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 facility, and what additional evidence is needed before making a claim about its operator.
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…
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…
Cognyte at IACP 2026 Puts Investigative AI and Evidence Traceability in Focus
Cognyte plans investigative analytics demonstrations at IACP 2026 in Orlando. The practical test is how its AI workflows preserve evidence, uncertainty and analyst oversight.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Pixxel Raises $100M Series C as Hyperspectral Imagery Moves Closer to the Collection Stack
Pixxel, the Earth observation company split between Los Angeles and Bengaluru, has closed a $100 million Series C co-led by Temasek and Seraphim Space. New…
Why European Governments Are Dropping Palantir, and Which Companies Want the Contracts
France’s domestic intelligence service told Palantir it was leaving in June. The DGSI had been running Gotham since 2016, adopted in the months after the…
Qatari and Turkish Funding of European Islamist Networks: An Open-Source Assessment of the Protest Link
The assertion that pro-Palestinian street mobilisation in European cities is organised and financed by Qatar and Turkey is usually made without reference to what open…
RT’s Mirror Domains Outlasted the EU Ban: How OSINT Researchers Map the Network
The European Union restricted RT and Sputnik in March 2022. The restriction was written against outlets and enforced against domains, and those are not the…
Room 3603: British Intelligence Ran Its Largest Wartime Station Out of Rockefeller Center
The tower in the middle of the frame is 30 Rockefeller Plaza. One block east, at 630 Fifth Avenue, the International Building housed a foreign…
Intel’s $20 Billion Upsize and Cloudflare’s Zero-Coupon Converts Say the AI Boom Is Strengthening
One day of wire traffic is a bad sample and a good instrument. It is bad because Businesswire is paid distribution, so the population is…
CoreWeave’s $2.6B Loan, Point2’s $136M Series B and MaxLinear’s Rack Control Plane: The Capital and the Bottleneck Are in Different Layers
MaxLinear introduced RackCommander, a control-plane portfolio covering connectivity, monitoring, control and power management for AI racks, and then in the same news cycle extended it…
The AI Buildout Shifts to Debt and Household Bills
Riot Platforms sold Anthropic 191 megawatts of capacity at its Rockdale, Texas campus for $9.1 billion over twenty years, and the stock added roughly a…
The AI trade is entering a new phase
The semiconductor rally led by Intel, AMD and Broadcom is more than another rotation into chip stocks. The market increasingly appears to be looking beyond…
Syria Takes Back Hmeimim and Tartus as Russia’s Bases Become Joint Training Centres
Damascus announced on Sunday that it had reached a memorandum of understanding with Moscow over the two facilities that anchored Russia’s military position in the…
US Intelligence Ties Leipzig Airport Drone Bomb to Russia While Berlin Stays Silent
American officials familiar with intelligence reporting on the August 5 incident at Leipzig/Halle Airport have tied the explosive drone found there to Russian state services.…
China’s DUV Breakthrough, Nvidia’s $250B OpenAI Backstop and the CXMT IPO: Three Headlines, One Mispriced Selloff
The index number understated the damage. The VanEck Semiconductor ETF closed down more than 2%, with intraday prints closer to 4%, but the dispersion underneath…
Fed and Bank of England Rate Decisions This Week: The Hold Is Expected, the Dissents Are Not
The Federal Reserve announces its rate decision Wednesday at 2 p.m. ET, with Chair Kevin Warsh’s press conference following at 2:30. The Bank of England…
Trump’s Tuesday With Zelensky and Netanyahu: One Status Update, One War Council
My instinct, every time a headline reads “Trump meets [foreign leader], no breakthrough expected,” is to file it under theater and keep scrolling. Nine times…
Semis are already in a regime where every headline this month has been read bearishly
Semis are already in a regime where every headline this month has been read bearishly regardless of direction, which is the real setup to understand…
Meta, Microsoft, and Apple Earnings: What $725 Billion in AI Capex Has to Prove
Wednesday brings Meta and Microsoft, both reporting after the close. Thursday brings Apple, also after the close. Alphabet already set the tone on July 22,…