Sterling, Virginia – November 02, 2026 -- REI Systems has activated its Category B contract (80TECH-26-D0403) under NASA's Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) VI Governmentwide Acquisition Contract, giving the employee-owned firm access to a vehicle with a $20 billion ceiling per contract.

MOUNTAIN VIEW – November 02, 2026 -- Google, Plume, TrendAI, Lumen, HUMAN Security, Synthient and Japan's National Police Agency have taken down X.CPE, a botnet hidden in more than 1.3 million TV set-top boxes across more than 200 countries. Google assesses that disrupting the botnet's command-and-control domains will also cut off access to at least 10 million additional compromised devices.

SAN FRANCISCO – – November 02, 2026 -- Q-Ball Intelligence has launched as an AI-native Predictive Intelligence venture, citing a Q-Ball-informed investment portfolio that returned a cumulative 235.19% between 17 February 2016 and 17 February 2025.

CHICAGO – November 02, 2026 -- Keeper Security won seven honors in Cyber Defense Magazine's 2026 Top InfoSec Innovators Awards. They cover government security, AI agent identity, privileged access management (PAM) and quantum-resilient encryption, and three go to its top executives.

Fulda – November 02, 2026 -- CNS Company Network Solutions GmbH plans to launch KIBUCO, an AI-assisted business networking platform for European companies, in 2027. The concept won a 2026 iF Design Award.

BOSTON – November 02, 2026 -- Black Kite says its new CrowdStrike integration cuts third-party incident response times by 5x by moving vendor risk intelligence natively into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM.

The integration correlates external vendor risk signals with internal telemetry on the platform security operations centers (SOCs) already use. Black Kite says SOC teams handle tens of thousands of inbound signals daily but cannot detect third-party ransomware risk in real time or act on vendor incidents within existing workflows.

SHANGHAI – November 02, 2026 -- The9 Limited (Nasdaq: NCTY) will hold its annual general meeting in Hong Kong on December 4, 2026, with no proposals submitted for shareholder approval.

Hamburg – November 02, 2026 -- Two-thirds of companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland move fewer than a quarter of their AI pilot projects into regular operations, according to a study by Lünendonk & Hossenfelder in cooperation with Sopra Steria. Only 1% have integrated AI agents across more than one core business process.

Sopra Steria concludes that strict internal governance, data quality and compliance structures, often seen as brakes on innovation, are what allow AI agents to scale.

SINGAPORE – November 01, 2026 -- Creator videos linking TikTok users to Codashop have drawn 1 billion views since the mid-June 2026 launch of a partnership between digital content distributor Coda and TikTok Gaming, with click-through averaging above 5% and about 5% of clicks converting to purchases.

GURUGRAM – November 01, 2026 -- Affle 3i Limited has signed a definitive agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of Nasdaq- and TASE-listed Perion Network Limited for US$ 11.70 per share in cash, implying an equity value of about US$ 420 million. The buyer is Affle's Israel-based step-down subsidiary, Affle 3iL Ltd.