty Our Verdict The 990 is a step up from the 990 EVO, though the write rate plummets when secondary cache runs out. But it’s slower than the older 990 EVO Plus and not...

ChatGPT can now control your whole desktop. I tested it with chess
Just a few months ago, I could barely get an AI agent to open the Chess app on my Mac, much less actually play a game of it. But after testing the all-new ChatGPT super-app, I can report that the days of clunky AI “computer use” functionality are pretty much...

Vonage wins a Merit Award for Identity Insights API
Rising fraud pressure is boosting demand for mobile-network identity checks that cut account takeover risk without slowing sign-ups.

Middle East crisis: fertiliser trade “severely disrupted”, WTO says

Stop retyping the same emails. Outlook can save them as templates
Need to send the same email over and over? Good news! Microsoft Outlook lets you save messages as reusable templates, but the setup depends on which version you’ve got. Classic Outlook (the older version) saves templates as OFT files. The new Outlook uses cloud-based Mail Templates by default. We’ll show...

BBC 'working hard' on future of Doctor Who, new BBC director general says
The sci-fi series currently faces an uncertain future after its annual Christmas special was axed for the second year in a row.

Police announce review after concerns over senior officer's case handling
Police have reopened 40 cases of child protection complaints, alongside 12 adult sexual assaults and two other types of crime.

2026 Land Rover Defender 110 review, quick drive
The 2026 Defender doesn't reinvent the formula. Instead, Land Rover has refined one of the world's best luxury off-roaders that continues to set the benchmark.

‘It will haunt me ‘til I die’: What a witness in the Red Fox murder case wasn’t allowed to tell the jury
A man who was to testify about what a suspect in the murder told him shortly afterwards has spoken publicly for the first time.

Microsoft’s fix for RoguePlanet has its own new disk space bug
The other day, we reported that Microsoft had patched RoguePlanet, a zero-day vulnerability in the Defender security app. RoguePlanet was a serious flaw that allowed hackers to gain full access to vulnerable PCs, so the patch to Microsoft’s Malware Protection Engine was much needed. However, according to Nightmare-Eclipse, the anonymous cybersecurity...

The cussing character that may become the PMs latest curse
If a celebrity candidate can claw some right voters back to ACT - National could be headed for devastation station

Microsoft says stop waiting to install Windows updates. Here’s why
Microsoft has flipped its stance regarding the installation of Windows updates. You should now install these updates on your Windows computers as soon as possible. The reason for this change in recommendation? AI. With rampant adoption and use of AI, hackers can now detect and exploit security vulnerabilities in unpatched Windows PCs...