OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
Stay Informed. Stay Ahead.
Friday, February 06, 2026
Produced by: SirRFB
AI Models Used: Claude (Anthropic) & GPT (OpenAI)
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Executive Summary
27 Top Articles |
43/44 Active Sources |
6 Categories |
Category Breakdown: 🌍Geopolitics: 5 articles 🕵️Espionage: 5 articles 👁️Surveillance Technology & Privacy: 2 articles 🔒Cybersecurity: 5 articles 🤖Artificial Intelligence: 5 articles 📰Other: 5 articles Articles ranked by recency, relevance, and source authority | | Some sources unavailable: Infosecurity Magazine |
Farmers squeezed by Trump tariffs press lawmakers for action
Bipartisan farming advocates are concerned the industry could “collapse” in the near future, with the combination of a downturn cycle and the policies of the Trump administration putting the sector in...
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GOP, Democrats expect DHS shutdown after talks fizzle
Senators in both parties now expect funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to lapse at the end of next week, as negotiations over Democratic demands for restrictions on Immigration and ...
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Pentagon Must Consider Force Structure in Mass Drone Rollout
J. Hill, Army Tech. The U.S. aim to field "hundreds of thousands" of OWA drones by next year, but there is no discernible plan to integrate them into its force structure.
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Pentagon, Tech Strategies Need to Get on Same Page, Report Finds
NatDefMag Members of Congress have raised questions about the Office of Research and Engineering's ability to oversee this technology "as a counter to the rising threat of adversaries such...
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U.S.-Russia New START Nuclear Arms Control Treaty Expires
The world’s two largest nuclear superpowers no longer have limits on their arsenals.
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Senior Russian general shot several times in Moscow
A senior Russian military official was shot in Moscow and has been hospitalized, authorities said early Friday, in the latest attack on the country's top military brass.
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What does the CIA not want you to know? The quiz has the secret
Plus: ambiguous mascots, rodents with hard-to-spell names, and three boring photos of buildings.
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New Jersey's special Democratic primary too early to call
With more than 61,000 votes counted, Mejia led Malinowski by less than 1 percentage point. The Democratic winner will face the Republican primary winner Joe Hathaway in April.
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Missing records from Bondi and Patel draw scrutiny in Epstein release
A watchdog group is asking the Justice Department to explain why it hasn't included communication from top Trump administration officials in its release of over 2 million pages tied to Jeffrey Epstein...
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How this energy company became the poster child for the AI boom
Meet the unlikely poster child for the AI boom and its insatiable energy demand.Why it matters: Bloom Energy, long seen as a niche energy player, can deliver on-site power far faster than traditional ...
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Minneapolis now has daily deportation flights. One man has been documenting them
A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, othe...
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Nearly 5 Million Web Servers Found Exposing Git Metadata – Study Reveals Widespread Risk of Code and Credential Leaks
A study found nearly 5 million servers exposing Git metadata, with 250,000 leaking deployment credentials via .git/config files. A new 2026 study by the Mysterium VPN research team reveals that nearly...
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Coast Guard Still Short on People & Ships Despite $25B Funding Surge
gCaptain The U.S. Coast Guard secured nearly $25 billion in supplemental funding in fiscal year 2025—the...
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New details in disappearance of Nancy Guthrie
New details in disappearance of Nancy Guthrie
Investigators today revealed more information on the alleged ransom note, the timeline of when Nancy disappeared, and where the investigation stands. This...
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Ransomware attackers are exploiting critical SmarterMail vulnerability (CVE-2026-24423)
For the third time in two weeks, CISA added a vulnerability (CVE-2026-24423) affecting SmarterTools’ SmarterMail email and collaboration server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and this...
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New APT group breached gov and critical infrastructure orgs in 37 countries
A new cyberespionage group that operates out of Asia has compromised 70 government and critical infrastructure organizations across 37 countries over the past year using a sophisticated toolset that c...
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CISA confirms exploitation of VMware ESXi flaw by ransomware attackers
CVE-2025-22225, a VMware ESXi arbitrary write vulnerability, is being used in ransomware campaigns, CISA confirmed on Wednesday by updating the vulnerability’s entry in its Known Exploited Vulnerabili...
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ChatGPT boss ridiculed for online 'tantrum' over rival's Super Bowl ad
Commenters said Altman's lengthy post shows "a nerve was well and truly hit" by Anthropic's advert.
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Anthropic's newest AI model uncovered 500 zero-day software flaws in testing
Anthropic's latest AI model has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting, the company shared first with Axios. Why it ma...
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Claude Opus 4.6 improves agentic performance and model safety
Claude Opus 4.6 builds on earlier releases with improved coding performance and more consistent behavior in complex tasks. Opus 4.6 finds real vulnerabilities in codebases better than any other model ...
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OpenAI launches new agentic coding model only minutes after Anthropic drops its own
The new model is built to accelerate the capabilities of Codex, the agentic coding tool OpenAI launched earlier this week.
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Claude Opus 4.6 Finds 500+ High-Severity Flaws Across Major Open-Source Libraries
Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic revealed that its latest large language model (LLM), Claude Opus 4.6, has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-sou...
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Court records: Chicago immigration raid was about squatters, not Venezuelan gangs
In the documents the Department of Homeland Security said the raid "was based on intelligence that there were illegal aliens unlawfully occupying apartments in the building." There is no mention of cr...
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Dog sled, ski ballet and other sports you could once see at the Winter Olympics
For many decades, Olympic Games included "demonstration sports." Some, like curling, became part of the permanent roster. But others, like skijoring, didn't stick around.
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Morning news brief
U.S. and Iran to hold talks about Iran's nuclear program, Congress continues debate on immigration enforcement changes as funding deadline looms, FBI examines ransom notes in search for Nancy Guthrie.
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'It's a thrill': These two friends have attended every Super Bowl
Don Crisman and Gregory Eaton have never missed a Super Bowl. On Sunday, they'll attend their 60th game.
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Ronald Hicks to be installed as 11th archbishop of New York
Ronald Hicks, a former Illinois bishop chosen by Pope Leo XIV to replace the retiring Cardinal Timothy Dolan, is set to be installed as New York's 11th archbishop
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OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
Stay Informed. Stay Ahead.
This newsletter aggregates intelligence from 44 vetted sources.
Generated: 2026-02-06 at 11:38:59 UTC
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