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  • SURF Short 11 minutes

    What you need to know about... PeerTube

    The debate around social media and their powerful owners is heating up. It is time to take back control and look for decentralised alternatives. PeerTube is one such alternative for video content. Find out exactly how it works and what you can gain from it from Alexandra van Straaten, social media advisor and privacy coordinator at SURF.
    podcastopname in de SURFstudio met Sanne Koenen en Alexandra van Straaten
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  • What you need to know about... DDoS attacks

    SURF Short 16 minutes
    What exactly is a DDoS attack? Why do we need to talk about it now? Is it preventable? But most importantly, what can you do if you are attacked? Listen to the SURFshort podcast.
    Niels Weijers en Niels den Otter nemen een podcast over DDoS-aanvallen op in de studio

  • What you need to know about... open science

    SURF Short 17 minutes
    17 years ago, John Doove, open science programme manager at SURF, started thinking about the possibilities of open science with a small idealistic group. Where are we now and why should open science be the norm? Listen now to the new episode of SURFshort.
    podcastopname in de SURFstudio met Sanne Koenen en John Doove

  • What you need to know about GPT-NL

    SURF Short 16 minutes
    The American ChatGPT had great impact upon release. Now TNO, the Netherlands Forensic Institute and SURF are working on a Dutch language model; GPT-NL. Why that is badly needed and how we are approaching it tells Thomas van Osch, machine learning advisor at SURF.

  • What you need to know about... supercomputing

    SURF Short 16 minutes
    Supercomputing is indispensable in much research in the Netherlands. Why actually? What does the national supercomputer Snellius bring to our scientists? And why should we not run after Big Tech in the race to the fastest supercomputer?

  • What you need to know about... purple teaming

    SURF Short 18 minutes
    SURF conducted a purple team exercise in late 2023 to test SURFconext's ability to withstand an attack by hackers. How did this go, what was the result, and how can you as an institution deal with it yourself?