Trinity College Dublin has announced the opending of the Centre for Digital Security and Societal Resilience, a multidisciplinary research centre designed to address the technological, economic, governance and societal challenges shaping Ireland’s digital future. The Centre brings together expertise from across science, technology, engineering, law, business, social sciences, and the humanities to create Ireland’s first integrated [&hellip

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Activ8 Solar Energies has announced the completion of a 2.5MW solar installation at Gyproc’s manufacturing facility in Kingscourt, Co. Cavan, marking one of Ireland’s most technically advanced and complex commercial solar projects to date. Delivered for Gyproc in Ireland, part of the Saint-Gobain Group, the installation comprises 3,556 solar panels and is expected to generate [&hellip

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University of Galway in partnership with the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences are establishing a new national centre of excellence in medical device innovations. The Medical Device Innovation Network (MeDiNet) aims to strengthen Ireland’s position as a global leader in medtech and support the development of life-changing healthcare solutions. The project is one [&hellip

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In association with Renaissance Ireland’s largest cyber security gathering is back for its ninth year. Renaissance, Ireland’s leading IT security distributor, is delighted to announce the return of Cyber Expo & Conference Ireland, and we can now confirm the full conference programme. Whether you’re an MSP looking to expand your security portfolio, an IT professional [&hellip

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LinkedIn is venturing into a competitive landscape by launching an ‘AI labour marketplace’, in a bid to challenge established players such as Scale AI and Mercor. The platform, owned by Microsoft, recognises the sharp rise in demand for AI trainers – professionals with in-depth sector expertise who can help steer the development of advanced generative [&hellip

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Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI assistant, is attracting interest from investors keen to participate in its next funding round. These offers could potentially value the company at as much as $800 billion or more, a significant leap from the earlier $350 billion valuation achieved during a $30 billion fundraise in February. Despite the [&hellip

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The social media platform Bluesky is working on a new AI tool designed to help users create personalised content feeds. This AI assistant, Attie, was announced during the Atmosphere conference in Vancouver. Attie is an artificial intelligence-based app built on the open AT Protocol (atproto) and powered by Anthropic’s AI technology (the Claude model). With [&hellip

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Google risks a mass claim that could exceed $218 billion (€201 billion), according to news website Bloomberg. Dozens of advertisers are jointly launching an arbitration procedure against the technology company. They are taking this step after federal judges ruled in 2024 that the group is unlawfully exploiting its dominant market power. Two different federal courts [&hellip

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The CEO of Broadband network operator Siro John Keaney has called for the switching off Ireland’s copper broadband network to be fast-tracked. John Keaney made the statement as part of an announcement that Siro’s fibre-to-the-premise broadband network has now passed 700,000 premises. The process of copper switch off is gathering pace across Europe, with switch [&hellip

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The Age-Friendly AI training programme, Ireland’s National Artificial Intelligence Literacy Initiative for Older Adults, was officially launched at Johnston Central Library in the Farnham Centre in Cavan. The programme is delivered by researchers from Technological University Dublin and the Adapt Research Ireland Centre. Funded by Research Ireland, the initiative will roll out in public libraries [&hellip

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Klaviyo has announced plans to build a dedicated engineering team at its Dame Street, Temple Bar location, adding to the more than 100 roles it has created in the past year. The investment reflects Ireland’s standing as a global destination for technology companies seeking world-class engineering talent, a dynamic innovation ecosystem, and a proven track [&hellip

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Walton Institute at South East Technological University (SETU) has secured over €1 million in funding to support the development of the Walton AI Facility, an advanced artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC) platform designed to strengthen Ireland’s research and innovation capacity and support industry adoption of AI. The facility in Waterford will significantly expand Walton’s [&hellip

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One-hundred-thousand Irish consumers are opening accounts with Monzo as the digital bank opens for business. The first digital bank to secure a full banking licence from the Central Bank of Ireland four months ago, all Monzo accounts are protected up to €100,000 under the Deposit Guarantee Scheme. Michael Carney, EU CEO at Monzo said: “The [&hellip

