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It’s been more than a week since one of the deadliest attacks on Russia in two decades. What do we know about ISIS K - the group claiming to be behind it?

Plus, how far away are flying taxis from hitting New Zealand? We have the inside word on this weekend’s crucial Super Rugby Aupiki matches, and the science behind your favourite song going round and round in your head.

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An experiment with artificial intelligence being used to work out corner kick tactics in football, saw experts from Liverpool FC favouring AI over existing plans. But is this fair to all? Newsable talks to Dr Teo Susnjak a computer scientist at Massey University and a former tennis pro.

Plus a former billionaire crypto wunderkind is facing a potential 100 year prison sentence, the Sal's NBL basketball season has kicked off. and the sick baby hedgehog, that was actually a piece of clothing.

Kua whakamātautia te hinengaro rorohiko hei whai rauhanga pai mō te whana koko i te poiwhana, me te mea nei ka whai mārika ngā kaiwhakaako Liverpool FC i ngā hua matihiko. Engari he tika tēnei ki te katoa?

E kōrero ana a Newsable ki te Tākuta a Teo Susnjak he mātanga rorohiko ki Te Kunenga ki Purehuroa, he mātanga tēnehi o mua hoki.

Āpiti atu: anō te hinga - he tangata tino whairawa o mua, he mātanga ki te moni whitirangi hoki, ināianei he mauhere mō te rautau pea; ka timata te kaupeka poitūkohu Sal’s NBL; kua pōhēhētia he hetiheti pīwari e māuiui ana engari he ngetangeta kē. 

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After the revelations about hacking attacks on New Zealand's parliamentary system, will our relationship with China change? Newsable speaks to our Chief Political Correspondent, Tova O'Brien.

Microsoft New Zealand’s CEO talks about the company’s latest AI technology that will increase exposure to Te Reo Māori, plus the strange traditions that surrounded dying in the Victorian era and changing your name to protest the candidates standing in the US Presidential Elections.

I muri i ngā whakaohoreretanga inanahi mō ngā pāhua mūrere i runga i te pūnaha paremata o Aotearoa, ka panoni te whakawhanaungatanga ki a Tiaina?

E kōrero ana a Newsable ki tō mātou kairīpoata tōrangapū rangatira, ko Tova O'Brien.

E kōrero ana te tumuaki o Microsoft Aotearoa mō te hangarau hinengaro rorohiko hōu kia whakanui ake te paoro o te reo Māori ki ngā pito e whā, ā, kātahi ka aro ki ngā tikanga rerekē e pā ana i te matenga o te tangata i te wā Wikitōria, kā rua, ka pēhea te tīni i tō ingoa kia porotū ki ngā kaitono e tū ana i te Pōtitanga Perehitini o Amerika.

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The Government has revealed a cyber attack on New Zealand's parliamentary network in 2021 by a Chinese state-sponsered actor...a claim rejected by China.

The head of the spy agency, the GCSB, Andrew Clark has spoken about what happen and whether any sensitive information was taken.

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Instagram’s automatically limiting the political content it recommends. Newsable finds out what this actually means for your Insta feed.

The reaction from Hawkes Bay to a Cyclone Gabrielle report that says the national emergency system is letting people down, plus what is going on with camera surveillance at Woolworth's self check outs and flexible work and how it affects stress.

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New Zealand’s national emergency system ‘sets up good people to fail.’ 

That’s the damning finding of an independent review into the Civil Defence response to Cyclone Gabrielle in Hawke’s Bay. 

The review - which was carried out by former Police Commissioner Mike Bush - flags what it calls a lack of 'situational awareness', and adds that the system is currently not fit for purpose. 

Stuff Audio's senior journalist Aaron Dahmen joins Imogen Wells to talk about the report, and what it means for future emergency responses.

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The strict instructions to leave the Princess of Wales alone after her shock announcement that she was undergoing treatment for cancer.

Labour leader, Chris Hipkins, joins Newsable to talk about the party's decison to re-visit tax rules, plus the Wheel Blacks miss out on selection for the Paris Olympics, but celebrate holding a major international competition on home soil.

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Kate, the Princess of Wales, has revealed she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy.

Her condition was disclosed in a video message after weeks of speculation on social media about her whereabouts and health.

Kate asked for “time, space and privacy” while she is treated for an unspecified type of cancer.

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Newsable can reveal Police dished out $65,000 for a podcast it released on the staff intranet, a total figure higher than the salary of a training officer. The cost is also six times that of a similar product produced by the New Zealand Defence Force. So why won't people ever get to hear it for themselves?

Plus, how many Kiwis suffer from migraines in their day-to-day lives, the plane etiquette of peeling an orange, and start your engines, it’s Formula 1 time across the ditch.

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As New Zealand returns into a technical recession, with GDP falling 0.1% in the December quarter, the axe is falling on hundreds of jobs across New Zealand’s public service.

Around 180 roles are likely to be disestablished at the Ministry of Health, while the Ministry of Primary Industries is planning to cut 9% of its staff.

Sources at the Ministry of Education, ACC, WorkSafe, Crown Law, MBIE and other departments have also confirmed to Stuff that jobs will go.

Imogen Wells has all the details in a breaking news update from Stuff’s daily news podcast, Newsable. 

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