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adminPolice can confirm one person has died in a serious crash on Red Hills Road this morning.
The two-car crash was reported to emergency services around 11.30am.
Sadly, one person died at the scene.
One other person was seriously hurt and taken to hospital. Four people sustained minor injuries.
The road was closed while a scene examination was conducted however has since reopened.
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adminPolice can confirm one person has died following a crash in Pukete last night.
Emergency services were called to the crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian on Church Road at around 9:45pm.
Sadly, the pedestrian died at the scene.
The road remains closed while the Serious Crash Unit completes their examination.
Enquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing.
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adminPolice are urgently seeking sightings of missing 21-year-old Braydon, who has not been seen or heard from since early September.
The last confirmed sighting of Braydon was on 3 September [pictured] at a service station in Linwood.
Police have made extensive enquiries to locate Braydon, however these have been unsuccessful to date.
Police and Braydon’s family have serious concerns for his wellbeing, as this is extremely out of character for him.
adminWe have just shipped an updated Steam Client to the Preview/Beta channel.
General:
Fixed the Recordings & Screenshots dialog not showing all games that have related screenshots in the game filter dropdown.
Improved the text layout in achievement notifications when the name, description or both wrap across multiple lines.
Fix some cases of header/footer flicker and invisibility during the first seconds after waking from sleep.
When waking from sleep with a game running but the account now playing elsewhere:
Provide an option to exit the local game.
Go back to sleep if there is no input for 60 seconds.
Fixed issues with trackpad typing if the trackpad is touched while the onscreen keyboard is opening
Steam Input:
Improved the consistency of trackpad sensitivity between Steam Deck and Steam Controller
Fixed cases where the Virtual menu modes could show the wrong activation type if it was created in the standalone menu vs from a controller source
Implemented a version of the “Reorder Controller” dialog for Steam Input API games. Note – this disconnects the controllers temporarily so older games which do not handle hot plugging properly can lose controller input
Additional polish for the multibinding page
In the desktop UI overlay the desktop config will now be applied. For most gamepads this will not be a difference in behavior because they have a blank desktop config, but Steam Controllers or devices that have setup a custom desktop config will have mouse input to click on things in the overlay.
Remote Play:
Improved color accuracy when streaming from a Windows computer
Fixed the mouse cursor when streaming from Linux using the SteamRT3C client
Fixed a capture lockup when streaming from pipewire on Linux and SteamOS
Reduced Pyrowave latency when streaming from pipewire on Linux and SteamOS
Added the -pyrowavestats command line option to log Pyrowave encoding performance
SteamRT3 Experimental Beta
Fixed Steam overwriting PATH, LD_PRELOAD, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables when launching games.
adminThe Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:
General:
Fixed the Recordings & Screenshots dialog not showing all games that have related screenshots in the game filter dropdown.
Improved the text layout in achievement notifications when the name, description or both wrap across multiple lines.
Big Picture:
The mouse is now hidden in the overlay until there’s mouse movement
Fixed issues with trackpad typing if the trackpad is touched while the onscreen keyboard is opening
Steam Input:
Improved the consistency of trackpad sensitivity between Steam Deck and Steam Controller
Fixed cases where the Virtual menu modes could show the wrong activation type if it was created in the standalone menu vs from a controller source
Implemented a version of the “Reorder Controller” dialog for Steam Input API games. Note – this disconnects the controllers temporarily so older games which do not handle hot plugging properly can lose controller input
Additional polish for the multibinding page
In the desktop UI overlay the desktop config will now be applied. For most gamepads this will not be a difference in behavior because they have a blank desktop config, but Steam Controllers or devices that have setup a custom desktop config will have mouse input to click on things in the overlay.
Remote Play:
Improved color accuracy when streaming from a Windows computer
Fixed the mouse cursor when streaming from Linux using the SteamRT3C client
Fixed a capture lockup when streaming from pipewire on Linux and SteamOS
Reduced Pyrowave latency when streaming from pipewire on Linux and SteamOS
Added the -pyrowavestats command line option to log Pyrowave encoding performance
SteamRT3 Experimental Beta
Fixed Steam overwriting PATH, LD_PRELOAD, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables when launching games.
adminThis update is for the SteamOS Beta and Preview channels, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel.