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I’d like to expand on a point from my last column about the reconfiguring of the jobs market for software engineers. I argued that mass redundancies had created a three-tier talent pool: a top tier of generational talent hoarded by MNCs, a fat middle of skilled developers bolstered by the return of thousands of laid-off [&hellip

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Booking.com has confirmed cybercriminals accessed customer data following a series of phishing attacks on hotel partners. Although financial details have remained secure according to the company, a significant amount of customers’ booking data has been leaked. Although the company did not disclose the number of users affected, it confirmed that financial data remained safe. It [&hellip

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The price of bitcoin has falen to below $70,000 dollars following the failed peace negotiations between the United States and Iran in Islamabad. This geopolitical development led to a sell-off in the crypto market, resulting in the liquidation of more than $350 million in long positions. The failure of the talks to reach a solution [&hellip

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Tesla has obtained approval in the Netherlands for its ‘Full Self-Driving (Supervised)’ software, an important step in the European roll-out of autonomous driving technology. It is the first time that a European regulator has permitted such an advanced driver assistance system on public roads, according to Reuters. The Dutch RDW carried out an evaluation lasting [&hellip

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A recent survey in six major EU countries has shown that Europeans have a significant lack of trust in American and Chinese technology companies when it comes to handling personal data. The poll, carried out by Cluster17 for news outlet Politico and consultancy beBartlet, found that more than 80% of respondents expressed distrust towards both [&hellip

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The European Commission has launched a call for funding proposals worth €399 million for postdoctoral researchers as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme. This initiative aims to strengthen research careers and promote international cooperation by enabling postdoctoral researchers to gain valuable experience in leading scientific teams worldwide. The programme offers two main tracks: [&hellip

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NovaUCD has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Sandyford Business District and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council (DLRCC), marking an important milestone for the economic and educational landscape of the county. The partnership will support enterprise and innovation, expand research activity and create new pathways for entrepreneurial development, with plans to progress a start-up and [&hellip

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Iran-linked hackers’ targeting of critical infrastructure threatens more than 5,000 industrial control devices around the world, including roughly 3,900 in the US, new data shows. US government agencies recently warned that hackers working on behalf of the Iranian regime were trying to compromise infrastructure operators by breaking into their Rockwell Automation-made Allen-Bradley programmable logic controllers [&hellip

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The global tech industry has been waiting for a major artificial intelligence launch from DeepSeek, seen as a benchmark for China’s progress in the fast-moving field. More than a year has passed since the start-up put Chinese AI on the map in early 2025 with a low-cost chatbot that performed at a similar level to [&hellip

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Back in 1977, The Stranglers had a big hit with a song called Peaches, featuring a young man letching over girls sunbathing on the beach. One of the lines goes “Oh, shit, there goes the charabanc”. Maybe it was because they were too caught up in the rest of the song but not many people [&hellip

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This week Niall and Dusty welcome back Artemis II after its record-breaking mission. Then, we dig into the latest economic reports regarding AI and the job market. It’s not all doom and gloom, but it is a wake-up call. We explore why IT workers might be the most at risk, the reality behind recent mass [&hellip

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It’s long been assumed that low-level software developers are set to be in the first wave of professions to be made redundant by artificial intelligence. But three years since the advent of AI in the workplace, it appears that AI coding tools are still finding even basic software development to be a struggle. Researchers at Canada’s University of Waterloo questioning “how [&hellip

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Elon Musk has significantly stepped up his legal offensive against OpenAI and its key partner Microsoft. In a recent amendment to his ongoing lawsuit, the boss of Tesla and SpaceX is bluntly demanding the departure of CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman. Musk argues that the company has flagrantly betrayed its original non-profit mission [&hellip

