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Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
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Saturday, February 07, 2026
Produced by: SirRFB
AI Models Used: Claude (Anthropic) & GPT (OpenAI)
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Executive Summary
30 Top Articles |
43/44 Active Sources |
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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 | | Some sources unavailable: TechCrunch AI |
State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office
The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025.
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DHS warned its independent watchdog that Noem can kill its investigations, senator says
Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth wrote that she fears “repeated tacit threats” could be weakening the Department of Homeland Security inspector general’s independence.
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Trump envoys met directly with Iran foreign minister in Oman
The U.S. and Iran held several hours of nuclear negotiations in Oman on Friday, and officials from both countries indicated they expect further meetings in the coming days.Why it matters: These were t...
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Statement to the Conference on Disarmament
Remarks ny Thomas G. DiNanno, Under Secretary (T), Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security
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Washington Seeks New Path On Nuclear Arms As Treaty With Russia Expires
The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the final remaining bilateral agreement limiting US and Russian nuclear arsenals, expired on February 5, closing a chapter that began in the Cold W...
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Bermuda snail thought to be extinct now thrives after a decade’s effort
Special pods at Chester zoo helped conservationists breed and release more than 100,000 greater Bermuda snailsA button-sized snail once feared extinct in its Bermudian home is thriving again after con...
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These Mathematicians Are Trying to Educate A.I.
Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to measure just how poorly they perform.
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The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here's how I came to love it
The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and photos taken by CIA officers. But it was discontinued this week.
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The Memo: Firestorm over racist social media post forces Trump to hit delete
There are some limits, even for President Trump — or so it seemed on Friday. The latest furor began late Thursday night with a social media post from the president. The post amplified a flagrant and u...
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China overturns death sentence of Canadian in sign of diplomatic thaw
Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was detained on drug charges in 2014 before Canada-China ties nosedived in 2018China has overturned the death sentence of Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, a Canadian offic...
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| 👁️Surveillance Technology & Privacy | 5 |
How ICE is using facial recognition to bring surveillance to the streets
Immigration agents flooding U.S. streets are using a new surveillance tool kit that's alarming civil liberties advocates, lawmakers and activists.
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DHS privacy probe will focus on biometric tracking by ICE, OBIM
Auditors told CyberScoop the probe could expand to other parts of DHS and will look at the agency’s increasing use of biometric markers in immigration enforcement.
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Inspector General Investigating Whether ICE's Surveillance Tech Breaks the Law
DHS's inspector general is probing ICE's biometric and surveillance programs.
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'Encrypt It Already' Campaign Pushes Big Tech to Prioritize E2E Encryption
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging major technology companies to follow through on their promises to implement end-to-end encryption (E2E) by default across their services, as privacy concer...
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Poland’s energy control systems were breached through exposed VPN access
On 29 December 2025, coordinated cyberattacks unfolded across Poland’s critical infrastructure, targeting energy and industrial organizations. The attackers struck numerous wind and solar farms, a pri...
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Baldur's Gate to be turned into TV series - without the game's developers
The show will be made by Craig Mazin, who co-created the acclaimed game adaptation The Last Of Us.
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MAP: See where a blue wave would swipe the most GOP seats
Data: The Downballot and Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Map: Kavya Beheraj/AxiosHouse Democrats will need to overperform Vice President Harris by roughly thre...
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Analysis of active exploitation of SolarWinds Web Help Desk
We are seeing exploitation of SolarWinds Web Help Desk via CVE‑2025‑40551 and CVE‑2025‑40536 that can lead to domain compromise; here is how to patch, hunt, and mitigate now.
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I Am in the Epstein Files
Once. Someone named “Vincenzo lozzo” wrote to Epstein in email, in 2016: “I wouldn’t pay too much attention to this, Schneier has a long tradition of dramatizing and misunderstanding things.” The topi...
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Shai-hulud: The Hidden Cost of Supply Chain Attacks
Recent supply chain attacks involving self-propagating worms have spread far, but the damage and long-term impact is hard to quantify.
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| 🤖Artificial Intelligence | 5 |
Claude AI finds 500 high-severity software vulnerabilities
Anthropic only released its latest large language model, Claude Opus 4.6, on Thursday, but it has already been using it behind the scenes to identify zero-day vulnerabilities in open-source software.
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Six more vulnerabilities found in n8n automation platform
Six more vulnerabilities have been discovered in the n8n workflow platform used for building LLM-powered agents to connect business processes. Four of the six are rated as critical, carrying CVSS seve...
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AIs Are Getting Better at Finding and Exploiting Security Vulnerabilities
From an Anthropic blog post:
In a recent evaluation of AI models’ cyber capabilities, current Claude models can now succeed at multistage attacks on networks with dozens of hosts using only standard, ...
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Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment
Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several la...
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The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow, and developers are losing their minds
When the creator of the world's most advanced coding agent speaks, Silicon Valley doesn't just listen — it takes notes.For the past week, the engineering community has been dissecting a thread on X fr...
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Elon Musk Is Betting Another Tech Conglomerate (His) Can Win Over Wall St.
The billionaire’s decision to merge his A.I. start-up with his rocket company will test investors’ interest in giant combinations of unalike businesses.
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DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE
A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.
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Ukraine’s coldest winter: Russia’s energy strikes collide with waning supplies
From an app on his phone, the Speaker of Ukraine’s Parliament can monitor the plunging temperatures in his Kyiv apartment — the direct result of Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. W...
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House GOP digs in on push for voting bill in hopes of pressuring Senate
Republicans are digging in on their push for a partisan voting requirements bill as they aim to combat Democratic demands to reform immigration enforcement. But they face a minefield of internal divis...
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Prediction markets are booming. Why are their ads banned from the Super Bowl?
As prediction markets boom, target events like the Super Bowl and the Olympics show why this form of online betting is both popular and polarizing.
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OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
Stay Informed. Stay Ahead.
This newsletter aggregates intelligence from 44 vetted sources.
Generated: 2026-02-07 at 11:27:45 UTC
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