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The best of SURF for your summer reading and listening list

It's almost summer holidays, so finally time to catch up on reading and listening! We have curated the best articles, interviews and podcasts from surf.nl that you may have missed out on over the past academic year.

10 July 2025

Our recommendations:

🔮 Melanie Rieback, co-founder and CEO of Radically Open Security, is known for her unique approach in cybersecurity. 'Cybersecurity is not black magic', she says.

🌱 From simulation to reality: the data platform of The Green Village as an engine for innovation.

📚 In the digital age, libraries were going to become the book museums of the 21st century. As it turns out, nothing could be further from the truth.

👾 Did you know that DDoS attacks are perpetrated on Dutch educational and research institutions every day? But what exactly is a DDoS attack?

🎧 In the four-part SURFsounds special Tussen Macht en Moraal (Between Power and Morality), we look for answers to the question: how do we ensure that technological progress benefits us all? (in Dutch)

🪐 University lecturer Bijoy Bera (TU Delft) is working with SURF on a VR application that lets you virtually experience black holes - gravity in its most extreme form.

👓 She loves complex challenges and has plenty of stamina, at work and in her spare time: Nolda Tipping-Griffioen is the new CIO and IT director of the RUG.