‘White hat’ hacker behind $610m crypto heist returns most of money theguardian.com/technology/202…

Bad 2021 vintage for French winemakers thetimes.co.uk/article/bitter…

#Shipping bottlenecks set to prolong supply chain turmoil ft.com/content/e12639…

‘Mr White Hat:’ The story behind a $600m crypto caper ft.com/content/ee9704…

Remittance #fintechs herald a payments revolution ft.com/content/1f11b3…

Days May Be Numbered for the World’s Oldest Bank nytimes.com/2021/08/17/bus…

I wish there were one for gardens! ‘Ten years ago this was science fiction’: the rise of weedkilling robots theguardian.com/environment/20…

China #tech stocks fall sharply after Beijing passes data privacy law ft.com/content/c5572f…

The #Nutella effect: farmers fear for their land as hazelnuts spread across Italy’s hills ft.com/content/d20709…

The story of Britain’s empty shelves, like that of its unpicked strawberries and unprocessed chickens, is of how migration combined with a badly regulated labour market and v.powerful retailers have allowed some things to become unsustainably cheap. ft.com/content/5f832d…

Fee fight reveals market heft of Wall Street utility Broadridge ft.com/content/5f9121…

Millions of electric car batteries will retire in the next decade. What happens to them? theguardian.com/environment/20…

Welcome to the great speculative era ft.com/content/95fd43…

Forbes to merge with Spac as Axel Springer buys Politico #Media ft.com/content/3d28ed…

China’s top court says the tech sector’s 996 overtime culture is illegal #Tech qz.com/2052452/china-…

Hedge funds riding crypto wave post bumper returns ft.com/content/c7bf6c…

France tests crypto assets in series of government bond deals ft.com/content/23c257…

Germany’s 10-year Bund yield turns positive for first time since 2019 ft.com/content/cd81b2…

Facebook gives up on digital payments ambitions with Diem asset sale ft.com/content/e237df…

A good read: A remote village, a world-changing invention and the epic legal fight that followed ft.com/content/7f1290…