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The Latest Articles by John Naughton

Ireland has raked in billions from tech giants. But what if the golden goose flies the nest?

The republic’s welcoming corporate tax policy has been a success, but it depends heavily on just a few big names

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Machine-learning systems are problematic. That’s why tech bosses call them ‘AI’

Pretending that opaque, error-prone ML is part of the grand, romantic quest to find artificial intelligence is an attempt to distract us from the truth

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Elon Musk running Twitter? It’s like giving a monkey a delicate clock

The tech magnate’s purchase of the social media platform was the easy bit – now he must be responsible for toxic content, writes technology professor John Naughton

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LinkedIn has a fake profile problem – can it fix this blot on its CV?

Bogus users claiming to work for Apple and Amazon are doing serious reputational damage to the online service

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The US supreme court case that could bring the tech giants to their knees

The question of whether social media firms should be responsible for content recommended to users is set to be re-examined – and not before time

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What are tech billionaires’ text messages like? Just as petty as ours, it turns out

Texts released in the legal wrangle between Elon Musk and Twitter are ‘astoundingly unastounding’ – apart from the sycophancy

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Tech firms say laws to protect us from bad AI will limit ‘innovation’. Well, good

For too long, the industry has escaped legal liability in the pursuit of its own interests – and the EU has had enough

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Molly Russell was trapped by the cruel algorithms of Pinterest and Instagram

The coroner’s verdict was a world first in citing social media as a causal factor in a death

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Vladimir Putin’s latest frightening gambit lies at the bottom of the ocean

If the Russian president has finally started listening to his military chief, you can bet he’ll soon target all those poorly protected internet cables at the bottom of the sea

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Adobe can’t Photoshop out the fact its $20bn Figma deal is a naked land grab

The software giant paying vastly over the odds for a small but strategically threatening company should alarm US regulators

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Will today’s tech giants reach a century? It’s all about the quality of the product

If you want to be an internet-age version of General Motors or IBM, you need to sell something people want and steer clear of political pitfalls

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Tesla gave us tech on wheels, so how come it forgot to include the service centres?

Elon Musk was scorned when he set up Tesla, but his tech approach to electric vehicles has triumphed. However, when it comes to aftercare, the model’s not so great

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Google’s image-scanning illustrates how tech firms can penalise the innocent

New technology helps to track child abuse images, but in the case of false positives, companies don’t always rescind suspensions

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Twitter’s whistleblower has pitched up at a very inconvenient moment

A long and detailed complaint about lax practices by the social media firm’s former security chief must be music to Elon Musk’s ears

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We can make our phones harder to hack but complete security is a pipe dream

Even the latest iPhone scare won’t persuade us to choose safety over convenience

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AI-generated art illustrates another problem with technology

Artificial intelligence is being used to design magazine covers and provide pictures for internet newsletters. What could possibly go wrong?

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Exclusive or not, this is one Clubhouse I was happy to leave

The titular ‘social audio’ app was a would-be $1bn unicorn in the pandemic, but its recent decline has exposed it as just another Silicon Valley solution in need of a problem to solve

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Have the tech giants finally had their bubble burst? I’d hate to speculate

For the first time in the tech industry’s history, combined real revenue growth is negative rather than positive and some corporations may yet be facing an existential decline

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Like Bill Gates before him, Mark Zuckerberg is having a ‘Pearl Harbour’ moment

His company’s motto is ‘move fast and break things’ – but if it doesn’t move fast it’ll soon be broke

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If our datacentres cannot take the heat, the UK could really go off the rails

It is understandable that railway infrastructure could not cope with last week’s temperatures, but why did Google and Oracle’s facilities go offline?

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