NEW YORK (ANP) - Apple praat met CXMT over de mogelijkheden om geheugenchips af te nemen van die Chinese maker van halfgeleiders. Elke mogelijke deal ligt politiek echter zeer gevoelig, schrijft The Wall Street Journal zondag op basis van ingewijden.

Volgens de zakenkrant maken sommige Amerikaanse beleidsmakers zich er zorgen over dat CXMT via deals met Amerikaanse bedrijven toegang kan krijgen tot Amerikaanse technische kennis. De ingewijden hebben gezegd dat Apple hoopt op de zegen van het Witte Huis om toch zaken te mogen doen met het Chinese bedrijf, aangezien het techconcern te midden van de opmars van kunstmatige intelligentie dringend meer chips nodig heeft.

CXMT baarde onlangs nog opzien door bij zijn beursgang in Shanghai direct ongeveer te verzesvoudigen in waarde. De DRAM-chips van CXMT worden onder meer gebruikt in datacenters. De in 2016 opgerichte onderneming heeft al 8 procent van de wereldwijde DRAM-markt in handen en concurreert met de Zuid-Koreaanse chipconcerns SK Hynix en Samsung, en het Amerikaanse Micron.

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

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I’ve heard that in Germany you can buy sausages in vending machines. What should be sold in machines that isn’t offered at the moment? Sybil Freestone, Oregon

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The standup and presenter on performing at the back of the school bus, his funny aunts and uncles, and swerving a career selling perfume

Born in Lambeth, south London, in 1988, Mo Gilligan is a comedian and presenter. His online sketches went viral in 2017, which led to his debut tour, Coupla Cans, and the start of his TV career, co-hosting The Big Narstie Show and presenting The Lateish Show. The winner of two Baftas, Gilligan has released three standup specials, most recently In the Moment. His new documentary, Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy, is available on Netflix now.

This was my go-to pose as a kid. The expression is a combination of me being a bit cheeky, my mum telling me I shouldn’t smile with my teeth out, and someone else telling me that I had a nice smile when I did that grin. It was a safe bet, and I would bring it out for every school photo.

While there are fears that people harvesting their food could put pressure on habitats, some ecologists suggest responsible foraging can boost conservation and biodiversity

Angus Morton crouches behind a cricket pavilion in a London park to snip stinging nettles from an unkempt patch of greenery.

“They’re so abundant and they’re so good,” says Morton, a regenerative gardener who pops out once a week to forage bits for dinner. “I use them in pesto, tea … I’ve even seen someone putting them in croquetas.”

Guardian journalists have been uncovering cases involving US military personnel that bypassed British courts. It involved telling the stories of women who have been denied important rights and protections, and safeguarding them as sources

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“I try to ensure there are no surprises for them,” says Harry Davies, a Guardian investigations correspondent. “You have to prepare them for the exposure and talk them through what it will mean.”

Katie and John Meehan say responses to campaign they launched after death of daughter Genevieve must be ‘wake-up call’

The parents of a nine-month-old girl who died after being placed in an unsafe sleeping position at nursery said they feared poor practice may be “rife” across England.

Genevieve Meehan suffocated when she was strapped face down to a beanbag for an hour and 37 minutes at a nursery in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, in May 2022.

Jurors hear from host of medical experts as defence says postpartum psychosis caused young mother to kill children

It’s been called “America’s saddest murder trial” and last week jurors in the Lindsay Clancy case listened to mental health professionals, counsellors, psychiatrists, and medication experts explain the circumstances in which the young mother killed her three children.

It has been a spectacle that has gripped America, not least because Clancy’s legal defense has been supported by her now divorced husband.

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Domestic dramas, bodily fluids, drink, drugs, rudeness and worse … ushers and box office staff have seen it all. So much for the myth of the ‘genteel’ theatregoer

‘Theatre still has a sheen of respectability, so people feel they can behave badly because where they are cancels out how dreadful they are being,” says John, who has been a box office manager for 15 years. From my early 20s to my mid-30s, I too worked in the box office, at some of London’s top theatres. During my decade in the job, I witnessed audience behaviour ranging from the odd and the outrageous to the outright belligerent. If you are under any illusion that theatre audiences are classy, allow my former colleagues to disabuse you of that notion.

The misuse of phones is one of the most common offences. In April, Cynthia Erivo stopped her one-woman West End production of Dracula mid-performance to urge an audience member to stop filming. Former Love Island winner Amber Davies, starring in a tour of Legally Blonde, last month asked staff to kick out an audience member who was filming the performance from the front row of a Dublin theatre. And in May, Rosamund Pike spotted an audience member texting during the climax of her performance in Inter Alia. After the curtain call, Pike returned to the stage and shamed the behaviour, without singling out the culprit. Part of me hoped that, like a teacher, she would make the individual in question read their texts out to the rest of the theatre.

Wij begrijpen iets niet. Wij begrijpen natuurlijk niet waarom een man van 26 zomaar drie willekeurige mensen neersteekt in Rotterdam. Maar dat bedoelen we niet. Wat wij namelijk nog meer niet begrijpen, is waarom de politie een dag na de arrestatie laat weten dat de man van 26 die gisteren drie willekeurige mensen neerstak in Rotterdam onbegrepen gedrag vertoonde. Lees die zin nog maar eens over. Iemand doet iets onbegrijpelijks, en dan zegt de politie: onbegrijpelijk. Kijk. We zijn niet gek hè. Wij snappen ook wel dat voorlichters een voorkeur hebben voor dit soort door commissies van ambtenaren bedachte vaagtaal, die nu in de plaats komt van 'verwarde man', omdat dat kennelijk ook alweer te kwetsend is voor mensen van verwarring, van wie we er trouwens steeds meer hebben. Maar stop hier gewoon mee. Er is kennelijk íéts waardoor de politie gelooft dat de man zorg nodig heeft. Zeg dan wat dat is: was hij psychotisch, is hij verslaafd, zat hij aan de drank, of wat dan ook. MAAR ZEG HET GEWOON. Een of andere gek (want dat is het sowieso) steekt zomaar drie mensen op straat neer. Dan heeft het publiek recht om meer informatie dan dit soort verwarrende ambtenarentaal. Onbegrijpelijk.