⚡️ Mayor Zohran Mamdani's NYPD is poised to sign a three-year, $750,500 no-bid contract with Israeli surveillance firm Cognyte for FalcoNet, an AI-driven device that mimics a cell tower to track phones and can be mounted on police cars and drones or hidden in a backpack, the New York Daily News reported. Cognyte won a tender to sell intercept spyware to Myanmar's state telecom weeks before the 2021 military coup, Reuters previously reported. Meta banned the firm the same year, saying its customers used fake accounts to target journalists and politicians in Kenya, Mexico and Indonesia. The firm is part of an Israeli surveillance industry that grew big as a result of the military's monitoring of Palestinians, whose phone calls Israel's Unit 8200 has intercepted and stored by the millions, including to carry out genocide in Gaza and enforce a brutal illegal occupation in Jerusalem and the West Bank.

🔺 Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman, Pakistani army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir and Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalın will hold a joint meeting with Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday. Ali Bagheri, deputy secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, announced the meeting, Entekhab and Reuters reported. The three countries signed the Mecca Pact in August, a mutual defense agreement that treats an attack on one member as an attack on all. The talks would be Iran's first high-level meeting with all three pact members since the escalation, according to Reuters. Munir also visited Tehran last week as Pakistan works to revive its role as a mediator between Washington and Tehran.