Tech bros welcome masculine energy back to workplace. It’s news to me it ever went away
There was overreach after the #MeToo movement but the backlash against women we’re seeing now is ferocious
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Trump’s tech bros face comeuppance amid DeepSeek panic
There is poetic justice in a small Chinese AI start-up challenging US giants. Washington is shooting itself in the foot with chip export restrictions and clampdown on tech talent visas
Billions wiped off tech stocks amid DeepSeek stunning AI advancements
Big Tech shares slump after AI start-up’s model raises questions about need for huge western hardware investment
Wall Street bets Tesla’s 2025 sales will miss Elon Musk’s target
Electric-car maker expected to take hit from Trump’s bid to dismantle Biden-era climate initiative
How Silicon Valley’s tech moguls discovered a new toy they could fight over: the American president
The digerati developed a monopoly on Americans’ attention, creating division, distrust and envy under the innocent guise of connecting us and making our lives better
Donald Trump’s week: ‘manifest destiny’, overseas expansion and planting the American flag on Mars
Alongside the aggression, sarcasm and triumphalism, there were hints of the techno-imperialism that has recently been added to the Maga mix
Tensions are already emerging in Camp Trump between populists and libertarians
Worldview: Ayn Rand’s articulation of a brutal, amoral ‘greed-is good’ philosophy embodies the spirit of the new administration
Mr Cook goes to Washington and other tales from Trump’s inauguration
Planet Business: Executive order recap, the man who designed Melania Trump’s hat and how the television ratings compared to previous ceremonies
It’s degrading to have to take anything Elon Musk says seriously, but he’s right about one thing
The uncomfortable fact remains that Musk and people like him – your Jeff Bezoses, your Sam Altmans – are the ones who are invoking a positive vision of the future
Apple share slump amid iPhone woes should sound caution for new Government
Tech giant’s international operation in Cork believed to be largest taxpayer in Republic
Donald Trump’s stunning first week back in the White House shows he’s on a mission to leave a legacy
For the president’s popularity in the US to last, he will have to make sure all his talk of a golden age translates into more money in ordinary people’s pockets
The GAA catfish and fake online profiles: how can people protect themselves from social media deceit?
The saga involves a person who duped GAA players and others by posing as someone else and using a bogus network of contacts
Why do billionaires pay very little tax?
Donald Trump and his coterie of wealthy business people likely means less support for global tax reform
McGrath promises EU action against social media platforms ‘amplifying’ political content to influence elections
EU justice commissioner says bloc’s Digital Services Act will be used to prosecute social media that are artificially boosting political material to sway voters
Tommy Robinson and Conor McGregor find common cause
English nationalism has rarely been more interested in Ireland
Trump orders government employees back to the office
Allies say move is intended to help Trump replace long-serving workers with loyalists faithful to agenda
‘Mob wife at a funeral’: Melania Trump brings note of fashion menace to inauguration
New president’s wife chose to wear a dark, high-necked coat and a boater hat to celebrate her husband’s second inauguration
Donald Trump returns to strike sombre tone of vindication and providential intercession
Icy, strained inauguration day is rich with human drama - and the abiding American theme of defeat and redemption
Squid Game or Sweden? The choice Ireland faces as Donald Trump takes office
Unthinkable: Irish economic policy was once framed as ‘Boston or Berlin’ – our options today are much starker
As UK grapples with Elon Musk’s interventions, there’s no room for complacency here on child protection
A 2023 study found that young people in State care, particularly girls, were being targeted by older men who plied them with gifts, drink and drugs and then exploited them sexually
New books about inequality by Thomas Piketty: Counterpoints to the Trump-Musk war on the state
Among the French economist’s arguments is that ‘no credible solution to the challenge of global warming is imaginable without a drastic reduction in inequality’
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg bending the knee before Trump shows they stand for nothing
What is the point of having all the money if you can’t stand up for traditional American values or stick up the middle finger if someone is trying to intimidate you or put you in prison
Brussels orders X to hand over documents on algorithm
Expansion of probe follows complaints from politicians in Germany ahead of election next month
Michael Lowry and Elon Musk know kingmaker is more powerful than king
How can our new government claim to be an international referee of political integrity when it has shamelessly thrown away its moral compass?
SpaceX’s Starship explodes in flight test, forcing airlines to divert
Mission control lost contact with the newly upgraded rocket eight minutes after lift-off from Texas
SEC sues Elon Musk over Twitter-related share violations
Regulator alleges businessman’s failure to follow disclosure rules delivered $150m benefit on share purchases
EU to review investigations into Apple, Google and Meta as US pressure mounts
Tech groups urging president-elect Donald Trump to intervene against 'overzealous' European regulation
Qantas delays flights to avoid SpaceX rocket parts
Airline warned by US government about risk of debris re-entering atmosphere on Indian Ocean routes
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More masculine energy? Only a Musk-Zuck inauguration day cage fight will do
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has entered the MMA-MAGA arena. A high-profile bout is the next logical step
Launch of Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket postponed over ‘a few anomalies’
New Glenn rocket was preparing to take off from Cape Canaveral to compete with SpaceX in the satellite launch market
Steve Bannon condemns Elon Musk as ‘racist’ and ‘truly evil’
Former Trump advisor pledges to ‘take this guy down’ and kick him out of the Maga movement
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