These notes contain all changes since the current stable SteamOS 3.8 release, with the changes added since the previous 3.9 preview releases noted below
General
Add preliminary support for Legion Go 2 brightness control
Fixed Steam Remote Play not working on Steam Machine when booting with no external display connected
Fixed “Disable Frame Limiter” toggle not working when VRR is enabled
Fixed the frame limiter incorrectly applying to VR titles when streaming from Steam Machine to Steam Frame
Fixed loss of input if a launcher window is accidentally dragged around in Game Mode
Fixed logging in to Desktop Mode via RDP with system users when enabled
Fixed an issue causing certain games (incl. ELDEN RING and DARK SOULS™ III) to fail to run on recent Panther Lake Intel CPUs
Worked around a firmware issue on some ASUS devices causing excessive fan speed upon waking from sleep
Fixed a bug causing hidden WiFi networks to fail to connect on the first attempt
Fixed boot screen corruption on Intel PTL+ devices
Fixed a regression from previous 3.9 previews causing Steam Machine to occasionally wake from hibernation unexpectedly
Fixed a regression from previous 3.9 previews slowing down system boot speed and causing the boot logo to briefly vanish during boot
Fixed a regression from previous 3.9 previews breaking virtual keyboard input for some languages in Game Mode
Fixed a regression from previous 3.9 previews with nested desktop mode
Security and stability fixes
General
Updated Arch Linux base
Updated Desktop Mode from Plasma 6.4.3 to Plasma 6.7.3
Fixed a system crash when launching Forza Horizon 6 on Legion Go 2
Fixed an issue causing frame limits to result in lower than intended FPS on certain external displays
Fixed issues with suspend/resume on systems with RDNA1 or RDNA2 based dedicated GPUs
Security and stability updates
Misc
Updated the bootloader to improve compatibility with certain motherboards
The Desktop Mode lockscreen is no longer prevented from being explicitly enabled in settings (but remains off by default)
Developer
Switched WiFi backend to wpa_supplicant by default for new installations, improving compatibility with various WiFi networks
Enhanced wpa_supplicant to support fast WiFi reconnect on resume from sleep, previously only available in the iwd backend
Known issue: Existing installations will continue to use iwd unless manually enabled in Developer Settings
Linux kernel rebased on Linux 7.2
Added preliminary support for hibernation, not yet exposed in Game Mode UI
Enhanced Linux kernel hibernation support to enable interrupting hibernate requests and fixed various driver issues
Various scripts and packages have been renamed from `steamos-` to `holo-`, with aliases to the former names where appropriate
Improved support for running SteamOS as a VM guest with accelerated graphics (virtio-gpu, venus)
Updated included renderdoc version
adminPolice have charged two youth and four adults, following search warrants in Ōpōtiki today.
Seven search warrants were executed by Eastern Bay of Plenty police across the Ōpōtiki area today.
This activity was part of an operation targeting gang related disorder events that resulted in serious injury recently.
During the search warrants, Police focused on a core group of youth and young people alleged to be attempting to establish new chapters of gangs within Ōpōtiki.
adminAttribute to Otago Lakes Central Area Prevention Manager, Senior Sergeant John Fookes:
Efforts are ongoing as searches continue for missing 47-year-old Erika Rodrigues Coelho near Queenstown.
Erika is a Brazilian national currently residing in Queenstown. Police were made aware of her disappearance on Sunday 20 September after she had not been seen or heard from since Friday 18 September.
adminAttributable to Superintendent Tony Hill, Canterbury District Commander:
Aoraki has a new Area Commander, with Inspector Matt Scoles set to take up the role, beginning Monday 28 September.
Born and raised in Dunedin, Inspector Scoles began his policing career in 1996.
In his 30 years of service to New Zealand Police, he has held various roles including the Youth and Community Services Manager in Dunedin, to more recently where he has relieved in Area and District Commander roles in the Southern District.
adminPolice have laid multiple charges against a man who allegedly defrauded a company out of $2 million.
An investigation commenced in 2025 after it was alleged an employee had misused a company’s internal systems to dishonestly obtain goods.
Acting Detective Senior Sergeant James Kim, Waitematā North Area Investigations and Financial Crime Manager, says the large-scale fraud spanned from 2017 to 2025.
“The investigation involved extensive analysis of company records and evidential material.