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A super packed Easter edition diving into the scale of the Artemis moon mission, Irish involvement in the ISS, and an Aer Lingus collaboration with Starlink. Back on Earth, Intel makes a massive move to reclaim its Leixlip plant and Oracle cuts thousands of jobs by e-mail. Finally, Julian Moutte, CTO of of Bentley Systems, talks about how digital twins aren't just for architects anymore, they’re actually helping city planners and emergency services prepare for major incidents.

This week Dusty is joined by Jason Walsh to discuss a landmark legal ruling in New Mexico that could fundamentally change how apps and websites like Facebook are designed. We’re also diving into a breakthrough investigation by the Criminal Assets Bureau that has recovered a fortune in cryptocurrency; 20 years of ‘Twitter’; and Alexa gets sweary.

As the government looks toward digital wallets to enforce age limits for under-16s, we ask is this a convenient security solution or simply a massive new attack surface for your biometric data? We also find out why Samsung pulled the plug on the Galaxy Z Trifold and Meta pulled the plug on the Metaverse.

To wrap things up, Niall Kitson speaks with Madhusanka Liyanage and Bartlomiej Siniarski from UCD's School of Computer Science about their pioneering 6G testbed.

This week we discuss the information blackout in the Middle East, why verifying news has become nearly impossible, and how social media platforms are dealing with an influx of AI-generated propaganda

Elsewhere, Amazon is blames its engineers for a 13-hour outage; Ireland’s first self-powered data centre; and the UK shies away from banning social media for under-16s. Finally, our guest Rosemary Durcan, CEO of Nocomed, chats about how they're tackling the massive carbon footprint of the global healthcare supply chain.

This week we deconstruct Apple’s new MacBook Neo. Is a €699 laptop running an iPhone’s A18 Pro chip a genuine bargain or is the 'slower bandwidth' a dealbreaker? Apple also had a range of product launches this week, from the iPad Air to the iPhone 17e. We also check the reality of lunar outposts and how data centres are becoming an election issue. We also sit down with Declan Watters, founder of Medisnap, to discuss how a simple smartphone tap is solving one of the most stressful hurdles for paramedics: instant medication identification during an emergency.

On this week's episode Samsung releases the Galaxy S26, Ireland's online safety commissioner has her say, and Chirp founder and CEO Rena Maycock talks social media bans and why the answer lies not at the level of apps but at the operating system level.

Our guest this week is Dr Ryne Sherman, chief science officer at Hogan Assessments. He joins Niall to discuss the psychology of the 2026 workplace, the rise of 'quiet cracking,' and why - despite the AI revolution - the core qualities of a great leader haven’t changed for thousands of years.

This week we watch Anthropic's brutal Super Bowl ads, xAI develops atalent problem and SpaceX toys with building a satellite factory on the moon.

Also, Jonathan Dempsey, chair of RAIL (Responsible AI for Learning), joins Niall Kitson to shares how a new community of practice is setting the standard for responsible AI in the classroom.

DORA and NIS2 have changed the way companies are approaching network security and resiliency, yet many organisations are clinging to the idea that resiliency begins and ends with backups and out of date disaster recovery plans. So how do we untangle the services and dependencies holding your IT estate together, and what is the role of partners in making sure the limits of policy and resources don't get tested by a security incident?

In this webinar we'll be looking at what organisations are getting wrong about resiliency and how to get ahead of the modern threat landscape. Join Robert Kelly, founder of HRI, Bill Unsworth, director of cloud for UK & Ireland at IBM and Declan Hussey, CEO of DNA IT Solutions to explore the difference between high availability, disaster recovery, and cyber resiliency.

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