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Meta on Wednesday released an artificial intelligence model, Muse Spark, it touts as smarter and faster than what it offered before shaking up its Superintelligence Labs unit. “Over the last nine months, Meta Superintelligence Labs rebuilt our AI stack from the ground up,” the tech titan said in a blog post. Muse Spark succeeds Llama 4, released by the Silicon [&hellip

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Social media use is down, with new research finding just half of users are now actively posting online, while a majority are likely to believe being online is more of a risk than an opportunity.  The report by Britain’s telecoms regulator Ofcom, found that social media account use remained more or less flat – and [&hellip

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I think I’ll have to coin a term for what we’re seeing more of in online communities like Reddit. When AI slop is pervasive enough that it is degrading the experience of users on these platforms it seems to have progressed beyond AI slop and become full on ‘generative smog’, if you will. Here’s the [&hellip

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Anthropic on Tuesday said its yet-to-be-released artificial intelligence model, Claude Mythos, has proven keenly adept at exposing software weaknesses. Mythos has laid bare thousands of vulnerabilities in commonly used applications for which no patch or fix existed, prompting the San Francisco-based AI start-up to form an alliance with cyber security specialists to bolster defenses against [&hellip

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Rethink Ireland has launched a €1.75 million national initiative to help close the growing AI literacy and adoption gap in Ireland’s nonprofit sector, supporting organisations to build practical skills to apply artificial intelligence in their day-to-day work. Funded by Google.org with match funding by the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht, the [&hellip

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US-based Paladin EnviroTech has acquired ICT, Ireland’s first R2-certified IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) provider. The deal brings Paladin’s total investment to €60 million across multiple acquisitions in the past nine months, reflecting its ambition to meet international ITAD and critical materials recycling demand. Founded in 2003, ICT processes more than 2,000 tons of end-of-life electronics [&hellip

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Prove has announced plans to invest more than $5 million in its Irish operation, leading to the creation of 50 jobs. Since establishing operations in Ireland in 2022, Prove has rapidly scaled its Dublin presence, growing local headcount by 50% in the past six months alone. Over the past year, teams based in Ireland have [&hellip

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China is developing a space-based solar power station called Zhuri, or Sun Chase, which has potential for both civilian and military applications. Led by Prof Duan Baoyan of Xidian University, the project recently unveiled a modernised design that showcases extensive capabilities going beyond simple energy transmission. The system will be able to carry out tasks [&hellip

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Apple is struggling with technical challenges in the development of its first foldable iPhone. Problems have emerged during the testing phase, which could delay the planned mass production and shipment. According to sources, the difficulties lie in the so-called engineering phase, a crucial step before large-scale production. These obstacles may mean that Apple enters the [&hellip

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The European data economy is significantly large, at more than €115 billion in 2025 and expected to grow to €148 billion by 2030, according to a study by the European Commission. This broader ‘data economy’ was already worth €325 billion in 2019, equivalent to 2.6% of the EU’s GDP, and was worth an estimated €500 [&hellip

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There is a certain Pinter-like comedy to the idea of people using artificial intelligence (AI) to win arguments. Less funny is the possibility that in doing so, they are not so much sharpening their thinking as sealing it off. As reported on this website, a new study has found that AI is having a curious [&hellip

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A super packed Easter edition diving into the scale of the Artemis moon mission, Irish involvement in the ISS, and an Aer Lingus collaboration with Starlink. Back on Earth, Intel makes a massive move to reclaim its Leixlip plant and Oracle cuts thousands of jobs by e-mail. Finally, Julian Moutte, CTO of of Bentley Systems, [&hellip

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SpaceX, the space company owned by Elon Musk, has quietly filed an application for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States, according to sources cited by Reuters and Bloomberg. The move could result in one of the largest stock market flotations ever. Analysts estimate that the company could be valued at more than [&hellip

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The US-Israeli attacks on Iran on 28 February have unleashed a wave of retaliatory strikes across the region. The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has responded by threatening a series of cyberattacks against American tech giants operating in the Middle East. A Telegram message attributed to the IRGC named 18 companies as “legitimate targets”, [&hellip

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