The Dutch publisher of Roald Dahl’s children’s books is planning to discuss the row over text revisions with the British publishers in the near future, Trouw reported on Sunday. British newspaper the Telegraph revealed this weekend that hundreds of changes had been made to the ch … | Continue reading
Police have used a deepfake video to try to solve the murder of a teenage boy who was shot dead in Rotterdam 17 years ago. The investigation into the death of Sedar Soares was reopened 18 months ago after a cold case team uncovered new information that discredited the original th … | Continue reading
The gunman who took another man hostage at the Apple store on the Leidseplein in Amsterdam on Tuesday afternoon is a 27-year-old local who had demanded €200m in crypto currency, police said at an overnight press conference. The man, who took his hostage almost immediately after e … | Continue reading
The revised conditions that Apple has drawn up for dating app providers are unreasonable and create unnecessary barriers for makers, the Dutch consumer and markets association has ruled. Apple’s new conditions state that dating app providers must develop a completely new app if t … | Continue reading
A new foundation has been set up in the Netherlands to bring a class action claim against Google and Apple for taking too much commission when selling apps. The Big Tech Fair Play foundation says that both Apple and Google charge roughly 30% commission when they sell most paid-fo … | Continue reading
A man in Amsterdam-Zuidoost who was last seen by his neighbours three years ago has been found dead in his home. Neighbours had called in the police and housing corporation several times but officials said they saw no reason to break into the flat, until this week. The man, who s … | Continue reading
A massive steel bridge in Rotterdam is to be partly demolished so that the pleasure yacht being built for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos can sail through it to the sea, local broadcaster Rijnmond said on Wednesday. The Koningshavenbrug, known to Rotterdammers as De Hef, was renovated … | Continue reading
Some 84% of the people who tested positive for coronavirus in the past week had not been vaccinated and 10% had had a single dose, according to figures collected by the public health institute RIVM. Just 6%, or 2,562 of the 42,000 people whose vaccination status is known, said th … | Continue reading
Lou Ottens, inventor of the cassette tape and a CD pioneer died aged 94 at his home in Duizel in Brabant on Saturday, Dutch media report. Ottens, who studied to be an engineer, started working for Philips in 1952. Eight years later he became head of the firm’s recently introduced … | Continue reading
A metro train serving the town of Spijkenisse, near Rotterdam, has crashed through the barrier at the end of the track and only the sculpture of a whale has stopped it plummeting into the water below. The train is now suspended 10 metres above a footpath, thanks to the whale’s ta … | Continue reading
After decades of argument, Utrecht has restored the ‘singel’ canal that surrounds the city in an effort to promote greener living. In a ceremony on Saturday, the city will officially open the Catarijnesingel, which was once part of a multi-lane highway. Boats will be able to sail … | Continue reading
Three Dutch hackers broke into Donald Trump’s Twitter account shortly before he became president in 2016 by guessing his password was ‘yourefired’, magazine Vrij Nederland reported this week. The hackers, named as Edwin, Mattijs and Victor by the magazine, used a leaked list of L … | Continue reading
Nine IT specialists who were involved in the initial assessment of proposals for the government’s anti-coronavirus app have published an open letter criticising the selection procedure and have dropped out of the process. The government hopes the apps will help lift the partial l … | Continue reading
Hotel website Booking.com, until recently one of the most profitable companies in the Netherlands, has asked for government support as the number of bookings plunges to 15% of those of a year ago, according to the Volkskrant and the Financieele Dagblad. The company has asked for … | Continue reading
Tracker apps have been identified as a key part of the Dutch government’s strategy to lift the coronavirus restrictions after April 28, but the prospect of people’s medical details being collected and shared has raised concerns about the implications for privacy. Prime minister M … | Continue reading
The Netherlands is adopting a strategy of ‘maximum control’ to deal with the spread of coronavirus, prime minister Mark Rutte said in a televised speech to the nation on Monday evening. The aim, he said, is to try to spread the peak infection over a longer period, ‘while we build … | Continue reading
The Dutch tennis association KNLTB has been fined €525,000 by the Dutch privacy watchdog Autoriteit Persoonsgevens for infringing on the privacy of its members. The complaint dates back to 2018 when dozens of the organisation’s members complained about being emailed and phoned by … | Continue reading
There were long tailbacks on roads around Utrecht on Wednesday morning as farmers on tractors gathered in Bilthoven to protest about the way the public health institute RIVM measures the concentrations of nitrous oxides and other pollutants. Farmers say that they are bearing the … | Continue reading
Excavations carried out in preparation for work on the Rijnland Route motorway have yielded more treasure in the shape of a wooden pole bearing the Roman inscription COH II CR, Zuid Holland provincial council said at the weekend. In September last year a 125 metre stretch of Roma … | Continue reading
A 16-year-old boy and a woman in her 60s are able to walk and move freely thanks to a 3D printed implant developed by Utrecht’s UMC teaching hospital. The treatment, which involves a made-to-measure titanium implant developed by a team of engineers, surgeons and scientists, was t … | Continue reading
A system breakdown was responsible for the problems with KPN phone networks on Monday and three back-up systems for the... | Continue reading
For the next 18 months, all academic jobs at Eindhoven University of Technology will be open to female candidates only... | Continue reading
Dutch digital news aggregator Blendle is to stop selling individual news articles for ‘quarters’ and will focus instead on its... | Continue reading
A prestigious American scientific journal has refused to publish an article by Dutch professor Ton van Raan because his metaphoric... | Continue reading
Chinese spies have stolen a large number of company secrets from chip machinery maker ASML, the Financieele Dagblad said on... | Continue reading
A clean-up operation to retrieve some of the containers blown off the MSC Zoe in February from the bottom of... | Continue reading
Dutch lawyer Serge Weening has been banned from entering the US, possibly because he has defended several terrorism suspects, law... | Continue reading
A Dutch businessman should be jailed for 21 months for bribing a Google executive, the public prosecution department told judges... | Continue reading
European intelligence services, including the Dutch military intelligence and security service MIVD, detained two Russian spies in The Hague earlier... | Continue reading