New Zealand edging closer to digital IDs

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The government has been working on digital identity legislation since 2018, one that it envisages will become a legally binding tool to prove you are who you say you are. As banking,...

Is Facebook really “killing people”?

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“They’re killing people ... the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated, and they’re killing people.” That was President Biden speaking to a NBC reporter on the weekend. It seemed a spontaneous...

Q&A with Hamish McKenzie (the Kiwi co-founder of Substack) on how writers can make...

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Michael Moore joined Substack the other day. So did Dan Rather, Alison Roman, and even Edward Snowden. They join Andrew Sullivan has joined Substack as have Glenn Greenwald, Cheryl Strayed, Patti...

NZ vs Big Tech: How can little New Zealand regulate Facebook and co?

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Announcing a new review of our internet and publishing regulations, under the headline Govt acts to protect NZers from harmful content , Minister of Internal Affairs, Jan Tinetti, says that New...

Jobhop: “Tinder for jobs” employment app reaches v2.0

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Occasionally described as “The Tinder of jobs” or “The Uber of employment”, Jobhop is an app that lets users “hop on” and “hop off” paid work, one hour at a time...

Crypto goes to Hollywood

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Seeing Matt Damon front an ad for cryptocurrency exchange crypto.com this week, was not only a smart marketing flex for the company, but an indication that crypto has well and truly...

About Parliament’s cryptocurrencies inquiry…

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Yesterday the Parliament's Finance and Expenditure Committee announced an inquiry into the nature, impact and risk of cryptocurrencies. The committee will examine how cryptocurrencies are created and traded - including the environmental...

Meet Pavan Vyas – the man behind the NZ Covid Tracer app

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Pavan Vyas is our quiet tech superstar. He arrived in New Zealand as an immigrant in the mid-90s, found he had a knack for coding and took computing at Auckland University....
Kaseya ransomware attack: 8 things you need to know

Kaseya ransomware attack: 8 things you need to know

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This Kaseya ransomware attack is different. Instead of a single company or organisation being the victim of a ransomware attack (think Waikato DHB ransomware attack) any/all organisations using the Kaseya VSA...

Spatial Audio: The best (and worse) remixed tracks

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After reporting the announcement regarding Spatial Audio last week I figured it was time to check out what Apple calls “the next generation of sound”. As a music lover I’ve spent countless...