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As More Communities Have To Consider Relocation, We Explore What Happens To The Land After People Leave
Saturday, 12 April 2025, 5:04 pm | The Conversation
Managed retreat can be traumatic and hard. But with good planning, the land left behind can serve new purposes, and make public what was once private. More >>
How To Build AI Agents That Integrate With SOAR Tools
Saturday, 12 April 2025, 1:48 pm | Hugh Grant
Building AI Agents for Cybersecurity Automation Using SOAR Platforms More >>
NZ Experts Aid Global Report On Hydrogen Storage Tech
Saturday, 12 April 2025, 6:49 am | University of Canterbury
With the right infrastructure, hydrogen can be used to power transport, buildings, and industry. It can be used to store electricity for peak winter electricity demands, to generate off-grid electricity, and decarbonise industrial chemical manufacture. More >>
Satellite TXT expands, how Egmont Village got a fibre network
Friday, 11 April 2025, 8:27 pm | Bill Bennett
This week: One NZ extends Satellite Txt to prepaid customers. In Taranaki, Primo is wiring Egmont Village with underground fibre and city-style pricing. Early wildfire detection, media law reform, and smarter traffic in Auckland. More >>
The Risks Of Pine Carbon Farms – Expert Reaction
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 11:33 am | Science Media Centre
The new report, Alt-F Reset: Examining the drivers of forestry in New Zealand, says that Radiata pine is really the only economical tree for carbon farming. The Science Media Centre asked experts to comment. More >>
Fluoridated Water For Half A Million More Kiwis – Expert Q&A
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 11:17 am | Science Media Centre
The SMC asked local and international experts about what this might mean for public health, and the science around fluoridation. Feel free to use these comments in your reporting or follow up with the contact details provided. More >>
State Of NZ’s Environment – Expert Reaction
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 10:13 am | Science Media Centre
Our environment 2025 is a three-yearly report highlighting the effects of our land use on the rest of New Zealand’s ecosystem. The Science Media Centre asked experts to comment. More >>
Global EV Adoption Fails To Cut CO - Study
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 2:00 pm | University of Auckland
Using data from 26 countries over 15 years, they found a surprising trend: higher EV uptake was linked to increased CO emissions. The reason? In a number of countries, EVs are still being powered by electricity generated through burning fossil fuels ... More >>
Company Claims To Have “De-extincted” The Dire Wolf – Expert Reaction
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 10:06 am | Science Media Centre
The creature is a genetically modified wolf made by Colossal Biosciences, a company valued at $10 billion. More >>
UC Home To Only Modular Quake Simulator In The World
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 8:59 am | University of Canterbury
A new modular “shake table” used for earthquake simulations at the University of Canterbury is the only one of its kind in the world. More >>
Cyber Threats Escalate: U.S. Tops Hacktivist DDoS Targets, But Australia And NZ Remain In The Crosshairs
Tuesday, 8 April 2025, 2:27 pm | Radware
While much of the global spotlight remains on attacks against U.S. infrastructure, it would be a mistake for Australia and New Zealand to consider themselves safe from similar threats. More >>
New Satellite Data Shows NZ’s Major Cities Are Sinking – Meaning Rising Seas Will Affect Them Sooner
Monday, 7 April 2025, 7:19 pm | The Conversation
Calculating the dual effect of rising seas and sinking land gives coastal communities a more accurate projection of the impacts of sea-level rise. More >>
Attachment Styles Shape Adoption Of AI Counselling Tools
Monday, 7 April 2025, 5:29 pm | University of Canterbury
Attachment styles and level of trust in AI influence how willing people are to use it as a counselling tool, a new UC study has found. More >>
Climate Change Conditions Impacting Critical Element For Plant Growth, Fertiliser Need
Monday, 7 April 2025, 3:23 pm | AgResearch
New research published in Global Change Biology journal by scientists from AgResearch and Lincoln University has found that the test used in New Zealand to estimate the amount of available P in the soil may be underestimating the true accessibility of ... More >>
NTU Singapore Scientists Create ‘Fungi Tiles’ With Elephant Skin Texture To Cool Buildings
Saturday, 5 April 2025, 12:41 pm | Nanyang Technological University
In laboratory experiments, the scientists found that the cooling rate of their elephant skin-inspired mycelium tile was 25 per cent better than a fully flat mycelium tile, and the heating rate was 2 per cent lower. More >>
2degrees fined $325,000 for misleading ‘free’ Aussie roaming claim
Friday, 4 April 2025, 8:02 pm | Bill Bennett
This week's newsletter covers Amazon’s satellite launch, the future of 24-30 GHz spectrum. Plus, Motorola’s new budget phones, the decline of folding phones and 2degrees’ $325,000 fine. More >>
Commvault And SimSpace Team Up On Cyber Battle Simulation
