CUPERTINO (ANP/RTR) - Apple heeft een aantal leveranciers opgedragen de productie van onderdelen voor de nieuwe iPhone 18 Pro en iPhone 18 Pro Max terug te schroeven. De sterk gestegen kosten voor geheugenchips en prijsverhogingen drukken op de vraag van consumenten, meldde het zakenmedium Nikkei Asia op basis van ingewijden.

De iPhone-maker zou sinds begin september terughoudender zijn geworden met leveringen. De onderdelenorders voor oktober zijn met minstens 15 procent verlaagd in vergelijking met wat oorspronkelijk was besteld, volgens Nikkei.

Techbedrijven kopen massaal geavanceerde productiecapaciteit voor chips en geheugenchips op voor hun AI-datacenters. Hierdoor ontstaan tekorten en prijsverhogingen. In juni verhoogde Apple de wereldwijde verkoopprijzen voor onder meer MacBooks en iPads. Dat was volgens toenmalig topman Tim Cook "onvermijdelijk", gezien de grote vraag naar geheugenchips.

De nieuwste modellen iPhones gingen pas enkele weken geleden in de verkoop.

De nieuwe Michelin-gids is weer uit. Wil je weleens proeven hoe een Michelinster smaakt, maar heb je geen zin in een rekening van honderden euro's, dan ben je hier aan het juiste adres.

De Achterhoek

Uit de 119 Nederlandse sterrenrestaurants stelde Michelin zelf een top 10 samen van zaken waar je het goedkoopst kunt eten. Bovenaan staat Olde Marckt in Aalten, diep in de Achterhoek.

Voor 39 euro per persoon krijg je daar een lunch met een voor- en hoofdgerecht, voorafgegaan door twee amuses. De gerechten wisselen, en een ervan is hamachi, een Japanse vis, met basilicum en tomaat die hierboven staat te pronken.

Exquise groente en fruit in Amsterdam

Wie een volwaardig driegangenmenu wil, kan terecht bij Choux in Amsterdam. Daar bestaan de gerechten voor 90 procent uit groenten en fruit. Michelin spreekt van "een wervelend meergangenmenu" dat "diep, levendig en eigenzinnig" is. Het menu kost 52,50 euro, op voorwaarde dat je het theatermenu neemt en om 20.00 uur klaar bent. Naar het theater gaan is overigens niet verplicht.

Vijf van de tien goedkoopste sterrenzaken liggen in Amsterdam. De duurste in het lijstje, Brass Boer Thuis in Zwolle en Cheval Blanc in Heemstede, vragen 80 euro voor drie gangen à la carte.

Bron: Manners

Haar moeder overleed na een lang ziekbed, haar vader stierf plotseling in Sierra Leone. Ameline Ansu verloor op jonge leeftijd beide ouders. Nu staat ze samen met Rijnmond-presentatrice Wendy Hoogendijk op het podium met een voorstelling over rouw. "We vinden het in Nederland best ongemakkelijk om daarover te praten."

PlayStation 5 (version played), Xbox, PC; Epic Games Publishing
This fetchingly presented horror game brings style and scares, but overextends itself with repetition

A small band of soldiers enters an abandoned facility, where puckered flesh sprouts from cold steel. It’s a promising but familiar start to a sci-fi horror story, with heavy overtones of Alien and The Thing. Neither of those, though, were so … dinky.

End of Abyss’s facility is presented as a kind of a model-village recreation of The Thing’s Outpost 31 that you peer into from above. Your little bobble-headed hero takes up a tiny fraction of the screen, with most of the remainder drenched in foggy darkness, or even blanked out entirely. This is a world of Usborne-style cutaways, where anything outside the walls is total blackness.

