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Coimisi'n na Me'n opens investigation into Meta's content promotion
3+ hour, 39+ min ago (401+ words) The investigation will determine whether or not Meta has breached regulations set out in the EU Digital Services Act. Ireland's independent regulator for broadcast and online media, Coimisi'n na Me'n, has opened investigations into Meta to assess issues related to…...
Major phishing operation disrupted in joint Europol action
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (377+ words) Tycoon 2 FA accounted for around 62pc of all phishing attempts blocked by Microsoft by mid-2025. A joint cybersecurity operation has disrupted one of the world's largest phishing-as-a-service platforms, called "Tycoon 2 FA' and used to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) and hack user accounts....
Apple says new i Phone 17e is more bang for the same buck
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (321+ words) The launch comes as a memory shortage crisis is set to raise smartphone prices by 13pc this year. Apple has launched the latest i Phone in its more affordable "e" series, retailing at prices from $599. Apple"s vice-president for worldwide i…...
Reddit sues Australia over under-16 ban on social media
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (408+ words) Reddit claims that the ban infringes the "implied freedom of political communication. Popular online forum Reddit has filed a lawsuit against the Australian government over the countrys social media ban for minors which came into force this Wednesday (10 December). The…...
What caused the global Cloudflare outage?
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (645+ words) As the dust settled on the internet's latest major disruption, Cloudflare linked the cause of the error to an inflated "feature' configuration file. Yesterday (19 November), a major Cloudflare outage caused widespread disruption across popular websites and services on the internet....
Cloudflare outage disrupts X, Open AI and more
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (441+ words) The ongoing outage is the third major disruption to hit a popular internet service provider since mid-October, after Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. IT services provider Cloudflare is experiencing a technical problem that has disrupted numerous popular websites and…...
Want to rank high on AI search? Here's what to know
6+ mon, 2+ day ago (668+ words) Have a consistent brand and get people to talk about you, says Kevin Breslin, in his top tips for businesses to rank on AI search. Marketing on traditional search engines such as Google "is dead, says Kevin Breslin. "It's certainly…...
EU preliminarily finds Meta and Tik Tok breached DSA transparency rules
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (539+ words) Meta and Tik Tok have both come under EU scrutiny before for breaching the region's regulations. The European Commission, in a preliminary ruling, found that Meta does not provide Instagram and Facebook users with simple mechanisms to notify illegal content…...
Ireland launches new emergency comms platform for disaster relief
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (681+ words) The new Mission Critical Communications system is built by Vodafone Ireland in partnership with the Irish Government. The Government has introduced a new "last resort" communications platform for Ireland's emergency services to boost connectivity and safety. The new Mission Critical…...
4chan under investigation by UK Ofcom over online safety concerns
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (441+ words) The UK internet and telecoms regulator Ofcom has opened nine new investigations into websites for potentially breaching the country's Online Safety Act (OSA). Of the nine, First Time Videos, a pornography website, will be probed over possibly failing to protect…...