The Irish technology company is undergoing a period of growth which is being driven by new leadership and an expanded team.

PC Peripherals, an Irish technology company that works with schools and businesses to provide technology services and solutions is undergoing a rebrand to Eduvolve as part of the company’s next chapter. 

The rebrand comes amid a major investment of €2.5m and an acquisition by Grafton Education. Pc Peripherals, now Eduvolve, will create up to 20 new jobs in Galway and Dublin “over the coming years”, in technical services, engineering, operations, customer experience, sales and education technology.

The acquisition, investment and jobs creation is also accompanied by a change in leadership. Ian Gaughran has been appointed CEO and Fintan Costello is stepping into the role of technical director. Both will lead Eduvolve through its next phase of growth. 

“I’m honoured to take on the role of CEO at such an exciting time for the business,” said Gaughran. “This investment allows us to build on three decades of trusted relationships with schools and businesses across Ireland, while accelerating our vision for the future. 

“We’re proud of where we’ve come from as PC Peripherals, and excited about where Eduvolve is headed. My relationship with PC Peripherals goes back more than a decade, so I know first-hand the quality of the people behind this business and the trust it has built with schools and customers across Ireland.”

Erik Jentetics, the founder of Grafton Education, added, “This is much more than an acquisition or a change of name. We are investing approximately €2.5m into the acquisition, capitalisation and growth of the business because we believe there is an opportunity to build something genuinely different in Irish education.

“Technology had a significant impact on my own education and ultimately on my decision to build a career and businesses in technology. That experience has stayed with me. I believe schools should be able to access great technology without having to navigate a fragmented network of different suppliers and support providers.”

Also this week, Irish cybersecurity and compliance company ZeroRisk raised $10m in a Series A funding round led by MiddleGame Ventures with participation from existing investor Elkstone.

The new funding will be used to support expansion globally, further product development and increase operational capacity to deploy the platform across large merchant portfolios of major payment providers.

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Meta is beginning its international expansion of Community Notes. The company said it is starting to test the crowd-sourced fact checks in 16 countries in Latin America more than a year after it rolled out the program stateside and ended its partnership with US-based fact checking organizations.

The company says it plans to take a similar approach with its initial tests in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The platform is starting to onboard contributors to who, if approved, will be able to write notes that add “additional context” to posts on Facebook, Instagram and Threads. During the testing phase, contributors’ notes will not be surfaced to users and “there will be no changes to third-party fact checking,” Meta says in a blog post originally published in Spanish.

But the company goes on to suggest that it intends for Community Notes to eventually replace existing fact-checking arrangements in these countries. “When we’re confident the product is working well and can be successful, we will look at fully launching – beginning to publish Community Notes and transitioning our third-party fact checking program,” Meta writes, according to a translation provided by the company.

Unsurprisingly, Meta’s move to potentially end fact checking in a large swath of Latin America has alarmed fact checking organizations. In a statement published by Poynter, the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) said it was “deeply concerned” by the news. “The community notes program alone is simply not adequate when it comes to reducing the impact of harmful falsehoods on its platforms,” the group wrote.

The Oversight Board, which has previously warned Meta that expanding Community Notes outside of the US would come with “significant” risks, also seemed troubled. “We urge Meta not to consider community notes a direct replacement for factchecking, and to use all the tools that best address the challenge of misinformation on its platforms in ways that both protect free expression and address potential harms,” the board said in a statement.

Earlier this year, the group published a 15,000-word policy advisory opinion on how Meta should handle Community Notes’ international expansion. In it, the Oversight Board repeatedly stressed that Community Notes should not replace traditional fact checking. “One doesn’t have to replace or substitute for the other, they can coexist,” board co-chair Paolo Carozza told Engadget at the time. “And in some situations, there are really important reasons for them to coexist.”

In its guidance, the board cautioned against bringing Community Notes to countries experiencing “high polarization,” “protracted conflict” and those with a history of organized disinformation networks. Meta is disregarding that advice, according to the IFCN.

“Meta is testing its community notes in some countries that face precisely one or more of these circumstances. Nicaragua, for example, has abolished elections and is actively practicing arbitrary detention of political dissidents. Disinformation networks have been well documented in El Salvador and Ecuador. And Venezuela has been in an extended state of instability.”