Friday, 4 April 2025, 3:53 pm | Commvault
Commvault® Recovery Range™, powered by SimSpace, is the first to integrate realistic attack simulations with essential cyber recovery exercises to unlock a new era in cyber preparedness . More >>
Nitrogen And Argon Plasma Boosts Performance Of Carbon-Based Supercapacitor Electrodes
Friday, 4 April 2025, 8:37 am | Skoltech
Supercapacitors are energy storage devices often used in tandem with lithium-ion tech. Unlike conventional batteries, they deliver — or harvest — energy nearly instantaneously, so they can enable the quick burst of power required to lift a load, ... More >>
F5’s Multi-terabit VELOS Hardware Powers AI Workloads For Service Providers And Large Enterprises
Thursday, 3 April 2025, 1:26 pm | F 5
AI applications are highly distributed, with vast amounts of valuable data traveling in complex patterns. As organisations accelerate their use of AI, high-performance traffic management and advanced security are critical. More >>
Co-existence With Genetic Modification Possible In New Zealand: Review
Thursday, 3 April 2025, 12:49 pm | AgResearch
Genetic modification and gene editing have enabled major gains in the performance of crops globally, and opportunities to enhance pasture plant species are now being tested. More >>
Autodesk Offers New Features To Enhance Sustainable Building Practices
Thursday, 3 April 2025, 11:29 am | Autodesk
The new ReCap Mesh Revit plugin will support efforts to minimise environmental impact and reduce resource consumption. This plugin enables the integration of large quantities of reality capture data into Revit without affecting project performance. More >>
Hub Launched To Empower Architects And Engineers To Build Above Code
Thursday, 3 April 2025, 8:18 am | Natural Hazards Commission
“Many people don’t know they can ask for more from their buildings. The point of Design.Resilience.NZ is to become is a one-stop-shop for anyone who is interested in building, buying or upgrading a home to above code minimum,” NHC’s Principal ... More >>
Aspiring Materials Critical Minerals Pilot Production Plant Opens In Christchurch
Thursday, 3 April 2025, 7:12 am | Aspiring Materials
Aspiring Materials’ world leading technology turns a low value waste resource into high value critical minerals and essential materials and will deliver both regional economic growth and jobs. More >>
Flooding From Underneath: New Tool Reveals Shallow Groundwater Elevations
Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 12:44 pm | NIWA
Groundwater flooding is often overlooked as a threat, however it is a hazard that traditional flood defences such as stopbanks and seawalls cannot contain because the water comes up from underneath. More >>
ManageEngine Expands Its Integration Network With 100+ Prebuilt Integrations For Enterprise Identity Management
Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 12:38 pm | ManageEngine
ManageEngine has announced that AD360, its identity and access management (IAM) platform, is further expanding its integration offerings, by adding over 100 new prebuilt integrations. More >>
Meerkat Mayhem: Phishing-As-A-Service Unleashed
Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 11:55 am | Infoblox
The threat actor behind these campaigns, dubbed "Morphing Meerkat", creatively employs Domain Name System (DNS) mail exchange (MX) records to dynamically serve fake login pages, spoofing over 100 brands, and steal login credentials this way. More >>
Research Exposes Challenges In Flood Evacuation Planning
Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 11:42 am | University of Canterbury
The research highlights the urgent need to integrate both water depth and velocity – together with the behavioural aspect of evacuees – into flood-evacuation planning to ensure safer routes and better-informed emergency responses. More >>
The Transformative Power Of Urban Food Forests
Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 11:31 am | University of Auckland
Five years ago, Kelly learned about syntropic agroforestry at a workshop at PermaDynamics in Northland. It’s a new technique for growing trees and food that is inspired by pre-modern farming in Europe and contemporary indigenous practices in Brazil. More >>
Study Reveals Bizarre Compounds Of Oxygen And Carbon With Explosive Potential
Monday, 31 March 2025, 9:03 pm | Skoltech
The team’s analysis uncovered an entire “molecular zoo” numbering some 224 oxocarbons, of which only 78 had been reported in earlier papers and still fewer had been investigated at that level of detail. More >>
Neural Network Learns To Hesitate For Accuracy In A New Skoltech Study
Monday, 31 March 2025, 9:00 pm | Skoltech
The new technology can be applied in critical areas where the reliability of artificial intelligence is important, including medical diagnostic systems, industrial automation, technical control systems, and autonomous solutions. More >>
Rocket Lab’s Neutron Rocket On-Ramped To U.S. Space Force’s $5.6b National Security Space Launch (NSSL) Program
Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:16 pm | Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab’s launch vehicle for the program will be Neutron, its 13-ton reusable carbon composite medium-lift launch vehicle being rapidly developed to meet the demand for high assurance national security missions, and for single and multi-satellite ... More >>
