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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Jes Staley told US lawmakers he did not connect Jeffrey Epstein’s large cash withdrawals from his JPMorgan Chase account with his sex offences, saying it was “incredible” to him that the financier continued to abuse minors after he was released from prison. “You know, you can go to jail for . . . a year and you’ve been convicted of abusing minors, it’s just incredible to me that he would continue to do it after he got out of jail,” Staley told lawmakers, according to a transcript…

Michele Spagnuolo, the Google engineer arrested in May by US authorities for alleged insider trading on Polymarket, is making a new bold bet. On Wednesday, his legal team filed a motion to dismiss the charges against him. Spagnuolo isn’t outright denying that he made money using internal information from Google. Instead, his legal team says that the wagers were not financial instruments subject to regulation by the United States’ Commodities Exchange Act but rather good old-fashioned international betting that the US has no authority over.Spagnuolo, who has been placed on leave from Google, is accused of committing commodities fraud, wire…

Shares of Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA) are surging after reporting stronger-than-expected second-quarter financial results and raised its outlook for the full fiscal year, with artificial intelligence (AI) emerging as an increasingly important source of demand. Shares of the of identity security company jumped more than 19% in extended trading Wednesday, climbing above $160 after closing the regular session at $134.42. For its fiscal second quarter, ended July 31, Okta reported revenue of $805 million, an increase of 11% from the same period a year earlier. Subscription revenue rose 12% to $793 million. The company posted GAAP net income of $116 million,…

In brief OneKey reproduced a transaction-replacement attack against version 1.22.1 of Ledger’s Ethereum app. Ledger says it fixed the vulnerability in version 1.22.2 before OneKey published its test and has seen no evidence of attacks against users. Ledger recommends installing Ethereum app version 1.22.3 or later and checking the app version on the device. Cryptocurrency wallet developer Ledger rejects claims that it had been hacked after researchers at rival wallet maker OneKey reproduced a transaction-replacement vulnerability using an outdated version of Ledger’s Ethereum app.On Thursday, Yishi Wang, founder and CEO of OneKey, said on X that the company’s Anzen security…

Aug 27, 2026 NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch at 7:26 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 30. While you wait to watch the launch, brush up on some key facts about this wide-view mission. 01 The mission is named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, Dr. Nancy Grace Roman. Roman is named after Dr. Nancy Grace Roman (1925–2018), NASA’s first chief of astronomy. She championed space-based observatories that could study the universe above Earth’s hazy atmosphere while making their data broadly available to the scientific community. While she’s known as the “mother” of the Hubble Space Telescope, Roman…

Costa Rica’s Osa Conservation moved 13 white-lipped peccaries by truck and boat across the Golfo Dulce to reintroduce the threatened species to Piedras Blancas National Park, where hunters had wiped it out roughly 18 years ago.The peccaries function as ecosystem engineers, churning soil, dispersing seeds, and digging wallows that become microhabitats, and serve as key prey for jaguars, which had also vanished from the park.The translocation followed more than a decade of population study, community outreach, and patient corral-baiting, culminating in a 16-hour, 20-person relay to capture, transport, and soft-release the herd, which now appears healthy and cohesive based…

Every third morning Soumia Bensalah was roused before the break of dawn. Pulled from her cell, shackled hand and foot, she was herded onto a bus and driven over Tampa Bay from the Pinellas County Jail to a cramped hold room at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office.  Each time, she sat there all day, still shackled. Once evening came, she was driven back to the jail, forced to wait for hours in a hallway, photographed, strip-searched, questioned and led back to her cell. This happened five times last December, and Bensalah said it left her exhausted and humiliated.…

Thousands of people in Nepal and Tibet are in desperate need of emergency assistance following Wednesday’s disaster. With 360 people confirmed dead, more than 1,300 others are still missing as search and rescue operations continue. The precise sequence of events linking glacier collapse to flash floods is yet to be confirmed. But there is no doubting the enormous destructive power of the brown torrent that can be seen on video clips surging down the steeply sided Himalayan valleys, sweeping away everyone and everything in its path.Testimony from survivors about terrifying near-escapes and losses is reminiscent of previous disasters, including the…

Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’Donald Trump summoned the press pool to the Oval Office to witness him signing an executive order that directs the Department of the Interior to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America”.This comes after trade talks between Canada collapsed over the weekend and led to a fray of tariffs between Washington and Ottowa.Trump claimed the name change was something “I’ve been thinking about for a long time”.“Canada treats us very badly,” the president said. “People oftentimes they’ll ask me who’s the worst to deal with on trade, and I said that’s easy.…

The National Institute for Origin and Quality (INAO), which regulates France’s labels of origin, has also approved temporary changes to the rules for other protected produce because of the effects of the summer heat.Products that will benefit include some types of Calvados and cider from Normandy, Crémant d’Alsace fizzy wine, lamb from Poitou-Charentes, and Reine-Claude plums.Certificates of origin allow farmers to sell at a premium, but they come with strict regulations governing the location and method of production. The aim is to preserve the unique identity of cheeses, wines and other foodstuffs, supposedly linked to their particular terroir – a…