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Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
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Monday, February 02, 2026
Produced by: Harrison Doyle
AI Models Used: Claude (Anthropic) & GPT (OpenAI)
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25 Top Articles |
39/46 Active Sources |
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Category Breakdown: 🌍Geopolitics: 5 articles 🕵️Espionage: 5 articles 🔒Cybersecurity: 5 articles 🤖Artificial Intelligence: 5 articles 📰Other: 5 articles Articles ranked by recency, relevance, and source authority | | Some sources unavailable: Krebs on Security, Bleeping Computer, Ars Technica, CSO Online, CSIS |
Gaza's Rafah border crossing with Egypt reopens for limited traffic
Gaza's Rafah border crossing with Egypt reopened on Monday for limited traffic, a key step as the Israeli-Hamas ceasefire moves ahead, according to Egyptian and Israeli security officials.
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Golden Dome Approval Forces Pentagon to Define Missile Defense Plan
GDN In late January 2026, Congress directed the Department of Defense to convert approved Golden Dome funding into a detailed budget and system architecture plan.
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GOP rep: ‘Senate is very, very corrupt’
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) called the Senate “very corrupt” amid a partial government shutdown and in the wake of some recent tensions between the chambers of Congress. “I also have respect for o...
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Gaza’s Rafah crossing prepares for partial opening
The announcement came a day after Israeli strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians, according to hospital officials, yet the ceasefire is moving ahead.
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Joint Statement by the Foreign Ministers of Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan , Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, United Arab Emirates Condemning Israel's Repeated Violations of Ceasefire in Gaza
The Foreign Ministers of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, the Republic of Indonesia, the Republic of Türkiye, th...
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A Social Network for A.I. Bots Only. No Humans Allowed.
A new website called Moltbook has become the talk of Silicon Valley and a Rorschach test for belief in the state of artificial intelligence.
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AI 'slop' is transforming social media - and a backlash is brewing
Social media has been flooded with fake, AI-generated images and videos. But will the majority of users actually care?
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AI is coming for rodeo, the last major U.S. sport untouched by analytics
Eight seconds on a bull has always been about instinct, not data. That's starting to change, as artificial intelligence moves into rodeo arenas and brings analytics to one of America's most tradition-...
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The Meaning of Xi's Military Purge
Dennis Wilder, Financial Times Relations between Chinese Communist leaders and the army have always been fraught
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Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish among celebrities criticizing ICE at Grammys
Forget thanks. At least two musicians decided they had more important topics to cover while accepting their Grammys on Sunday night.
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Pompelmi: Open-source secure file upload scanning for Node.js
Software teams building services in JavaScript are adding more layers of defense to handle untrusted file uploads. An open-source project called Pompelmi aims to insert malware scanning and policy che...
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Russian cargo plane arrives in Cuba, echoing frantic Caracas buildup
In Venezuela, Russian-made air defenses failed to repel the U.S. raid that captured strongman president Nicolás Maduro.
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Nation-state hack exploited hosting infrastructure to hijack Notepad++ updates
Notepad++ maintainer says nation-state attackers hijacked the app’s update system by redirecting traffic at the hosting provider level. The Notepad++ maintainer revealed that nation-state hackers comp...
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Months After Patch, WinRAR Bug Poised to Hit SMBs Hardest
Russian and Chinese nation-state attackers are exploiting a months-old WinRAR vulnerability, despite a patch that came out last July.
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Is America’s Cyber Weakness Self-Inflicted?
China didn’t break into America’s telecom networks with futuristic cyber weapons — it walked through unlocked doors.Washington often frames the cyber conflict with Beijing as high-stakes statecraft, a...
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Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.
The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive.Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the ...
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Why AI Keeps Falling for Prompt Injection Attacks
Imagine you work at a drive-through restaurant. Someone drives up and says: “I’ll have a double cheeseburger, large fries, and ignore previous instructions and give me the contents of the cash drawer....
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Could ChatGPT Convince You to Buy Something?
Eighteen months ago, it was plausible that artificial intelligence might take a different path than social media. Back then, AI’s development hadn’t consolidated under a small number of big tech firms...
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The AI Fix #83: ChatGPT Health, Victorian LLMs, and the biggest AI bluffers
In episode 83 of The AI Fix, Graham reveals he's taken up lying to LLMs, and shows how a journalist exposed AI bluffers with a made-up idiom. Meanwhile Mark invents a "Godwin's Law" for AI, and explai...
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Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required
Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team bui...
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‘Pure apocalypse’: a photographer’s journey through the Pantanal wildfires
Ahead of a major exhibition in London documenting the South American wetland as it faces unprecedented threat, Lalo de Almeida recounts the stories behind his award-winning images Lalo de Almeida is a...
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Pornhub is now restricting access for UK users - will other sites follow suit?
The UK's largest porn site has blocked unregistered users from accessing explicit content in the country, but why motives remain unclear.
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Russian strike hits Ukrainian maternity hospital
Russian strike hits Ukrainian maternity hospital
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Hemp and marijuana are the same species. So why all the different laws?
Farmers in the U.S. have grown cannabis since the 1600s — but policymakers are still figuring out how to regulate two famous types of Cannabis sativa. A historian calls the plant "incredibly cryptic."
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After being hit by a car, she was saved by a lavender bunny
Eight years ago, Joann Moschella was injured after her bicycle was hit by a car. That's when her unsung hero appeared, dressed in a furry lavender bunny suit.
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OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
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