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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.If it hadn’t been specifically demanded by Donald Trump, a proposal by US regulators to allow companies to scrap quarterly reporting would be in deep jeopardy. There has been an extraordinary outpouring of opposition to the plan by the Securities and Exchange Commission from individual investors, investment professionals, trade and advocacy groups and some companies themselves. More than 99 per cent of comment letters were against giving companies the option to report semi-annually.Much of the outcry focused on how the proposal could…

Elon Musk’s social network X on Wednesday said that starting today, all of its U.S. creator payouts will be handled through X Money, the app’s payments service. This includes payouts from both X’s Original Content Rewards Program and creators’ subscriptions, the company said in an update shared on X. Starting today, U.S. payouts for Original Content Rewards and Subscriptions will be paid through @XMoney. You’ll have access to your payouts the moment they’re sent.› Already using 𝕏 Money? No action needed. Your next payout will be sent there.› Not yet on 𝕏 Money? Open…— Creators (@XCreators) September 2, 2026 The…

Teams running coding agents hit the same wall. Claude Code speaks the Anthropic Messages API, Codex CLI speaks OpenAI, and the model a team actually wants to serve sits behind vLLM, NVIDIA NIM, or Ollama. Rewriting the agent is not an option, so the translation layer has to live somewhere else. Switchyard is NVIDIA’s answer: a Rust proxy and library for LLM traffic that routes requests across providers, translates between OpenAI and Anthropic formats, records operational metrics, and exposes typed, composable routing algorithms. It is released under Apache 2.0 with documentation at docs.nvidia.com/nemo/switchyard. Is it deployable? Yes, but for evaluation…

A critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-82329) in JFrog Artifactory is being exploited in attacks to create tokens that provide administrative access. The flaw is present in the default configuration of self-managed instances of JFrog Artifactory, a repository manager used to store, organize, secure, and distribute software packages. An unauthenticated attacker with network access could exploit it to gain administrative permissions. Researchers at offensive security company watchTowr observed the flaw being exploited by “attackers minting themselves admin tokens.” Details about the flaw are scarce, and JFrog’s advisory does not share many details beyond that the flaw is exploitable in Artifactory’s default…

Ondo Finance is urging US regulators to bring perpetual futures tied to individual stocks onshore, arguing that the products can already operate under the country’s existing security futures framework without new rules.In three Aug. 24 comment letters to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Ondo argued that existing rules can accommodate perpetual stock futures while also accounting for modern margining practices and onchain market data.Ondo said its Panama-based affiliate already offers stablecoin-settled perpetual futures on individual US-listed stocks outside the United States, with the platform recording $8 billion in cumulative trading volume as of…

About 200 people have invaded the Ituna/Itatá Indigenous Land in Brazil’s Pará state since August 13, breaking through Brazil’s Indigenous Affairs Agency (Funai) gates, removing signs and establishing camps.The invasion followed the creation of the Bacajaí Environmental Protection Area that completely overlaps with the federally protected Indigenous Land — creating legal confusion which authorities say has been exploited by individuals who wish to occupy the area.Federal authorities have warned of an imminent risk of confrontation and potentially genocide against Indigenous people living in voluntary isolation and have called for the urgent deployment of the National Force and Federal Police.On…

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. It was originally published by Grist. John Boyer grew up on his family’s 131 acres of rolling fields of corn, oats and wheat in East Jordan. The farm changed ownership outside the family several times over the decades before being rebought by Boyer, who said he felt an obligation to repurchase and farm the land so development wouldn’t encroach on the farming community. “For any farmer, everything’s personal,” Boyer said. “Every piece of property, every stone you pick up, you spend countless hours…

The day so far House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries has vowed a “serious response” after two Democrats voted with Republicans to advance a procedural vote yesterday. Moderates Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Jared Golden voted to advance a resolution condemning socialism, which also contained support for the enactment of Trump’s SAVE America Act, that eight Democrats supported. Jeffries said the decision “represents a significant breach of trust”. More here. Meanwhile, Donald Trump – claiming that the US has control over the strait of Hormuz despite escalating conflict with Iran and extensive evidence to the contrary – has floated the idea of…

Von der Leyen was clear in her statement that the Leipzig attack had involved “military-grade material carried out by Russian operatives on European Union soil”.”We will not tolerate it,” she said.While she was meeting Rutte in Brussels, EU foreign ministers had gathered at Wicklow in Ireland, where France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said action could be taken on a European level against Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” of ships carrying oil and other cargo aimed at avoiding EU sanctions.Barrot and fellow ministers from Belgium and the Netherlands said they had summoned Russian ambassadors in protest at the attack.Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Kestutis…

Reform UK has banned at least three journalists from its annual conference who have reported critically on the party and Nigel Farage.The Guardian’s City editor, Anna Isaac, the investigative reporter Peter Geoghegan and the broadcaster and biographer Michael Crick were told this week that their credentials to cover the event, which begins on Thursday, had been declined.The party has billed its conference, which will take place at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, as “the most talked about event of 2026”. Reform figures are hoping to use it as a reset after a difficult summer consumed by questions about an…