Accenture to cut 890 jobs from Irish operations
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) – Accenture plans to cut around 890 jobs from its Irish operations, representing some 13% of its workforce there, as part of a round of…
World Wide Web Day: six ways to boost internet search success
World Wide Web Day, an event which marks the ability of people to browse the internet (which turned thirty last April) for information, takes place across the globe on the 1st…
Privacy group challenges Ryanair’s use of facial recognition
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) – Digital rights group NOYB on Thursday filed a complaint against Ryanair, alleging that the airline is violating customers’ data protection rights by using facial…
Facebook parent Meta sees advertising jump, tops Wall Street targets
By Katie Paul and Yuvraj Malik Wall Street: (Reuters) – Meta Platforms on Wednesday reported a strong rise in advertising revenue, topping Wall Street financial targets for the second quarter…
University College Dublin Seeking Start-Ups to Join Accelerator Programme Dedicated to AgTech and Agri-food Sectors
The AgTechUCD Innovation Centre at University College Dublin (UCD), today announced that it is seeking applications from early-stage start-ups with innovative products and services in the AgTech, agri-food, equine and…
Actors decry ‘existential crisis’ over AI-generated ‘synthetic’ actors
By Dawn Chmielewski AI-generated: (Reuters) – Filmmakers have put monsters on screen for more than a century. In 2023, the real bogeyman looks just like us. Since June, Hollywood studios…
Black Mirror: Actors and Hollywood battle over AI digital doubles
By Dawn Chmielewski Black Mirror: (Reuters) – Like a plot from the anthology television series “Black Mirror,” the Screen Actors Guild says it is battling the studios for control over…
Australia’s competition watchdog puts data brokers on radar
By Rishav Chatterjee (Reuters) – Australia’s competition watchdog on Monday asked consumers, businesses and other relevant stakeholders to provide their views about the business practices of data brokers in an…
EU Commission revamps procedures to speed up Big Tech privacy probes
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Stung by criticism of tardy privacy investigations and the Irish privacy regulator’s outsized role in overseeing Big Tech, the European Commission on Tuesday…
Dublin airport staff’s salary data breached
By Anirudh Saligrama (Reuters) – Some Dublin airport staff’s financial information has been compromised by a cyber-attack on provider company Aon that also affected various other firms, the Dublin Airport…