LES PRAERES (ANP) - Anna van der Breggen heeft de voorlaatste rit van de Vuelta Femenina gewonnen en de rode leiderstrui overgenomen van haar Belgische ploeggenoot Lotte Kopecky. Op de loodzware slotklim naar Les Praeres (3,7 kilometer met een gemiddeld stijgingspercentage van 13,4 procent) reed de Nederlandse renster van SD Worx-Protime zittend weg bij al haar concurrenten.

De Spaanse Paula Blasi werd op 8 seconden tweede, Marion Bunel uit Frankrijk werd derde op 29 seconden.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De Amsterdamse AEX-index is vrijdag met een kleine min het weekend ingegaan. Beleggers op het Damrak deden het even rustig aan na een drukke week met veel kwartaalcijfers van grote bedrijven. De aandacht ging nu onder meer uit naar het belangrijke Amerikaanse banenrapport dat beter uitviel dan verwacht. De chipfondsen ASML, Besi en ASMI stonden wel bij de stijgers in de AEX.

De hoofdgraadmeter op de Amsterdamse beurs sloot 0,2 procent in het rood op 1017,50 punten. Daarmee werd opnieuw een stapje teruggedaan, want op donderdag zakte de AEX al 1,2 procent. Op woensdag werd juist nog een slotrecord neergezet. De MidKap verloor 0,5 procent tot 1049,07 punten. Op de aandelenmarkten in Parijs en Frankfurt werden verliezen tot 1,3 procent geleden. De FTSE 100 in Londen zakte 0,4 procent.

De chipbedrijven noteerden plussen tot 2,7 procent. Andere winnaars waren onder meer muziekconcern Universal Music Group (UMG) en ijsbedrijf Magnum met koerswinsten tot 1,6 procent.

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss storage, RSS, and a big reporting project.

JOSEPH: In an earlier BTB I mentioned the pain of obtaining cryptocurrency in 2026. Well, that was in service for the article we published this week called ‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World. This has been a long time coming. As you can read in the piece, it took weeks, eventually more than a month really, to get the people to sell me the software and for us to test it.

I wanted to talk about my opinion on the ethics around a story like this. This is not a science. Many journalists have a different view on all sorts of different techniques or conduct. But these are my thoughts. 

​Nu er wereldwijd zorgen ontstaan over het opduikende hantavirus, voelt Famke Louise zich geroepen zich opnieuw uit te spreken. De influencer, die tijdens de coronapandemie al viroloog kritische geluiden liet horen, benadrukt nu dat je ‘er niet te vroeg bij kunt zijn.’

Volgens experts kan een nieuwe pandemie pas echt serieus genomen worden als Famke Louise haar respect ervoor heel ongemakkelijk uitspreekt. Het is volgens hen daarom erg fijn dat Famke dit nu al doet.

Ook ditmaal heeft ze wat woorden op papier gezet, ‘omdat dat gewoon kan’. “Ik heb ook superveel respect voor hanta, het hantavirus, de ratten die het dragen, en zo,” begint ze aan de talkshow tafel van Eva Jinek. Daarnaast benadrukt ze de kijkers nog een keer dat we in een maatschappij leven.

Volledige erkenning van het virus blijft voorlopig nog uit, omdat er volgens haar nog niet echt veel mensen dood zijn ‘en zo’

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Amy knew it wasn’t great. But there she was, at the bottom of a dumpster, desperately searching for the THC vape cartridge she’d thrown away just hours earlier.

Amy, 18, had previously tossed that same cartridge, known colloquially as a cart, into a public trash can. Passersby stared as she later rooted around to recover it. So she lifted the entire garbage bag and brought it back to her apartment, where she dug through a bunch of sloppy, stinking detritus before finding it and taking a grateful toke. Later that same week, she threw it into the dumpster – surely that would prevent her from going back. But she did.

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UK government borrowing costs fell and the pound rose on Friday as Keir Starmer vowed to remain as prime minister despite the Labour party losing hundreds of council seats across England.

Investors calculated that some of the intense pressure on Starmer’s leadership had eased, as Labour appeared on track for smaller losses than election experts had predicted.

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En, hoe smaken we Nadia? Sowieso twee landen geroemd om hun keukens, dus dit kan eigenlijk alleen maar een lange explosie in je mond worden. Het gaat maar door ook; ontbijt, lunch, diner en snacks tussendoor. Wij zitten er vol van! Uitstekend werk Arnold.

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Rijkswaterstaat gaat in het weekend verder met het asfalteren van Ring Zuid bij Rotterdam. De hoofdrijbaan van de A15 richting Ridderkerk is dicht. Ook op de A27 naar Utrecht wordt gewerkt aan de weg.

The Iran conflict is adding to supply-chain disruption for datacenter construction projects, bumping up material costs and causing shortages due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. So says server hall project specialist BCS Consultancy, which claims construction firms are seeing increases of up to 20 percent in the cost of certain building materials, while in some cases, the quantity available for delivery has been reduced to a quarter of the required amount on order. The firm’s regional director Oskar Lampe says that oil-based building materials are becoming scarcer and more expensive, as about a fifth of the global supply flows through the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East. Because producing materials such as steel, aluminum, and cement is very energy-intensive, the construction industry is starting to feel the effects of the blockade, he claims. “For datacenter construction, the key components of which consist of exactly these materials, this is a turning point,” he stated. That pressure predates the current conflict, according to IDC. Andrew Buss, senior research director at the analyst house, told The Register: “We’re hearing some reports of broader supply chain disruption and availability issues – particularly for things like high-voltage transformers and copper supply - around datacenter builds from even before the war in the Middle East and the resulting closure of the Straits of Hormuz. “So the closing of the Straits is certainly not helping, but this has been an issue for some time resulting in more frailty and susceptibility to disruption and therefore likely to have a disproportionate impact as a result of the closure.” Last month, IDC warned that IT equipment supplies are facing further volatility as the Iran war has strained global logistics through rising energy costs and freight routes being disrupted. It isn’t just bit barn projects that are suffering, of course. The wider construction industry is experiencing some of the steepest cost increases in nearly 30 years as the ongoing Iran crisis drives up the price of fuel and raw materials, according to The Guardian. These new effects come on top of existing challenges facing the datacenter construction industry, such as the availability of suitable land, getting planning permission, being able to get a grid connection for power, skills shortages and the cost of equipment. Segro, one of the UK's major commercial property developers, revealed a while back that it would invest "hundreds of millions and more" in building new server farms, except that it faced delays often running into years getting such projects wired up to the national grid. Lampe says that the current situation is unlikely to ease quickly, as it will take a while for disrupted transport routes, energy price inflation and volatile raw material markets to recover, even if the Strait of Hormuz were to reopen tomorrow. He advises development teams to follow a few measures to try and minimize the impact on their project timelines, including submitting orders for long lead items early, building clear price escalation rules into contracts, and diversifying supply chains where possible. For example, delivery times can vary between 5 and 38 months for chillers, transformers, generators and other critical plant equipment, even under normal conditions. “Those who only start the procurement process when the project plan dictates will order at a higher price and wait longer,” he notes. Also, dependence on a single supplier is a structural risk for builders even before this conflict and can seriously endanger projects. Known alternatives are needed. “For several oil-based materials, technically equivalent, non-oil-based variants exist. Potentially more expensive to procure, but available and in many cases already geared towards future sustainability requirements, which makes them the more sensible choice in the medium term anyway,” Lampe says. ®