New Zealand minister OKs Kim Dotcom extradition to US Entrepreneur vows to keep on buffering Software16 Aug 2024 | 36
Microsoft services partly down Down Under for Kiwi users Updated Maybe time to play the cloud hokey pokey? You put your workload in. You take your workload out... PaaS + IaaS01 Aug 2024 | 5
New Zealand to world: China attacked us, too! Reveals 2021 incident that saw parliamentary agencies briefly probed Public Sector26 Mar 2024 | 3
Samsung teases 1TB DDR5 modules with launch of 32Gb die Asia in Brief PLUS: China allows first wave of chatbots, India’s sun-spotter soars; ASUS smacks down speculation it will quit smartphones On-Prem04 Sep 2023 | 3
Megaupload programmers cop a plea in New Zealand to avoid extradition Kim Dotcom still fighting decade-long battle to avoid being shipped to US over copyright abuse Legal16 Jun 2023 | 15
Airline puts international passengers on the scales pre-flight An aircraft mass properties engineer and an eating disorder therapist weigh in on Air New Zealand's plan Science31 May 2023 | 122
South Pacific vacations may be wrecked by ransomware New Zealand government reels, Vanuatu’s spent weeks entirely offline Security07 Dec 2022 | 5
Catching a falling rocket with a helicopter more complex than it sounds, says Rocket Lab And it should know – having just failed to catch one Science07 Nov 2022 | 54
Don't ditch PowerShell to improve security, say infosec agencies from UK, US, and NZ Use it sensibly instead – which means turning on the useful bits Microsoft doesn't enable by default Security23 Jun 2022 | 20
Rocket Lab successfully catches falling rocket booster with a helicopter Mission not quite accomplished after some weird wobbles Offbeat03 May 2022 | 38
IBM merges 13 APAC nations into one regional organization And calls it 'ASEANZK' (gesundheit) to reflect inclusion of Australia, New Zealand, Korea and all of ASEAN On-Prem17 Feb 2022 | 1
Polly wants a snapper? Parrot swipes GoPro for sweet views of New Zealand's Fiordland Video Oi, kea! Bootnotes04 Feb 2022 | 19
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New Zealand spooks say satellite snooping is obsolete – better intel is found elsewhere Kiwis are done with dishes, and the Five Eyes alliance is cool with it Security11 Nov 2021 | 18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 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
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