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Job Witteman, founder of Dutch internet node AMS-IX, leaves the company. He is one of the driving forces behind high-quality Dutch web connections.

The power supply in Europe is at risk by a leak in the protection of solar poles. That's what ICT security officer Willem Westerhof says in the security company ITsec.

Facebook sends more potential fake messages to fact checkers to check the content of the news reports for truth. The American company announced Thursday to take a next step in combating fake news.

Stichting Benchmark GGZ (SBG) may continue to use anonymous patient evaluations to compare the quality of care institutions. That has determined the Utrecht court on Wednesday. The ruling provides an important framework for the strict Privacy Protection Act.

HBO was hit by hackers last week, but now it appears that the hack is worse than initially thought. Variety writes that a HBO-hired security company has discovered that hackers have stolen thousands of internal business documents.

The Polish Developer CD Project Red, together with comic book publisher Dark Horse Comics, brings out a colorbook for adults from The Witcher this fall. In any case, provide a red colored pencil, because the blood will also flow abundantly.

Skype gets a payment feature in his app. Via chat, money can be transferred directly to other users, reports The Verge.

Mozilla has set up a service that allows users to easily share online files. Firefox Send can only send a file of up to one gigabyte for now.

Instagram Stories seems exactly one year after his release is more popular than Snapchat's major competitor. This can be attributed to figures released by Instagram Wednesday.

The Mobielschademelden app has been removed for the time being after finding a data file. Through highly specific searches on Google, it was theoretically possible to find a link to investigate injury and injury issues.

The Chinese manufacturer of mobile phones Huawei threatens Apple's position as number two of the world.

Young Japanese women spend a lot of time on summer nights at the luxury hotels. Not to swim, but to shine on social media. The goal of the girls is to make themselves in their bikini while having cocktails with friends on hot air beds.

Calling and driving behind the steering wheel should be punished as heavy as driving with a sip. Only by using the smartphone in the car as a heavy traffic offense will motorists adjust their driving behavior and reduce the number of traffic casualties.

The European Internet traffic on the smartphone has taken a massive flight in the past one and a half months. That is what the NOS reports on the basis of figures from the Amsterdam Internet Exchange.

Technology Company Apple has presented better figures over its third quarter than was estimated. Especially the profit struck out.

Film distributor Dutch Filmworks wants to detect illegal uploaders and downloaders. The company has submitted a plan to the Personal Data Authority. The supervisor intends to grant permission, according to a privacy guard dog's document. Stakeholders can comment on this decision until August 25th.

Google began a machine month-long effort to rid YouTube of terrorist content over a month ago, and according to the techist, the approach thrives. Google says about twice as much harmful content has been removed from YouTube.

Sony will increase PlayStation Plus's prices from August 31st. Whoever closes a membership for this date can benefit from the lower prices.

KPN has stopped handling data limits for Internet Outside Area Subscription. People living in a place where a fixed connection is not an option can thus use unlimited internet access through a 4G connection.

Google will block distracting and blocking ads in future versions of Chrome. That reports Techcrunch.

Giphy will soon test with sponsored images in his GIF search engine. That says a source within the company against Techcrunch.

Spotify has reached a new milestone. The streaming platform has more than 60 million subscribers, reports Variety based on numbers over July.

HBO has become the victim of hackers. In any case, one script of a Game of Thrones episode and two unpublished episodes of Ballers and Room 104 have been launched online, reports an American entertainment site.

Ten years ago, the brain training games of Dr. Do not drag Kawashima games for the Nintendo DS. Now the series makes a comeback on the Nintendo 3DS.

Vic Gundotra, as top manager at Google, added the rise of Android, but the India-born businessman is not talking about the mobile platform. On Facebook he writes that Apple has light years on Google when it comes to mobile photography. 'I would not use an Android smartphone for photography'.

The Nokia 8 allegedly charges 520 euros. That price tag was accidentally leaked by Vodafone's Romanian branch, so Mobilissimo has discovered.

Spotify is using podcasts to give the service even more brand awareness. According to Bloomberg, the Swedish music service in its apps and through advertising campaigns emphasize that podcasts are an integral part of the 'Spotify experience'. Well-known podcast makers, in turn, promote the promotion of Spotify in their podcasts.

Microsoft puts a line under its Word Flow keyboard for iOS. According to Windowsmaker, Word Flow was a test project and it's time to expand.

The robot football players at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU / e) have to surrender their world title to the Chinese competitor Water from Beijing. The team grabbed Sunday in Japan Nagoya next to gold on RoboCup, the world championship for robots.

The first Dutch edition of the Pokémon GO Safari Zone is postponed to autumn. Developer Niantic announced on Saturday that the event in the city heart of Amstelveen will not continue on 12 August. Other events in Copenhagen, Prague and Stockholm are also postponed.