Brazil’s data protection agency on Wednesday ordered Discord to suspend livestreams, accusing the messaging platform of failing to protect children and adolescents after a teen girl was allegedly incited to commit suicide during a broadcast. In a case described by one police officer as a “real-life horror show”, a 13-year-old girl in a small city [&hellip

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Many, many years ago, I attended an IBM AS/400 press briefing in Rochester, Minnesota. The main event was the appearance of a duo called Timbuk 3 performing their big hit from 1986, The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades. You will not be surprised to learn that, as the song unfolded, IBMers in the [&hellip

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Google has unveiled four new phones during the annual Made by Google event in New York: the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL and the Pixel 11 Pro Fold. The Pixel Watch 5 will be released at the same time. The devices feature stronger, brighter displays and time-saving AI thanks to the [&hellip

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Irish consumers are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and self-service for simple customer service tasks but want access to a real person when issues become complex, sensitive or require empathy, research commissioned by the Customer Contact Management Association (CCMA) Ireland has found. “It’s no surprise that customers prefer human support for complex or sensitive issues, but [&hellip

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In its latest effort to protect human creators from the flood of synthetic music, Spotify will soon require AI-generated identities to carry an ‘AI Persona’ label while barring their tracks from users’ algorithmic mixes. The change will take effect in mid-September. It follows Spotify’s earlier moves to help subscribers understand the difference between genuine and [&hellip

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A federation of nearly 300 French newspapers has filed a complaint with the country’s competition authority over Google’s AI-generated summaries of search results, fearing the feature will erode traffic to their own websites. It is the latest salvo by media companies against the tech giant’s use of their articles and other content as they grapple [&hellip

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Recent research by TrendAI shows a huge increase in AI-driven cyber threats targeting the financial sector. According to the report Modern Bank Heists in 2026, 89% of financial institutions observed a rise in these sophisticated attacks over the past year, with 41% of organisations already having suffered at least one breach. The nature of these [&hellip

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Anthropic, the maker of AI system Claude, is going to add an invisible watermark to everything produced with its new models. This will be done not just for Europe but worldwide, and is intended to make it clear whether something has been created with AI, and if so, what. In doing so, the company is [&hellip

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Mozilla, the developer of Firefox, has warned that it may be forced to exit the browser market if it is no longer allowed to receive payments from Google for offering its search engine. According to Mozilla, a ban on these payments could lead the company and other independent browser developers to withdraw from the market. [&hellip

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Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg laid out a vision for how the United States and the social media giant could win a global race to dominate AI amid fierce competition from China. In a long essay published Monday about the future of artificial intelligence, Zuckerberg called for the US to compete against China, prevent “government tyranny” [&hellip

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OpenAI has implemented stricter safety measures and halted certain internal projects after it was unable to rule out that its next-generation model, Astra, possesses “critical” cyber security capabilities. According to the organisation’s established safety framework, a model is classified as critical if, without human guidance, it can independently carry out complex attacks on secured infrastructure [&hellip

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Meta has introduced its first programming agent, Muse Code, as part of a strategic effort to keep pace with competitors such as Anthropic and OpenAI. The new tool is designed to streamline application development by enabling programmers to manage multiple AI agents within a single, unified interface. Despite that product launch, Meta has recently disclosed [&hellip

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Despite recent claims by analysts suggesting otherwise, Apple is moving ahead with a radical aesthetic redesign of the iPhone to mark the device’s 20th anniversary in 2027, reports Bloomberg. Sources close to the project said the upcoming Pro models, internally designated as V73 and V74, will feature a design in which glass dominates. This design [&hellip

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ClassCover, a leading Australian-based substitute teacher booking platform, today announces its expansion into the Irish market with a €3 million investment and 20 jobs over the next three years. This funding will support local hiring, boost awareness among the company’s client base and help tailor the platform for Irish audiences. With significant plans for growth, [&hellip

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Olive for Education has opened Ireland’s largest dedicated post-primary IT service and support operation. Based at the Carrick-on-Shannon Business Campus, the centre brings together every part of the service Olive for Education delivers to the schools it works with. From this single location, the team manages the full journey for every school it serves, device [&hellip

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In association with Dell Technologies Ireland Data management has become crucial to business strategy and growth in recent years. For small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), data management is no longer just an IT function. It is the foundation for trusted insights, resilient operations and scalable AI outcomes. As AI adoption accelerates, businesses need data that [&hellip

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A court in New Mexico has ordered Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms – which he compared to a factory emiting poisonous pollution. Judge Bryan Biedscheid ruled Meta’s platforms were a “public nuisance” and that the company had engaged in an activity that “injures [&hellip

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The European Commission and the SpaceRISE consortium signed an implementation agreement on Friday that takes the European satellite network IRIS² from the drawing board into the construction phase. The constellation is growing by 66 additional satellites in low Earth orbit to a total of 348. The first launches are scheduled to take place in 2029. [&hellip

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Although Apple is working with Google on the development of its new Siri AI, that does not mean the voice assistant simply runs on Google’s own Gemini model. Apple emphasises that Siri AI uses its own AI models and that no Gemini software or Google search functionality is directly embedded in the assistant. The cooperation [&hellip

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DeepSeek has announced that it will significantly increase the prices of its API services in the near future. According to the Chinese AI start-up, the new rates will be disclosed later, but users are advised to already take this into account in their usage. The announcement comes a week after the introduction of DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, a [&hellip

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Proton appears to be further expanding its range of privacy services with its own Web browser. A recent job listing shows that the Swiss technology company is looking for developers for a new browser team that will work on a browser with privacy at its core. It is not yet known when the software will [&hellip