Estuaries Are Literally In Hot Water, Says Researcher
Monday, 31 March 2025, 8:51 am | University of Auckland
The researchers will spend three weeks studying two New Zealand estuaries – probably Whangateau Harbour on Auckland’s east coast, where a massive cockle die off occurred in 2009, and a west coast estuary with dark sediment. More >>
Invertebrates Consuming 1080 Poison Baits In New Zealand Forests
Sunday, 30 March 2025, 3:42 pm | Flora and Fauna of Aotearoa
What we need most, right now in this moment, is for the next generation of entomologists, ecologists and conservationists to take off the blinkers of their predecessors. We need them to study the facts without the stranglehold of industry and government ... More >>
Life X DNA Brings At-Home Genetic Testing To Melbourne And Brisbane
Friday, 28 March 2025, 2:21 pm | Life X DNA
Each kit examines over 20 million SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) and uses AI-powered analysis to produce personalised reports. More >>
Comcom revisits fibre rules as competition intensifies
Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:19 am | Bill Bennett
The Commerce Commission kicks off a review of fibre broadband regulations to keep pace with market changes, including growing competition from wireless and satellite. Meanwhile, mobile termination rates could be deregulated after 14 years, and Apple ... More >>
Download Weekly Extra: InternetNZ disrupted
Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:15 am | Bill Bennett
Free Speech Union moves threaten to derail InternetNZ’s planned constitution update. This has implications for the non-profit’s main role managing the .nz domain registry and its other work. More >>
Click, Click, Click... First Shark Sounds Recorded
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 5:32 pm | University of Auckland
Researchers at Leigh Marine Laboratory in Auckland have upended the notion sharks are silent. More >>
Apple iPad Air M3: best tablet for creators in 2025
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 2:09 pm | Bill Bennett
Sitting between the iPad and the iPad Pro, the iPad Air balances price and performance. It’s 2025’s best tablet if you want to do more than basic browsing, viewing and listening but don’t need high-end performance. This post examines the iPad Air ... More >>
New Deep Sea Mining Study Shows Ecosystem Recovery From Mining Could Take Centuries
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 1:23 pm | Greenpeace
The study warns that ecological recovery would likely take centuries or longer, adding to the multitude of existing warnings from scientists that deep sea mining could have severe and long-lasting impacts on the deep. More >>
Wasp Numbers Explode After Long, Hot Summer
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 12:37 pm | University of Auckland
New Zealand has five species of these brightly coloured invaders from Europe and Asia - the German and common wasp, and three species of paper wasp. All have painful stings for humans and nasty effects on native species. More >>
Life X DNA Advances Home Genetic Testing For Personalised Health Insights
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 1:13 pm | Life X DNA
Life X DNA employs Next-Gen DNA sequencing combined with AI-powered interpretation to generate highly personalised reports. These reports offer actionable recommendations covering diet, lifestyle modifications, and targeted supplementation . More >>
Marine Biosecurity Watch At Port Taranaki
Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 5:49 pm | NIWA
The data that our surveys collect on species not only assists MPI’s marine biosecurity management, but also helps Taranaki Regional Council and other territorial authorities, Māori partners, industry, and the many stakeholders who benefit from a port free ... More >>
UC Research To Unlock Potential Of Elite Female Athletes
Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 12:40 pm | University of Canterbury
A UC research team is exploring how hormones affect elite female athletes' performance, breaking new ground for women in sport. More >>
Neural Networks Will Recognize Production Processes By Video
Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 11:49 am | Skoltech
The neural network is trained on a large array of unlabeled video recordings, independently identifying key features without the human contribution. Then it undergoes further training on a small marked-up sample and adapts to specific tasks. More >>
ComCom Moves Closer Towards Deregulating Mobile Termination
Tuesday, 25 March 2025, 8:59 am | Commerce Commission
Market shifts include the growth in popularity of alternative over-the-top (OTT) messaging services, such as Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, which potentially negate the need for SMS regulation, and the move towards data services, which potentially negate the need for voice calling regulation. More >>
Zero-day Vulnerabilities: The Real Threat Behind Netflix’s “Zero Day”
Monday, 24 March 2025, 4:10 pm | Gen Digital
