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According to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, his agency is phasing out a contentious arrangement that relied on a broad Pentagon supply-and-services contract to secure beds at immigration detention facilities. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had been tapping the Worldwide Expeditionary Multiple Award Contract (WEXMAC) — a vehicle originally designed by the Navy in 2021 to sustain “forces on missions in austere and remote locations across the globe.” In July 2025, however, the Navy broadened the contract’s scope to cover domestic U.S. orders as well. Last year, ICE partnered with the Army to route a now-canceled $1.3 billion deal through WEXMAC…

According to Berg Insight, shipments of cellular IoT modules climbed to 612 million units in 2025, driven by progress in industrial deployments despite fluctuating prices.Yearly revenue rose 19 percent, reaching $5.6 billion when automotive network access devices are excluded. Industrial operators drove this uptake following a phase of sluggish demand, which was caused by excess stock held by customers. Factory automation leaders had previously put hardware purchases on hold while they worked through accumulated component inventories.New deployment energy came driven by specific local regulatory requirements in Spain and China. These rules compel utility companies to modernize their smart metering systems…

Orbbec displayed its robotic vision setups at Automate 2026. Courtesy of Orbbec In Chicago this week, Orbbec unveiled its newest 3D vision offerings to keep up with rising demand for smart automation across industries. The Shenzhen-based firm noted that it has adapted its rugged 3D cameras for tough environments. Its lineup also features AI-assisted systems intended to boost robots’ ability to interpret their surroundings. AI-powered 3D vision tackles factory-floor limitations As factory vision systems increasingly merge with edge AI, Orbbec explained that it has paired accurate 3D hardware with a sophisticated AI model. The business asserted that this combination strengthens…

SAP brings together scattered commerce data structures to make operational AI-driven personalisation possible right at the point of execution.Business leaders consistently set goals aimed at predicting customer needs and delivering relevant experiences across every digital channel. But the underlying infrastructure within most enterprises simply cannot keep up with the demands of carrying out these initiatives systematically at scale.Product recommendation engines show generic listings because the behavioural data driving them stays locked in silos. Marketing teams send out emails according to fixed calendar dates instead of adjusting to how individual users actually behave. Company loyalty programmes hand out rewards based purely…

Welcome to the foundational essay of the Enterprise Document Intelligence series, which constructs an enterprise RAG framework using four core components: parsing, query understanding, retrieval, and response generation. Magnifying the expert: the foundational principle guiding every architectural decision in this series. The article’s place in the series: a manifesto alongside the numbered backbone – Image by author If you take away only one concept from this entire series, let it be this: enterprise RAG systems magnify the expert. They do not substitute for them. This piece lays out the foundational argument early, before any technical methods are introduced, because every…

Published on June 26, 2026 by André Martins (Cilium maintainer and Software Engineer, Isovalent at Cisco) and Feroz Salam (Cilium Security Team and Security Engineer, Isovalent at Cisco) CNCF projects highlighted in this post This installment concludes a three-part series on strengthening Cilium’s CI/CD pipeline. The first entry dealt with access controls, the second with dependency hardening, and now this final piece addresses the remaining concerns: isolating CI from production signing credentials, signing and validating every release, and identifying the security gaps that still need attention. Securing access credentials We design under the assumption that any single defense layer could…

Authored by Marc Kavinsky, Lead Editor at IoT Business News.Mlink has initiated live over-the-air testing of its MS150-IR IoT-NTN chipset via Iridium NTN Direct, transitioning the hardware silicon from lab-based verification to real satellite network trials. This development is significant because it opens up an additional chipset pathway for OEMs and module manufacturers pursuing standards-based satellite NB-IoT and direct-to-device connectivity.For a growing number of IoT deployments, the connectivity challenge is no longer about linking a sensor within a city, a warehouse, or along a key transportation route. The more pressing concern is what occurs when the same asset, vehicle, utility…

Bitget, the world’s leading Universal Exchange (UEX), has kicked off the third edition of its Anti-Scam Month campaign by unveiling the Anti-Scam Report 2026, titled “The Evolution of Fraud in the Multi-Asset Era.” Created in collaboration with blockchain security experts SlowMist, the report explores how fraudulent schemes are shifting alongside the rapid growth of digital finance, which now spans cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets, stocks, CFDs, wallets, and AI-driven investment tools. The study reveals that evolving user habits are directly influencing how scams are planned and executed. Bitget Research data shows that the percentage of active users engaging with two or more…

A recurring question in the payments space is whether a large-language-model agent can take over from a gradient-boosted decision-tree scorer on the synchronous authorization hot path. The question makes intuitive sense — agents are already handling investigation queues that previously required a seasoned analyst flipping across five dashboards, so extending that capability to real-time transaction scoring feels like a natural next step. I put together a compact benchmark to find out. The entire setup runs on a laptop. There’s no GPU, no API key, and no cloud account needed. The source is available on GitHub at github.com/sandeepmb/fraud-agents-benchmark. Every chart and…

Robust fraud prevention programs require oversight at every customer touchpoint — from account registration to checkout, from login to customer support interactions. Once this is in place, it delivers granular, step-by-step visibility into how users engage. While this is an essential layer of awareness, properly aggregating diverse data sets supplies the context needed to uncover sophisticated fraud techniques and spot emerging patterns early.Below, we walk through a real-world fraud scenario illustrating relevant data visibility across 4 levels — each necessary for building a competitive fraud program in today’s ever-changing landscape. Transaction Level: Individual user actions monitored and evaluated in isolation.…