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Universities are telling their employees to beware of blackmail by foreign intelligence agencies. Not just at conferences in faraway foreign countries, but also here in the Netherlands.
Scientists who, due to “rising tensions” around the world, are looking to relocate to another country are warmly welcomed in the Netherlands, says Minister Bruins. Research funding body NWO will establish a fund as soon as possible to facilitate this.
In the early hours of Sunday 16 March, the 30 metre high Wilhelmina Tower in Valkenburg collapsed. How could this happen? Delta asked Rob Nijsse, Professor of Structural Engineering for Buildings and Bridges.
The QNodeOS operating system transforms quantum networks from a theoretical concept into a usable technology. QuTech and its European partners from the Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) have published this breakthrough in Nature.
Calls for Europe to develop open-source cloud services as an alternative to the dominance of American tech giants are becoming more frequent. But how exactly does ‘open source’ differ from big tech?
European academies of science argue that President Trump is threatening academic freedom. They point to government censorship restricting scientists’ ability to conduct their research freely.
Universities have become too dependent on large American IT companies, many researchers believe. They wonder if there is still a way back. In February, five Dutch universities will launch a trial with the NextCloud open source platform. What if this proves successful?
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