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July 20, 2024
RNZ Pacific The University of the South Pacific staff associations are up in arms about the sacking of a union leader and academic by the university’s chief executive. In a joint press release, the Association of the University of the South Pacific (AUSPS) and the USP Staff Union (USPSU), this week claimed that USP vice-chancellor ... <a title="‘Attack on freedom of speech’: USP staff call out Ahluwalia for sacking union president" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/20/attack-on-freedom-of-speech-usp-staff-call-out-ahluwalia-for-sacking-union-president/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Attack on freedom of speech’: USP staff call out Ahluwalia for sacking union president">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University Gerd Altmann/Pixabay This weekend’s global IT outage caused by a software update gone wrong highlights the interconnected and often fragile nature of modern IT infrastructure. It demonstrates how a single point of failure can have far-reaching ... <a title="One small update brought down millions of IT systems around the world. It’s a timely warning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/20/one-small-update-brought-down-millions-of-it-systems-around-the-world-its-a-timely-warning-235122/" aria-label="Read more about One small update brought down millions of IT systems around the world. It’s a timely warning">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2024
The Pacific Island Forum could serve as a “constructive force” to find a “path forward” in Kanaky New Caledonia, New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters says. “The situation has reached an impasse, and one not easily navigated given the violence that broke out — the democratic injuries that have reopened old wounds and created ... <a title="NZ’s Winston Peters calls for ‘more diplomacy, engagement, compromise’ in New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/20/nzs-winston-peters-calls-for-more-diplomacy-engagement-compromise-in-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Winston Peters calls for ‘more diplomacy, engagement, compromise’ in New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Toby Murray, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne A massive IT outage is currently affecting computer systems worldwide. In Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, reports indicate computers at banks, media organisations, hospitals, transport services, shop checkouts, airports and more ... <a title="What is CrowdStrike Falcon and what does it do? Is my computer safe?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/what-is-crowdstrike-falcon-and-what-does-it-do-is-my-computer-safe-235123/" aria-label="Read more about What is CrowdStrike Falcon and what does it do? Is my computer safe?">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark A Gregory, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University Computer systems across Australia and overseas have failed this afternoon after an update was pushed out by global security software provider CrowdStrike. The software affected by the update appears to be the CrowdStrike Falcon platform, which is ... <a title="Massive global IT outage hits banks, airports, supermarkets – and a single software update is likely to blame" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/massive-global-it-outage-hits-banks-airports-supermarkets-and-a-single-software-update-is-likely-to-blame-235107/" aria-label="Read more about Massive global IT outage hits banks, airports, supermarkets – and a single software update is likely to blame">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Slack, Director, Scarp Archaelogy and Adjunct Associate Professor of Archaeology, James Cook University The excavation team at Juukan Gorge in 2014. Courtesy of Scarp Archaeology and PKKP Aboriginal Corporation Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains an image of deceased people, which ... <a title="The first published results from Juukan Gorge show 47,000 years of Aboriginal heritage was destroyed in mining blast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/the-first-published-results-from-juukan-gorge-show-47-000-years-of-aboriginal-heritage-was-destroyed-in-mining-blast-234806/" aria-label="Read more about The first published results from Juukan Gorge show 47,000 years of Aboriginal heritage was destroyed in mining blast">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anita Wahid, PhD candidate, Australian National University At dawn on June 27, a journalist for Indonesia’s Tribrata TV, Rico Sempurna Pasaribu, was killed in a suspected arson attack at his home, along with his wife, son and grandchild. Before his death, Rico investigated and reported on a ... <a title="Journalists in Indonesia are being killed, threatened and jailed. A new draft law could make things even worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/journalists-in-indonesia-are-being-killed-threatened-and-jailed-a-new-draft-law-could-make-things-even-worse-234564/" aria-label="Read more about Journalists in Indonesia are being killed, threatened and jailed. A new draft law could make things even worse">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thami Croeser, Research Officer, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University PickPik Imagine you’re a fairywren living in a patch of scrub behind a schoolyard in the suburbs. It’s been pretty nice so far, but a recent increase in neighbourhood cats and the council’s insect control tactics mean ... <a title="Stepping stones for wildlife: how linking up isolated habitats can help nature thrive in our cities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/stepping-stones-for-wildlife-how-linking-up-isolated-habitats-can-help-nature-thrive-in-our-cities-234923/" aria-label="Read more about Stepping stones for wildlife: how linking up isolated habitats can help nature thrive in our cities">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Turner, System Lead, Sustainable Economies, Climateworks Centre zanaputritidur/Shutterstock Australian mining and energy giant Fortescue announced late on Wednesday that its ambitious green energy goal – to produce 15 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen annually by 2030 – will be placed on hold. As part of a ... <a title="Fortescue has put its ambitious green hydrogen target on hold – but Australia should keep powering ahead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/fortescue-has-put-its-ambitious-green-hydrogen-target-on-hold-but-australia-should-keep-powering-ahead-235007/" aria-label="Read more about Fortescue has put its ambitious green hydrogen target on hold – but Australia should keep powering ahead">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Umbrella Entertainment In an early scene in Jack Clark and Jim Weir’s Birdeater, we catch a glimpse of a poster of Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright (1971). More than in any other film of the ... <a title="Birdeater starts like a successor to Wake In Fright – but ends up like an episode of Home and Away" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/birdeater-starts-like-a-successor-to-wake-in-fright-but-ends-up-like-an-episode-of-home-and-away-233675/" aria-label="Read more about Birdeater starts like a successor to Wake In Fright – but ends up like an episode of Home and Away">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
PANG Media The PANG media team at this month’s Pacific International Media Conference in Fiji caught up with independent journalist, author and educator Dr David Robie and questioned him on his views about decolonisation in the Pacific. Dr Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report and deputy chair of Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN), a co-organiser ... <a title="PANG talks to journalist David Robie on Pacific decolonisation issues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/pang-talks-to-journalist-david-robie-on-pacific-decolonisation-issues/" aria-label="Read more about PANG talks to journalist David Robie on Pacific decolonisation issues">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lee Morgenbesser, Associate professor, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Griffith University Sportswashing – the act of aligning with an athlete, sports team, or event in order to distract from unethical practices elsewhere – is driven by authoritarian states and is just about everywhere. In ... <a title="Sportswashing is just about everywhere – but it may be backfiring on the countries that do it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/sportswashing-is-just-about-everywhere-but-it-may-be-backfiring-on-the-countries-that-do-it-234810/" aria-label="Read more about Sportswashing is just about everywhere – but it may be backfiring on the countries that do it">Read more</a>
