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Published 29 June 2024 at 14.16 Economics. A report from the Confederation of Small Businesses shows that Swedish companies pay SEK 185 billion more in employer contributions than other EU countries. Share the article TwitterShare In most industries Swedish companies pay significantly more to the state in the form of employer contributions than companies in…

Published 29 June 2024 at 15.27 Economics. The number of young women at the Crown Enforcement Agency is skyrocketing and unlike the men, taxes are collected to a lesser extent – instead the debts come from luxury consumption. Share the article TwittraShare< p>Ten years ago, young men aged 18–25 had a median debt of SEK…

Spotify has fired the only person responsible for curating playlists of Belgian music at the company. Compiling playlists for the Belgian market is now done by people who also make playlists for other countries. The dismissal happened in December last year, reports De Morgen. The Dutchman has worked for the Belgian market since 2018 and…

Developers have been able to gain access to the API keys and full database of responses from Rabbit R1 devices. This allowed them to view and change all answers, crash the back-end and change votes. Rabbit R1 The developers, united under the banner of Rabbitude, claim that they have access included the API keys for…

AMD has released a new version of its Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition drivers. The drivers are suitable for the RX5000, RX6000 and RX7000 series. In version 24.6.1, AMD has added Anti-Lag 2 support for Counter-Strike 2 and the upcoming Windows 11 update, among other things. In addition, improvements have been made to the games The…

Google wants to sign a licensing deal with well-known record companies to use music from well-known artists as training data for an unreleased AI tool. That tool should be released later this year and may become part of YouTube Shorts. It appears that the tool will allow creators in YouTube Shorts to quickly generate clips…

Schools can safely use Google Chrome, ChromeOS and Chromebooks, but they must disable a number of options themselves. This is what Dutch Minister Mariëlle Paul said after research by SURF and SIVON. The Dutch government concluded in 2021 that Google Workspace for Education, ChromeOS and Chromebooks did not comply with the GDPR. The government then…

Published 28 June 2024 at 10.21 Domestic. Three out of five so-called transgender people are out of work – and it is especially men who have changed their legal gender to female who do not work, shows a thesis from the University of Jönköping. Share the article< /h2>TwittraShare In the study, over 900 transgender people…

Published 28 June 2024 at 11.26 Foreign. Demands are coming for Joe Biden to step aside after making what is being described as a disastrously poor debate performance against Donald Trump. Share the article TwittraShare The two American presidential candidates Joe Biden, 81, and Donald Trump, 78, met during the night Swedish time in a…

Disney is said to be considering hosting user-generated videos on its own streaming service Disney+. In this way, the service wants to compete more with Google's video site. Reviews of series on Disney+ and theme parks of the company, among other things, now end up on YouTube and Disney would perhaps like to see these…

The originally Dutch chipmaker Nexperia will make wide-bandgap semiconductors such as silicon carbide and gallium nitride in the German city of Hamburg. There is already a factory there and Nexperia is going to expand it. Nexperia: silicon carbide wafer The wide-bandgap semiconductors are used in data centers and electric vehicles, among other things, when a…

Prusa Research has released version 2.8.0 of PrusaSlicer. Simply put, this program ensures that a 3D design comes out of a 3D printer as best as possible. PrusaSlicer is open source and available for Windows, Linux and macOS. It is primarily developed for Prusa's own printers, but includes a large number of profiles for printers…

Version 2.12 of MusicBrainz Picard has been released. MusicBrainz is an open content music database that can be used to provide music tracks with the correct tags. Picard is the official program for requesting, editing and submitting tags. MusicBrainz Picard is open source and is being developed for Linux, macOS and Windows. The following changes…

Innatera, a Dutch spin-off from TU Delft, has announced that it has raised almost twenty million euros in investments for the development of its AI chips. Innatera presented its first chip earlier this year, based on RISC V architecture. This is the first round of investments in the company, says Innatera. An investment of fifteen…

Published 28 June 2024 at 12.29 Domestic. During an inventory of the benthic fauna in Swedish lakes and waterways, the researchers discovered a new species of mosquito and 14 new species of diatoms that were previously unknown. Share the article TwittraShare The species were discovered in the research project Freshbar's work to further develop the…

Published 28 June 2024 at 13.14 Domestic. Christian Democrats party leader Ebba Busch interrupted her speech in Almedalen on Friday to scold a group of Palestine activists who disturbed her. Share the article TwittraShare Ebba Busch's speech was repeatedly interrupted by the activists, who among other things shouted “murderers” and “resign”. The KD leader took…

Published 28 June 2024 at 14.52 Domestic. The newly formed party Folklistan will shut down after the poor result in the EU elections, according to founder Jan Emanuel. Share the article TwittraShare – Because we got such a weak response, we “failed”, says Jan Emanuel to SVT. The 50-year-old asylum baron and former S-Riksdag member…

Published 28 June 2024 at 15.46 Domestic. The government has decided that the Director General of the Public Health Agency, Karin Tegmark Wisell, will leave her current position and will instead have the position of “ambassador for global health” at the Government Office. At the same time, the head of the MSB may quit prematurely…

Published 28 June 2024 at 16.45 Law & Right. From Monday, the law on incitement against ethnic groups will be expanded to make it a criminal offense to deny, “belittle” or “excuse” the Holocaust and other “genocide, crimes against humanity” or “crimes of aggression”. p> Share the article TwittraShare For incitement against a ethnic group,…

SpaceX may develop a spacecraft for NASA that will safely and responsibly remove the International Space Station from its orbit around the Earth in 2030. The contract has a potential value of $843 million, NASA said. The International Space Station, or ISS, will reach the end of its operational life in 2030, NASA says. By…

Logitech has introduced a new keyboard called G515 Lightspeed TKL. The wireless keyboard is aimed at gaming and has a low profile. Furthermore, the keyboard has been made extra thin. The G515 Lightspeed TKL is 22 millimeters high, which, according to Logitech, makes wrist support unnecessary. The low-profile switches activate from a distance of 1.3…

The students from TU Delft who wanted to set a new world record with their hydrogen car, just missed their goal. The intention was to drive as far as possible on one full tank. The TU Delft hydrogen car received approval to go on public roads earlier this month. The plan was then to ride…

Valve has released its own native game recorder for Steam in beta. Users can therefore record and share gameplay, also from the Steam Deck. They can start recordings via a hotkey or let the recording run in the background. With the Background Recording mode, gameplay is continuously saved to a preferred drive, Steam said on…

Published 28 June 2024 at 08.19 Foreign. Now everyone who wants to become a German citizen must first swear allegiance to Israel, reports the Financial Times. Share the article TwittraShare A new citizenship law came into effect in Germany on Thursday. The background is that the red-green government under Chancellor Olaf Scholz has previously promised…