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Scientists in California have done something new: they got an AI to design a virus from nothing and it worked. They weren’t tweaking an existing one, it was done from scratch the way you’d ask a chatbot to write an essay. The viruses in question are bacteriophages or bugs that eat bacteria, are harmless to [&hellip

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‘Dead Internet’ theory has always been an exaggeration, but a productive one. The idea that the Internet is populated entirely, or even largely, by quasi-autonomous entities engaging only with other similar entities is not literally true, nor likely to ever be so, but it does force us to think about the reasons for both production [&hellip

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Microsoft Threat Intelligence has recently exposed a global espionage operation carried out by Russian state-backed hackers. The network targets the public wireless networks of conference venues and hotels. The operation, known as CaptiveCrunch, is attributed to a collective called Storm-2945. This group is regarded as a branch of Midnight Blizzard, an entity that intelligence services [&hellip

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In its annual report for the 2026 financial year, Microsoft has for the first time revealed how much revenue its biggest AI partner OpenAI generates. The figures show that in the past financial year OpenAI accounted for roughly $24.1 billion in revenue for Microsoft. That amounts to over 70% of the company’s total AI revenue, [&hellip

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The first quarterly figures from SpaceX as a listed company show that advertising revenues at X, the former Twitter, have fallen sharply since the takeover by Elon Musk. Although the social platform is only mentioned in passing in the financial report the figures provide, for the first time, a clear picture of the scale of [&hellip

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This week we have good news and bad news for investors in SpaceX, Spotify and Netflix; BMW succumbs to some terrible marketing; and Meta gets a bashing over privacy thanks to its smart glasses. In our interview, Ashley Casovan, managing director AI governance at IAPP, talks about the EU’s latest effort to keep generative AI [&hellip

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Over the past few months, we’ve become accustomed to the large number of grandiose claims made about the benefits of AI. It’s been hard to escape them when so much commentary and discussion has been devoted to the subject. Finding someone who hasn’t heard of AI is probably on a par with stumbling on the [&hellip

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Samsung Electronics has reported a significant increase in initial demand for its latest foldable devices, noting that the Galaxy Z Flip 8 and the two Z Fold 8 variants are expected to surpass all previous pre-order records for the Z series. According to a Wednesday announcement, the Z Fold 8 and Z Fold 8 Ultra [&hellip

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Studyclix, the company is to become the fifth member of the Axis Education Group, an educational consortium which includes Independent College, International House Dublin, Dublin Academy of Education, and Public Affairs Ireland. Studyclix is a teaching and learning platform used regularly by 224,000 second-level students and 29,000 teachers and is available in more than 700 [&hellip

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University College Dublin has appointed Prof Robin Burke as Director of its new UCD AI Institute. Robin will take up the role at Ireland’s largest university in October, where he will also be a Full Professor in UCD School of Computer Science. Prior to joining UCD, Prof Burke was Chair and Professor of Information Science [&hellip

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Tyndall National Institute has today published its 2025 Annual Report, marking a landmark year for research, innovation and industry engagement, highlighted by the launch of three new semiconductor spin-out companies and growing evidence of Ireland’s emerging indigenous semiconductor sector. Tyndall is a partnership between the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science [&hellip

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Iconic media player Winamp is entering into a strategic partnership with Deezer to launch its own premium music subscription. The streaming service will provide its white-label technology and global music catalogue for this purpose. The new subscription service will be integrated into the next generation of the Winamp Player, which is scheduled to appear in [&hellip

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The latest data from cyber security company Surfshark has ranked Ireland as the 47th most breached country in the world for the first half of 2026. A total of 369,700 accounts were leaked online from January to June, putting users at risk of identity theft, extortion or other cybercrimes. Globally, a total of 313.4 million [&hellip

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TechIreland has launched the National AI Challenge 2026 and confirmed that the fourth annual TechIreland National AI Meet will take place at the Galmont Hotel in Galway on 24 September. This year’s theme, AI & Agents: Strategy, Processes and Roles, reflects the shift from AI experimentation to practical implementation. “The AI Challenge is much more [&hellip

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IMS connect has been acquired by Ask4, UK provider of digital infrastructure and smart building technology for multi-tenant building. Financial terms of the deal were not revealed. Founded in Limerick, IMS connect delivers managed Wi-Fi, voice solutions, smart TV technology, IPTV, casting, digital signage, and energy management, primarily for the hospitality sector. Its clients include [&hellip

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A US federal court of appeals has overturned the ruling that barred AI company Perplexity from using its AI shopping assistant on Amazon. This gives Perplexity provisional permission to keep the service running while the lawsuit continues. The dispute began after Amazon filed a lawsuit against Perplexity in November. According to the online retailer, Perplexity [&hellip

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Ireland has become an ‘EV-first’ market for the first time, with new analysis by DoneDeal Cars, Ireland’s largest car marketplace, of the latest new car registration figures from SIMI (Society of the Irish Motor Industry) showing electric cars have overtaken every other engine type to become the single most popular choice for Irish new car [&hellip

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Sponsored content The Civil Service has opened applications for the position of ICT infrastructure, security and operations delivery manager (assistant principal officer level). Successful applicants will be directly involved in delivering on a range of government strategies within their appointed organisations. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a larger team delivering on [&hellip

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The Trump administration on Tuesday met with tech leaders to finalise a security review process for advanced AI models before their release, though it will apply only to ‘closed’ models. However, it remains unclear when – or if – the White House will release the details of the process or how it will be implemented [&hellip

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