When reached for comment, Meta didn’t address the criticism directly. A spokesperson said there were “no changes to our third-party fact checking program at this time.” The company has said that Community Notes has been a success in the United States, where it has 1.4 million contributors.

Others have raised questions about the effectiveness of Meta’s program compared with X. The publication Indicator found that only 3 percent of Instagram posts that were debunked by the AFP‘s US bureau since last April had also received a Community Note. That would suggest that Meta’s crowd-sourced approach is missing a significant number of social media posts that traditional fact checkers believe are worth addressing.

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Watch Fremantle vs Geelong live streams from the Optus Stadium as the minor premiers try to avoid an AFL 2026 exit at the earliest opportunity, against the visiting Cats. The Semi-Final winner goes through to the Preliminary Final next week, the loser is out.

The Dockers had enjoyed a club-record 19 home-and-away wins in the regular season but defeat last weekend by Hawthorn was a stunning first home reverse of the season in Perth. Justin Longmuir’s side must now go the long way round to reach a first Preliminary Final since 2015 after the minor premiers lost their third match from four. Josh Treacy endured a bit of a shocker last week – failing to take a mark for just the second time in his 104-game career – but the key forward is determined to prove his elite smarts and bounce back in this crunch clash.

Steven Gong and his University of Waterloo engineering classmates needed a capstone that actually finished a chore companies have chased for years. Folding laundry looks simple until cloth bunches, sleeves hide, and every shirt arrives in a different mess. Their answer was a pair of follower arms that copied two leader arms driven by human hands, a pile of recorded demonstrations, and a single night of training.

Leader arms sat in front of the operators, with follower arms on the table beside them, echoing every joint angle in real time, while cameras monitored the entire workstation. Over the course of four hours, they collected approximately 200 teleoperated runs of a fairly standard sequence: a shirt is lifted out of a basket, dragged onto the table, and then, straightening out the fabric as they go, before folding each side in toward the middle, folding it in half, and finally plopping the finished rectangle down on a growing stack. The cloth was kept fast by 3D-printed grippers, albeit one of them had a little meltdown later on when the older model sent the arms swinging wildly out of control.

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ACT, a transformer that tries to predict what a robot will do next, attempted to predict small bursts of motion but, despite hundreds of efforts, refused to shut the shirt. The Diffusion Policy caused motion that was too harsh for the hardware to tolerate, leaving a last resort: π0.5, Physical Intelligence’s 3.3-billion-parameter foundation model, already well-seasoned from training on large collections of robot manipulation, and effectively a work in progress to date. They fine-tuned it during their own demos before firing up a powerful external computer to cycle through all of the checkpoints.

A last-minute move to the presentation room changed the lighting and the background. Another 30 demonstrations went into the set. Training and testing went late into the night, and after roughly 30 checkpoints, that specific combination of settings worked. By 8 a.m., the following arms were operating independently, plucking a shirt from the basket, laying it out, folding the sides over, folding it in half, and stacking it, with no human intervention on the leader arm.

The motion was still a little clumsy, and the folds weren’t exactly perfect, but it got the job done, as the loop from basket to stack occurred all by itself for the first time ever. Testing later revealed that an overly ambitious start had overloaded one of the arms, which then broke mechanically, leaving only a reminder that, while foundation models and student hardware are improving, they both still have some quite obvious flaws.
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Watch NRL Qualifying and Elimination Finals 2026 as the Finals Series gets underway in the build-up to the Grand Final in October. The teams ranked first to fourth in the ladder (Panthers vs Roosters and Warriors vs Dolphins) meet to decide who advances straight to the Preliminary Finals, while fifth to eighth (Sharks vs Cowboys and Rabbitohs vs Knights) meet in the elimination matches – winners advance to next week’s semi-finals, losers are out.

We begin on Friday with the Rabbitohs (6) vs Knights (7) at Sydney’s Allianz Stadium. South Sydney are back in the finals for the first time since 2022 and in good form after walloping the Roosters 50-20 with Latrell Mitchell looking good. The Knights have done well to get this far after propping up the ladder last year and Kalyn Ponga, Bradman Best and Fletcher Sharpe have been in fine form.