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Hugo Reitsma @hugoreitsma.bsky.social · 20m

Mismanagement en belangenverstrengeling Chinese ceo leidden tot ingrijpen bij Nexperia. fd.nl/bedrijfsleve...

🎁 ‘Mismanagement en belangenverstrengeling Chinese ceo leidden tot ingrijpen bij Nexperia’

Het ministerie van Economische Zaken heeft de controle over de Nijmeegse chipmaker Nexperia deels overgenomen. Bronnen melden dat dit te maken heeft met zorgen over mismanagement en belangenverstrenge...

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 6m

I liked your reporting. Dutch Financial news now has a story about mismanagement and the CEO of Wingtech forcing Nexperia to make purchases at unfavorable terms from companies he has an interest in. bsky.app/profile/hugo...

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 4h

Chinese foreign ministry weighs in (1/2)

"China consistently opposes the generalization of the concept of "national security" and the discriminatory practices against companies from specific countries...

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 2h

Now we have the European Commission comment at today's daily presser

Spox Olof Gill confirms they were in "close contact" with the Hague throughout

"The measure in question was taken by the Dutch government to ensure security of supply in a strategically sensitive sector....

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 4h

social security numbers? lottery numbers? ;-)

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 6h

Speculating but my latest thinking on Nexperia:

- Dutch gov invokes emergency goods availability act
- NRC reports tech leakage was imminent
- Nexperia makes crucial chips for EU auto industry, but not cutting edge
- Did Wingtech plan to close Dutch fab and move it to China?

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 6h

This Substack has a statement that WingTech put out on the Nexperia takeover by the Dutch government. It was on WeChat and has since removed. There are also details about the managers involved in what is described as a coup www.pekingnology.com/p/dutch-govt... #nexperia #wingtech

Dutch govt accused of freezing operations of Chinese semiconductor giant's chipmaker Nexperia

Wingtech, the Shanghai-listed parent, denounces what it essentially calls a boardroom coup involving the Dutch government and local executives

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 17h

Dutch government removes Chinese owner of Dutch semiconductor company Nexperia. The shares of the Chinese owner Wingtech in Nexperia will go to another firm to be determined by the Enterprise Division of the Court of Appeal
www.bnr.nl/nieuws/econo... #digitalsovereignty #semiconductors

Kabinet grijpt ongekend hard in bij chipfabrikant Nexperia, Chinese eigenaar op afstand gezet

De inzet van de wet heeft als gevolg dat het bedrijf een jaar lang niets mag veranderen aan de activa van Nexperia.

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Fokke & Sukke @fokkesukke.bsky.social · 9h

Fokke & Sukke via nrc.nl

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 17h

Dutch government removes Chinese owner of Dutch semiconductor company Nexperia. The shares of the Chinese owner Wingtech in Nexperia will go to another firm to be determined by the Enterprise Division of the Court of Appeal
www.bnr.nl/nieuws/econo... #digitalsovereignty #semiconductors

Kabinet grijpt ongekend hard in bij chipfabrikant Nexperia, Chinese eigenaar op afstand gezet

De inzet van de wet heeft als gevolg dat het bedrijf een jaar lang niets mag veranderen aan de activa van Nexperia.

www.bnr.nl

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 4d

Source data www.acm.nl/system/files...

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 4d

Dutch @autoriteitcm.bsky.social data shows that almost every year the quarter on quarter mobile data growth is highest in Q2 and Q3, with very little growth for Q1 and Q4. I can't fully explain it, other than "people stay at home"

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Martin 马丁 Holterman @martinned.bsky.social · 4d

This @nrc.nl reconstruction of the case against Karim Khan QC at the ICC is extremely damning. It is very thorough, and unless some serious exculpatory evidence comes to light he will surely have to resign and answer charges. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Misbruik, manipulatie en achterdocht in de top van het Internationaal Strafhof in Den Haag

VN-onderzoek: Tegen de hoofdaanklager van het Internationaal Strafhof loopt een onderzoek van de Verenigde Naties – een naaste medewerker beschuldigt hem van seksueel misbruik. Dit ging een rol spelen...

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 4d

This is the Super duper Supreme Court where precedent, logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead.

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Mathieu Carpentier @mathieucarpentier.bsky.social · 4d

3. A psychiatrist can say: "I know you have suicidal thoughts. Here is why your life is valuable". They emphatically cannot say: "You know what, just go ahead and jump from the window. You won't be missed". If this is viewpoint discrimination, then the first amendment is even crazier than I thought

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Chris Marsden @chrismarsden.bsky.social · 4d

The idiots need to switch as fast as China, not hang on

euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 4d

Conservative lawmakers piled more pressure on the EU Commission to scrap a planned 2035 ban on combustion engine cars on Wednesday (8 October), warning that the car industry could be “lost forever”.

Car industry could be 'lost forever', if EU keeps 2035 combustion-engine ban

Conservative lawmakers piled more pressure on the EU Commission to scrap a planned 2035 ban on combustion engine cars on Wednesday (8 October), warning that the car industry could be “lost forever”.

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 4d

It sells antifa books and is frequented by antifa. It doesn't have an Art of the Deal section. It should only carry offer decent books by decent Republican politicians and donors

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 4d

It sells antifa books and is frequented by antifa. It doesn't have an Art of the Deal section. It should only carry offer decent books by decent Republican politicians and donors

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Jamie Baker Roskie @whenisayj.bsky.social · 4d

The Super Duper Supreme Court

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 4d

This Supreme Court will not be shackled by the incorrect precedents of previous courts. This Supreme Court recognises that the word of his presidential holiness Donald Trump is a divinely inspired interpretation of the holy constitution and therefore cannot be debated. BTW Trump wants his pope hat

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 4d

A lesser Supreme Court, this one is the Super Supreme Court. It has said you cannot question the divine word of Trump and that precedent is only the opinion of a lesser Supreme Court.

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 4d

A lesser Supreme Court, this one is the Super Supreme Court. It has said you cannot question the divine word of Trump and that precedent is only the opinion of a lesser Supreme Court.

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Rudolf van der Berg @internetthought.bsky.social · 4d

This Supreme Court will not be shackled by the incorrect precedents of previous courts. This Supreme Court recognises that the word of his presidential holiness Donald Trump is a divinely inspired interpretation of the holy constitution and therefore cannot be debated. BTW Trump wants his pope hat

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Kim van Sparrentak @kimvsparrentak.bsky.social · 4d

Goed nieuws voor jouw privacy. Dankzij een nein van Duitsland is het #chatcontrol voorstel niet aangenomen vandaag. Nederland zei al langer nee, goed dat meer en meer landen aansluiten om dit voorstel te blokkeren. Ik blijf vechten tot dit absurde en gevaarlijke voorstel helemaal van tafel is!

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