Exclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture ​mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its ‌artificial-intelligence models, part of a broad ...

Meta will begin keystroke logging US employees at work -- complete with mouse movements and periodic screenshots -- to train better AI agents.

This comes after Boz posted about a future in which AI will "primarily do the work" at meta.

It's a new era for tech labor. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Is someone going to tell him that the flu killed more US troops in WWI than any battle did (and that war had chemical weapons so horrific that they were banned afterwards)?

Bradley Bytes: Abuse of Galway journalist reveals nasty underbelly of fuel protests One of the self-appointed leaders of the national fuel blockades was a man who had six judgements totalling more than €500,000 secured against him by the Revenue Commissioners.

Other deeply concerning things I’ve seen this week include; the doxxing of Garda, state employees, as well as outside contractors. Journalist reporting on the protests have been subjected to targeted harassment.

This is pure intimidation on a scale I’ve never personally witness before.

We import the vast majority of the grain we use to make bread and 83 per cent of the fresh vegetables and fruit we eat

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Newsmakers: “To be told a city-run grocery store is implausible, but $500 million a day to kill people in Iran and Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”

Impact of government's relief package on contractors Philip visits a farm with contractor Irvin Rothwell, who is spreading slurry near Ferrycarrig in Co Wexford to find out what impact the government's recently announced relief package will mean for him...

Oil companies are making $30m an hour in windfall profits. The Irish taxpayer is supporting oil exposed businesses with 3/4 of a billion € to avert disaster for just four months.

How do we avert future crises completely?
#RTECountrywide

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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And people will be all outraged when areas like this vote for some unsavoury characters who promise to fix things for them

It is a strange experience watching this go on when even if the strait *had* opened today, there's a huge amount of disruption baked in here - we're hurtling towards the part of the problem that can't be solved by marketing.

It may be too late to change course...but also we're not changing course.

Loss of energy output in MidEast will take about two years to recover, IEA says It will take about two years to recover the energy ​output lost in the Middle East from the ‌conflict there, Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency, was quoted as saying on Friday in...

Loss of energy output in the Middle East due to the Iran War will take about two years to recover, according to the International Energy Agency.

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How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres’ environmental toll A cross-border investigation has revealed how industry lobbying is shaping data centre regulation.

New EU rules require operators to monitor and publicly report the energy performance of their data centres.

But delays in transposing the legislation have meant Ireland has missed the first two reporting deadlines - and looks set to miss the third.

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Happy census eve, everyone! #speirgorm #speirghorm

A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market

New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader

Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here

And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol

Is this article from 2014?

More than 15m oysters to be released in the North Sea for UK rewilding project Exclusive: Experts say scheme will help repair damaged marine ecosystems while sequestering large amounts of carbon More than 15m juvenile oysters are to be released into the North Sea in one of the biggest rewilding projects in UK waters. The scheme, which will use a unique rearing process, hopes to re-establish a huge oyster bed around Orkney that experts say will create a “trophic cascade” of climate and ecological benefits. Continue reading...

More than 15m oysters to be released in the North Sea for UK rewilding project

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

Opinion: Carbon tax may be the tax we love to hate, but it's the one we can't afford to scrap Carbon tax may be unpopular, but it’s one of the cheapest tools we have to avoid a far more expensive future, and the government was wrong to cave in after protests, writes John Gibbons.

John Gibbons: Carbon tax may be unpopular, but we need it to avoid a far more expensive future - the government was wrong to cave in after protests.

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bluesky is actually paying homage to an ancient internet tradition known as "signing off." it is a lost art, but people would "disconnect" and maybe return to the family computer after finishing dinner and homework

Senator Eileen Flynn is one the best people I know and to see the level of patronisation at the very least and horrendous abuse and harassment at the worst that she is getting is dispiriting, especially from some so called feminists and lefties. Cop yourselves on! #spéirgorm

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the takes were so hot
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Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

"Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided 'at all costs'. 'I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.'"

Archbishop of Canterbury calls for members of the Anglican Communion to join Pope Leo in calling for peace

I stand with the Pope in call for peace, says Archbishop of Canterbury “I urge Anglicans across the Church of England and the Anglican Communion to join with His Holiness in raising our…

Ep 13 - The Iniskea Prospect Should Ireland leave all its oil and gas reserves in the ground or drill to achieve energy independence?

The suggestion that Ireland should reverse the ban on drilling for oil and gas has popped up again.
I made a programme looking at this from every imaginable angle.

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Spoiler alert: The arguments for drilling don’t add up.

i simply find it a little hard to believe that shortly after every website implemented ai code and fired a bunch of engineers they all started breaking constantly every single day but its not related to the ai code or the skeleton crew

A bank of orange metal clothes bins on a grey day.

Today’s walk - the new Enable Ireland clothes bins at the Grangegorman Bring Centre. For more read www.dublininquirer.com/dubliners-ge...

The Irish Government already spends 4.8 billion euro per year supporting fossil fuels & they just agreed to increase that by another 750 million.

'our vulnerability is the fossil fuel system itself. We are watching this system hold the country hostage, and the government pay the ransom'

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

“I am increasingly worried that we may pass that Amoc shutdown tipping point, where it becomes inevitable, in the middle of this century… The most drastic climate changes we see in the last 100,000 years have been when the Amoc switched to a different state.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We’re looking for old Stoneybatter Festival volunteer T-shirts!

If you’ve volunteered before but are not around for this year’s festival 19-21 June, you can drop your Stoneybatter T-shirt in to our Book Swap at An Siol 11am-12.30pm Sat 25th April, & your T-shirt will go to a 2026 volunteer 😊

This is a very significant story on possible summer food shortages in the UK

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

www.theguardian.com/environment/...