5:00 Raidió na Gaeltachta: Polaitíocht an Lae le Cuan Ó Seireadáin; beidh plé againn ar an gclár le Barry Ward 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 agus Pa Daly Sinn Féin faoi choireanna sceana; Antoin O Lachtnain ag plé Meta a bheith os comhair chomhchoiste na leanaí; An Painéal Idirnásiúnta le Lisa Nic An Bhreithimh 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪(she/her)🤝🏳️‍⚧️ & Niamh Ní Bhroin. Bí linn

Really strong piece from TCD adjunct assistant professor and AI advisor to Mozilla, Abeba Birhane on the misguided legislation the Govt are pushing to legislate for Garda use of Facial Recognition tech.

irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

CJEU rules the proprietary harmonised standards on, e.g., the AI Act, must be made freely available without charge pursuant to a request to access to documents, as they form part of EU law and consequently always overriding public interest in disclosure. curia.europa.eu/juris/document…

Right To Know win CJEU
The Commission should have acknowledged the existence of an overriding public interest arising from the principles of the rule of law, transparency, openness and good governance, justifying the disclosure of the requested standards forming part of EU law'

AGOG!

The Media Commission has posted a reply to the column defending their porn register plans and complaining the description used of the consequences of adults sending “ID and/or live selfies” is not as they would like it.

cnam.ie/statement-rega…

Were I a state agency objecting to the phrase “porn user register” to describe my plans that would result in a porn register, I would simply not use the phrase “porn user register” in my official statements.

If I had one wish this year, it would be for public body websites to use RSS - e.g. all planning portals, the Houses of the Oireachtas - Tithe an Oireachtais the Courts Service of Ireland and so on. There is a raft of important information that you are expected to know about that could be made easily available with RSS

Facial recognition technology means police can look up face your face just like they can look up the registration plate on a car.

A relative was treated in a setup like this in North America. Surgeons working in teams, fast turnarounds.

Read about Eoin O'Dell ‘s inportant new project here.

CNN| 'Do you still believe that peace is achievable?'
It's not only that I Believe that, I know it's only a matter of time. Allow me to remind us that *'History has taught us that war is avoidable; peace is inevitable' -Menachem Begin, former Prime Minister of Israel who signed a

“Laws are changing in your region” says Meta at the top of the first screen.

That is manifestly false.

🚀 Next on our 'Collective Redress Speaker Series', we discuss digital rights case studies from EU Member States.

Ft. Alberdingk Thijm of bureau Brandeis, Antoin O Lachtnain of DigitalRightsIreland, and Maria José AZAR-BAUD of Université Paris-Saclay.

📅Wednesday, 8 November at 17:00

👉🏿 digitalfreedomfund.org/collective-red…

Absolutely masterful interview on Gaza of Dominique De Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, who famously led France's opposition to the Iraq war and who, IMHO is the best diplomat the West has produced in decades.

This is so important, so incredibly well argued, that I

A lot of the risks are in the hype: people believing and expecting the technology to be capable of things that are actually far beyond it.

CMAT is in the New York Times!

spoke to the lovely Roisin Kiberd for this, photos by Ellius Grace.

Can you believe?

nytimes.com/2023/10/12/art…

Cian Brennan Órlaith Ní Eigeartaigh (Orla Hegarty) There are an awful lot less people per house but also per room than there were 50 years ago. On average there is not overcrowding, but there are plenty instances where there is, mainly because we don't have enough 1- and 2-bed accommodation, I would say.

If you are a renter in Ireland and your landlord decides to sell up, you are likely in very serious trouble. Homeowners are a lot better insulated against shocks, even with interest rate increases.

How effective are 'guardrails' bolted onto large language models to limit 'forbidden knowledge', and what happens when one is released with no guardrails in place?: windowscopilotstrategies.substack.com/p/two-weapons-…

🇬🇧 We #Pirates are fighting hard for an MEP attendance register without biometrics (e.g. using badges or smartphones). Reason: If fingerprinting everybody became a daily reality in Parliament, Parliament would soon impose the same on citizens. euractiv.com/section/data-p…