A previous statement from X's Safety account said the social media platform had stopped Grok from digitally altering pictures of people to remove their clothing in "jurisdictions where such content is illegal". But campaigners and victims said the ability to generate sexually explicit pictures using the tool should have "never happened" in the first place, and Ofcom said its investigation would remain ongoing. The EU regulator said it may "impose interim measures" if X refuses to implement meaningful adjustments.
Interest in sovereign cloud services has followed a bumpy trajectory over the past decade, both in the public sector and private enterprises. In the early days of cloud computing, fear, uncertainty and doubt reigned supreme in boardrooms and IT departments, as CIOs and IT decision-makers grappled with the notion of migrating workloads off physical hardware, housed in privately owned datacentres, to multi-tenanted public clouds, operated by overseas tech firms.
Unsettled conditions will continue through the week, with a combination of rain, brisk winds and some further hill snow, particularly in northern areas where colder air remains in place. While many areas will see typical late January conditions, there is enhanced potential for some impactful weather on Monday night into Tuesday. We encourage people to keep up to date with the latest forecasts and warnings as details evolve.
New figures obtained by 'Irish Independent' show costs surpassed €1bn for the first time in 2024 Justice Minister reveals almost €950m was spent on accommodation by the end of October in 2025 Calls for spending to be 'better scrutinised'
A DRIAN CROOK, a father of five from Vancouver, has always known what danger looks like: it's a boxy stamped-metal contraption, with four wheels, a transmission, and a hood. When Crook was a teenager in the '90s, his high school friend Sheri was killed in a car crash. She was coming back from a party with three friends when the driver lost his bearings and wrapped the vehicle around a pole.
"agreement is a long-overdue step toward dismantling one of the Kremlin's most powerful economic weapons. Every cubic meter of Russian gas kept flowing into Europe has helped finance the missiles that strike Ukrainian cities. This Regulation, if implemented without loopholes, brings Europe closer to honouring its promise to end this deadly dependency."
A US security agreement for Ukraine is 100% ready to be signed, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said after two days of talks involving representatives from Ukraine, the US and Russia indicating some progress was made. Further discussions are expected next weekend. Speaking to journalists in Vilnius during a visit to Lithuania on Sunday, Zelenskyy said Ukraine is waiting for its partners to set a time and place for the signing of the security guarantees document,
The leader of Ireland's largest drugs gang 'The Family' is in garda custody and due to appear in court on Monday morning charged with serious organised crime offences.
A downbeat start for European markets today with equities taking the back foot as traders once again look to the precious metal space for consistent returns. In a week filled with potential volatility, traders have to weigh up the direction of travel once Wednesdays FOMC meeting and mag7 earnings are out the way. While today's economic calendar remains relatively light, the release of German Ifo business climate and US durable goods data provide two areas of note.
For a man who so readily embraces adversity at every turn, even Andy Farrell will surely be sitting a little less comfortably on his flight from the Six Nations launch in Edinburgh on Monday to join the rest of the Ireland squad in the Algarve.
A man has been rushed to hospital after suffering a stab wound in Limerick this morning. The man sustained at least one stab wound to the side of his abdomen. He was found injured in the Carew Park area of the city around 11am this morning, and then rushed by ambulance to University Hospital Limerick. His injury is believed to be serious but not life threatening. More to follow...
There has been a significant increase in wealthy Americans moving to Ireland to escape life under Donald Trump, new figures from the Department of Justice reveal. The number of US citizens granted permission to live here on temporary Stamp O visas has jumped by almost 90pc in only a couple of years. The visas were granted to 387 US citizens last year, nearly double the 204 who were granted Stamp O visas in 2022.
What will be their tune this Wednesday? You've got to hand it to Sport Ireland - they say what they like, and they like what they say. Take the press release three days before Christmas, 'Sport Ireland welcomes 2025 as most successful year ever for Irish high-performance sport', when they rolled out their big hitters for a collective pat on the back.
