Dave Matthews
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Orange rainfall warnings issued now for Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford.
November 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Orange rainfall warnings issued now for Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford.
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RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
RFK Jr's response to someone collapsing nearby him was to haul ass out of the room as quickly as possible
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
Have seen a few ads recently for AWS, based on premise that a lot of the web runs on it but you don’t realise. A lot of people will understand that more this morning!
Amazon has said its cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage, disrupting several popular websites and apps across the world, including Snapchat and Robinhood.
Amazon's cloud unit reports outage; several websites down
Amazon has said its cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage, disrupting several popular websites and apps across the world, including Snapchat and Robinhood.
www.rte.ie
October 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Have seen a few ads recently for AWS, based on premise that a lot of the web runs on it but you don’t realise. A lot of people will understand that more this morning!
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Three weeks after opening, and a massive media storm, it looks like Entrecôte Dublin has permanently closed. Here's the story if you missed it... www.allthefood.ie/single-post/...
October 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Three weeks after opening, and a massive media storm, it looks like Entrecôte Dublin has permanently closed. Here's the story if you missed it... www.allthefood.ie/single-post/...
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International media outlets have been banned from Gaza, save for tightly controlled embeds. But the Israeli government has invited some content creators to come in and spread its message. Read Amos Barshad. www.cjr.org/feature/isra...
As the world awaits peace in Gaza, the Israeli government has been inviting content creators to come in and spread its message.
International media outlets have been banned from Gaza, save for tightly controlled embeds. Local reporters have been threatened and killed. But as the world awaits peace, the Israeli government has i...
www.cjr.org
October 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
International media outlets have been banned from Gaza, save for tightly controlled embeds. But the Israeli government has invited some content creators to come in and spread its message. Read Amos Barshad. www.cjr.org/feature/isra...
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Result of that rain in West Cork at Borlin Valley with road badly damaged and flooding. Glengarriff recorded 107mm since midnight.
October 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Result of that rain in West Cork at Borlin Valley with road badly damaged and flooding. Glengarriff recorded 107mm since midnight.
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It doesn't matter if you're into food and restaurants, this is a must-read on the importance of fact-checking and subject-matter experts (and a mini exposé on how a particular food enterprise in Dublin is capitalising on its absence in Irish media). www.allthefood.ie/single-post/...
Is new Dublin restaurant Entrecôte connected to the French originals?
A few weeks ago this Instagram page appeared, announcing a "world famous French bistro" was coming to Dublin. Ears were pricked, and questions abounded about exactly which "Entrecôte" was coming to Ir...
www.allthefood.ie
September 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
It doesn't matter if you're into food and restaurants, this is a must-read on the importance of fact-checking and subject-matter experts (and a mini exposé on how a particular food enterprise in Dublin is capitalising on its absence in Irish media). www.allthefood.ie/single-post/...
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If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.
Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID
Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID
www.independent.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum -- one a handful of the world's Jewish heads of state -- is calling on on Israel to end ‘genocide in Gaza.’
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
Mexico's Jewish president calls on Israel to end 'genocide in Gaza'
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who is Jewish, called Israel's war on Gaza a 'genocide,' marking a decisive shift in her government's foreign policy — and putting it at odds with the United State...
www.latimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum -- one a handful of the world's Jewish heads of state -- is calling on on Israel to end ‘genocide in Gaza.’
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE says it will boycott Eurovision if Israel competes. Spain is one of the EBU’s ‘Big Five’ financial contributors. 🇪🇸 📺
September 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE says it will boycott Eurovision if Israel competes. Spain is one of the EBU’s ‘Big Five’ financial contributors. 🇪🇸 📺
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Former world boxing champion Ricky Hatton has died at the age of 46.
Ricky Hatton found dead at his home at the age of 46
Former world boxing champion Ricky Hatton has died at the age of 46.
www.rte.ie
September 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Former world boxing champion Ricky Hatton has died at the age of 46.
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If only there was some metaphor about the Wizard Of Oz that you could fold into this story of a secretive, duplicitous entity denying that its grand works were done by human hands, and insisting instead that they were magic.
So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.
If true, then fucking yikes.
If true, then fucking yikes.
September 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
If only there was some metaphor about the Wizard Of Oz that you could fold into this story of a secretive, duplicitous entity denying that its grand works were done by human hands, and insisting instead that they were magic.
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Anthropic says a hacker used its Claude chatbot "to an unprecedented degree": Claude identified vulnerable companies, wrote infostealer malware, analyzed stolen files for extortion purposes, calculated extortion amounts, and wrote extortion messages. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
August 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Anthropic says a hacker used its Claude chatbot "to an unprecedented degree": Claude identified vulnerable companies, wrote infostealer malware, analyzed stolen files for extortion purposes, calculated extortion amounts, and wrote extortion messages. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
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August 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?
July 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?
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Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’
Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’
Exclusive: For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation
Thomas, a 35-year-old tech worker and father of three from Ireland, came to West Virginia to visit his girlfriend last fall. It was one of many trips he had taken to the US, and he was authorized to travel under a visa waiver program that allows tourists to stay in the country for 90 days.
He had planned to return to Ireland in December, but was briefly unable to fly due to a health issue, his medical records show. He was only three days overdue to leave the US when an encounter with police landed him in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) custody. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’
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New from 404 Media: Customs and Border Protection confirms it is flying Predator drones above the LA protests. The agency explicitly says this is in support of ICE. Comes after we reviewed flight data/air traffic control audio which showed DHS Predator drones over LA www.404media.co/cbp-confirms...
CBP Confirms It Is Flying Predator Drones Above Los Angeles To Support ICE
The confirmation follows 404 Media's reporting using flight data and air traffic control (ATC) audio that showed the agency was flying Predator drones above Los Angeles.
www.404media.co
June 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
New from 404 Media: Customs and Border Protection confirms it is flying Predator drones above the LA protests. The agency explicitly says this is in support of ICE. Comes after we reviewed flight data/air traffic control audio which showed DHS Predator drones over LA www.404media.co/cbp-confirms...
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Trump in 2020: We have to go by the laws. We can't move in the National Guard. I can call insurrection but there's no reason to ever do that, even in a Portland case. We can't call in the National Guard unless we're requested by a governor.
June 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Trump in 2020: We have to go by the laws. We can't move in the National Guard. I can call insurrection but there's no reason to ever do that, even in a Portland case. We can't call in the National Guard unless we're requested by a governor.
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A modern media story:
Telegraph removed a story about a family who cancelled holidays due to VAT on private schools. The story was denounced as a media AI fail (the dad was "Al").
In fact, a real journalist had been deceived during a real interview. Old school.
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...
Telegraph removed a story about a family who cancelled holidays due to VAT on private schools. The story was denounced as a media AI fail (the dad was "Al").
In fact, a real journalist had been deceived during a real interview. Old school.
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...
Telegraph withdraws banker school fees story after being deceived by source
Fake Telegraph article about rich banker struggling to afford school fees was result of deception by a source.
pressgazette.co.uk
June 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
A modern media story:
Telegraph removed a story about a family who cancelled holidays due to VAT on private schools. The story was denounced as a media AI fail (the dad was "Al").
In fact, a real journalist had been deceived during a real interview. Old school.
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...
Telegraph removed a story about a family who cancelled holidays due to VAT on private schools. The story was denounced as a media AI fail (the dad was "Al").
In fact, a real journalist had been deceived during a real interview. Old school.
pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...