New Zealand

From the studio that brought you 'Mortal Wombat' comes 'Pernicious Possum'

Woman tells New Zealand police she was held hostage by small marsupial

Bootnotes16 Nov 2021 | 30

New Zealand spooks say satellite snooping is obsolete – better intel is found elsewhere

Kiwis are done with dishes, and the Five Eyes alliance is cool with it

Security11 Nov 2021 | 18

AWS announces new region in the Land of the Long White Cloud – New Zealand

Hopes three availability zones will be hobbit-forming for local businesses and government agencies

Off-Prem23 Sep 2021 | 9

New Zealand DDoS wave targets banks, post offices, weather forecasters and more

Nobody from government will say a word about who's behind it

Security08 Sep 2021 | 5

New Zealand hospitals infected by ransomware, cancel some surgeries

Intrusion believed to have entered through email

Security19 May 2021 | 24

Amazon makes big bet on New Zealand to crack Indian market

This one's all about putting cricket behind a paywall for nine-figure audiences of ardent fans

On-Prem11 Nov 2020 | 14

Remember so-not-a-pirate Kim Dotcom? New Zealand’s highest court has just said the USA can extradite him for copyright naughtiness

But first, he gets a judicial review and chance to extend eight-year legal saga

SaaS04 Nov 2020 | 15

DDoS downs New Zealand stock exchange for third consecutive day

So much for NZ as the last refuge of civilisation

Security27 Aug 2020 | 12

New Zealand government to explain its algorithms to stop robo-bias warping policy

But won’t reveal the actual algorithms – or even define what an algorithm is

AI + ML28 Jul 2020 | 8

Microsoft 365 and Azure outage struck Australia and New Zealand just as business rocked up for a new week

Updated Microsoft mentioned 'potential token issue that may be preventing users from authenticating' and went away after around three hours

SaaS15 Jun 2020 | 12

New Zealand releases Bluetooth-free COVID-19 tracing app

'Digital diary' with QR-code check-ins for now, wireless-capable upgrade in the works

Software20 May 2020 | 42

First it became Middle Earth, now New Zealand will transform into Azure region number 60

Add low latency to the list of things on offer to billionaires building civillisation-fail boltholes in South Pacific

SaaS06 May 2020 | 11

'Six' in the city: Kiwi sportswear shop telly beamed X-rated flicks for hours over weekend

Asics confirms it was hacked

Bootnotes30 Sep 2019 | 36

Someone's spreading an MBR-trashing copy of the Christchurch killer's 'manifesto' – and we're OK with this, maybe?

Nah, of course we're not in favor of vigilante malware knackering people's PCs

Security28 Mar 2019 | 97

Our amazing industry-leading AI was too dumb to detect the New Zealand massacre live vid, Facebook shrugs

Even when it had a copy, it still couldn't stop 300,000 copies from appearing on its site

AI + ML22 Mar 2019 | 36

New Zealand cops cuff alleged jackasses who shared mosque murder video, messages online

Calls for global action against white nationalism and tech giants that spread its message

Legal20 Mar 2019 | 145

Huawei CEO defiant on security claims, vows to be so good, 'no market can keep us away'

Company 'will never present a threat', claims letter to staff

Networks03 Jan 2019 | 17

Huawei gets the Kiwi 'yeah nah'* as NZ joins the Chinese kit-ban club

Doubt cast on Spark's 5G build, despite minister saying ban isn't really a ban

Networks29 Nov 2018 | 22

New Zealand border cops warn travelers that without handing over electronic passwords 'You shall not pass!'

Land of the Long White Cloud's new 'digital strip-search' law

Personal Tech01 Oct 2018 | 187

Hundred-million Kiwi Oracle project on hold after Deloitte review

Behind schedule, over budget ... stop us if you've heard this one

On-Prem05 Sep 2018 | 23

New Zealand school on naughty step after ransomware failure

Fortinet to lock the stable door, horse heads for horizon

Security02 Aug 2018 | 15

Google listens to New Zealand just long enough to ignore it

'We can't delete court cases, and you can't make us'

Legal23 May 2018 | 51

Former Google X bloke's startup unveils 'self flying' electric air taxi

Kitty Hawk is also personally backed by Larry Page

Science13 Mar 2018 | 75

Developers' timezone fail woke half of New Zealand

Wee small hours civil defence wake-in-fright text arrives on Vodafone mobes

Bootnotes04 Oct 2017 | 41

Kiwi prankster 'oinks' down cops' radio and sings Old MacDonald

Can someone lend them some direction-finding gear?

