Adobe has patched a Chrome extension flaw that could have exposed WhatsApp Web chats to malicious websites. Users are urged to check their extension version. csalert.ie/Maslw4
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Darius Whelan
Профиль VivelySchool of Law, University College Cork, Ireland. Mental health law, Employment law, Internet law, Copyright law https://linktr.ee/dariuswirl
You Langer: Colette Sheridan on a wonderful new book of Cork’s slang words
Join us for our next webinar on August 13 to learn how to find and reuse CC-licensed content confidence. We’ll explore some of the best places to discover openly licensed content, decode the different CC licenses, walk through the ins and outs of proper attribution, and more! buff.ly/VipX1vD
The Irish Times view on the digital wallet: a solution seeking a problem
#ECJ: @Google may be held liable for @YouTube videos posted by a content creator linked to it through a commercial partnership 👉 curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...
curia.europa.euThe Trump crime family's friends in UAE are commiting atrocities in Sudan. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/o...
I worked in Besborough as a student - so many questions came too late. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
1/2 Thanks to all who have reached out to me about my blogpost on the chilling effect of the Irish censorship regime. It has been revised and expanded (and, I hope, improved), as a consequence. www.cearta.ie/2026/06/inde...
Indecency, obscenity, immorality, vice, depravity, corruption: the chilling effect of the Censorship of Publications Acts – Part 2 (censor and chill) – Cearta.iethe Irish for rightswww.cearta.ieAnne Frank judgment is out (from press release).
EU Court of Justice#ECJ: A work may be made available online free of charge in one Member State if it is in the public domain there, even if it remains protected in another Member State #Copyright #AnneFrank 👉 curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...
My work with Oisin Suttle of Maynoth University on the persuadability of LLMs as decision-makers in legal settings has been picked up by Irish Legal News. www.irishlegal.com/articles/stu...
Friedrich's Ataxia has been in the news a lot over the past week. @niamhnih.bsky.social wrote this piece about it for us in January. She, too, is waiting for Skyclarys. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Copyright implications of super-intelligence I haven't really written about machine consciousness, super-intelligence, or artificial general intelligence (AGI) before; I never felt the need, and some of the questions on AI consciousness are entirely outside of my area of expertise. I have always…
Great to see my #medieval #bees article on RTE Brainstorm! @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social
RTÉ BrainstormThe secret history of Medieval Ireland's laws for bees. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Last week marked Fair Dealing Week, the annual celebration of exceptions. But we rely on exceptions every day. My series drew from novelist Thea Lim to legal scholar Peter Yu. Particular attention was given to the seeming payout of$3000 per book used in AI training. fairduty.wordpress.com
Two UCC law students were recently awarded the RDJ Diversity & Inclusion Scholarships This is the 5th year RDJ has awarded the Scholarship at UCC which support students from ethnic minorities and those who are under-represented in the legal profession in Ireland. More: www.ucc.ie/en/law/news/...
Coimisiún na Meán will tell the Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence that tougher laws relating to AI-generated deepfake sexual imagery could be useful.
There is growing consensus that so-called 'conversion therapy' practices are harmful and must be banned. But which legal mechanisms should be used to do this? My article (with Stuart Goosey), Criminalising “Conversion Therapy”, published in the MLR, takes up this urgent question shorturl.at/AHkfb