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UAE
Emirati cyber sets foot in Africa

Abu Dhabi's CPX, a state-owned company specialised in cyber offensive operations, has been holding meetings with various African cyber experts over the past few weeks, following in the footsteps of its new parent company, G42.

Latvia
Latvian intelligence ups security for Western players at anti-disinformation conference

To protect participants at the European anti-disinformation NGO EU DisinfoLab's annual conference just held in Riga, only a few hundred kilometres from the Russian border, Latvia's intelligence service deployed reinforced security measures.

Oman, United States
Oman seeks US talent to boost cyber defence

A crossroads of Gulf interest and once in the sphere of British influence, Oman is now looking to the US for its cyber defence needs, with several Pentagon providers in the running for a new contract.

Spotlight | Ukraine, United States
Microsoft, Google, Palantir seek Ukraine deals to capture local technologies

The three US tech companies were busy at the start of the Russia-Ukraine war supplying turnkey tools to Ukrainian forces. Now they are trying to forge partnerships or invest in local players in order to capture technologies developed locally.

China, UAE, United States
Congress tasks Washington's China experts to review Beijing's influence in Abu Dhabi

Concerns about Microsoft's deal with the UAE's G42 have led Congress to ask the intelligence community's top analysts to explore how the partnership could benefit Beijing. The mission is another test for Washington's intelligence experts on China.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
François Lecointre, Binance and Guidepost update, G3, WestExec

Nominations, résultats financiers, nouveaux contrats : chaque mercredi, les petites et les grandes histoires de la communauté mondiale du renseignement d'affaires.

ParisFormer top general Lecointre's active retirement

WashingtonForeign Legion veterans unwittingly cited for surveillance of ex-Binance boss

LondonG3 hires Asia experts after landing John Sawers

WashingtonWestExec looks to space with former Pentagon UFO expert

UAE
AI, 6G, UAV, weapons system: Abu Dhabi's spymasters structure their tech research tools

Faisal al-Bannai, the head of the UAE's defence industry, is hard at work strengthening Abu Dhabi's new technology research tools. President Mohammed bin Zayed's right-hand man for cyber is accelerating the creation of a sovereign defence industry, with help from Western experts.

Russia, Ukraine
Ukrainian military intelligence innovates to thwart Russian war effort

In an attempt to stop the production of strategic fuels used by Russian missiles, the GUR's engineers have developed a new type of drone.

Spotlight | United Kingdom, United States
Amazon, Oracle: Pentagon cloud mega-contract influence peddlers settle scores in court

Big Pentagon digital storage contracts have been the subject of some of the largest influence campaigns in Washington in recent years, now pursued in the courts of Washington and London.

United States
With LUNO A, NGA switches track to generative AI for GEOINT

Hoping to make up for lost time, the US agency is shifting its approach to using AI for geospatial intelligence analysis. Its latest call for tenders in that field, LUNO A, has sparked interest from newcomers and sector giants alike.

The Tech Times
Lumi Networks boosts its management, Boldend gets new CEO, bitCorp expands

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT and a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

HerzliyaRoy Geva Glasberg joins Lumi Networks

WashingtonMichael Barry becomes CEO of Boldend

MilanbitCorp expands

Russia
Critical technologies: the big winners in 'patriotic' anti-sanctions measures

The upheavals generated by the federal government's import substitution policy on Russia's IT and communications market is mainly benefiting a small number of companies in the sector.

France
French legal interceptions platform plagued by blind spots

Despite the efforts that were made to get it up and running, France's legal interceptions platform, or PNIJ, still has major glitches to sort out, a Senate report has revealed.