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  • How Meta is using social media content to train AI

    News
    New Zealand What you need to know
    29 Aug 2024
    Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram icons displayed on a phone screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on April 6, 2022. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto) (Photo by Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)

    Explainer - Meta has been using New Zealanders' social media content to train its AI models since last year, at least. Is there any way to opt out?

    How your social media posts are training AI: What you need to know
  • How Chinese video game Black Myth: Wukong became a global hit

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    RNZ中文 RNZ中文 英语新闻
    28 Aug 2024
    People experience the game "Black Myth: Wukong" in Shanghai, China, 20 August, 2024. (Photo by stringer / ImagineChina / Imaginechina via AFP)

    The game has sparked a new wave of nationalism on the internet in China, with social media platforms WeChat and Weibo abuzz with discussion about the release.

    How Chinese video game Black Myth: Wukong became a global hit
  • Tyre blowout sent truck through barrier in triple fatal crash

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    New Zealand Auckland Region
    27 Aug 2024
    Emergency services at the scene of a horror crash on Auckland's State Highway 1 near Ramarama on 26 August 2024.

    Police have described how the "horrific" accident happened, and called some bystanders' filming of the aftermath "disgusting".

    Tyre blowout sent truck through barrier in triple fatal crash on SH1
  • MMA fighter Janay Harding joins RNZ's TAHI podcast

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    Media & Technology music
    27 Aug 2024
    MMA fighter Janay Harding joins RNZ's TAHI podcast

    "I'm a yapper ... might as well make that my job," she told new co-host So'omālō Iteni Schwalger. Audio

    MMA fighter Janay Harding joins RNZ's TAHI podcast
  • Campaigns kick off for Bird of the Year 'election'

    News
    New Zealand conservation
    27 Aug 2024
    Yeloweyed penguin.

Biosphoto / Michel Gunther

    Organisers say they don't expect the competition to go global again, but there's plenty of room for things to go awry. Audio

    Campaigns kick off for Bird of the Year 'election'
  • Tonga PM wants 'more action' as Pacific leaders' summit kicks off

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    Pacific Tonga
    26 Aug 2024
    PIF secretary general Baron Waqa, left, and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown at the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting. 25 August 2024

    The 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting is off to a start with pouring rain and an earthquake as the backdrop, with the New Caledonia and the climate crisis as hot button issues.

    Tonga Prime Minister wants 'more action' as Pacific leaders' summit kicks off
  • Why mpox vaccines are only just arriving in Africa after two years

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    World health
    25 Aug 2024
    Human mpox case. The backs of the hands of a patient with mpox showing a characteristic rash during his recovery phase. Monkeypox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), 1996-1997, formerly in Zaire.

    Lessons from the Covid pandemic about global healthcare inequities have been slow to bring change, experts say. Audio

    Why mpox vaccines are only just arriving in Africa after two years
  • Islamic State supporters turn to AI to bolster online support

    News
    World technology
    24 Aug 2024
    Islamic State has claimed responsibility for two deadly bomb attacks on coptic Christian churches in Egypt

    Experts say groups like IS and far-right movements are increasingly using AI online and testing the social media platforms' safety controls.

    Islamic State supporters turn to AI to bolster online support
  • Why internet searches are serving up 'AI slop'

    News
    New Zealand technology
    24 Aug 2024
    photo of Danyl McLauchlan created using openart.ai

    AI-generated gibberish is taking over the internet - unwanted and unloved, but unstoppable? Audio

    Why internet searches are serving up 'AI slop'
  • RFK Jr ends US presidential campaign, endorses Trump

    News
    World politics
    24 Aug 2024
    GLENDALE, ARIZONA - AUGUST 23: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump (L) embraces former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a campaign rally at Desert Diamond Arena on August 23, 2024 in Glendale, Arizona. Kennedy announced today that he was suspending his presidential campaign and supporting former President Trump.   Rebecca Noble/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Rebecca Noble / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

    Hours after announcing the endorsement in a press conference, Kennedy joined Trump at a campaign event in Arizona, where the crowd cheered the independent loudly.

    RFK Jr ends US presidential campaign, endorses Trump
  • Confusion, lack of communication in wake of Aratere crash

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    New Zealand emergency services
    23 Aug 2024
    The Aratere aground in the Marlborough Sounds

    It wasn't clear who was leading the emergency response after an Interislander ferry ran aground, report shows.

    Aratere report 'highlights potential gaps,' shows need for agency preparation
  • 'Who's going to run the show?': 26 lessons from Aratere grounding

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    New Zealand Local Democracy Reporting
    23 Aug 2024
    The Aratere aground in the Marlborough Sounds

    When the Aratere ran aground in Picton Harbour, it wasn't clear who was leading the emergency response, the harbourmaster says. Audio

    Marlborough harbourmaster’s 26 lessons from Aratere grounding
  • Mata Season 2 | Mata Reports Episode 2: Toxic Legacy - A Fast Track to Failure?

