OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
Stay Informed. Stay Ahead.
Wednesday, February 04, 2026
Produced by: Harrison Doyle
AI Models Used: Claude (Anthropic) & GPT (OpenAI)
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Executive Summary
28 Top Articles |
38/46 Active Sources |
6 Categories |
Category Breakdown: 🌍Geopolitics: 5 articles 🕵️Espionage: 5 articles 👁️Surveillance Technology & Privacy: 3 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, Cybersecurity Dive, CSIS |
Judge seems skeptical of Pentagon’s bid to punish Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video
A federal judge seems skeptical of the Pentagon’s bid to censure Sen. Mark Kelly and lower his retirement rank in the wake of a video in which the Arizona senator and other Democrats called on service...
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Trump grants tariff breaks to 'politically connected' companies, Senate Dems say
The White House's trade policy has "opened the door to corruption," according to a letter from Ron Wyden and Chris Van Hollen.
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Morning news brief
Lawmakers have a little over a week to negotiate changes to federal immigration enforcement, peace talks to end the war in Ukraine resume, Trump says GOP should 'nationalize' elections.
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McConnell hospitalized for flu-like symptoms, spokesperson says
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) checked himself into the hospital on Monday evening for flu-like symptoms, his office confirmed Tuesday. A spokesperson for McConnell’s office said the 83-year-old senator...
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In eastern Ukraine’s bitter cold, troops try to halt relentless Russian advance
Russia and Ukraine might be negotiating elsewhere. But along the battlefront in Zaporizhzhia in eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces have been advancing under cover of drones and glide bombs, peace t...
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Pinterest sacks workers for creating tool to track layoffs
The social media platform recently announced that it was axing around 15% of its workforce.
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Trump, Jamie Dimon duke it out over Chase ‘debanking’ claims
President Trump’s lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase kicked off a high-stakes battle between two of the financial world’s most powerful figures. The president is suing the largest U.S. bank and its leader...
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Exclusive: Majority of Trump voters back solar power, poll finds
A majority of Trump-coalition voters back solar power, especially if the panels are made in the U.S. and without Chinese materials, polling shared exclusively with Axios shows. Why it matters: Trump o...
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Military Intelligence Officers: Minneapolis Is an Organized Insurgency
STARRS As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic...
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House Ethics eyes "extremely rare" televised trial for Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick
The House Ethics Committee is poised to hold a rare public hearing to consider charges of financial misconduct against Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.), Axios has learned.Why it matters: A pub...
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U.S.-Iran drone encounter clouds prospects for talks
A drone belonging to Iran's armed forces completed a "surveillance mission" in international waters Tuesday, Iranian media reported, shortly after the U.S. military said it had shot down an Iranian ai...
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Iranian surveillance drone successfully completes mission in intl. waters amid reports of US sabotage
An Iranian Armed Forces' patrol and surveillance drone has successfully completed its mission in international waters amid reports of United States forces' downing one such aircraft.
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FedEx tests how far AI can go in tracking and returns management
FedEx is using AI to change how package tracking and returns work for large enterprise shippers. For companies moving high volumes of goods, tracking no longer ends when a package leaves the warehouse...
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Global Threat Map: Open-source real-time situational awareness platform
Global Threat Map is an open-source project offering security teams a live view of reported cyber activity across the globe, pulling together open data feeds into a single interactive map. It visualiz...
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Hackerangriff auf Romina Mineralbrunnen
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Cybercriminals set sites on identities
Eye Security’s 2026 State of Incident Response Report shows that cyberattacks on companies are increasingly going undetected, and the damage occurs within minutes. According to the report, attackers a...
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Russian Hackers Weaponize Microsoft Office Bug in Just 3 Days
APT28's attacks rely on specially crafted Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF) documents to kick off a multistage infection chain to deliver malicious payloads.
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From credentials to cloud admin in 8 minutes: AI supercharges AWS attack chain
Threat actors tore through an Amazon Web Services environment in under eight minutes, chaining together credential theft, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and GPU resource abuse with the help o...
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| 🤖Artificial Intelligence | 5 |
OpenAI's Meta makeover
Facebook's meteoric rise two decades ago offers OpenAI a rich but potentially treacherous playbook for the ChatGPT maker to defend and expand its lead in the consumer AI market.Why it matters: Faceboo...
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States race forward on education AI regulations despite Trump objections
State lawmakers gave AI in education a lot of attention in last year’s legislative session with more than 50 bills proposed, and schools have wasted no time trying to teach students about the latest u...
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Paris prosecutors raided X offices and summoned Musk as global crackdown on Grok intensifies
French prosecutors raided X's Paris offices Tuesday and summoned Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino for voluntary questioning in a criminal probe tied to Grok's Holocaust denial and explicit dee...
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Apple Xcode 26.3 adds coding agent support from OpenAI and Anthropic
Apple released Xcode 26.3 with new agentic coding capabilities designed to let AI systems carry out development tasks inside the IDE. The release supports agents such as Anthropic’s Claude Agent and O...
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Xcode moves into agentic coding with deeper OpenAI and Anthropic integrations
Xcode 26.3 offers agentic coding capabilities with Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex.
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Russia Has Turned Sports Into a Weapon
The Olympic ban is a necessary counter to Moscow’s abuse.
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Death of Nigerian singer after snakebite highlights crisis of ‘preventable’ fatalities
Ifunanya Nwangene died in hospital after being bitten in her Abuja home, raising questions about the availability of effective antivenomsIn a last message to her friends, Ifunanya Nwangene wrote: “Ple...
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Harry Potter’s Draco Malfoy becomes mascot for year of the horse in China
Mandarin transliteration of character’s name regarded as auspicious, prompting wave of memes and fan artDraco Malfoy, one of Harry Potter’s most recognisable villains, has become an unlikely lunar new...
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Trump tried to gut science research funding. Courts and Congress have rebuffed him.
Scientists' worst fears about Trump's cuts to research funding haven't come to pass, thanks to several legal challenges and Congress’ recent rejection of his proposed budget cuts.
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Will calls to 'abolish ICE' sway voters in 2026? The strategy has Democrats split
The Trump administration's immigration efforts have led some Democrats to call for abolishing ICE. Others won't go as far, wary of appearing out of step with voters who want immigration laws enforced.
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OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
Stay Informed. Stay Ahead.
This newsletter aggregates intelligence from 46 vetted sources.
Generated: 2026-02-04 at 11:36:59 UTC
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