GHGSat, the Montreal company that runs a commercial fleet of methane-sensing satellites, said on November 5 that Mitsubishi Electric's venture fund, MUFG Bank and London-based Climate Investment bought its convertible notes in October. No amount was disclosed. Climate Investment, which was set up by large oil and gas producers, has backed GHGSat since 2018. The two Japanese … [Read more...] about Mitsubishi Electric and MUFG Back GHGSat as Japan Tests Satellite Methane Tracing at Gas and LNG Sites
Defense Demand Falls While Cyber Exploitation Pressure Stays High
Two reports published on November 1, 2026 offer a useful test of how open-source intelligence handles falling indicators. DefenseMarket.com's Defense Demand Index reads 12.0, in its Slack band, for the week ending October 30. CybersecurityMarket.com's Cyber Threat Pressure gauge reads 55.2, or Elevated, for October. Both declined from their previous readings. Neither decline, … [Read more...] about Defense Demand Falls While Cyber Exploitation Pressure Stays High
MUSICO Brings Emissions Monitoring Into the OSINT Verification Stack
MUSICO is a useful reminder that an intelligence image need not look like an ordinary photograph. The greenhouse-gas instrument aboard China's Tiangong space station is designed to observe carbon dioxide and methane, with a stated spatial resolution of about 100 metres. For an open-source investigator, the interesting question is what such observations can establish about a … [Read more...] about MUSICO Brings Emissions Monitoring Into the OSINT Verification Stack
CoStar Buys Vexcel for $730 Million and Takes Over One of the Biggest Commercial Aerial Imagery Archives
CoStar Group has agreed to buy Vexcel Group for about $730 million in cash. CoStar is best known for commercial real estate data and the Homes.com and Apartments.com listing sites. Vexcel flies one of the largest survey-grade aerial imaging programs in the world. For open-source analysts, this is a change in who owns a major non-satellite imagery source. What CoStar is … [Read more...] about CoStar Buys Vexcel for $730 Million and Takes Over One of the Biggest Commercial Aerial Imagery Archives
Reading Port Webcams as an Intelligence Source
At about 1:28 in the morning on March 26, 2024, a camera mounted on a friend's waterfront home recorded the container ship Dali losing its lights, regaining them, losing them again, and then hitting the Francis Scott Key Bridge. It was the work of a hobbyist, Mike Singer of Anne Arundel County, who had put it up for his Baltimore and Chesapeake Bay Ship Watchers group. By … [Read more...] about Reading Port Webcams as an Intelligence Source
Cognyte at IACP 2026 Puts Investigative AI and Evidence Traceability in Focus
Cognyte is bringing its investigative analytics and operational intelligence offering to IACP 2026, the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference and Exposition, taking place October 24 to 27 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The company has announced demonstrations at booth 309 covering decision intelligence, tactical intelligence, … [Read more...] about Cognyte at IACP 2026 Puts Investigative AI and Evidence Traceability in Focus
Vexcel Opens Plain-Language Search of 15.1 Million km² of Aerial Imagery to AI Agents
Vexcel opened Vexcel Intelligence to customers worldwide on Tuesday. You type a question about the physical world in plain language, and it returns matching aerial images and their locations, ranked by relevance. Behind it sit more than 3 billion vector embeddings built from 15.1 million km² of the company's aerial photography across 47 countries. Customers can search in … [Read more...] about Vexcel Opens Plain-Language Search of 15.1 Million km² of Aerial Imagery to AI Agents
On-Device Models Turn Eyewear Into a HUMINT Collection Platform
Omdia counted 4.2 million AI glasses shipped worldwide in the first half of 2026, up 127% from a year earlier. Meta shipped 3.4 million of them, 81% of the market, almost all camera-equipped Ray-Ban and Oakley frames. The United States took 53.7% of global shipments. So in six months, more than two million cameras went onto American faces, built to look like ordinary … [Read more...] about On-Device Models Turn Eyewear Into a HUMINT Collection Platform
Houthis Fire on Riyadh and Yanbu While Iran Says Hormuz Stays Closed: OSINT Screening, September 20, 2026
The day's main signal is Saudi Arabia. Yemen's Houthis put a ballistic missile toward Riyadh at dawn on September 19, the first air raid alert in the capital since fighting picked up again in July. Ten US embassies across the region have since told Americans to expect flight cancellations and airspace closures. Everything else on the screen is either a slow burn or a claim that … [Read more...] about Houthis Fire on Riyadh and Yanbu While Iran Says Hormuz Stays Closed: OSINT Screening, September 20, 2026
OSINT Digest: Taiwan Coercion Moves From Air to Water, and NATO Absorbs 144 Incursions Without Article 4
Seven items from the past fortnight, all of them assembled from public data. Three of them describe activity that is falling while the pressure behind it rises, which is the harder pattern to write about and the more useful one to track. Taiwan: the sortie count is down because the pressure moved to the water First-half fighter detections around Taiwan came in at 1,334, a … [Read more...] about OSINT Digest: Taiwan Coercion Moves From Air to Water, and NATO Absorbs 144 Incursions Without Article 4