Cryptocrime is more common with stablecoins than Bitcoin

Stablecoins are fast becoming a dominant force in cryptocurrency crime, accounting for 63% of all illegal transactions, according to Chainalysis’s 2025 Crypto Crime Report. This shift is a significant departure from Bitcoin’s previous dominance in the criminal landscape. Although stablecoins are increasingly used for illicit purposes, they are not universally attractive to criminals. Issuers of [&hellip
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DBI welcomes incoming government’s commitment to AI

Digital Business Ireland (DBI) has welcomed a commitment by the incoming coalition governement of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Independents promising to develop AI across educational and professional networks. The Programme for Government published this week also promised to help business achieve basic digital intensity and reach the target of 90% by 2030. In its [&hellip
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Community of excellence for product managers launched at conference hosted by TU Dublin

Technology Ireland Digital Skillnet has announced the launch of a community of excellence for product management sector at the Next-Gen Product Management Conference hosted at TU Dublin.  The initiative aims to centralise best practices, foster continuous learning, and equip professionals with the tools needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving industry. Building on the success [&hellip
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Social media landscape in chaos with more than a ‘vibe shift’ underway

Outgoing US President Joe Biden took a clear swipe at Facebook and its owner Meta Networks this week.  In his farewell address as he prepares to vacate the office to make room for his successor Donald Trump, Biden warned of the death of the free press and an “avalanche of misinformation and disinformation” before taking [&hellip
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Dell Technologies’ Ivor Buckley on data governance in the era of agentic AI

The new Irish government has big plans for tech. We look at a range of changes coming in the programme for government. In the US Big Tech is bending the knee to incoming president Donald Trump but who will be absent from Monday’s inauguration? We also unpack Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket that towers over [&hellip
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Ireland an open data ‘trendsetter’ according to EU anual report

Ireland has placed in the top five out of 34 countries, in the EU Open Data Maturity Assessment rankings for 2024. Ireland’s position has improved by four places since the 2023 rankings and the country now sits alongside France, Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia in the top ‘trendsetter’ group for making public sector information available and [&hellip
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Office workers fear culture of blame over cyber security incidents

Nearly three-quarters of office workers believe their employer holds staff personally responsible for cyber security incidents, according to a survey by Censuswide on behalf of IT.ie and SonicWall. Furthermore, The poll of 1,000 office workers based in Ireland found more than a quarter (29%) of respondents reported at least one person in their company had [&hellip
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Taking the ‘ransom’ out of ‘ransomware’ is a dangerous, possibly brilliant, idea

I’ve always wanted to start a column with “As Oscar Wilde once said”. It’s quite possible that, considering how many years I’ve been writing them, I have already done and forgotten about it, but who’s to know. So let me realise that ambition now. As Oscar Wilde once said: “An idea that is not dangerous [&hellip
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Musk sued over delayed disclosure of Twitter acquisition

Elon Musk is facing legal action from the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding his 2022 acquisition of Twitter. The SEC alleges that Musk delayed disclosing his ownership interest in Twitter beyond the legally required threshold of 5%. This allowed him to buy additional shares at a lower price, according to the SEC. The [&hellip
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Meta’s ‘pay or consent’ policy breaks the Digital Markets Act, says Brussels

The European Commission considers that Meta’s binary decision to force citizens to either pay or give up their data to use the service does not comply with the Digital Market Act (DMA), the bloc’s landmark law that aims to rein in the power excesses of Big Tech companies and ensure fairer competition in the digital [&hellip
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