The Internet is not safe for kids because the *world* is not safe for kids. But we don’t keep kids locked in sterile isolation chambers until they turn 18. All the dangers of social media are inherent to the business models of social media. That’s the issue that needs addressing.

Education, safe reporting spaces and massive investment in skilled human moderation would far better equip kids to deal with the day they turn 18 and their ‘protections’ evaporate, leaving them naive and defenceless in the hostile environment of surveillance capitalism.

The InfoSecF1 Fantasy Formula One League is back! fantasy.formula1.com/en/leagues/j...

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

#Reddit has been fined in the UK for failing to prevent children under 13 from using its platform & for mishandling their data. The IOC found that the site did not do enough to verify ages or protect young users' #Privacy. #CyberSecurity

Airport Incident Response I was going to be click-baity and title this post, "what incident response taught me about mixing up airports", but honestly, looking at LinkedIn these days, I think the humour would be lost. I'd end up with 50 new followers (75 if I ended the post with the word, "Agree?"…

great news, now expand it further

Also as to how effective an aged based social media ban will be, just remember that here in Ireland people under 18 are legally not allowed to buy alcohol

100% agree on this. Social media bans is akin to victim blaming and putting the onus on others to solve the problems and harms that big tech have brought and for which they refuse to deal with

Ah yes. We’ve been expecting you. The latest kick in the nuts for all the racist & racist-adjacent ‘mainstream’ UK journalists who mocked the notion that Trump’s administration was far-right & fascistic. Don’t expect any apologies, though. It’s Brexit 2.0.

It will be interesting to see what happens to this case and see what impact it could have for victims of data breaches in the fiture Cork District Court is due to hear four motions later this week relating to compensation claims by victims of the HSE cyberattack. www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Deloitte tells staff to stop uploading confidential data to ChatGPT www.afr.com/companies/pr...

The operator of the national grid has warned of "a potentially challenging situation" in meeting electricity demand between 2026 and 2028

It will be interesting to see what happens to this case and see what impact it could have for victims of data breaches in the fiture Cork District Court is due to hear four motions later this week relating to compensation claims by victims of the HSE cyberattack. www.rte.ie/news/busines...

We didn't bastardise the English language into "ye", "yiz", "youse" and "yousins" to have Irish people unconnected to the US or other places it's used in saying "y'all", unless you're referring to the town in Cork we've PERFECTLY ADEQUATE second person plural pronouns at HOME

The launch of every piece of AI-driven surveillance/security/criminal justice software basically goes like this: AI COMPANY: this is an error free, bias free, state of the art, highly intelligent software system Two Weeks Later: …aaaand it’s racist

Cuban forces have killed four people and wounded six others aboard a Florida-based speedboat that entered Cuban waters and opened fire on a Cuban patrol, the Cuban government said at a time of heightened tensions with the United States.

Elon Musk's X, formerly known as Twitter, has taken a High Court challenge against media regulator Coimisiún na Meán, questioning the lawfulness of investigations and the handling of information arising from user complaints

More from CnM on this today @tupped.bsky.social "The Online Safety Code relates to video-related content, for the main part, and, for the main part, this [Grok] involved images so we thought the best option was to use the DSA..where we would do that hand in glove with the EU Commission..."

Roimh Lá #ÉireAgLéamh ar an 28 Feabhra, abair le do chara, 'dul ar strae' i leabhar iontach. #TéighArStrae 🫂📚 Tuilleadh eolais ag https://www.irelandreads.ie/ @forasnagaeilge.bsky.social

Bígí linn do #SnaG26 📚💖 Léamh & plé le Darach Ó Scolaí ar an úrscéal 'Bódléar', imeacht leabhar álainn atá á reachtáil ag Aonad Léann na Cumarsáide, Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge.📍 Seomra 116, Áras na Gaeilge, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe, 4 Márta, 1pm. #LoveLeabharGaeilge #Gaeilge

Statement from the Cuban Ministry of the Interior of the event: "Note from the Ministry of the Interior: On the morning of February 25, 2026, a violating speedboat was detected within Cuban territorial waters. The vessel, registered in Florida, United States..."

