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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. Private equity group CVC is taking a minority stake in Istanbul-based Dream Games in a deal that values the maker of hit mobile app Royal Match at close to $5bn. The deal, which was announced … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Funny you should ask. As part of this column’s constant efforts to improve our service (save money) and because the author quite fancied a long bank holiday weekend, this week’s column is being brought … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. TikTok has been handed a €530mn fine for sending users’ data to China, in a ruling the social media group said would have negative ramifications for “any company in Europe with global operations”. Ireland’s Data … Read more
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Video games have introduced us to some of the greatest AI villains ever conceived. In System Shock there was Shodan — imagine Kubrick’s HAL 9000 with a god complex — a space station computer which loses its moral directives and begins conducting horrific experiments on humans. Portal introduced the sarcastic AI GLaDOS, who gloats and taunts the player while … Read more
When Barclays experienced a three-day outage earlier this year, due to a mainframe failure, millions of UK customers were unable to access even the most basic banking services. The disruption not only damaged the bank’s reputation but also left it facing a compensation bill of as much as £7.5mn. Incidents like this are becoming alarmingly … Read more
When Hurricane Francine slammed into Kee Kee Julien-Judson’s southern Louisiana home in September, the real estate agent was already financially underwater from the damage caused by Ida, the tropical storm that hit three years earlier. The day after Ida had hit, with water still streaming into her house, she had driven several miles to get … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Apple has been referred to a criminal prosecutor by a federal judge who found the tech giant “thwarted” her legal order to change its US App Store rules. The judge in California ruled on Wednesday … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Tony Blair’s consultancy offered to advise Brazil’s COP30 climate summit but was knocked back, before the former UK prime minister this week dismissed the UN climate negotiations as lacking the “heft to drive action … Read more
