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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Artificial intelligence chatbots, cloud storage platforms and financial systems all depend on data centres that operate round the clock. These facilities underpin the digital economy where even brief interruptions can have far-reaching consequences. That means … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world My first days as a Brit at Harvard coincided with the horrors of 9/11. In need of comfort and unable to tear ourselves away from the news, teenagers of all nationalities squashed on … Read more
This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Good morning. The S&P 500 rallied yesterday, as investors rejoiced over Donald Trump backing down, for now, from higher tariffs … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Big Tech myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The writer is director of Europe and transatlantic partnerships at the Open Markets Institute In its scale and societal importance, cloud computing now resembles a public utility. Nearly all of us depend on it in … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is group chief executive of Nesta, a UK innovation charity When my father was orphaned after fleeing on foot from Myanmar (then Burma) to Chennai during the second world war, he had to … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Social engineering used to refer to large-scale campaigns to alter the attitudes or behaviour of a population. These days, cyber specialists use it to mean something else: manipulating individuals into performing actions or divulging information … Read more
I’m relocating to the UK from the US with my family — I’m British and my wife is American. We signed a pre-nup in California, but will it be upheld in the UK should our relationship break down? Unlike in other countries, the English courts retain the ability to make financial orders that depart from … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As a book lover, I steer well clear of over-prescriptive guides to my reading or my library. I have been known to cancel people who offer to reorganise my bookshelves by colour (the original sin) … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a former supervisory board member of the European Central Bank and a senior fellow at Bocconi University Paul Volcker’s famous judgment against financial innovation sounds exaggerated today. In late 2009, the former … Read more
