OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
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Thursday, February 05, 2026
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Executive Summary
30 Top Articles |
44/44 Active Sources |
6 Categories |
Category Breakdown: 🌍Geopolitics: 5 articles 🕵️Espionage: 5 articles 👁️Surveillance Technology & Privacy: 5 articles 🔒Cybersecurity: 5 articles 🤖Artificial Intelligence: 5 articles 📰Other: 5 articles Articles ranked by recency, relevance, and source authority |
Morning news brief
Hundreds of federal agents are leaving from Minnesota, poll finds a jump in disapproval of ICE among Democrats and Independents, the last major arms control treaty between Russia and the U.S. expires.
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As Trump reshapes foreign policy, China moves to limit risks, reap gains
President Trump's focus overseas may spare China for now, but Beijing still worries that his "America First" rhetoric hasn't softened what it calls U.S. "military adventurism."
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Judge orders Musk to sit for deposition over DOGE, USAID shutdown
Elon Musk and State Department officials must sit for depositions over their role in dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. The big picture: The orde...
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Russian Strikes on Ukraine’s Energy Threaten Trilateral Peace Talks
Kyiv accuses Moscow of using a temporary halt in strikes to stockpile weapons.
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Iran’s Despair Is U.S. Policy
Western sanctions helped kill Iranians’ earlier hopes of their country’s transformation from within.
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Maduro’s alleged frontman Alex Saab reportedly captured in Caracas
FBI and Venezuela’s intelligence agency also reportedly arrest billionaire media mogul Raúl Gorrín at same addressA close and powerful associate of the deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has ...
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Musk grapples with Epstein, deepfake ahead of high stakes projects
Elon Musk has once again found himself at the center of controversy, as the tech billionaire continues to grapple with the fallout from a surge in sexualized deepfakes on his social platform X, while ...
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A ‘Reagan conservative’ explains why he resigned from the federal judiciary
It’s rare for a federal judge to resign over the actions of a president. Mark Wolf, a district court judge in Massachusetts appointed by President Ronald Reagan, made that choice.
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Scoop: FBI chief ready to head to Tucson as Trump pledges help to find Savannah Guthrie's mom
FBI Director Kash Patel is planning a trip to Tucson, Arizona, as President Trump deploys federal resources to find "Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie's mother, two sources tell Axios. The big pict...
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Gunmen kill more than 160 people in attacks on two west Nigeria villages
Local politician says armed men rounded up residents, bound their hands behind their backs and shot themMore than 160 people have been killed in two villages in western Nigeria in the country’s deadli...
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| 👁️Surveillance Technology & Privacy | 5 |
Notepad++ Users, You May Have Been Hacked by China
Suspected Chinese state-backed hackers hijacked the Notepad++ update infrastructure to deliver a backdoored version of the popular free source code editor and note-taking app for Windows.
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Detecting backdoored language models at scale
We're releasing new research on detecting backdoors in open-weight language models and highlighting a practical scanner designed to detect backdoored models at scale and improve overall trust in AI sy...
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Apple’s new iOS setting addresses a hidden layer of location tracking
Apple has introduced Limit Precise Location, a new setting that reduces how precisely cellular networks can locate your device, though support is currently limited.
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Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked
Suspected China-state hackers used update infrastructure to deliver backdoored version.
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Meta confirms it’s working on premium subscription for its apps
Details are currently thin, but one thing is clear: paying more is unlikely to buy users meaningful privacy or less tracking.
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Venezuela plan to turn notorious prison into cultural centre scrubs past horrors, critics say
The move is among several measures the acting president has touted since Maduro’s capture – yet critics say it erases Venezuela’s long history of repressionIt was designed in the 1950s to be the world...
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Russian hackers exploited a critical Office bug within days of disclosure
Russia-linked attackers are reportedly using a new Microsoft vulnerability as part of a coordinated espionage and malware campaign, Operation Neusploit.
The campaign was spotted in January 2026 by Sec...
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Police shut down global DDoS operation, arrest 20-year-old
Police officers from Poland’s Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime (CBZC) have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of carrying out global DDoS attacks targeting high-profile and strategically impo...
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Threat actors hijack web traffic after exploiting React2Shell vulnerability: Report
Threat actors exploiting the React2Shell vulnerability in components of React servers are using their access to compromise web domains and divert web traffic for malicious purposes.
That’s the conclus...
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Kurz vor Olympia: Italien wehrt russische Hacker-Angriffe ab
width="2488" height="1399" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2488px) 100vw, 2488px">Russische Hacker haben kurz vor den Olympischen Winterspielen einige Standorte in Italien angegriffen. Die Angriffe wurden ab...
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| 🤖Artificial Intelligence | 5 |
AI arms race approaches IPO reckoning
A trio of AI titans is barreling toward watershed IPOs this year, posing the ultimate test of whether their lofty ambitions, breakneck spending and founder feuds can survive life under public scrutiny...
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Lifelines amid a deepfake flood
AI is allowing people to produce and share highly manipulated, often sexualized, imagery. Governments, tech leaders, and citizens are being called to rebalance core freedoms and protection from harm.
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Microsoft develops a new scanner to detect hidden backdoors in LLMs
Microsoft has developed a scanner designed to detect backdoors in open-weight AI models, addressing a critical blind spot for enterprises increasingly dependent on third-party LLMs.
In a blog post, th...
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Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users
Google revealed a significant milestone for its Gemini app, announcing over 750 million monthly active users as it competes with ChatGPT and Meta AI.
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Varonis acquires AllTrue.ai to enable safe, compliant AI at scale
Varonis is expanding its AI security capabilities through the acquisition of AllTrue.ai, which brings real-time visibility and security to AI systems, complementing Varonis’ understanding of enterpris...
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Be ‘prudent’ about supplying arms to Taiwan, Xi tells Trump in call
Taiwanese president says ties with Washington ‘rock solid’, hours after leaders of US and China share first call since NovemberIn their first call since November, Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned US p...
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Epstein's Big Tech connections rattle Silicon Valley
The latest release of Epstein files from the Justice Department indicates that the late sex offender had wider and deeper ties in tech than previously known.
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Searching for dinosaur secrets in crocodile bones
Until now, estimating how old a dinosaur was when it died has been a fairly simple process: Count up the growth rings in the fossilized bones. But new research into some of dinosaurs' living relatives...
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They help police with mental health calls. So why are 'mobile crisis' teams in crisis?
Interactions between police and someone in psychiatric crisis can end in violence. Communities have been sending mental health professionals instead, but paying for that service has been a struggle.
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How the new dietary guidelines could impact school meals
Cutting back on ready-to-eat meals won't be easy, and whole milk may make a comeback. One thing that's certain: It'll be a while before the new guidelines trickle down to schools.
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OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
Stay Informed. Stay Ahead.
This newsletter aggregates intelligence from 44 vetted sources.
Generated: 2026-02-05 at 11:39:26 UTC
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