    Audio
    environment te ao Maori
    22 Aug 2024
    Tomai Fox

    Watch: In this new video investigation from the Mata Reports series by the Aotearoa Media Collective, Mihingarangi Forbes and Annabelle Lee-Mather visit Kawerau and hear warnings about the fast-track… Video, Audio

  • Mata Reports: Toxic Legacy - A Fast Track to Failure?

    Audio
    environment te ao Maori
    22 Aug 2024
    Tomai Fox

    Watch: In this new video investigation from the Mata Reports series by the Aotearoa Media Collective, Mihingarangi Forbes and Annabelle Lee-Mather visit Kawerau and hear warnings about the fast-track… Video

  • Fiji minister wants to 'explore the possibility of death penalty'

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    Pacific Fiji
    22 Aug 2024
    Lynda Tabuya at the opening of the 2024 Parliament session at the Parliament House in Suva on Monday. 4 March 2024

    The Minister for Women and Children, Lynda Tabuya, believes capital punishment should be used as a "deterrence" and send a warning to international drug traffickers.

    Fiji minister wants to 'explore the possibility of death penalty' to tackle drug crisis
  • Wheels stop turning on New Zealand Cycle Classic

    News
    Sport
    21 Aug 2024
    NZ Cycle Classic.

    The New Zealand Cycle Classic is ending after almost four decades.

    Wheels stop turning on New Zealand Cycle Classic
  • Feature interview: D. Graham Burnett

    Audio
    technology life and society
    20 Aug 2024
    Princeton professor D. Graham Burnett

    Every day, every time you switch from reading an email to checking a text to scrolling social media, the attention economy is mining your data for information that can be bought and sold. It is a form… Audio

  • Football Ferns captain says nerve injury may end her professional career

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    Sport
    20 Aug 2024
    Football Ferns captain Ali Riley thanks supporters in Dunedin during the World Cup.

    The Football Ferns captain suggested in a speech to young sportswomen that she had been considering her post-playing career.

    Ali Riley says ongoing nerve injury may end her professional career
  • Fonterra accused of greenwashing to impress big foreign buyers

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    Country In Depth
    19 Aug 2024
    Image of regenerative agriculture presentation

    The dairy giant has talked up its 'regenerative farming' credentials. But critics say the claims are bogus. Audio

    Fonterra accused of 'greenwashing' to impress big foreign buyers keen on 'regenerative agriculture'
  • The Mixtape: Comedian and creator Jesse Griffin

    Audio
    media music
    17 Aug 2024
    Comedian Jesse Griffin

    Our guest on the Mixtape is Kiwi actor, comedian, writer and director Jesse Griffin. Jesse is the co-creator of Educators, as well as starring in Nude Tuesday, 7 Days, 800 Days. Many will be familiar… Video, Audio

    This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions.

  • Learning on the job: What the PM will take away from a day in Sydney

    News
    Politics Comment & Analysis
    17 Aug 2024
    Christoper Luxon and Simeon Brown.

    Analysis - Luxon says he wants to get things back on track. But how does that align with the government's cancelling of infrastructure projects, asks Lillian Hanly.

    Learning on the job: What PM Christopher Luxon will take away from a day in Sydney
  • Six hours, and 'no remaining evidence' against convicted murderer

    News
    New Zealand In Depth
    17 Aug 2024
    Convicted murderer Gail Maney.

    The murder convictions of Gail Maney and Stephen Stone appear to be hanging by a thread after a bombshell in court. Adam Dudding reports. Audio

    Gail Maney case: The six stunning hours of an appeal that revealed 'no remaining evidence' against convicted murderer
  • Pacific news in brief for August 16

    News
    Pacific
    16 Aug 2024
    Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has met with the Governor of the Yunnan Province while on his trip to China.

    A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including Fiji PM Sitiveni Rabuka meets with the Governor of the Yunnan Province, Wang Yubo, while on his trip to China.

    Pacific news in brief for August 16
  • Back to the future? Robertson explains All Black changes

    News
    Sport
    15 Aug 2024
    All Blacks head coach Scott Robertson speaks to media at the New Zealand All Blacks press and media conference at Park Hyatt Hotel.

    Analysis - It's a case of bringing in experience as a crunch clash at Eden Park looms.

    Back to the future? Robertson explains All Black changes
  • How TikTok is empowering a new generation of rangatahi

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    Te Ao Māori
    15 Aug 2024
    Ashley McGregor  graduated from Te Herenga Waka last year and is currently completing her masters.

    Māori content creators are using TikTok to share and celebrate te reo, and hope platforms can be flooded with the language.

    Revitalising te reo: How TikTok is empowering a new generation of Māori content creators
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