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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 14h

Het stroomverbruik van datacenters in Nederland is wel bekend, want Trouw schat het aantal datacenters dat moet rapporteren te hoog in. In plaats van dat 186 moeten rapporteren zijn dat er waarschijnlijk maar zo'n 110-130. Een korte analyse. Dat zegt niets over rest EU! tweakers.net/nieuws/25277...

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Veel datacenters in EU lijken water- en stroomgebruik onterecht geheim te houden

Veel datacenters, ook in Nederland, lijken hun water- en stroomgebruik onterecht geheim te houden. Daarnaast zou het voor EU-burgers lastig zijn om van overheidsinstanties inzage te krijgen in de mili...

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Cerf talks about how to re-install a sense of trust to this new AI-dominated internet, and adhere to the ideals behind the original internet—including the emphasis on the net being an open, neutral, level playing field. thebulletin.org/premium/2026...

thebulletin.org

“The internet is a giant copying machine”: Interview with Vint Cerf

Widely thought of as the “founder of the internet,” Vint Cerf talks about how to re-install a sense of trust to this new AT-dominated version, and the ideals behind the original internet—including the...

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

34 French, Algerian, Belgian gangsters arrested in the Netherlands, yet the French press is silent. Don't they miss them? They raided a Dutch home with automatic weapons to get "their 2000 kilo" back. Result; 1 dead guard, 2 shot policemen and 1 horse wounded. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

theguardian.com

Dozens arrested after fatal pre-dawn shootout in Dutch village

Police urged people in Overasselt to stay indoors after one person died and 34 were arrested

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Mobile operators forget to update their emergency call data in the GSMA mobile roaming database. French mobile operators show how it should be done, but Dutch, Spanish, Indian, Swedish, Icelandic, German operators could improve their data www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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#volte #emergencycalls | Rudolf van der Berg

Incorrect/outdated #VoLTE emergency call data for inbound roaming is a problem. This is apparently sent by mobile networks to their roaming partners via the GSMA IR.21 database. A while ago the GSMA p...

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Trump-branded XTC contains lethal substance PMMA warns Dutch Minister for Health

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

An attack on French nuclear plant by eco-terrorist jellyfish has reduced and shutdown the output of its 6 reactors for the second year in a row. ;-) www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Jellyfish force partial shutdown of France's Gravelines nuclear plant

It is the second consecutive year that jellyfish has forced the closure of the Gravelines power station in northern France.

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michael veale @michae.lv · 03/08/2026

You can now access many more digital laws, not just the GDPR, at the UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws page: EU: GDPR, DSA, DMA, AI Act, UCPD, NIS2 UK: OSA, DPA18, ...+ Each article/para/recital, links to what-cites-it in int'l cases/statutes/guidance homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws

Varying digital legal instruments across jurisdictions, each able to be clicked on a section/article/paragraph basis to find the hard and soft law instruments that cite and interpret each specific part (or substantively very similar parts of previous/neighbouring laws.) Snippets provided for each citing source along with original links to that source. Typically thousands of citations for each. Citing documents can be ordered by date, citation numbers, or 'authority/influence' (PageRank algorithm).

Database of citing documents maintained and updated daily/weekly; the below documents intended to be updated weekly. Last update 3 August 2026.

Document coverage and national grammar for document detection is strongest and best tested for UK, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, EU and ECHR, but the database contains and attempts to link administrative decisions and guidance from other jurisdictions. Unlike Westlaw or other providers, this is not only free, with links to the originals, and incorporates a large amount of guidance and secondary material.

Documents generated from a dataset held and maintained by Michael Veale, Professor of Technology Law and Policy, Faculty of Laws, University College London. If you wish to study these instruments and the tech and practices that interact with them, consider learning about it at UCL Laws: on our LLM in Law and Technology, or our week-long executive education on AI for Lawyers: Technological Understanding for Compliance and Litigation.

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Missing Person": English speaking John Doe has spent last 3 years hospitalised in Amsterdam after stroke. Can't speak properly anymore. Probably lived in Amsterdam for a while and is Buddhist. Dutch Police cold case team is looking for next of kin in English speaking nations politie.nl/lucky

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Een heel leven maar geen naam: wie herkent deze man?

Wie is ‘’Lucky?’’ Die vraag houdt het Amsterdamse Cold Case team al drie jaar bezig nadat een “onbekende” man in het ziekenhuis belandt. Al snel blijkt dat iedere weg naar zijn identiteit doodloopt. D...

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Baptiste Hugot @baptistehugot.com · 26/06/2026

En Islande, alors que la 2G et la 3G ont été arrêtées, environ 6k appareils sont encore incompatibles avec les communications d'urgence (contre 30k au début de l'année) avec des terminaux compatibles avec la VoLTE qui ne permettent pas d'appeler le 112. A noter. www.icelandreview.com/news/6000-de...

icelandreview.com

6,000 Devices Still Unable to Call Iceland’s Emergency Number

Thousands of mobile devices in Iceland remain unable to connect to emergency services months after the country’s 2G and 3G networks were switched off, according to the telecommunications regulator. Ól...

