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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 6d

I’m surprised it lasted on the Apple App Store this long…

404 Media @404media.co · 6d

New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this."

"Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move."

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

www.404media.co

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 7d

Meta Ireland faces a face of €100,000 a week from Dutch court if it fails to give users in Netherlands a permanent and simple way to get algorithm-free timeline. A pittance but still…

www.dutchnews.nl/2025/10/cour...

Court tells Meta to give Dutch users algorithm-free feed option - DutchNews.nl

Meta must allow users in the Netherlands to set a chronological, non-algorithmic feed as the default on Instagram and Facebook, a court in Amsterdam has ruled. The case was brought by digital rights g...

www.dutchnews.nl

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 14d

End of support for Windows 10 is happening in less than three weeks but Microsoft has now been forced to make its extended security updates totally free in Europe for another year www.theverge.com/news/785544/...

Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe

You won’t have to enable Windows Backup to get extended Windows 10 security updates in the European Economic Area.

www.theverge.com

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 14d

Best of luck, KC. Surely there's a podcast in ya?!

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 14d

Cork-based Void Interactive the latest firm to part company with a worker for comments made over Charlie Kirk murder kotaku.com/ready-or-not...

Ready Or Not Community Manager Fired Over Charlie Kirk Comment

Void Interactive says it is focused on 'fostering a respectful and professional community'

kotaku.com

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Double Z @doublezcreative.bsky.social · 17d

ON THIS DAY! 22nd September 1987 - Zig and Zag made their first TV appearance on #DempseysDen on @rteone.rte.ie

That’s 38 years ago maths fans! Are you feeling old yet?!

#ZigAndZag #IanDempsey #zigandzagday

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 21d

Great! Ads on your smart fridge that you can’t opt out of! Who wouldn’t want that?! Thanks, Samsung! www.theverge.com/news/780757/...

Samsung brings ads to US fridges

Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.

www.theverge.com

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 23d

So they are not totally useless junk…

bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/project...

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape

Someone's trash is another person's web server.

bogdanthegeek.github.io

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · 27d

Sony has taken its sweet time but it has finally launched a standalone parental control app that enables you to keep tabs on your children's PlayStation gaming. Nintendo has long had something similar but Microsoft now lags behind blog.playstation.com/2025/09/10/a...

Announcing PlayStation Family App for parental controls and family management

Available on the App Store and Google Play Store starting today.

blog.playstation.com

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Onion is one of the few media organisations willing to take on Trump - and it recently started a print newspaper. What's not to like? The CEO explains... www.wired.com/story/uncann...

Onion CEO Ben Collins Hasn't Given Up on Print—or Buying Infowars

A year after relaunching The Onion as a newspaper, Collins visits Uncanny Valley to talk about why “going into something and not ruining it is bravery.”

www.wired.com

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · Sep 2

Smoooooooottthhhhhhh

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Craig Breathnach - Writer @craigbreathnach.bsky.social · Aug 31

The @imirt.bsky.social Steam Curator List is so close to 600 followers!

All follows and shares help Irish game devs! Please and thank you. 😊

#speirghorm #irishgamedev #speirgorm #indiedev #gamedev #irishcreatives #indiegame

store.steampowered.com/curator/4145...

Steam Curator: Games From Ireland

Games developed in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, from Irish creators, or playable in the Irish language (Gaeilge).

store.steampowered.com

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · Aug 29

Digital downloads now make up 90% of game revenue across Europe including Ireland, with only 10% being physical sales www.gamesindustry.biz/digital-purc...

Digital purchases made up 90% of European gaming revenue in 2024

Gaming sector revenue grew 4% year-on-year (YoY) in 2024 in key European markets, with digital purchases accounting for…

www.gamesindustry.biz

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · Aug 29

The increase of EV charging point installations hit 53% in China last year. Here in Ireland we’re lucky if it’s at 15%.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · Aug 28

Created by @galen.reich.me.uk , this is a local democracy reporting tool that enables researchers to search for keywords in auto-generated transcripts by the councils' multimedia provider, available for different authorities across the UK and Ireland.

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · Aug 18

Not a good look for Kojima (plus other guests including Activision COO Joshua Taub, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, Sega president Shuji Utsumi, Sony CSO Toshimoto Mitomo, Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada, former gaming exec Peter Moore, among others) #sportswashing

Aftermath @aftermath.site · Aug 18

Nobody is forcing Hideo Kojima and a host of games industry luminaries to attend a Saudi sportswashing conference. And yet!

aftermath.site/esports-worl...

an ad for hideo kojima's appearance at the new global sport conference in riyadh, saudi arabia this weekend

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · Aug 15

Now sleep up there, Colm!

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · Aug 14

New Dublin studio Day Off Interactive breaks cover with plans for "innovative strategy and simulation games", promising a four-day week to employees and more details next month www.gamesindustry.biz/day-off-inte...

Day Off Interactive is a new Ireland-based studio "focused on strategy and simulation" games

A new studio with a specialism in "innovative strategy and simulation games" has launched in Dublin.

www.gamesindustry.biz

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · Aug 14

SEVEN HOURS!

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · Aug 14

A seven-hour podcast with Wim Wenders at @zeit.de. The new record to beat.
www.zeit.de/kultur/film/...

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · Aug 14

Some great data from the IEVA on the slooooww growth of EV charging points over the first six months of the year. ESB Ecars is far from leading the pack on installations, not surprisingly. Meanwhile, several counties had no CCS installs *at all* www.irishevassociation.ie/news/2025-ch...

2025 Charging Infrastructure Review

It's July 1, time to see how charging infrastructure's developed over the first half of the year!

www.irishevassociation.ie

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · Aug 13

Bit of a screeching U-turn here from the Collison brothers’ Stripe payment firm

The Verge @theverge.com · Aug 13

Stripe apologizes for customer service agents claiming LGBTQ products were banned

“The information given by our support team was totally wrong.”

www.theverge.com

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · Aug 12

Don’t read the Mail, Donald. It’s bad for your blood pressure and stuff such as, y’know, facts

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · Aug 12

The surprising Irish connection between Game of Thrones, Five Nights at Freddy's ... and the notorious Hellfire Club in Dublin

www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

Hollywood horror specialist has eyes on Dublin as Irish developer Gambrinous readies new game based in infamous Hellfire Club

Making a game these days is almost easier than getting it noticed by potential players, such is the torrent of releases across dozens of platforms every day.

www.independent.ie

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Ronan Price @ronanprice.bsky.social · Aug 10

Good grief…

Engadget @engadget.bsky.social · Aug 10

AOL's dial-up internet still exists, but not for much longer

The company announced that it would discontinue dial-up service on September 30.

dlvr.it

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · Aug 9

Few commit harder to their work than Jemima Mar-a-Lago Kelly and this is the piece of the weekend bar none. Clutching only a bottle of Taittinger she heads to a garden party for the new right with Curtis Yarvin and you'll never want it to end. on.ft.com/4li3F92

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