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OPINION: Proposed site not suited to a Ferris wheel

OPINION: The threat of AI is something we can agree on.

Handala, a hacking group that US authorities say is linked to Iran, says it placed bouquets of flowers with "sensitive items" at various polling sites in Israel as the country votes in one of its most anticipated elections in years. A message posted to Handala Hack , the group's Telegram channel, showed pictures and videos of the bouquets appearing just outs

OPINION: Tackling the cost of living? Yeah, right!

A man has been charged in Illinois with mailing four letters containing a white granular substance to members of Congress, all of which were sent in envelopes containing his name and home address.

OPINION: Less focus on gangs, more on policies.

Tensions between North Korea and South Korea are running high this week after Pyongyang sent a letter to the UN Security Council, repeating accusations that Seoul fabricated a September landmine incident, and after a North Korean howitzer was spotted close to the border.

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OPINION: Voting is an honour to those who fought for the right to have a say.

OPINION: Giving parties a clear mandate is the way forward, says a reader.

A new collection of 62 letters shows the enormous emotional range of Irish emigrants’ experiences in the US – and complicates narratives of national loss and American opportunity

OPINION: Hipkins had another bad day at the office with a smoko room quip, a reader says.

Election Commissioners S.S. Sandhu and Vivek Joshi wrote to Cabinet Secretary T.V. Somanathan on July 29 regarding the working of Senior Deputy Election Commissioner Maneesh Garg

OPINION: The economic crisis is more than an NZ issue.

Two vulnerabilities found in the programming language PHP put enormous swaths of the internet in danger. By some accounts, up to 70 percent of websites use PHP in some capacity. It powers Wikipedia, WordPress, Drupal, and a host of other popular sites and platforms, including DeviantArt and 4Chan, which were temporarily shut down after the […]

Two bugs found with AI are behind major issues today for 4chan, DeviantArt, Wikipedia, and the blog where the bar around the corner posts pictures of people's dogs. The "critical vulnerabilities" were discovered in the PHP programming language, which underpins much of the internet, including any site built on WordPress. But it's far bigger than […]

OPINION: We need to look forward, not back.

Around 8,000 children embark on their educational journey at Thiruvullakkavu temple in Thrissur on Vijayadashami; nearly 50 acharyas lead the Vidyarambham ceremony