Internet

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are all offline in a global outage.

The popular social media apps all went down at about 4.45am (NZT), with both Facebook and Instagram using rival platform Twitter… Audio

Amazon's plans to build giant data centres in New Zealand reveal very little detail.  Audio

Apps like GoodReads and Strava are very popular, but it's not all fun and games.  Audio

Magic, luck, schools, Twitter, creativity, social skills, illusions, magician, David Copperfield, Houdini, chance, casino, gambling, addiction, lottery, anxiety, Internet, social media, Professor… Audio

The Financial Markets Authority is warning of a steep rise in New Zealanders falling for investment scams with the number of complaints up 79 per cent in the first half of the year, compared to the… Audio

A recent ruling in Australia that saw media companies liable for defamatory posts on their social media pages could see businesses in New Zealand switch off comments, or shut down their pages… Audio

Auckland's university students are learning online for the rest of the year regardless of what happens with the city's alert levels.

Students told RNZ remote learning is going well, though some are… Audio

Figures released to Checkpoint under the Official Information Act show five out of eight universities had an increase in cheating last year. Lecturers say the issue is far worse than figures show, as… Audio

Lucy Blakiston is co-founder of Shit You Should Care About, an Instagram account based in New Zealand that has more than 3.3 million followers. Video, Audio

Technology commentator Tony Grasso joins Lynn to talk about yesterday's DDoS attacks on a number of banks, NZ Post and Metservice and last week's attack on Vocus, the country's third largest internet… Audio

Tarik Mallett is the founder and chief executive of Mobi2Go, a food ordering system helping restaurants around the world go digital. The business is going gangbusters during the Covid pandemic as… Audio

The AOG in Auckland, like many churches right now, are on the move - moving online, that is, with zoomed services the order of the day.

Religious institutions and buildings have been a big part of… Audio

A cyber-intelligence expert fears disruption to New Zealand websites is just the start of a campaign of attacks.

Websites for some government agencies and banks have been targeted over the last… Audio