Actions without a lawsuit: deliberately breaking the rules or staying within them? Going to court is not the only form of protest that entrepreneurs are using this week. On Wednesday, market traders in Haaksbergen displayed not only food, but also other wares. In doing so, they deliberately violated the corona measures. Café bosses throughout the…
Very targeted advertising Facebook and Google have been providing access to political advertisements that are distributed and who they roughly reach for a few years now. This can be a lot more focused on the social network than with Google, which has limited this. For outsiders, Facebook only shows in which province an ad is…
Sony expects the shortage of new PlayStation 5 game console to persist for months due to a global shortage of semiconductors. Sony CEO Jim Ryan told the Financial Times he expects deliveries to improve “to reasonable numbers” only in the second half of this year. He cannot guarantee that there are enough consoles will be…
The hackers who penetrated the systems of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) may have obtained the encrypted passwords of students and employees. They could access it, but whether they have abused it, we do not know, says a spokesman. Both settings prompt all users to change their passwords as…
Facebook will show messages from news media in Australia to users of the social media platform again within a few days. The American tech giant has reached an agreement with the government about this. In recent days, Facebook’s decision to block news from Australian users has been heavily criticized due to a new media law…
Experts have long warned against the dangers of deepfake technology: films manipulated using smart algorithms. But according to tech expert Jarno Duursma, it also offers many possibilities. Especially for business. “It makes us all more creative.” Intelligent software creates and manipulates existing products, audio, photos and text on an increasingly large scale. For some this…
The discussion to make the two parties, also superpowers in the online advertising market, pay for news has been around for much longer. But there was not yet an escalation like this in Australia. In a blog post, Facebook claims it made this decision with a “heavy heart” and that the bill “fundamentally misunderstands” the…
Investigators have spotted a server located near Haarlem that is probably used for Iranian espionage. That report the radio program Argos and the security company Bitdefender. The server is used by the Iranian regime to spy on political opponents, says Rik Delhaas of Argos on NPO Radio 1. The program found the server after a…
Facebook is restricting publishers in Australia due to a new media law. Australian users no longer see news in their timeline and publishers can no longer share messages via the social media platform, the company has announced and has now implemented. International media are therefore no longer visible to Australian users. The American company says…
The University and Hogeschool van Amsterdam are facing an attack on their ICT systems. The educational institutions report this on the service pages of their website. What the attack entails, what the scope is and who is behind it is all unclear at the moment. The institutions do not want to say exactly which systems…