Name: Farsight Security's Dr Paul Vixie on pushing back against cyber criminals by Tech Radio Ireland
Duration: 26 min 34 s
Description: This week TechCentral editor Niall Kitson meets with the inventor of the Domain Name System Dr Paul Vixie to talk about how his company Farsight Security is changing the way we handle online security.

Trustworthy information faces crisis as overwhelming content volume pushes people toward single trusted voices yet statistical language models trained on internet data produce plausible but sometimes incorrect answers lacking true intelligence or understanding.

Professor Jennifer Edmond, Director Digital Humanities Trinity College Dublin leading KT 4D project examining AI, big data and democracy through humanities lens, alongside Éamonn Kennedy, Chief Innovation Officer News Corp developing verification systems at Storyful, explain why we're paradoxically returning to village information model after era of unlimited access created processing paralysis, how critical digital literacy requires people feeling agency toward information rather than passive ballroom dancing partners pushed by technology, why Digital Democracy Lab deliberately builds friction into platforms forcing users to question profiling, training data and system metabolism, and how three actors of technology developers, policy makers and citizens must collaborate rather than pushing responsibility between poles.

GUEST DETAILS

Professor Jennifer Edmond is Professor in Digital Humanities and Culture at Trinity College Dublin serving as Director of Postgraduate Programme in Digital Humanities and Culture and Co-Director of Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities. As TCD Principal Investigator for KT 4D project examining intersection between AI, big data and democracy through humanities lens, she leads research distinguishing between three actors of technology developers, policy makers and citizens exploring how to educate, regulate and innovate better. 

Éamonn Kennedy is Chief Innovation Officer at News Corp focusing on driving innovative user centric technology by building agile cross disciplinary teams. Leading R&D team at Storyful creating systems helping journalists and analysts understand and interpret vast amount of public content and data shared as societies move online, his work centres on journalism's core principles of transparency, provenance and trusted community voices. Before joining Storyful, he was founder and product lead for number of web-based startups winning industry innovation awards including Web Summit Spark of Genius. 

Connect with the Guests:
Jennifer Edmond LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferedmond/
Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities, Trinity College Dublin
KT 4D Project
Storyful News Corp
ADAPT Centre: www.adaptcentre.ie

MORE INFORMATION
You can learn more about the Sea-Scan project and other cutting-edge research at Trinity College Dublin's ADAPT Centre here: www.adaptcentre.ie/
Adapt Radio is produced by DustPod.io for the ADAPT Centre
For more information about ADAPT's groundbreaking AI and data analytics research visit www.adaptcentre.ie/


Trustworthy Information AI Knowledge Democracy

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Artificial Intelligence is deeply embedded in essential everyday services, often without public
awareness, making AI literacy a critical issue of personal autonomy, social inclusion, and online
safety for older adults. Without foundational knowledge, this demographic risks being shaped by AI
rather than shaping its future. The Age-Friendly AI initiative is working to close this knowledge gap
through national dialogue and co-created literacy training.
The episode explores participants&#39; hopes for independent living technologies and their serious
concerns regarding privacy, security scams, and complicated digital interfaces. It details the three-
phase approach to developing accessible training rolled out across libraries.
Dr Claire O&#39;Connell is joined by Paula Kelly, a lecturer and lead on the Age-Friendly AI initiative at TU
Dublin, and Michael Core, an electrical and electronic engineer and lecturer also at TU Dublin. They
share insights from thousands of engagements with older adults across Ireland.

THINGS WE SPOKE ABOUT
● AI literacy is essential for autonomy
● AI is embedded in everyday life
● Older adults engaged in co-creation
● Hopes and concerns shape training
● Need coordinated investment for upskilling

GUEST DETAILS
Paula Kelly is a lecturer and member of the tPOT Research Group in the School of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering at TU Dublin. She is the team lead on the Research Ireland funded Age-
Friendly AI: Ireland&#39;s National Artificial Intelligence Literacy Initiative. This initiative fosters national
dialogue on AI with older adults and co-creates a comprehensive, accessible, and inclusive national
AI literacy programme.

Michael Core is an electrical and electronic engineer and a lecturer also at the School of
Electronic and Engineering in TU Dublin. He has a particular interest in integrating embedded
systems using new web technologies and has many years of senior management experience in
the telecommunications industry.

Connect with the Guests:
● Paula Kelly email : paulakelly@tudublin.ie
● Michael Core linkedin: linkedin.com/in/michaelcore
● Website: https://agefriendlyai.ie/

Older Adults Need AI Confidence

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.

TechFire: Beyond Backups, what's next for cyber security

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.

Jonathan Dempsey of RAIL, and Anthropic wins the Super Bowl

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.

Social media in the dock and Dr Ryne Sherman on the psychology of leadership

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.

Chirp founder and CEO Rena Maycock on child protection at operating system level

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.

Is the MacBook Neo the new Chromebook?

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.

The first casualty of war is trust

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.

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This week TechCentral editor Niall Kitson meets with the inventor of the Domain Name System Dr Paul Vixie to talk about how his company Farsight Security is changing the way we handle online security.

Farsight Security's Dr Paul Vixie on pushing back against cyber criminals

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