Zero-day vulnerabilities might sound like the stuff of Hollywood thrillers, but they’re a real and ongoing cybersecurity challenge. The good news? By staying informed, keeping your software up to date, and practicing smart online habits, you can greatly reduce ... More >>
MOTAT’s Te Puawānanga Science And Technology Centre Shortlisted For International Exhibition Of The Year
Monday, 24 March 2025, 4:05 pm | MOTAT
Now this year, Te Puawānanga Science and Technology Centre is in the running for International Exhibition of the Year, alongside five other museums including the Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo, and The Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle. More >>
Thai Students Experience AI-Focused Study Tour At Wintec
Monday, 24 March 2025, 11:15 am | Wintec
The Wintec ‘train the trainer’ programme equips teachers and instructors with valuable skills, knowledge, and strategies to help them effectively train other educators and learners. More >>
Digital Online Game Research Makes Space For Pacific Female Youth Voices
Monday, 24 March 2025, 9:50 am | University of Auckland
Young people are increasingly turning to digital spaces, rather than physical spaces, to socialise and build connections. Online gaming platforms can provide a safe and accessible environment for youth to interact, collaborate, and form meaningful relationships More >>
Gilbertson wants action on barriers to churn
Friday, 21 March 2025, 6:08 pm | Bill Bennett
The Commerce Commission thinks it can be too hard to switch between mobile or broadband companies and that means you may be paying too much. Also in today's newsletter... NZers love working from home and it is effective, but bosses are cracking down on ... More >>
What’s Next For COVID Vaccines In NZ? – Expert Q&A
Friday, 21 March 2025, 11:55 am | Science Media Centre
As we head into winter illness season, the SMC asked experts for the latest on our COVID vaccines. An updated vaccine targeting new COVID variants became available in January. Dr Lisa Connor, head of the Connor laboratory and programme leader of ... More >>
AI To Find New Chemical Reactions In Data Archives
Friday, 21 March 2025, 9:01 am | Skoltech
The search engine is capable of analyzing data from different fields of chemistry, leading to the discovery of new reactions, catalysts, and mechanisms. The use of existing data not only accelerates scientific progress, but also reduces experiment More >>
Protect Yourself From Cyberstalking Now; Anti-Stalking Bill Still A Work In Progress
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 7:28 pm | Gen Digital
Researchers from Avast recommend 5-Point Stalkerware Quick Check. Avast, a part of Gen, is also a proud member of the Coalition Against Stalkerware which provides a variety of resources for people who have been impacted. More >>
Antarctic Sea Ice Levels Have Been At Record Lows For The Last Three Years, A Global Report Shows
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 11:56 am | Science Media Centre
The World Meteorological Organisation's State of the Global Climate 2024 report highlights record glacier loss, extreme temperatures, unprecedented CO levels, and accelerating sea level rise. Experts react. More >>
Low-cost Diagnostic Tool Could Significantly Improve Crop Production In Developing Countries
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 11:17 am | Ministry For Primary Industries
The rapid test uses a combination of chemistries to identify plant disease and will allow growers to remove unhealthy plants in the field early in their growing season, enabling them to increase crop production of important food sources such as maize. More >>
New Zealanders Spending More Time Online Than Ever - InternetNZ
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 9:28 am | InternetNZ
Internet Insights is an annual survey of New Zealanders' habits, concerns and awareness of the online world, and has seen a steady increase in the amount of time we spend online. More >>
New Zealanders Highly Concerned About Online Misinformation, Harm, And Harassment
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 9:27 am | InternetNZ
Vivien Maidaborn thinks the survey results reflect an environment in which people have to be vigilant about unregulated online spaces where it’s easy for mistruths to spread. More >>
Concern About AI Remains High Amongst New Zealanders
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 9:24 am | InternetNZ
InternetNZ Chief Executive Vivien Maidaborn believes that widespread acceptance of AI is still yet to come, but acknowledges that New Zealanders are taking the initiative to understand AI and its implications. More >>
Desire For Flexibility Remains Amid Fall In Number Of Remote Workers
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 9:22 am | InternetNZ
Vivien Maidaborn, CEO of InternetNZ, believes that while employers are reconsidering work-from-home arrangements and are modifying their policies, the call from employees to work from home more is not going away. More >>
Women, Elderly, And Minority Groups More Concerned About Online Harm, Study Reveals
Thursday, 20 March 2025, 9:20 am | InternetNZ
A staggering 71% of New Zealanders surveyed said they are either extremely or very concerned about young children accessing inappropriate content - making it the top concern for the fifth year in a row. More >>
