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Luke Evans reveals his secret to surviving Hollywood
The star discusses his "emotional connection" to his character in a new ITV drama, The Party.

Fears jobseeker benefit changes could trap young people in abusive households
Advocates say it should not be left up to young people to prove they were victims of abuse.

KiwiSaver: Would Labour or National make you better off?
KiwiSaver is once again being used as a political football, but how easy is it to compare Labour and National's policies?

Valve's Steam Frame is excellent - but at over £1,000 is VR still too expensive?
The BBC's Tom Gerken is hands-on with the latest virtual reality headset.

‘Vital hours were lost’: Delays reduced burned farmer’s survival prospects
A coroner found a misdirected ambulance journey and subsequent healthcare delays reduced the survival prospects of a Foxton farmer who suffered severe burns.

I write about AI for a living. Lately, I don’t know what to tell people
There’s a TV commercial making the rounds that makes me inexplicably happy. Misunderstood by his smart speaker, driven to work by a faceless automated taxi, and served the wrong coffee order by a multi-armed robotic barista, a weary and resigned bank customer breaks into a surprised smile when he’s greeted...

OpenMatter adds secure AI & data tools to platform
Enterprises handling sensitive data can now use OpenMatter's platform to manage AI models, protect secrets and run privacy-preserving machine learning.

Google Cloud & Accenture launch Gemini Enterprise group
A 1,000-person engineering push aims to help firms shift Gemini Enterprise from small pilots to company-wide AI deployment.

Melbourne reckons it’s the sporting capital of the world. The NFL put that to the test
Melbourne embraced the NFL’s first regular-season game in Australia, turning a Friday morning match into a city-wide sporting spectacle.

Reason: How the Springboks repeatedly got away with scrummage murder
OPINION: The Springboks have mastered the dark arts the All Blacks once dominated, and it could cost New Zealand at the World Cup.

Oranga Tamariki staff present during 'walking the line' assault
The agency confirmed the young person had been ’walking the line’.

Flu season hitting children's hospitals hard, extra paediatricians called in
About 70 children with the most severe respiratory symptoms have been admitted each week for the past month to Kidz First and Starship hospitals.

What should replace the resume in an AI-first hiring process?
Fake candidates and AI-written applications are exposing how weak resume screening is, forcing employers towards work samples and live verification.

Microsoft quietly reveals a redesigned Windows 11 mouse cursor
Back in June, Zac Bowden of Windows Central said Microsoft was rumored to be working on a mouse cursor redesign for Windows 11, with no real evidence except hearsay via “whispers” heard “internally.” But now it seems that tweet is being vindicated by a preview version of the OS. Hearing whispers...

FPT wins AWS DevOps Competency as cloud demand rises
Businesses pushing AI into production need more reliable cloud operations, and FPT says its latest AWS badge strengthens that support.

Prophecy adds AI data prep tools & Snowflake support
Analysts can now inspect AI-generated data changes visually, as Prophecy expands self-service prep tools and adds Snowflake support.

Versos launches NVIDIA NeMo agents for video training
AI teams could cut days from video data preparation as Versos' new agents match natural-language requests to licensed footage and keep provenance attached.

What is AI, how does it work and why are some people concerned about it?
AI is transforming modern life, but not without worry for some that it may be abused or have an adverse environmental impact.