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Emergency calls over 4G not supported for foreigners by many telcos. See Sweden, where all operators except Telia shutdown 2G/3G or Australia where Vodafone doesn't support 4G emergency calls. When you travel there and are in trouble, change mobile network or shout www.gsma.com/get-involved...

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

SMS termination rates in the Netherlands lowered to €0.003/sms. KPN demanded an originating fee and now has to deal with a much lower fee for CPaaS providers www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

25 years ago I thought termination fees would soon be gone. Well they are still alive! The Dutch regulator has just set a new fee at the EU roaming SMS termination rate, which is much lower than the commercial rate Dutch operators charge
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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

SMS termination rates in the Netherlands lowered to €0.003/sms. KPN demanded an originating fee and now has to deal with a much lower fee for CPaaS providers www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Dutch mobile operator Odido postpones 3G switch-off to later date. It had intended to start the switch-off from 1 Augus 2026, but now says it will keep 3G operational "a little longer" and inform customers 6 months in advance when it will actually retire 3G www.odido.nl/service/netw...

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We gaan afscheid nemen van 3G | Odido

We gaan afscheid nemen van het 3G-netwerk. Heb je nog een 2G-telefoon? We leggen je uit wat je alvast kan doen.

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Baptiste Hugot @baptistehugot.com · 10/08/2026

Plusieurs maires de petites communes rurales sont victimes d’une arnaque par un opérateur (non cité dans l’article…) qui les piège avec des contrats de téléphonie fixe hors de prix, impossibles à résilier et un service qui n’est pas à la hauteur. C’est incroyable. www.franceinfo.fr/replay-jt/fr...

franceinfo.fr

"On s'est fait avoir, c'est une arnaque" : plusieurs mairies piégées par des contrats douteux avec une entreprise

Plusieurs maires de petites communes rurales se disent victimes d’une arnaque. Ils pensaient souscrire à un simple abonnement téléphonique, mais sont piégés par des contrats hors de prix et impossible...

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

CalTech is clueless about what applicants would be good undergraduates. Its "Fraud Squad" therefore looks at fonts of science-fair-certificates, so it can at least block those who lie. All to keep the air of exclusivity in its pyramid scheme of >$90k annual fees. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

wsj.com

The ‘Fraud Squad’ at Caltech Will Catch You if You Lie on Your Application

Investigators at the college vet every admitted student’s application as schools nationwide battle AI-fueled cheating.

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Renate van Stigt @renatevanstigt.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

Vier vuisten.. wie kent ze nog?

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

ROFLOL ... French socialists want to charge 10ct per GB for all digital content in France, so that that tax can finance new networks in France. :-) #netneutrality #fairshare #digitalsovereignty

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Vincent Bernat @vincent.bernat.ch · 16/06/2026

Building a Soviet Nail Factory: how KPIs killed efficiency. A story that I often tell. It is now old enough to not upset my former colleagues. vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026...

vincent.bernat.ch

Building a Soviet Nail Factory: how KPIs killed efficiency

How an obsession with KPIs at Orange led people to game them, slowing service delivery to a crawl. A cautionary tale about Goodhart's law.

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Dutch jewel thiefs cracked the code for the remote control of security roller shutters. This allowed them to steal hundreds of thousands worth of jewels. nos.nl/artikel/2618...

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Juwelendieven gebruiken afstandsbediening om rolluiken te openen

Rolluiken bij juwelierszaken zijn een goede extra barrière om inbrekers te weren.

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Hendrik Rood @hrood.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

AWS datacenters consumed 78.9 TWh in 2025, comparable to Belgium. Revealing 2.5 bln gallon water consumption with a WUE of 0.12 L/kWh enables calculating 2025 electricity consumption as well as re-analyze older reported data. 46% growth! @histoftech.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/aws-da...

AWS water usage datapoints, as released in sustainability reports over 2023 and 2024 as well as in their newsblog of June 11, 2026.
Combined with reported water replenishment volumes and 'water positive' levels and reported WUE for earlier years it became feasible for the first time to use and calculate also previous years electric power use.

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I am humbly begging people to stop acting like a drop in unintended pregnancies among teen girls is some great tragedy Also to look at what this new NBER paper actually measured before making grand pronouncements about phones killing fertility. reason.com/2026/06/10/t...

reason.com

The smartphone theory of birth rate decline still doesn't hold up

A new NBER study suffers from the same flaws plaguing previous research on phones and fertility rates.

