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View allTU Delft has withdrawn from a research collaboration on artificial intelligence. ‘Delft Student Intifada’ is protesting on 3 December partly against this partnership, because the Israeli company Weebit Nano was involved. Three other collaborations will not go ahead.
‘Delft Student Intifada’ has occupied the roof of Mechanical Engineering. They are demanding an academic boycott of Israel and a public condemnation of the genocide in Palestine. They want to engage in dialogue with the Executive Board, but that has not yet made an appearance.
By early October, one in four TU Delft managers had completed the one-day course Leadership and Social Safety. Another quarter had signed up. The unions are calling for the training to be mandatory, but the Executive Board is sticking to persuasion rather than compulsion.
Single glazing, centimetre-wide gaps and poorly insulated walls: many student houses are facing a cold winter. With a free insulation service, the students at Holy Folie step in where landlords fail. “The landlord doesn’t feel the cold.”
News from China: an experimental molten salt reactor is said to have run on thorium for the first time. This type of technology is also being developed in Delft. Last week, an agreement was presented for the construction of Europe’s first pilot plant. Nuclear physicist Martin Rohde: “The thorium reactor is the holy grail.”
Red faces, heavy panting and regret. For the second time, the tallest building at TU Delft was the setting of a stair climbing competition on Friday evening. This year it was also open for non-athletes. “It was a lot worse than I expected.”
Sofia Ghigliani is part of the last batch of Architecture master’s students who still had a full year to complete their graduation project. While filling out the mandatory pre-green light reflections (bureaucracy’s favourite sport), she realised how lucky she’d been to have enough time to get thoroughly and productively lost.
In order to become more independent from American big tech companies, SURF is investigating the possibilities offered by the European NextCloud. An initial successful trial is being scaled up: from a few dozen to two thousand users.
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