From Tralee to Croke Park, summit season gets into full swing over the coming weeks

Planet Biz: Paternity leave; philanthropic billionaire Robert F Smith; facial recognition

SEC refuses to allow tech giant block motions from AGM agenda

Weblog: employees of tech giant want HoloLens2 contract with US army terminated

Net Results: Firm has been an ethics leader in big tech, but has some soul-searching to do

Tech companies colonising society, according to Christopher Wylie

Inventor of World Wide Web calls for 'contract for the web' requiring tech firms to respect data privacy

AccountGuard protects Microsoft accounts involved in political campaigning

Some 1,200 speakers expected, including World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee

Emer Reynolds film about Nasa Voyagers tackles science ‘with awe and emotion’

Firm says group known as APT 28 targeting Republican-leaning bodies before midterms

Net Results: While others secretively engage in data harvesting, Nadella changed Microsoft's corporate culture

Act gives US ‘nearly unchecked’ power over global digital privacy rights, say critics

US government seeking access to data on servers in Ireland in drug trafficking case

Supreme court to decide if tech firms should hand over data stored overseas

There’s the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, plus results from Avis Budget and Trip Advisor

Legal row centres on whether the US can force US firms to hand over data held abroad

Long-running case involving emails on server in Dublin has worldwide privacy implications

Syria’s fairy tale looked like continuing when Omar Al Soma struck the opener early on

Chief executive says vested interests mean housing crisis won’t be solved any time soon