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I Am Begging You to Read Terry Pratchett One of England’s funniest writers is in danger of being lost to history. By Helen Lewis www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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I Am Begging You to Read Terry Pratchett

One of England’s funniest writers is in danger of being lost to history.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/06/2026

this Trump FCC "foreign router ban" is basically just unworkable extortion slop that's just going to cause headaches and drive up costs for everyone under the pretense of improving national security, but 90% of the press coverage tries really hard to pretend any of it makes sense

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Cable lobby warns of chaos if FCC doesn't relax ban on foreign routers

NCTA seeks waiver from foreign-router ban, citing memory and substrate shortages.

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthub.eu · 08/06/2026

Een luchtig stukje over gietijzeren pannen. Maar, ook uitstekend te lezen als een parabel over big-tech: de enorme bezwaren waar mensen mee komen als je ze *iets anders* aanraadt. Maar, net zulke issues komen *wij* mogelijk mee als iemand ons andere pannen aanraadt: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

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De gietijzeren pan en big tech - Bert Hubert's writings

Al een jaar of tien koken we thuis op gietijzeren pannen. Inmiddels voelt koken op een anti-aanbakpan voor mij als koken op plastic. De voordelen zijn verder evident. Ik heb in die tien jaar tijd nog ...

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 08/06/2026

Wake up baby, new smartphones and fertility evidence just dropped. 🙈 www.nber.org/papers/w35310

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Doug Madory @eldomador.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Seeing the first signs of a possible internet restoration in Iran at 12:01 UTC today. While a few networks spiked in traffic, most are still down. #DigitalBlackOutIran‌

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Militairen die ophef maken over waar stroomkabels en pijpleidingen van defensie liggen of hoe groot een dieseltank van een radar is, zijn niet de mensen die weten hoe je een land draaiend houdt tijdens een oorlog www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Dutch national grid operator Tennet doesn't have to supply a 70MVA power connection to datacenter company near Amsterdam. The right to be connected only exists after all documents are signed and they weren't. Datacenter company Goodman has to wait until 2033-2036 www.rechtspraak.nl/organisatie-...

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Christopher Terry @christopherterry.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Brendan Carr's FCC asking questions about labeling trans and LGBTQ content as part of the TV ratings system. LGBT Tech responds: fc0ed7fa-6ac8-48b8-8e17-528c23d0b0eb.filesusr.com/ugd/a3b7e3_a...

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Karen Melchior @karmel80.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🏺🏛️So European ministers are en Delphi to discuss how to deal with our economic future in these uncertain times… are the consulting the oracle or why Delphi? 😅🏛️🏺

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Die gele bloemen in de berm in Flevoland zijn geen koolzaad ... meer... Het is raapzaad en herik! Jarenlange desinformatie wordt hier gecorrigeerd door Omroep Flevoland. Ik moet nu aan mijn pubers gaan uitleggen dat papa ook niet alles weet. 🙄 www.omroepflevoland.nl/nieuws/46823...

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Wat bloeit daar voor geels langs de weg? En nee, het is geen koolzaad

Het is niet alleen de tijd van de kleurige tulpen in Flevoland, maar ook van duizenden gele bloemetjes langs de weg. Voor wie de provincie deze weken doorkruist, is de kans groot dat ze al zijn opgeva...

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Ben Felten @mysteresdeparis.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Pick up the nearest book, turn to p. 42, and post the second sentence: Right enough, though even the Ychana are sharp enough to realize it’s dangerous to go there just now, before it’s been fully inspected. (Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie)

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Daniel Ollé @danielollecto.eurosky.social · 22/04/2026

"EU telecom sector shows strong competitive dynamics, affordable prices, improving coverage and solid financial conditions[...]top EU performers typically score high in global rankings." BEREC Public consultation until 8th May on Europe's Telecom Reality Check www.berec.europa.eu/en/public-co...

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Public consultation on Europe's Telecom Reality Check: Draft BEREC Fact finding report on connectivity, competition and regulatory highlights in different jurisdictions | BEREC

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 22/04/2026

My conspiracy theory of the day is that Why posted this precisely to train Claude at filtering toxic notifications

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Daniel Ollé @danielollecto.eurosky.social · 22/04/2026

Internal emails show how Amazon raises prices across the Internet, California AG lawsuit says arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

arstechnica.com

Internal emails show how Amazon raises prices across the Internet, lawsuit says

“It’s working!“: Amazon emails with vendors show pattern of disappearing deals.

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

De #stroomnetcrisis in #utrecht laat zien dat datacenter exploitanten geen datacenters beginnen in regios waar het stroomnet al te vol zit #omdenken #deservervanLoesje

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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Covering ~85% of the ~$4T world media economy & 3/5s of the world population, the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project tracks the structural transformation of communications, internet & media industries in 36 countries. Check out our public facing dashboard here: gmicp.org/dashboard/

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Gateklons @gateklons.eurosky.social · 22/04/2026

"The lawyers messed up! In trying to open up digital markets for telcos, they put the door open too wide! Let us take a moment to thank the lawyers"

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