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Australia’s Medicare breach reveals a new kind of cyber threat. How must NZ respond?

The Manage My Health hacking breach exposed weaknesses in New Zealand’s digital defences. But the rise of autonomous AI agents poses a very different threat.

• Over 400,000 medical files breached in December, prompting security mandates.
• AI agents, like OpenAI's autonomous agent, pose new cyber threats.
• New Zealand must upgrade access controls and build AI system testing expertise.

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Survey of 37 countries: the share of people who say social media is bad for democracy has risen significantly since 2022-23; a median 55% still say it's good (Pew Research Center)

Most think social media leads to manipulation and division, but they also say it informs people and gives them a voice in politics

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Modelling The Real World: Object Oriented Programming

So far, functions have been the main way to organize code, break a problem into small, reusable pieces of logic. But some problems aren't just about logic; they're about things a customer, a bank…

• Object-oriented programming organizes code into objects
• Bundles data and behavior within single units
• Simplifies managing complex entities

2h ago ·dev.to

GitLab CVE-2026-85706: Why an Arbitrary File Read on a DevSecOps Platform Is a Credential Incident

GitLab CVE-2026-85706: Why an Arbitrary File Read on a DevSecOps Platform Is a Credential Incident GitLab released 19.3.2, 19.2.6 and 19.1.8 on September 10, 2026, fixing CVE-2026-85706.

2h ago ·dev.to