Phil Pennington is a Senior Producer at RNZ. He covers a diverse range of topics including medicine and healthcare, aviation and aerospace, and public security, with a focus on data architecture, governance, and quality. Phil's work has been featured in prominent publications such as the New Zealand Herald, IT Brief New Zealand, and NewstalkZB, among others.
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The NZ Defence Force (NZDF) is testing a satellite system developed by Elon Musk which has been used with drones in the Iran war.
A US aerospace analyst says it is significant that New Zealand has begun testing Elon Musk's Starshield military satellite communications system.
The largest amount of testing for levels of 'forever chemicals' in the country's water will soon be carried out by researchers..
By: Phil Pennington
New Zealand's cyber watchdog has been given access to a frontier AI model with worrisome hacking powers at the same time as Donald Trump moves to shore up US national security against any threats.
The NZDF has no doctrine on robotic autonomous systems and is looking to the government to guide their ethical use.
The police are exploring using biometric technology to monitor the vital signs of people detained in station cells.
Health New Zealand is due to finish urgent work stabilising highly fragmented medical scanning systems, which have posed a critical risk to health care for years.
Urgent work to stabilise medical scanning systems such as MRI and CT in public hospitals is running months overdue.
One of the AI systems was 45 percent inaccurate on Māori and Pacific languages, but was still used by officers.
MPs have been told the very low rate of survival estimated if a landslide tsunami hits Milford Sound remains the case but the chase is on to improve understanding of the risks.
