X, Spotify, PayPal and ChatGPT were among hundreds of websites and services taken offline today after cloud infrastructure provider Cloudflare suffered a global outage. Cloudflare had posted notices ...

Companies paid chief information security officers an average of almost 7% more in 2025 than they did in 2024, according to a recent report from consultants IANS Research and executive search firm ...

Some years ago a friend of mine said he thought policy decisions required expertise, suggesting that any Health Minister should be a doctor. I instinctively recoiled. “The thing is,” I argued, “that ...

Despite the Trump administration’s crypto-friendly outlook, cryptocurrency markets are characterised by extreme fear and fluctuations. Bitcoin briefly dropped to $89,420 on Tuesday night – the lowest ...

A court in Berlin has aarded Europe-wide price and product comparison site Idealo has been €465 million in damages in a lawsuit over abuse of power by Google Shopping. The price website, owned by ...

Wholesale broadband operator Siro has announced a bespoke broadband product created for developers building new homes across Ireland. OpenPort, will streamline the delivery of fibre broadband services ...

Agencies from nine Western governments have jointly dismantled the computer infrastructure behind multiple popular cybercrime tools. In a three-day operation, law enforcement authorities took down ...

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is having an increasingly significant impact on workplace lawsuits according to a survey by UK law firm Irwin Mitchell. According to a poll of 200 HR ...

Venture capital funding into Irish technology SMEs rose by 8% to €207.9 million in the third quarter 2025 compared to the same period last year, according to the Irish Venture Capital Association ...

New research from IDC exploring the use, impact and trustworthiness of artificial intelligence (AI), has found that Irish businesses are ‘significantly’ ahead of the global average in AI adoption ...

I had an interesting conversation with a chatbot this morning. Short on time and long on human frailty, I asked it to consider a few propositions. At first it repeated a few falsehoods, but yielded ...

Cork-based biotech company ArrayPatch has been announced as the winner of the InterTradeIreland all-island Seedcorn Investor Readiness Competition, walking away with a cash prize of €130,000 to invest ...