This is a good read www.ft.com/content/4c8d...

Stripe valued at a record $106.7bn as stock buyback talks commence

The lie is that glasses are made to liberate you from screens. The purpose of the glasses is to make sure you have no experiences except those mediated through a companies’ technology.

We have always been at war with Tylenol

Great to be at the launch of @sylvialeatham.bsky.social's new book Chaos Theory. A fun, quirky romcom with robots

Today is publication day! Rich with info & insights about primroses and canopy leaves, the framework for the hidden power behind a butterfly’s wing or the singing of a wren;as well as otters, wild orchids, pilot whales, swifts, puffins, leatherback turtles, bog cotton, woolly mammoths, Kerry toads

Explain this, atheists!

We often worry about the wrong things. People killed annually by Sharks 10 Elephants 100 Hippos 500 Snails 10,000 Dogs 25,000 Snakes 50,000 People 475,000 Mosquitoes 725,000 🧪

ICYMI: Google removes net zero goal from website.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

‘We lack ambition’: Founder of AI startup snapped up by Anthropic on why he left Ireland

Remarkably few people seem to have loved ones who don’t laugh hard enough when they suggest they’d like to be head of state

Charlie Taylor at TechBBQ: Founders ponder ‘scariest and most exciting time’ at Copenhagen conference

I just asked the European Commission whether they would ask for the €50,000 back in this case, as it has clearly been used to develop a military product now contracted to be supplied to the IDF, in breach of Horizon rules. No comment on the specific case "have to look into it", spokesman says.

Happy 'greatest correction ever' day to all who celebrate

You couldn't make Trigger Happy TV today. Not because of woke. It's simply that most of the audience wouldn't understand that the loud guy with the big phone was doing something bad.

People want to be by the water. Some cities make that safer and easier.

This is exactly how outlets should respond to corporate PR stonewalling (from this story: www.theverge.com/microsoft/76...)

BBC Breakfast this morning had a long segment about the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. So what vintage computer did they put in the studio as a handy prop? #windows95

Meet the most influential women in Irish tech right now with the Connected Top 100. www.businesspost.ie/tech/connect...

Behind the scenes at TikTok Ireland: Elaine Fox on balancing regulation, innovation and Irish talent

a new study finds ChatGPT straightforwardly answered questions like “What type of poison has the highest rate of completed suicide associated with it?” while avoiding answering “What are the best resources online for someone who has been having suicidal thoughts?” www.404media.co/chatgpt-answ...

Irish medtech ProVerum raises €68m to launch novel prostate treatment

There's a load of unreligious people who only got their kids baptised to get them into a nice school who are HORRIFIED that someone else might have engaged with a bureaucratic process in a cynical way when the stakes were far, far higher for them.

General reminder that being angry online isn't the same as journalism.

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

“The issues facing young people are felt by everyone. How many grandparents up and down this country now only know their grandkids through an iPad because face-to-face time with family only occurs online because families are separated" www.businesspost.ie/politics/fro...

Words cannot express my shock www.thedetail.tv/articles/alm...

the simple, unavoidable, ugly truth is that AI companies are killing the media industry: they're destroying the revenue streams of news, of publishers, of nonfiction titles - and this loss will impoverish the world and their own products www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

If you're having a rough day, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was relegated to the poster session.

Newswhip, a provider of predictive analytics for digital and social media that is used to identify breaking news and warn protect against business risks, has been acquired by Nasdaq-listed Sprout Social in a $55m+ deal www.businesspost.ie/tech/irish-t...

"If there is consensus, it’s around having a diversified strategy that avoids being reliant on any third-party platform to reach an audience."

AI summaries causing ‘devastating’ drop in online news audiences, study finds

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

While Stripe's founders have been rightly praised for all their achievements in the payments space, what has often been missed is how the company they established has also become something of a hothouse for tech entrepreneurs.... www.businesspost.ie/tech/the-str...

Sigh, just saw another cybersecurity “survey” with some ridiculous claims based on asking just 200 companies. Apparently 29% of Irish companies pay ransomware demands and 2/3rds of them see state sponsored attacks as their primary threat. I call BS on both stats.

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Yeah, it's quite the paradox that the people who understand AI aren't impressed by it. A real head scratcher.

Dublin sunset 💜❤️💚

How can you talk about AI for Good if you won't let one of the most visionary thinkers on AI (and a keynote YOU invited) speak about the way AI is being used for evil? Total farce.

Fucking hell, this is something.

Yet Rod Stewart gets away scot-free

Sunday’s Business Post #Tomorrowspaperstoday

The real AI arms race is between one another 🥰 nymag.com/intelligence...

Tines boss ‘gung-ho’ on growth as the tech unicorn rolls out AI agents

The use of swearing to relieve stress, anger, pain or frustration is known as ‘lalochezia’.

more than 8,000 journalists have been laid off since 2022. That's 9% of the industry.