ALGERIATECH Editorial
Cybersecurity & Risk
Deepfake CEO Fraud: The Wire Transfer Attack That Changed Business Security
In early 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm based in Hong Kong sat down for what appeared to be a routine video conference. The call included several familiar faces: a senior executive, a few colleagues, and the company's chief financial officer.
Startups
Beyond Software: Deep Tech Hardware Startups in Quantum, Photonic
Deep tech hardware attracted over $6 billion in venture investment globally in 2025, with quantum computing alone pulling in nearly $2.5 billion across more than 200 deals — figures that would have seemed fantastical a decade ago, when the prevailing wisdom said hardware was a
Skills & Careers
Three Roles, One Future: How Data Scientist, ML Engineer, and AI Engineer Are Converging
In 2023, LinkedIn reported that "AI Engineer" was among the fastest-growing job titles on the platform — a role that barely existed three years earlier. Yet recruiters posting for this title often described responsibilities indistinguishable from those of a machine learning
AI & Automation
Beyond Copilot: Cursor, Windsurf, and the 2026 AI IDE Arms Race
When GitHub launched Copilot in June 2021, it felt like science fiction made real: an AI that completed your code as you typed. By 2023, it had crossed one million paid subscribers.
Digital Economy
Creator Economy 2.0: Substack, Beehiiv, and the Shift to Paid Subscriptions
The creator economy is no longer a side hustle story. It is a structural shift in how content, expertise, and audience relationships are monetized — and in 2026, the dominant model is no longer advertising.
AI & Automation
AI That Clicks Buttons: Computer-Use Agents and GUI Automation
Most software was never designed to be automated. It was designed for humans — eyes reading screens, hands moving mice, fingers hitting keys.
Startups
Climate Plus AI: The Startup Sector Attracting Both ESG and Enterprise Capital
Something unusual is happening in venture capital right now: the same startup pitch is landing with both ESG-mandated institutional funds and hard-nosed enterprise procurement teams. The sector making this possible is climate tech — and the ingredient that unlocked enterprise
Infrastructure & Cloud
The OLAP Renaissance: ClickHouse, DuckDB, and the Analytics Database Disruption
For most of the last decade, the analytics database market ran on a simple premise: if you needed fast answers on large datasets, you paid a cloud provider a great deal of money to do it for you. Snowflake, Google BigQuery, and Amazon Redshift dominated the space, charging by
Digital Economy
130 Countries, One Goal: The CBDC Race and What Digital Currencies Mean for Tech
The global monetary system is undergoing its most significant transformation in decades. According to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), 130 countries — representing 98% of global GDP — are now actively exploring central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
Skills & Careers
Building in Public: How Writing and Content Creation Became a Tech Career Strategy
There is a developer somewhere right now who is more employable than you — not because they can code better, but because people know they exist. They share what they build.
Policy & Regulation
The Biometric Privacy Explosion: BIPA, State Laws, and Global Divergence
Your face is a password you cannot change. Your fingerprint, your iris, your voiceprint — these are permanent identifiers that, once leaked or misused, cannot be reset like a forgotten PIN.
