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Police have dropped an investigation into hacking of the Treasury website.

The Treasury admitted a weakness in its website meant people could access a limited amount of Budget information.

We cross… Audio

The police have dropped an investigation into hacking of the Treasury website prompted by the leaking of supposedly secret Budget details.

The Treasury admitted a weakness in its website meant people… Audio

The police have dropped an investigation into hacking of the Treasury website prompted by the leaking of supposedly secret Budget details.

The Treasury admitted this morning a weakness in its website… Audio

The New Zealand Treasury has admitted its supposedly top secret Budget website was breached by searches for particular keywords.

And it says it's been advised by the police that anyone who found… Audio

ACT Party leader David Seymour says the political game being played by the government and the National Party over leaked Budget details is immature and misses the point.

He says the real issue is… Audio

Police have halted their investigations into Tuesday's Budget leak saying an unknown person or persons exploited a feature in the Treasury's website search tool but their actions does not appear to be… Audio

Tech experts say National's early access to Budget documents was probably not the work of a sophisticated hacker, but an amateur computer sleuth who got lucky. But has anything actually illegal… Video, Audio

Facebook has banned an artist after she posted one of her works. It's a swastika made up of Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" caps. Rather than promoting white supremacy, Kate Kretz says it's… Audio

The first 101 issues of NZ music and culture magazine Rip It Up have been digitised by the National Library of New Zealand and can now be found and searched online.  Audio

The Christchurch Call now has international backing, but a prominent media freedom advocate in the US tells Mediawatch there could be unintended consequences for the media and journalists. Audio

Douglas Coupland sometimes misses the time before the dawn of the internet, but says once you get addicted to any increased level of speed of information you can never go backwards. Mixing the bizarre… Audio

Getting your email sign-off just right is trickier than it sounds. "Regards" is too cold "cheers", maybe too warm. So what's the Goldilocks zone of email sign-offs? Audio

A meeting overnight in Paris oversaw all the major tech companies sign-up to a first of its kind agreement, the Christchurch Call. The summit was initiated by the New Zealand Prime Minister Ardern and… Audio