The Netherlands sits at a choke point of the global chip industry, home to the only company that builds the most advanced lithography machines.
ASML's EUV systems are indispensable to leading-edge fabs everywhere, NXP adds chip design, and Rotterdam keeps the country central to logistics. Dutch coverage is dominated by hardware.
ESA will launch two Earth-observation satellites within weeks: MTG-I2 completes the Meteosat constellation, and FLEX will map vegetation fluorescence for the first time.
South Korea's first commercial container voyage to Europe via the Arctic is set to depart this weekend, a test of a melting-ice route that could cut travel times but risks Western backlash over Russian cooperation.
The Netherlands' NCSC reports active attacks exploiting a macOS Screen Sharing authentication bypass (CVE-2026-65400) to install Monero miners on systems with port 5900 exposed.
Larsen & Toubro and Hitachi Energy have signed a multi-billion-dollar framework agreement with TenneT for up to six offshore wind HVDC projects in the North Sea, covering 8 GW of capacity across four named links.
The US Department of Justice unsealed an indictment charging three Russian nationals with running bulletproof hosting services that enabled ransomware attacks causing over $62 million in damages, while the EU announced parallel sanctions.
Thyssenkrupp Steel has suspended its own barge transport of raw materials to Duisburg due to low Rhine water levels during a heatwave, turning to chartered vessels and reducing blast furnace production.
The CMA CGM Notre Dame, the world's largest LNG-powered container ship, received its first bio-LNG bunkering at the Port of Rotterdam, supplied by TotalEnergies.