Two Nissan Z cars rallied from the back to finish seventh and eighth in a wet and Safety Car-interrupted SUPER GT race at Sportsland SUGO, while a Nissan GT-R claimed second in GT300 to extend its championship lead.
NASA scientists captured rare images of a transient pileus cloud atop a wildfire-driven pyrocumulus cloud over Montana in August 2026, revealing extreme updraft dynamics during the INSPYRE campaign.
Twenty-nine years ago, *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* introduced Spike in “School Hard,” a pivotal episode that reshaped the series and launched one of its most iconic characters.
Meta has introduced Muse Spark as its new flagship AI model, replacing the open-weight Llama series with a closed, multimodal system, alongside new tools like Muse Glimmer and Muse Code.
Zapier evaluates leading large language models (LLMs) for 2026, highlighting proprietary, open, and open-source options while emphasizing practical use cases and AutomationBench evaluations.
New Zealand’s Cabinet has approved stricter penalties and new offences to combat the illicit tobacco trade, aiming to disrupt organised crime and protect tax revenue.
New Zealand’s government opened the Red Meat Conference 2026 by highlighting a 66-point rise in rural confidence since 2023 and announcing measures to expand export value and land-use flexibility while maintaining...
BT Trading & Command will modernise UBS’s global trader communications with a cloud-native voice platform on Microsoft Azure, consolidating 20 platforms into one solution across 17 countries.
The 2025 indie RPG *Keep Driving* arrives on Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X after its acclaimed PC launch, offering a grounded road-trip survival experience with roguelike elements.
The SH1 Papakura to Drury upgrade reached a milestone as southbound traffic shifted to a new motorway alignment and bridge, improving safety and capacity ahead of further construction phases.
New Zealand’s Transport Minister announced a $5–10 million contract to strengthen the 80-year-old SH50 Ngaruroro River Bridge, lifting current weight and speed limits and enabling heavier freight once work completes in...
The New Zealand Government has launched Tākai, a free national parenting platform offering trusted, evidence-based resources for families with children aged zero to five.
A former *Elder Scrolls* writer claims a foundational lore concept, the Dragon Break, originated from a typo in an internal timeline during *Daggerfall* development.
The 2026 gaming year has delivered standout titles like *The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time*, *Grand Theft Auto 6*, and *Resident Evil Requiem*, with surprises such as *Big Walk* and *Denshattack!* shaping the...
Databricks deployed three frontier AI models to 14,000 employees on launch day, using internal tools to evaluate performance and cost within three days.
AMD agreed to acquire AI research lab World Labs, led by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, for approximately $8.2 billion to strengthen its AI hardware and software development capabilities.
Databricks introduces lakebase_vector and lakebase_text extensions for Lakebase Postgres, enabling state-of-the-art full-text and vector search directly within the database, eliminating the need for separate search...
Manufacturers face fragmented data silos across production, supply, and quality systems, complicating defect investigations and cross-stage queries. A modern Data and AI Platform aims to unify these systems without...
NASA and Boeing outlined plans to expand Starliner crew missions, certify Vulcan rocket, and address thruster issues ahead of 2028 crewed flights.
Snowflake integrates Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5.5 into Cortex AI, offering a faster model for well-scoped tasks while maintaining enterprise security and governance.
GitHub Security Lab’s open-source AI agent identified 24 Android vulnerabilities by automating custom auditing taskflows, enabling researchers to guide large language models in detecting complex flaws.
Google and XPRIZE awarded $2.6 million to filmmaker Jeff Synthesized for *The Gifted*, a short film exploring AI’s role in preserving human connection after loss.
OpenAI proposes structured safety documentation, akin to safety cases in aviation or nuclear sectors, for frontier AI training to mitigate risks from misaligned behavior.
Snowflake introduces GPT-6 Sol and Luna models in public preview on Cortex AI, enhancing reasoning and scalability within its governed environment.
Remedy’s Control Resonant received a major day-one patch overhauling combat, transforming a sluggish hack-and-slash into a faster, more fluid experience. The update addressed widespread criticism of shallow progression...
DICE restructured after Battlefield 2042’s troubled launch, adopting live-service practices and multi-studio collaboration to deliver Battlefield 6, which sold over seven million copies in three days.
A modder’s aggressive modding of GTA 5 has pushed the game into a broken state where it only launches in windowed mode, with fullscreen triggering an unbreakable black screen.
Leaked data from a 2024 breach reveals new details about Pokémon Winds and Waves, including character models, maps, and potential time-travel mechanics ahead of its Switch 2 release.
Git 2.56 introduces tools to simplify merge conflict resolution and speed up repository operations, including a new git add --resolved mode and optimized merge-base calculations.
CD Projekt Red releases The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered on September 29, offering free upgrades, new expansions, and extensive quality-of-life improvements to the 2015 RPG.