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Sydney Swans ban Isaac Heeney, Nick Blakey, Chad Warner, Riley Bice and James Jordon for remainder of 2026 season
3+ hour, 10+ min ago (633+ words) Sydney has suspended Riley Bice, Nick Blakey, Isaac Heeney, James Jordon and Chad Warner for the remainder of the 2026 AFL season. The ban comes after at least four players were linked to an ongoing Victoria Police investigation into an alleged…...
OpenAI slows model training to bolster security after Hugging Face hack
54+ min ago (437+ words) OpenAI is slowing down the pace of its AI model development while it overhauls its research and training systems, after OpenAI officials were caught unawares last month when an AI agent under testing hacked another AI firm Hugging Face. The…...
Pacific humanitarian workers face major logistical and access challenges, World Vision says
10+ hour, 18+ min ago (502+ words) Access remains the biggest challenge for humanitarian workers in the Pacific Islands region, but humanitarians are not targeted as they are in other parts of the world, according to World Vision. To mark World Humanitarian Day, World Vision, an international…...
Deaths in fatal Mount Maunganui landslide were preventable
1+ hour, 30+ min ago (143+ words) RNZ Deaths in fatal Mount Maunganui landslide were preventable The deaths in the fatal Mount Maunganui landslide were preventable according to a new report that details a litany of systemic failures that resulted in the tragedy in January. No one…...
The day big albums start streaming, traffic deaths surge in the US
1+ hour, 8+ min ago (1317+ words) When Dr Vishal Patel found himself scrolling through Spotify to find songs from a new Taylor Swift album in his car, he realised he had drifted out of his lane. It’s a situation many drivers find themselves in, searching for…...
Flu wards set up, elective surgery cancelled as hospital admissions surge
8+ hour, 43+ min ago (576+ words) Hospitals have created dedicated flu wards and some elective surgery is being cancelled, as influenza A hits the health system hard. Health bosses were now meeting daily to monitor the situation and keep an eye on hospital capacity across the…...
Auckland seaside village redevelopment seeks fast-track approval
1+ hour, 18+ min ago (527+ words) A contentious plan to re-develop a seaside village on Auckland's North Shore has been referred to the fast-track approvals process, despite community opposition. Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop accepted Peninsula Capital's 'Devonport Lanes' application on Tuesday, and their proposal would now…...
Govt considers u-turn on climate change in school curriculum
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (470+ words) The government is reviewing the deletion of climate change from the subjects children will study at primary school and the first years of secondary, while claiming it was never really cut in the first place. The topic was in draft…...
Police at scene of unexplained death in Hamilton
2+ hour, 34+ min ago (113+ words) Police are at the scene of an unexplained death in Hamilton. Detective Senior Sergeant Reece Durston said the sudden death happened in Rototuna. Police were treating it as unexplained, Durston said and cordons were in place as a scene examination…...
Stanford steering $31m in funding to conversion of open-plan classrooms
3+ hour, 45+ min ago (460+ words) Education Minister Erica Stanford has committed $31 million to correcting the "failed experiment" of open-plan classrooms at 90 schools. "Parents, students, teachers have been telling us for a long time that the open-plan classrooms don't work," she told Midday Report. "They don't…...