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Tomorrow morning: IoT News Digest #2627 drops.

Five stories worth your attention:

→ $8 billion and Rocket Lab gets Iridium's spectrum, constellation, and 2.55 million IoT subscribers. The deal folds launch, manufacturing, and an operating satellite-IoT network under one owner.

→ Identiv sold its entire IoT hardware operation to Trackonomy for $50 million in equity. The company exits device manufacturing and refocuses on the software layer running on top.

→ 30,000 vehicles built alongside a humanoid - and BMW just gave it a harder job. Figure AI's robot graduated from a fixed insertion task to unstructured parts picking at Spartanburg.

→ CVSS 10.0, actively exploited, 72-hour patch deadline. CISA added a max-severity Ubiquiti command-injection flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and named federal civilian agencies as bound operators.

→ 16.8 GW assembled from 12 million home batteries and thermostats. Tesla, Sunrun, and Renew Home are aggregating consumer devices into a dispatchable grid asset being sold to data-center operators.

Strategic analysis on each: satellite-IoT consolidation risk, physical-AI deployment sequencing, and fleet-security compliance as a procurement signal.

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