Representatives of American tech companies have more influence with policymakers in Brussels than European firms and also invest more money in political influence. This emerges from an analysis by the...

Stripe is to create 200 new jobs at its Dublin headquarters as the financial services company expands its Irish workforce to more than 1,000 people. Stripe is supported by the Irish Government through...

Trump renames ‘artificial intelligence’ to ‘super intelligence’ by executive order. We note the irony of a glaring typo in the official document, and wonder if the industry will adopt the new name. Pl...

The Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund has applications invited from consortia developing technologies with commercial potential. The €40 million fund is aimed at supporting the development and d...

Rinn Artificial Intelligence has launched a European research collaboration with two Fraunhofer institutes in Germany focused on developing technologies for trusted and interoperable data spaces. The ...

One of my favourite Disney films is The Jungle Book. There are some real bangers in there, as the kids would say: The Bare Necessities and I Wanna Be Like You being the standouts. But I was put in min...

Almost half of entrepreneurs (49%) say they have used AI to support their business in the past year. More than four in ten (43%) already pay, or would be willing to pay, for AI to help manage their bu...

IT solutions provider MicroWarehouse is now operating under the Sherweb name following its acquisition by the Canadian cloud distributor and technology service provider. The transition marks the next ...

Almost two-thirds (62%) of employees use AI daily at work and a further 15% use it weekly according to this years Morgan McKinley Global AI Report. The report, based on a survey of 1,962 employees and...

Seeking advice, a friend recently asked me my opinion on Chromebooks. I think they would meet the needs you’ve described, I said. That at least had the virtue of being true, but it also got me thinkin...

Many years ago, there was a song by a man called Billy Ocean called When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going. It featured on the soundtrack for a film starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner a...

This week Trump renames ‘AI ‘artificial intelligence’ to ‘super intelligence’ at the UN. Meanwhile, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman call for regulation and a slowdown in frontier mode...

In association with Ingram Micro Ingram Micro, a B2B platform company for the global technology ecosystem, today announced an expanded Lenovo offering for its customers in Ireland, bringing together L...

In association with Conscia As one of Ireland’s leading universities, Maynooth University is home to more than 16,000 students from over 100 countries. With a growing student population, increasing de...

In association with Dell Technologies Ireland Agentic AI is beginning to change the workplace conversation. For years, AI was mainly seen as a data centre or cloud challenge: where to find enough comp...

Ireland rose to third place globally for artificial intelligence adoption in the second quarter of 2026, making it the highest-ranked European economy, according to Microsoft’s latest Global AI Diffus...

The good news for distributors just keeps coming. For those of you who missed this blog back at the end of July, it focused on a report by the Global Technology Distribution Council (GTDC) entitled Th...

It’s been a big week for AI doomers, Niall and Dusty tease apart the debate. Meanwhile crypto enthusiasts in the US take a hit as the Clarity act fails in the Senate, and how a gamer ran up a $118,000...

In association with Conscia Donegal ETB partnered with Conscia and HPE to modernise its network infrastructure, creating a secure, cloud-managed and AI-driven platform that supports digital learning a...

In association with TalentHunter There’s a lot of talk about collaboration between people and AI, but one Irish start-up is showing the recruitment industry how it’s done. And the answer is to keep th...

According to a report by Anthropic, the Russian hacker group Midnight Blizzard used the Claude AI model to streamline cyber‑espionage against Europe and Ukraine. Between December 2025 and August 2026,...

In association with Anker Anker Solix today announced that the Anker Solix XE is now available to purchase in the UK and Ireland through authorised installers. First unveiled to UK audiences at Solar ...

Chaotic scenes were visible at Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester and Birmingham airports this week following a glitch in UK air traffic control systems. I mean, I assume the scenes were chaotic and visibl...

Sponsored content The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) is seeking applications for a senior digital applications and Azure role, offering anopportunity to contribute to the technology that su...

Vibe coding gave us apps nobody could maintain and now ‘vibe mathing’ may give us proofs nobody can actually learn from. Some context: Andrej Karpathy, one of OpenAI’s founding members, coined ‘vibe c...

One story dominating tech opinion this week, the new Apple folding phone they call ‘Duo’. Hear why we simultaneously love it, and hate it. We also speak to Rebecca James from Education Elephant on her...

IT departments are coming under increased pressure as artificial intelligence pushes up the cost of memory, storage and networking. As technical and non-technical staff compete for access to the same ...

In association with EVAD For decades, humanoid robots have belonged to the realm of science fiction. We have watched them in films, seen them demonstrated at global technology exhibitions and read abo...

This week Niall and Dusty speculate about what Apple under new CEO John Ternus will look like. Later, author and academic Dr Catherine Mulligan talks about making digital transformation sustainable ov...

Summer is drawing to a close, so it’s time to look ahead to the best sci-fi coming to cinemas and streaming over the autumn and winter, from big screen blockbusters to cult classics and some seriously...

This week, Mark Zuckerberg sets out Meta’s vision for a future shaped by AI, Google says Gemini is already being used by a billion people and launches a seriously impressive new range of Pixel devices...

More than half (55%) of organisations are unaware how many people at their managed service provider have full administrative access to their systems, according to interim data from a survey by TechCen...

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 Br...

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 l...

‘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 s...

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 d...

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...

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 ...

BidReview won IT project of the year at the 2026 Tech Excellence Awards. We speak with founder Tony Corrigan about the award and what the future holds for the company. What problem is BidReview solvin...

LinkedIn is revising its strategy for AI content to combat a flood of so‑called AI slop (large quantities of superficial, automatically generated content). The professional social network is scrapping...

The Global Technology Distribution Council (GTDC) released a report at the end of July entitled The Evolving Role of Distribution in Technology Go-To-Market Models. The focus, understandably, was on t...

The chip industry has wiped more than $100 billion off its value in a single day while Apple is heading in the opposite direction. We look at what the sell-off means. Plus, Gary Leyden, CEO of InsTech...

In association with Dell Technologies Dell Technologies Forum 2026 is coming to The Convention Centre Dublin, on 15 September 2026. The event will convene business and technology leaders to discuss ho...

Two thirds (66%) of Irish businesses have experienced at least one cyber-attack in the last year, while more than a third have been hit with over three attacks over the last 12 months. According to a ...

Almost everyone knows Neil deGrasse Tyson. He’s the celebrity astrophysicist who demoted Pluto in the popular imagination and has since turned up everywhere from The Big Bang Theory to voicing himself...

Artificial intelligence goes rogue, news at 10. Reports that OpenAI’s agentic artificial intelligence (AI) battered down the defences of a major developer platform, escaping containment, exploiting a ...

OpenAI has had a week it would probably rather forget as two of its AI models carries out an automated cyber attack during testing. We also take a look at Kimi K3, the latest open source AI model from...

As one of Ireland's leading Cisco-Powered Managed Service Providers, ROCTEL continues to help organisations across Ireland modernise their IT networks

This week Jason Walsh joins the pod to discuss the first half of 2026 from social media bans to AI and beyond. Later, Niall Kitson meets HomeBot co-founder Clara Mulligan. To never miss an episode of ...

SpaceX, as we are told, is an artificial intelligence (AI) company. No surprises, then, to see its share price dropping. Shares closed on Wednesday below the $150 (approx €131) opening price for the f...