Bootnotes29 Aug 2017 | 43

Telecoms fail in UK takes down passport scanners in Australia

Updated Airport chaos as check-in counters revert to archaic manual processes

SaaS22 May 2017 | 48

New Zealand puts the bite on Apple over taxes

Australia, of all places, is a tax haven for Apple New Zealand

On-Prem21 Mar 2017 | 8

NZ High Court rules US can extradite Kim Dotcom after all

Kimble's running out of road

Legal20 Feb 2017 | 23

Geo-boffins say 'quake lifted bits of New Zealand by 8 metres, moved at 3km/second

VIDEOS Reefs lift from sea and drain, roads cut, house torn off foundations

Science27 Nov 2016 | 82

CERN boffins see strange ... oh, wait, that's just New Zealand moving 2m north

Two earthquakes hammer South Island

Science14 Nov 2016 | 32

Kiwis prep 'permissive' space laws to help Rocket Lab get off the ground

Rocket Lab scores launch pad on North Island

Science17 Jun 2016 | 9

NASA eyes stadium-sized orb launch: Part 3

Super Pressure Balloon team poised yet again in NZ

Science26 Apr 2016 | 9

NZ government scraps e-voting trial

Numerous security and privacy issues couldn't be addressed in time for poll

Legal20 Apr 2016 | 12

US poised to unleash stadium-sized sandwich bag

Super pressure balloon mission launch is go

Science18 Apr 2016 | 9

NZ hotel bans cyclists' Lycra-clad loins

Move to tackle 'unsightly' tackle

Bootnotes15 Apr 2016 | 71

Flock of sheep ends NZ high-speed car chase

Ovine stinger

Bootnotes22 Jan 2016 | 31

NZ unfurls proposed new flag

Out with the Union Jack, in with the Silver Fern

Bootnotes11 Dec 2015 | 113

NZ Uni EMC broke considered ditching EMC before SNAFU

VNX fleet was almost out of warranty, RFI called for replacements

Storage27 Nov 2015 | 11

EMC mess sends New Zealand University TITSUP for two days

The more EMC tried to fix it, the worse things became

Storage25 Nov 2015 | 17

Pop-up Kiwi CERT a shepherd for helpless hacked SMB flock

Natsec, schools covered, but what about the middle, boffins bleat.

Security29 Oct 2015 | 12

With Hobbit and LoTR in the can, Trolls no longer welcome in New Zealand

Kiwi parliament passes 'Harmful digital communications bill' outlawing online nasties

SaaS01 Jul 2015 | 27

Kiwis to farewell 'global mode' browsing

TV broadcasters build crumbling wall around New Zealand

Legal24 Jun 2015 | 3

Dotcom keeps assets, for now

NZ court says Megaulpload defendants can fight forfeiture

Legal04 Jun 2015 | 16

Sorry we called you a fatty, say Kiwi spies to Kim 'Slim Jim' Dotcom

Fat shaming sparks diplomatic incident down under

Bootnotes02 Jun 2015 | 25

Do androids dream of herding electric sheep?

Kiwi drones on about how good it is. Just wait until it wants more life

Science09 Apr 2015 | 30

Tired of IoT hype? Internet of SLUGS and SPIDERS is the reality

Kiwi sewer systems shorted by slime shows we're building nice warm places for things to live

Personal Tech06 Mar 2015 | 26

NZ regulator okays cable to Oz

Tasman Global Access to go ahead

Networks11 Feb 2015 |

Ski MOUNT DOOM or take top coffee to the beach? Your choice

eXpat Files Swapping the City of London for New Zealand – work/life balance at last

On-Prem18 Jan 2015 | 21

BORGED! Expat moves from New Zealand to Norway to be acquired by Cisco

eXpat Files From global heights to a local help desk

On-Prem30 Nov 2014 | 18

Netflix tags March 2015 for ANZ launch

Oz TV barons: 'Yep, we own that show. And that one. And this one'

Legal19 Nov 2014 | 3

Meet OneRNG: a fully-open entropy generator for a paranoid age

Kiwis to seek random investors for crowd-funded randomiser

Security17 Nov 2014 | 30

Nude celeb pics wrongly blamed for DDOS at New Zealand's largest ISP

Actual culprit appears to be silly router configurations and Euro-nasties

Security08 Sep 2014 | 7

NZ Justice Minister scalped as hacker leaks emails

Grab your popcorn: Subterfuge and slur disrupts election run up

Security01 Sep 2014 | 22

Kiwi Rocket Lab to build SUPER-CHEAP sat launchers (anyone know 30 rocket scientists?)

Promises 100 launches a year for payloads up to 110kg

Science29 Jul 2014 | 32

Kiwi ISP 'Slingshot' stones geo-blocked content

The last time someone tried this it ended badly, quickly

Networks08 Jul 2014 | 11

That's no plane wreck, that's a Google Wi-Fi balloon

Unplanned splashdown scrambles New Zealand emergency services

Networks20 Jun 2014 | 23