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Apple doubles kura programme to 5000 students, upgrades Maps with iwi place cards
Tech giant doubles down on its efforts to close the digital divide.

Auckland Transport warns about ‘pretend’ parking site – registered with InternetNZ using fake details
Macca hacker? Name behind fake AT website is using Balmoral McDonald's address.

Watch: The rise of online cults targeting NZ kids
Investigations under way as NZ police identify victims linked to subgroups of 'The Com'.

Tech Insider: High Court case has two big lessons for small businesses owners facing social media attacks
Plus, Kiwi organisations busting their cloud budgets.

‘A silly judgment call’: Man who showed sex video to friend worried about job prospects
Neasan McVeigh lost name suppression and a bid for a discharge without conviction.

The hidden cost of online dating scams in New Zealand
Some scams involved losses over $100,000, including cryptocurrency schemes.

Kiwis’ AI fears, work-from-home rate, ‘increasing’ internet use revealed
People have rising concerns – but the Government is heading in the opposite direction.

Free Speech Union angles for control of InternetNZ - but has it been snookered?
Fight over InternetNZ's draft constitution is finely poised.

New online home for the Gisborne Herald
The old Gisborne Herald website will end this week, making way for a new page.

‘Hidden and quiet’: The libraries raising eyebrows for their internet search histories
Hastings District libraries reveals the top 10 sites searched-for and blocked.

Netsafe’s tech ties spark calls for independent regulator
Online safety campaigners say Netsafe is too close to the big tech.

Spark and Microsoft ink NZ’s ‘largest-ever Microsoft public cloud partnership’
Around half of the telco's staff will get Microsoft's gen AI.

Auckland startup Polymath, with its contrarian take on AI, raises money from a heavy-hitter
"Our goal is to be the household name for screen time that parents can feel good about."

Image leaked of Ghahraman during Pak’nSave shopping incident
Ex-MP says blogger's urging to put images on 4Chan is 'like trying to get me killed'.

I let ChatGPT’s new ‘agent’ manage my life. It spent $54 on a dozen eggs
Eggs are a low-stakes failure. What if it's my thermostat or car in future?

Meta expands Instagram ‘Teen Account’ protections to NZ
How they work; where Aussie is at with its under-16 social media ban passed last November.

Ex-Bell Gully solicitor raises $28m for his legal AI start-up
In-house legal teams at Fonterra and US giants have signed on.

Opinion: Dating your own grave - how dating apps can make you feel worse about yourself
OPINION: Is online dating too good to be true? The latest research suggests so.

I went to a rehab clinic with crystal meth addicts to get over my phone addiction
Telegraph: Realising she checked her mobile 262 times a day, something had to change.

Elon Musk and Wikipedia founder in row over how to describe ‘Nazi salute’
The gesture was controversial enough, but now come the sub-controversies.