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Abdellah Belmili, a 26-year-old Algerian national, was recently arrested in Spain and extradited to the United States, where he faces up to 30 years in prison for allegedly running two cybercrime marketplaces. According to the US Justice Department, Belmili, also known as Dila Belmili and Spox, was the administrator of
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Get to know the jury behind the HT Tech Power List Awards 2026 and the experts assessing this year's nominees. Credibility lies at the heart of the HT Tech Power List Awards 2026. To ensure every winner is selected through informed judgment and rigorous evaluation, the awards bring
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Microsoft Threat Intelligence and Microsoft Defender Experts have reportedly discovered a Windows-based cryptocurrency clipper, believed to be active since February 2026. Microsoft experts detected the malware as Trojan:Win32/CryptoBandits.A, (CryptoBandits malware), and probing further, they found that it monitors computer clipboards to steal financial data and give hackers
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Suitable for running untrusted code, AI agents, or any long-running task AWS has introduced Lambda MicroVMs, built on its Firecracker virtual machine monitor, which can run isolated Linux containers with runtimes of up to eight hours, in contrast to the 15-minute limit on containers in Lambda functions. MicroVMs form a
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Reports of an Australian police inquiry into a visa-for-sex allegation knocked billions off the logistics software firm, four months after White returned to its leadership. Richard White, the billionaire founder and executive chairman of the Australian logistics software company WiseTech Global, has denied any involvement in human trafficking after reports
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Tencent Holdings is in talks to walk away from several of the minority stakes it holds in Japanese game studios, among them the Tokyo-listed developer Marvelous Inc., as the company reassesses a global games portfolio it spent years assembling. The discussions, first reported by Bloomberg, would unwind part of a
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The Paris startup, founded by two former Datadog hands, wants to end the per-byte pricing model just as AI workloads make telemetry explode. Tsuga, a Paris startup building observability software for the age of AI agents, has raised a $35m Series A, a round that arrives barely six months after
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The Irish startup is buying B300 GPUs to expand a GDPR-compliant inference platform aimed at the banks, hospitals, and law firms that cannot send their data abroad. TensorX, a startup building AI inference infrastructure that keeps European data inside Europe, has raised €8m to buy Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, including the
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Google is building an AI startup incubator that draws on its network of former employees, the so-called “Xooglers”, according to Bloomberg. The pitch is neat in its logic: as some of the company’s most capable people leave to start their own AI ventures, an incubator built around alumni keeps
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Looking ahead: The idea of a car that appears to swallow light rather than reflect it has lingered on the fringes of materials science for years. Now, a group of researchers says it has
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* A Reddit user has created a touch-sensitive mouse mat with built-in buttons * The Kage GhostPad device can be programmed with different functions * It will enter crowdfunding soon, but already looks to be expensive Over the years, there have been various devices that put quick computing controls at your fingertips — think
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The PC hardware market has been dominated by the RAM crisis in 2026, with prices for components reaching absurd levels, particularly (and unsurprisingly) memory kits. Without an affordable way to buy RAM for new PC builds, there's not much that can be done outside of playing the waiting
