Format: News
Digital Economy
Fintech Open Innovation: How Algeria’s Banks Are Becoming Venture Clients
Algeria's banks adopt venture clienting to buy fintech startup solutions for digital payments, BNPL, and open banking under new PSP and digital banking laws.
Policy & Regulation
What the Law Actually Says: Algeria’s Cryptocurrency Ban Explained
Algeria criminalizes cryptocurrency under Law 25-10. Full legal breakdown of the 2018 ban, 2025 criminal penalties, and Bank of Algeria enforcement.
AI & Automation
Yann LeCun’s Billion-Dollar Bet: Why the Godfather of Deep Learning Says LLMs Are a Dead
Yann LeCun left Meta to build AMI Labs, betting $3.5B that world models and JEPA will replace LLMs. Here is why his alternative matters.
Startups
The New Startup Playbook: Lessons from Founders Who Built Billion-Dollar Companies in
How founders like Bret Taylor, Eric Simons, and Maor Shlomo are rewriting startup rules. Five patterns from billion-dollar AI-era companies.
Cybersecurity & Risk
Six Zero-Days Under Active Attack: Inside February 2026’s Most Dangerous Patch Tuesday
Microsoft patched 58 vulnerabilities including 6 actively exploited zero-days in February 2026. CISA set a March 3 deadline. Full breakdown of the threats.
Cybersecurity & Risk
RoguePilot: How Hidden Instructions in GitHub Issues Let Attackers Hijack Repositories
Orca Security discovered RoguePilot, a passive prompt injection that let hidden GitHub Issue instructions hijack Copilot to leak tokens and take over repositories.
Cybersecurity & Risk
The $580 Million Pig Butchering Takedown: Inside the DOJ’s War on Crypto Romance Scams
DOJ Scam Center Strike Force seized $580M in crypto from pig butchering scams in three months, including a $61M Tether freeze tied to Southeast Asian compounds.
Cybersecurity & Risk
Pentagon vs. Anthropic: When AI Safety Guardrails Collide with National Security
Defense Secretary Hegseth designated Anthropic a supply chain risk, ending a $200M contract over AI safety guardrails on autonomous weapons and surveillance.
Cybersecurity & Risk
The Odido Mega-Breach: When a Telecom Giant Refuses to Pay and Millions of Records Hit
Dutch telecom Odido refused a ransom after ShinyHunters stole 6.2 million customer records via social engineering. The four-day data dump that followed.
Cybersecurity & Risk
The Infostealer Epidemic: How Credential Theft at Scale Is Fueling the Cybercrime Economy
Infostealer malware stole 3.9 billion credentials from 4.3 million devices in 2024. Lumma, RedLine, and StealC power a MaaS economy starting at $250/month.
Cybersecurity & Risk
When Ransomware Kills: Healthcare’s Patient Safety Crisis
Hospital ransomware attacks now threaten patient lives. Cardiac arrest survival dropped from 40% to 4.5% at hospitals near an attacked facility. The crisis is here.