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The poet and author on F Scott Fitzgerald’s perfect novel, losing faith in Ernest Hemingway – and the recent debut that blew her away

My earliest reading memory
Lynley Dodd’s Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy – where an assortment of differently shaped dogs go on a walk – wormed its way into my subconscious when I was very young. The great dane (Hercules Morse, as big as a horse), the dalmatian (Bottomley Potts, covered in spots), the dachshund (Schnitzel Von Krumm with a very low tum) … I could probably still recite most of it from memory.

My favourite book growing up
I had a lot of picture books illustrated by the great Korky Paul, and remember being obsessed – even as quite a young child – with the intricate grotesquerie of it all. He’s probably best known these days for illustrating the Winnie the Witch books, but my favourite was The Rascally Cake by Jeanne Willis, in which a rotund, green-haired man called Rufus Skumskins O’Parsley makes a cake out of disgusting things (rotten eggs, spider legs, garden snails and so on), only for the cake to come to life and attempt to eat him. Probably more than a little bit of Skumskins found its way into the protagonist of my second novel, The Glutton.

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It’s easier to blame brutes and sadists for extreme violence. But as we see in the documentary, modern genocides are fueled by people who are uncomfortably recognizable

Werner Best, a senior SS official and jurist who helped organize the Nazi death squads that murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews, is also known for his statement: “We must destroy the enemy without hating him.” He belonged to a younger generation of Nazi technocrats, who despised the foul-mouthed, beer-bellied, brown-shirted “old fighters” of the Nazi party in the 1920s, and believed in organizing genocide neatly and dispassionately. After the fall of the regime, Best escaped justice for the rest of his long life, dying peacefully in Germany in 1989. His chilling statement came to my mind while I was watching the film NAZA.

I grew up in Tel Aviv and have visited there often in recent years. That is why the interviews with 24 Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers, which make up this documentary, felt strangely familiar. The conversations are conducted at night on rooftops, and the camera scans the cityscape, lingering on apartment windows as their inhabitants watch TV and make dinner. The landscape was intimately recognizable, and I felt a natural affinity with those people living their lives. I also recognized the way the interviewees talked – their speech patterns and choice of words. They reminded me of my son, who served more than a decade ago in the intelligence unit many of them might have belonged to.

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Installation of eight canopy bridges in Alta Floresta has enabled 15,000 safe crossings by animals including spider monkeys and marmosets – and more bridges are planned elsewhere

By about 7am, with dense fog blanketing the landscape, Gabriel Falquetto had already come across several road-killed animals along the ES-164 highway in Brazil’s Espírito Santo state. The biologist was on his way to Kaetés private natural heritage reserve (RPPN) in the Atlantic Forest, where he monitors wildlife and roadkill.

Then he spotted the lifeless body of a primate on the pavement. It was a buffy-headed marmoset (Callithrix flaviceps), a species listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature red list. An estimated 2,500 individuals remain in the wild, making it one of the world’s most threatened primates.

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While Israel’s actions against Palestinians intensify public anger, the bloc remains paralysed along familiar fault lines

When the British government announced sweeping sanctions on trade with illegal Israeli settlements and condemned “ethnic cleansing” in the West Bank by state-backed “settler terrorists”, some EU diplomats hoped this dramatic shift in UK government policy towards Israel would have a galvanising effect on the rest of Europe. So far, it has not.

Although France and Canada joined the UK in pledging to ban goods from illegal settlements and impose sanctions on “those who facilitate them or profit from them”, there has not yet been a wider ripple effect.

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While the Labour and Conservative leaders will be delighted with their showing, Nigel Farage, Ed Davey and Zach Polanski have less reason for cheer

Andy Burnham

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• Workload, injuries and finances underpin concerns

• Most European FAs want return to previous format

Europe’s football associations have raised serious concerns about the impact of the extended international break and will ask Uefa to push for a reversion to the previous scheduling.

The new three-week break left European countries tasked with four Nations League games, which typically took place within 11 days. It has brought deep misgivings about player workload, injuries and financial viability, with one FA president telling the Guardian it was “a disaster” and numerous others saying the schedule is unworkable.

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