The Time reported that Russia used chemical weapons 6,540 time in 2025 and since the start of the war on 24 February 2022 they have been used more than 9,000 times. European and Ukrainian officials have said Russia has used chloropicrin which is a choking agent, this has not been used since World War I. The Time reported, "The concern, voiced quietly in allied capitals, is that a prolonged or stalemated war in Ukraine could tempt the Kremlin to resort to more dangerous battlefield weapons."
A 49-year-old Austrian man, local to the area, died at the scene after the collision with another skier on the 1,965m mountain. The accident took place on the Schmittenhöhe mountain in Zell am See on Saturday, around 68k from Salzburg. A 49-year-old Austrian man, local to the area, died at the scene after the collision with another skier on the 1,965m mountain. Medical personnel attended to the man but he was later pronounced dead.
"The United States government appears to be partway through a multi-year process to declassify and disclose information on the existence of a technologically advanced non-human intelligence responsible for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs),"
Court heard sellers would be shown a "fake" bank‑transfer image to convince them that payment had been made before the vehicles were taken Two Dublin men have been accused of targeting online sellers in an organised series of thefts of motorbikes and cars "nationwide" using fake payments and simulated bank transfers. Edward Collins (21), of Collinstown Crescent and Sean Hutchinson (24), of Cooleven Green, both in Clondalkin, appeared at Dublin District Court today facing 13 and 24 charges respectively.
French couple Jacques and Jessica Moretti's bar, Le Constellation, in the ski resort of Crans-Montana, caught fire early on January 1 as partygoers celebrated. Forty people, mostly teenagers, were killed in the blaze, and 116 others were injured. The Morettis are under criminal investigation, facing charges of manslaughter by negligence, bodily harm by negligence and arson by negligence. Prosecutors believe the fire started when revellers raised champagne bottles with sparklers attached close to sound insulation foam on the ceiling of the bar's basement level.
Warring ex-lovers who settled a bitter dispute over the ownership of valuable horses were once business partners with a man who has been dubbed "Britain's Bernie Madoff".
On Wednesday, after a meeting with Nato's secretary general, Mark Rutte, the US president, Donald Trump, backtracked on his threats to slap tariffs on countries that got in the way of his annexation project. As European leaders huddled together over dinner for a post-crisis debrief in Brussels on 22 January, they congratulated themselves on their unity and appreciated the intervention of Rutte, or Daddy diplomacy.
Russia, which has pummelled Ukraine's power grid since its full-scale invasion in 2022, is conducting its heaviest bombardment campaign on energy facilities this winter, leaving people across Ukraine with only a few hours of power a day and some without heat or water. Over 800,000 people in the capital and another 400,000 in the northern region of Chernihiv were without power after the latest attacks, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said.
KYIV, Ukraine -- Russian attacks on Ukraine killed at least one person and wounded 31 overnight into Saturday as negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States were to meet in the United Arab Emirates for a second day of talks to end Russia's nearly four-year full-scale invasion. One person was killed and four were wounded in Russian drone attacks on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, according to Kyiv City Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko.
She continues to work remotely for a German company in the energy sector. Her company, which is based in eastern Germany, pays her an ordinary German salary, even though Borisova works from Bulgaria. She now enjoys a higher net income, thanks to the country's lower taxes and social security deductions. She does not pay rent in Pomorie because she lives with her parents, which allows her to put more money aside each month. After all expenses, she has just over 700 left.
Four people were killed and five were injured in Russian attacks on Cherkasy, in an area of Ukraine's Donetsk region that is still controlled by Ukraine, Governor Vadym Filashkin said on the Telegram messaging app. Filashkin said that Russian forces shelled settlements in the Donetsk region 10 times over the past day, and that 109 people, including 17 children, were evacuated.
Juha Kujala no longer knows how many reindeer will return to his farm from the forest each December. The 54-year-old herder releases his animals into the wilderness on the 830-mile Finnish-Russian border each spring to grow fat on lichens, grass and mushrooms, just as his ancestors have done for generations. But since 2022, grisly discoveries of reindeer skeletons on the forest floor have disrupted this ancient way of life.
