1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (276+ words) "The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting data center," he said. Willie Nelson has published an open letter saying communities need to fight against data centres and their environmental destruction. “Our community, like many others,…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (332+ words) "The Digital Services Act makes platforms responsible for the effects they can have on their users," Henna Virkkunen "In Europe, we enforce our legislation to protect our children and our citizens online.” The European Commission has concluded that TikTok violated…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1792+ words) They consume vast amounts of power and water. They push the price of energy up. They produce huge amounts of waste heat. They take us a thousand steps closer to extermination. So why would anyone want more data centres in…...

8+ mon, 3+ day ago   (194+ words) Over 170,000 people signed the petition. An Amnesty International petition asking TikTok to address it's harmful and addictive design has been delivered to the company's Dublin office today. The petition, titled “Make TikTok safer for children and young people”, contains 170,260 signatures…...

10+ mon, 4+ week ago   (88+ words) Keep an eye on hotpress.com and our socials for more updates across the weekend! Friday: 3.30pm – DELUSH 4pm – The Sleeveens 5.30pm – The Academic 6pm – Fionn Regan Saturday: 1.30pm – KhakiKid 2pm – Minding Creative Minds Panel 3pm – Sustainability Panel (featuring David Keenan) Sunday: 1pm – Simple Things 1.30pm – Orla Gartland 2.30pm – Bell…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (541+ words) The nature of social media algorithms causes internet slang like "skibidi" and "delulu" to skyrocket in popularity and work their way into the English lexicon, linguists say. Over 6,000 new words have been added to the Cambridge Dictionary this year, including…...