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Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
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Monday, February 09, 2026
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Executive Summary
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43/44 Active Sources |
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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: TechCrunch AI |
Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong pro-democracy figure, sentenced to 20 years in prison
Family of media tycoon say he will ‘die a martyr behind bars’ amid widespread criticism from press freedom groupsJimmy Lai, the media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist, has been sentenced to ...
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A 'Shark Tank' alum needed cash to pay tariffs. This shadowy lending world was ready
How about $350,000 within hours? The pitches flood small businesses: "No hidden fees, No BS." These financial lifelines are barely regulated and can turn into trip wires.
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China critic and former media tycoon Jimmy Lai is sentenced to 20 years in a Hong Kong security case
Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed na...
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Jimmy Lai sentencing – as it happened
This blog is closedFull report: Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years over national security chargesFollowing Jimmy Lai’s sentencing, the 78-year old former media mogul smiled and waved at the public galle...
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Will Geopolitics Overshadow the Milan Cortina Olympics?
What to know as the Winter Games kick off.
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Russian Authorities Say Third Person Held Over Attack On Top Military Intelligence Officer
Russian authorities said they detained a third person in connection with the shooting of a top military intelligence general in a Moscow apartment building.
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US Declassifies Information on JUMPSEAT Spy Satellites
The US National Reconnaissance Office has declassified information about a fleet of spy satellites operating between 1971 and 2006.
I’m actually impressed to see a declassification only two decades af...
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The Kremlin Files: Russian Double Agents and Operational Games
THE KREMLIN FILES / COLUMN — There are similarities among intelligence agencies worldwide. All professional services rely on tradecraft to recruit and manage assets. They all operate within bureaucrat...
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America’s Intelligence Satellites are Proliferating: Their Protection is Not, With Exceptions
OPINION — The pace of U.S. national-security launches over the past several months has been staggering. But buried beneath the impressive cadence is an uncomfortable truth: many of the most sensitive ...
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Analysis: Israeli domestic intelligence agency in crisis as deputy director steps down
IN THE CONCLUDING WEEKS of 2025, the Israel Intelligence Agency (ISA), which serves as its primary internal security and counterintelligence service, experienced two rapturous events that shook the or...
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| 👁️Surveillance Technology & Privacy | 3 |
Iran’s Digital Surveillance Machine Is Almost Complete
After more than 15 years of draconian measures, culminating in an ongoing internet shutdown, the Iranian regime seems to be staggering toward its digital surveillance endgame.
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Pinterest sacks engineers for tracking staff job cuts
The social media platform recently announced that it was axing around 15% of its workforce.
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China-Linked DKnife Spyware Hijacking Internet Routers Since 2019
Cisco Talos uncovers DKnife, a China-nexus framework targeting routers and edge devices. Learn how seven stealthy implants hijack data and deliver malware via AitM attacks.
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Super Bowl ad slamming Bondi over Epstein files release airs
Attorney General Pam Bondi was the subject of a Sunday Super Bowl ad that urges her to “tell the truth” in regard to the files pertaining to the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The clip, releas...
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Fans' faces captured reacting to Lindsey Vonn’s crash
Fans' faces captured reacting to Lindsey Vonn’s crash
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BeyondTrust fixes easy-to-exploit pre-auth RCE vulnerability in remote access tools (CVE-2026-1731)
BeyondTrust fixed a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-1731) in its Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) solutions and is urging self-hosted customers to apply th...
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Behörden warnen vor Hackerangriffen auf Politik und Militär
Cyberkriminelle haben es auf Signal-Konten von deutschen Politikern, Soldaten, Diplomaten und Journalisten abgesehen.nikkimeel – shutterstock.com
Mit gefälschten Chatnachrichten vor allem im Messenger...
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Profiting From Exploitation: How We Found the Man Behind Two Deepfake Porn Sites
Content warning: This article contains descriptions of non-consensual sexual imagery. Depending on which of his social media profiles you were looking at, Mark Resan was either a marketing lead at Goo...
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| 🤖Artificial Intelligence | 5 |
These A.I. Dreamers Don’t Fit the Stereotype
Young tech entrepreneurs in San Francisco are hoping to cash in, even as they wonder how artificial intelligence will affect society.
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Fear of AI Replacing Software Makers Hits Stocks. Here’s What to Know.
The prospect of disruptions from artificial intelligence has hung over the economy for years. But this week advances in software tools precipitated a sell-off on Wall Street.
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AI wiped out $400 billion this week — and it's only getting started
Data: Financial Modeling Prep; Chart: Axios VisualsAI is here — and this week, investors lost over $400 billion to the realization that entire industries are on the cusp of being replaced. Why it matt...
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OpenAI updates Europe privacy policy, adding new data categories
OpenAI has updated its Europe-facing privacy policy following the November 2024 EU revision, clarifying scope, expanding coverage, and detailing user controls. The updated document is longer, with ded...
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Exclusive: Why are Chinese AI models dominating open-source as Western labs step back?
Because Western AI labs won’t—or can’t—anymore. As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google face mounting pressure to restrict their most powerful models, Chinese developers have filled the open-source void with...
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Xi Jinping Can Never Trust His Own Military
China’s leader has created a system of permanent insecurity.
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The United States’ 250th Birthday Has Become a Test for the Nation
How to present history was also a roiling debate during the bicentennial.
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53 dead or missing after migrant boat capsizes in Mediterranean
Only two survivors rescued in tragedy off Libyan coast, UN migration agency saysThe UN migration agency said 53 people had died or were missing after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the L...
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Weather tracker: Spain and Portugal hit by third deadly storm in two weeks
Storm Marta sweeps Iberian peninsula just days after Storms Kristin and Leonardo brought deadly flooding and major damageSpain and Portugal have endured another storm over the weekend, just days after...
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Venezuela’s Machado says close ally kidnapped by ‘heavily armed’ men hours after prison release
Juan Pablo Guanipa was ‘violently’ taken from a residential neighbourhood in Caracas, according to opposition leader María Corina MachadoVenezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said on Monda...
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OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
Stay Informed. Stay Ahead.
This newsletter aggregates intelligence from 44 vetted sources.
Generated: 2026-02-09 at 11:51:17 UTC
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