On 6 October WordPress released version 7.1.3, a security update that fixes seven vulnerabilities in the software’s core. On its own that would be routine. What is not routine is…
For most of the past year, New Zealand businesses have been flying blind in Google. AI Mode arrived here on 22 August 2025, AI Overviews sat above the ordinary results,…
Newswire logged every AI bot request for 11 days. Live retrieval outweighed training, a ChatGPT task polled our tsunami page every half hour, and AI assistants sent back one visitor…
A flaw in a reporting tool exposed New Zealand payroll data in September. Most business websites run code nobody is checking, and the Privacy Act still makes it your responsibility.
The Surron Light Bee 2 is on pre-order in New Zealand at $10,490 with stock due late 2026. What the 24kW electric dirt bike is and where you can legally…
Chrome moved to a two-week release cycle on 8 September and iOS 27 brings Safari 27 on 14 September. What the faster pace means for New Zealand business websites.
WordPress 7.1 has moved image compression, resizing and thumbnail generation off the server and into the browser. For the New Zealand small businesses whose photo uploads keep failing, it is…
Two of the Commerce Commission’s five enforcement priorities for 2026/27 land squarely on what happens inside a website. The features at issue are usually installed in an afternoon.
An industry strategy launched this week argues New Zealand should stop relying on offshore processing. For most businesses the more urgent question is where their own AI requests are handled.
Every day, software owned by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity and a dozen other companies quietly reads New Zealand websites. Some of it collects pages to train AI models. Some indexes…
The nine-month grace period on New Zealand’s Biometric Processing Privacy Code ended on 3 August. It reaches well past supermarket cameras, into ordinary business software.
Something crossed a line in New Zealand’s payment system in June, and almost nobody outside the industry noticed. For the first time, New Zealanders moved more than $100 million in…
For most of the past two years, the conversation about artificial intelligence and your website has been about traffic. Search engines answer questions without sending a click. Shopping assistants compare…
Think about the last time you looked something up online. Did you scroll through a page of blue links and click one, or did you read the answer sitting right…
Something is shifting in the plumbing of online retail, and most New Zealand business owners have not noticed because it does not show up on their own website. The change…
How Starlink became New Zealand’s biggest rural internet provider, what it costs in 2026, and where satellite connectivity goes next.
We mapped every 5G cell site in New Zealand from the public radio register. See where the coverage is, where the notspots are, and what the safety science actually says.
New Zealand has one of the highest AI adoption rates in the world, yet productivity is falling. The gap is between switching AI on and rebuilding the business around it.
New Zealand businesses adopted AI fast but skills, strategy and customer trust lag behind. Why the winners rebuilt one workflow well, not the most AI.
The password turned sixty this year, and 2026 is shaping up to be the year it finally started to die. In early May, on what the security industry now marks…
For most of the web’s history a business website had only one audience. A person typed something into Google, scanned a page of blue links, clicked through and landed on…
Google Ads counts every form fill as a conversion without reading it. TrueConversion, built by Auckland agency Forge Creative, sends back only genuine leads.
Every few years a piece of web craft that lived on the margins moves to the centre. Mobile-friendly design did it a decade ago. Page speed did it more recently.…
Two years after replacing First Input Delay, Interaction to Next Paint is the responsiveness metric that quietly decides whether a New Zealand website holds onto its customers in 2026.
Click-through rates on top Google results have fallen 58 per cent where AI Overviews appear. NZ small business websites need a new playbook now.
WordPress 7.0 lands on Tuesday 20 May, five days after this column publishes, and for the roughly 43 percent of websites built on WordPress globally it is the most significant…
A fortnight ago, Shopify quietly rolled out a feature that will reshape New Zealand online retail more than any platform change in the last decade. It is called Agentic Storefronts,…
Something shifted in how AI works for businesses over the past six months, and the numbers suggest most New Zealand companies haven’t yet noticed. We spent 2023 and 2024 getting…
Something significant happened in web development over the past twelve months, and most New Zealand businesses have barely noticed. The way websites and web applications get built has fundamentally shifted.…
The numbers should concern any New Zealand business owner. Global investment in artificial intelligence hit $242 billion in the first quarter of 2026, up from $59.6 billion in the same…