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Coimisiún na Meán determines Facebook ‘exposed to terrorist content’
Coimisiún na Meán has determined that Meta (in respect of Facebook) services are ‘exposed to terrorist content.’ The Terrorist Content Online Regulation, one part of Coimisiún na Meán’s Online Safety...
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MTU advances energy transition and power engineering expertise with digital...
Munster Technological University in collaboration with H&MV Engineering and ABB, has launched a digital substation in the Power Academy Lab of its Bishopstown campus. The facility is part of an...
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Europe orders construction of broadband network in space
The European Commission has commissioned a network of satellites beaming broadband to Earth. The Commission gave a 12-year license to the newly formed consortium SpaceRise. That will allocate €10.6...
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Meta fined €251m by Data Protection Commission over Facebook data breach
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Facebook owner Meta Platforms €251 million for leaking personal data on Facebook in 2018. The categories of personal data affected included: user’s full...
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Dutch regulator fines Netflix €4.75m
A Dutch regulator has taken Netflix to task over the streaming service’s harvesting of user data and its opaque reasons for doing so. The Personal Data Authority (AP) found that between 2018 and 2020,...
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Focus on research: Dr Mani Dhingra, Adapt
Dr Mani Dhingra is a senior postdoctoral researcher with Research Ireland centre Adapt and smart city digital twin manager at Maynooth University. In this interview she talks about how ethics inform...
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Nasa unveils plan to maintain presence in low Earth orbit after ISS departure
As Nasa prepares to retire the International Space Station in 2030, the agency has outlined its vision for sustaining the human presence in low Earth orbit. This strategy, developed through extensive...
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British creatives lobby for protection from AI under Creators’ Rights...
More than 20 British creative groups, including publishers, actors, authors and photographers, have called on the government to protect billion-dollar copyright rules from AI companies. The newly...
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Musk’s Kekius Maximus stunt highlights volatility of memecoins
It’s official, not even Elon Musk can make memecoins work. The value of memecoin Kekius Maximus, which soared high after the deicision by the world’s richest man to change his X account name to the...
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NBI broadband network on the way for 550 homes and businesses on four islands
Residents on Clare Island in Mayo, Tory Island in Donegal, and Bere and Dursey Islands in Cork can now avail of connectivity using National Broadband Ireland’s fibre network. The first connections are...
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EU rules on common USB-C chargers for electronics come into force
EU consumers no longer need a different charger for their smartphones, tablets, cameras, headphones, video game consoles and other devices, after USB Type-C charging ports officially became the...
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Terraform boss makes confession to US prosecutors
Do Kwon, the boss of cryptocurrency company Terraform Labs, made a confession in a US court on Thursday after being extradited to the US from Montenegro. Kwon allegedly misled investors about the true...
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New EV registrations dropped by more than a fifth in 2024
Fewer than 18,000 new electric cars were registered in 2024, a decrease of 23.6% from the 22,852 registrations seen in 2023, acording to year-end figures from The Society of the Irish Motor Industry...
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Apple settles for Siri eavesdropping scandal for $95m
A proposed $95 million settlement is intended to resolve a five-year-old lawsuit against Apple over its virtual assistant Siri. The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Oakland, California, accused...
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Italy discusses telecom deal with SpaceX
The Italian government is said to be in advanced talks with SpaceX about purchasing telecom and data services from satellite company Starlink. According to Bloomberg news agency, the contract is worth...
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Learnovate survey shows employees across Ireland fear missing out on benefits...
Organisations are increasingly concerned that a failure to develop workers’ technical skills in response to advances in artificial intelligence and other technologies will leave them unable to compete...
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UCD researcers lead Horizon-backed project on benefits and risks of AI
A €3 million EU research project led by University College Dublin (UCD) Centre for Digital Policy will explore the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence (AI) from a societal perspective in...
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CES 2025: LG’s promise of ‘affectionate intelligence’
LG unveiled its AI-powered ‘affectionate intelligence’ at its LG World Premiere event at CES in Las Vegas. What is affectionate intelligence? LG had plenty of ways to demonstrate it in action: a warm...
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CES 2025: Trade tariffs Trump will disrupt consumer electronics market
US President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs especially on Chinese suppliers could have a negative effect on the consumer electronics market. Brian Comiskey of Consumer Technology...
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President Higgins hails exciting time for scientists at BTYSTE opening
President Michael D. Higgins opened the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition (BTYSTE) at the RDS in Dublin yesterday with a warning of the challenges facing scientists. Speaking at the annual...
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