ICYMI: UK data watchdog fines Reddit £14.47M for letting kids slip past the gate

Relevant to several things in the news today, yesterday I discovered a TG4 special on Irish-Americans' views on Trump's immigration crackdown. Mostly in Irish but you can turn on subtitles. www.tg4.ie/en/player/ca...

I'm literally in tears listening to President Catherine Connolly's fierce speech about the silence about ongoing genocide, how the rule of law, humans rights, civil liberties, and freedoms are diminishing before our eyes... at the 50th anniversary of the @iccl.bsky.social

Breaking WaPo: A top Trump Treasury official is leaving his post after privately raising objections to White House-backed plans to crack down on alleged fraud within the Somali immigrant community in Minnesota, according to seven people familiar with the matter.

We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post. We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts. Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert. Subscribe below.

For once Stephen Miller might be right about illegal immigrants and crime. www.thesun.ie/news/1523567...

Exploitation of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Agencies strongly encourage immediate investigation of potential compromise of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, and full updating and hardening. www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/exploit...

I made this and it's in my very serious newsletter, I'm not sorry #TrekSky

Colourful northern lights and Milky Way over Snæfellsjökull #Iceland last February.

Some full moon memories from this day 2024. Standing on Claremont Beach watching the moon rise over Howth Lighthouse. #snowmoon #moonrise #howthlighthouse #lovindublin

Here we go. Free, no-reg versions of favorite stories from my four years at the Washington Post. First, three pieces from our Pulitzer-finalist series on how India's ruling party coerced U.S. tech giants into violating their own policies. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0...

A national treasure of a journalist & especially fine human just posted some of his work for free ⬇️

My interview on BBC radio about Google’s AI head stating that more research on the threats of AI needs to be done urgently. We also discuss Ofgem warning 140 proposed data center schemes could require 50 gigawatts of electricity – 5GW more than UK's current demand. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW-4...

Doesn’t matter if you’re a Radiohead fan or not, this makes for wonderful listening.

CrowdStrike’s latest annual Global Threat Report finds AI-driven attacks up, zero-day exploitation surging, and nation-state actors doubling down on cloud and edge device compromise. Find out more about these and other trends in my latest CSO piece. www.csoonline.com/article/4136...

"Banning children’s access to social media...shifts the responsibility for safety from the platforms that create the environment to the children who navigate it." - Council of Europe High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O'Flaherty

Euro hosting giant hiking prices by up to 50% from April Fool's Day

Some photos from the Spanish police arrests of Anonymous Fénix members who had been engaging in DDoS of Spanish government websites. The UV light bedroom photo is exactly what I expected and I wasn’t disappointed in the setup. web.guardiacivil.es/es/destacado...

Central Park on Monday was fabulous. 💕 (via Noel Calingasan) #NYC

Some breaking news out of Russia: Officials have started an investigation into Telegram founder Pavel Durov for promoting terrorism www.kommersant.ru/doc/8460981?...

Just for the record, COBOL is a 7 decade old programming languages that underpins enormous parts of global financial systems and infrastructure. When I said "AI will destroy the economy" this wasn't quite how I imagined that going to be quite honest

Onya, Iceland! A forward-looking, confident, modern country with a long democratic history.

#vlad the cowardly failure

MAGA's war on European civil society is escalating. Visa bans for NGO leaders and former EU officials, plus congressional demands for documents - it's all about undermining the Digital Services Act to protect Big Tech. If Europe doesn't push back hard, "the law is dead." www.ftm.eu/articles/tru...

New survey reveals #cyber #risk is now the defining test for UK #Insurance Chief Risk Officers. As digital threats evolve, #CROs face increasing pressure to bolster resilience & manage complex systemic vulnerabilities across the sector. #CyberSecurity