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Welcome to First FT. Here today's top stories. Wikileaks has published what it claims are documents detailing CIA techniques for hacking into devices, like smartphones and internet connected TVs. Security experts are now warning that intelligence agencies could potentially help criminals and terrorists by releasing powerful cyber weapons into wider use through using the tools.
Japan's SoftBank is set to sell an $8 billion stake in Arm, the UK chip designer to the new Saudi backed vision fund. SoftBank bought Arm just six months ago. And the sale will place 25% of the company in the $100 billion fund.
And China has attempted to diffuse recent tensions between North Korea and the US. Foreign minister Wang Ye criticised both countries in Beijing's first substantive comments, since the half brother of North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un was assassinated and Pyongyang conducted a series of missile tests. He proposed that North Korea suspend its nuclear missile activities in exchange for a halt to the US South Korean military exercises. For more of today's top stories go to ft.com/firstft.
