Friday is finally here and so is this week’s round-up of tech news from the Netherlands.
We’ve had seven dynamic days of digital developments. From banking hacks and Booking fakes to malware and memes, the end of May’s been action-packed. Here’s our pick of the hottest stories, startups, and speeches.
What we’re writing
- ESA satellite launches Dutch tech into space to study climate change
- Netherlands, France, and Germany lead ‘largest ever’ botnet sting
What we’re reading
- Geert Wilders deepfake slips through Meta and X filters (BNR)
- Booking is misleading customers with fake discounts, incomplete prices, consumers association says (NL Times)
- ABN Amro becomes latest European bank to suffer hack (Bloomberg)
- Q*Bird raises €2.5M to accelerate its quantum security tech (q-bird.nl)
- Dutch counter-terror office warns of extreme-right online memes (NL Times)