The Auditor-General has released its inquiry which lays out how the agency made mistakes when contracting services last year, as it looked to cut down costs, and amid a major restructure. Read...

Ngahuia te Awekotuku won the General Non-Fiction Award for her memoir Hine Toa. Read...

Director general Tim Davie is to set out his vision for the BBC`s future in a speech in Salford. Read...

AT`s systems for managing disruptions are largely manual, complex, and have resulted in long delays in telling the public, an Office of the Auditor General report found. Read...

Valve’s Steam Deck “Verified” program is pretty great, but extremely specific to… well, the Steam Deck. But now that SteamOS is expanding into other non-Steam Deck devices, we’re going to need something a little more general to tell if a Steam game will work on a particular device. Enter the SteamOS Compatibility system, a rating that will be similar but separate to the Steam Deck Verified status. According to Valve’s announcement post, a game needs to pass a pretty low bar to be marked as “SteamOS Compatible” on the store. Basically, it needs to boot up on SteamOS (either by offering a Linux version of the game or just running in the Proton compatibility layer) and not have any middleware that breaks in the Linux-based OS. “Middleware” means any of the extra software that a game relies upon to boot up, run, and get you your primary experience—some elements like the anti-cheat in popular multiplayer games might be a stumbling block here. Valve In short, if you can get the game working without any massive or insurmountable hurdles, it’s SteamOS Compatible. Valve might mark the game with a couple of warning flags, like requiring an active internet connection for first-time setup or needing a mouse/touchscreen for the game’s separate launcher program. (By the way, if you sell a game on Steam and it needs a separate launcher, everyone hates you.) But those things won’t preclude a game from the SteamOS Compatible badge. At the time of writing, only the Legion Go S Powered by SteamOS (yep, that’s its full and terrible name) is officially part of the program, and it doesn’t launch until later this month. But there are reportedly more SteamOS-powered handhelds on the way, and I get the feeling that this compatibility badge will be helpful for others as well, like those rolling their own SteamOS hardware with projects like Bazzite. Read...

A report highlights out-of-date systems and failure to advise passengers about disruptions Read...

AT needs to focus more on passengers’ experiences, an Auditor-General report says Read...

Gen Sir Gwyn Jenkins oversaw a process where Afghan special forces were prevented from settling in the UK. Read...

Recording during a remote meeting is sometimes necessary, sometimes less than ideal. But if you specifically want to prevent someone else from taking screenshots or recording video, you don’t have a lot of options. Teams will give you that option soon, according to a recent roadmap for Microsoft’s meeting tool. “Prevent Screen Capture” is what Microsoft is calling the feature, added to the roadmap last week and currently slated for a July 2025 rollout. According to the post (spotted by BleepingComputer), it’ll let meeting organizers use a Prevent Screen Capture toggle in the Enhanced Meeting Protection tool to turn the screen black if you try to take a screenshot, on either desktop or mobile. If you join in from an unsupported platform with this feature enabled, you won’t have access to video. It’s a bit of a niche use case. I mean, when you’re sharing a PowerPoint slide or something similar with people, you generally want them to retain the information. But for info that’s secret or otherwise under wraps, I can see how this would be useful. The feature is marked for general availability and worldwide release, so with any luck you should see the Prevent Screen Capture option in Teams sometime in 2025 at the latest. Read...

On July 1, New Zealand launches its Depositor Compensation Scheme (DCS), a transformative policy aimed at protecting savers and rebalancing the financial sector Read...