Blackpilled: Incels, Media and Masculinity by Meadhbh Park and The New Age of Sexism How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny by Laura Bates
Two deeply researched, brave and fascinating new books explore how AI-powered tools are remaking old sexist channels for the exploitation and abuse of women - and what could be done about it
Careless People: The controversial book is shocking and reveals Facebook is far worse than we could have suspected
Sarah Wynn-Williams’ shocking Meta exposure is a scream-fest for anyone who cares about democracy
The Siren’s Call and Owned: Commodifying attention and journalistic guns for hire
Two books ask important questions about how our attention is manipulated and monetised
Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates – An engrossing and surprisingly honest memoir
In the first part of three planned books, which takes us up to the late 1970s, a wholly unexpected picture of the Microsoft founder steps forward at times
Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto: How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World’s Deadliest Crooks by Geoff White - An engrossing and mind-blowing guide
Today’s technologies are facilitating crime on a vast scale, and Ireland has a significant footprint in this murky, international gang-controlled world
Tracking the path of the internet revolution
Alongside the technology sector’s many benefits have come new and insidious threats, damages and dangers
Big Tech may not get everything it wants from Trump
Incoming US president will not be all the tech industry is hoping for once he is in power
It turns out your air fryer might be listening, sending data to China
UK consumer protection advocates Which? found that certain air fryers gather personal data that has little or no relevance to the functioning of the product
Drama Drives Interest: The Web Summit Story – The improbable, fascinating, only-in-Ireland tale of Paddy Cosgrave
Catherine Sanz’s book focuses on the highest-profile founder of the most compelling Irish business drama of the past 15 years
Is the Republic’s online safety code up to the task?
Reconciling the GDPR with the AI Act poses issues, but I think they are minor compared to the hard problem of making the new safety code work in any realistic way
Mary O’Rourke laid the critical groundwork for State’s success in tech
No other minister would have had the interest, much less stubbornness, to push through the first undersea fibreoptic cable deal
Do you think online polls are rigged?
Scepticism is justified as these days the online variety is the one almost certain to be wearing the data dunce cap
Everyone seems happy with Apple tax case outcome
The €13bn tax case, while unwelcome, always related to times long past with no real impact for any of the players going forward
Do Musk’s Teslas still fit in liberal California?
If Elon Musk has hurt his car company’s brand, it’s not showing yet
Riots, online safety and rights prove awkward bedfellows
Legislators are struggling to balance protection on the one hand and with the need to avoid disproportionate restriction on the other