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Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
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Thursday, February 12, 2026
Produced by: SirRFB
AI Models Used: Claude (Anthropic) & GPT (OpenAI)
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Executive Summary
25 Top Articles |
43/44 Active Sources |
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Category Breakdown: 🌍Geopolitics: 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: Security Affairs |
Five Hard Truths Facing the Alliance
Matthew Van Wagenen & Arnel P. David, RCD For all of NATO's renewed purpose since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Alliance is currently haunted by a ghost: the risk of preparing...
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NATO Needs a Proactive Space Posture
Jack Casey Buckley, RealClearDefense The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) needs to develop credible capabilities to deter and fight a war in the space domain. The Alliance faces its...
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6 GOP reps defy Trump to block Canadian tariffs. And, student loan defaults rise
Six House Republicans joined Democrats to successfully block Trump's Canadian tariffs. And, roughly a million borrowers defaulted on their federal student loans last year.
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GOP senators express relief over failed DOJ effort to indict Democrats
Key Republican senators say a grand jury made the right decision by rejecting an effort by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to indict six Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Mark Kelly (Ariz.) and El...
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The 2026 NDS: Putting Europe and NATO in Their Place
F.P. Sempa, AllOTSEGO The Department of War's 2026 National Defense Strategy puts...
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| 👁️Surveillance Technology & Privacy | 5 |
Ford-Class Lessons: Why the USS Kennedy Was Successful at Sea Trials
WM New high-tech surveillance radar, electromagnetic catapults, advanced arresting gear and the ability to launch and recover combat-critical drones are merely a few of the technologies...
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Senegalese Data Breaches Expose Lack of 'Security Maturity'
Green Blood Group steals personal records and biometric data of the West African nation's nearly 20 million residents.
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OpenVPN releases version 2.7.0 with expanded protocol and platform updates
OpenVPN version 2.7.0 is now available. The update advances support for multi-address server configurations and updates client functionality across operating systems. The release includes enhancements...
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Java security work is becoming a daily operational burden
Security teams in large enterprises already spend significant time tracking vulnerabilities across software supply chains, third-party libraries, and internal codebases. Java environments add another ...
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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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Apple fixes zero-day flaw exploited in targeted attacks (CVE-2026-20700)
Apple has released fixes for a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-20700) exploited in targeted attacks last year. CVE-2026-20700 is a memory corruption issue in dyld, the Dynamic Link Editor component o...
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Polish hacker charged seven years after massive Morele.net data breach
A 29-year-old Polish man has been charged in connection with a data breach that exposed the personal details of around 2.5 million customers of the popular Polish e-commerce website Morele.net.
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Ivanti EPMM exploitation: Researchers warn of “sleeper” webshells
A massive wave of exploitation attempts has followed the disclosure of CVE-2026-1281, a critical pre-authentication Ivanti EPMM vulnerability, the Shadowserver Foundation has warned. Some of it is aut...
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Satellite Imagery Points To Possible Russian Oreshnik Missile Site In Belarus
A satellite image captured this week and obtained by RFE/RL contains details that suggest Russia may be deploying a nuclear-capable, hypersonic missile system called Oreshnik at a fast-growing militar...
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When security decisions come too late, and attackers know it
In this Help Net Security, Chris O’Ferrell, CEO at CodeHunter, talks about why malware keeps succeeding, where attackers insert malicious code in the SDLC, and how CI/CD pipelines can become a quiet e...
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| 🤖Artificial Intelligence | 5 |
The existential AI threat is here — and some AI leaders are fleeing
Top AI experts at OpenAI, Anthropic and other companies warn of rising dangers of their technology, with some quitting in protest or going public with grave concerns.Why it matters: Leading AI models,...
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OpenAI’s Biggest Challenge Is Turning Its A.I. Into a Cash Machine
The maker of ChatGPT hopes to triple its revenue in the coming year because it is planning to spend tens of billions of dollars. The clock is ticking.
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Picking an AI red teaming vendor is getting harder
Vendor noise is already a problem in traditional security testing. AI red teaming has added another layer of confusion, with providers offering everything from consulting engagements to automated test...
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North Korea's UNC1069 Hammers Crypto Firms With AI
In moving away from traditional banks to focus on Web3 companies, the threat actor is leveraging LLMs, deepfakes, legitimate platforms, and ClickFix.
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Prompt Injection Via Road Signs
Interesting research: “CHAI: Command Hijacking Against Embodied AI.”
Abstract: Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises to handle edge cases in robotic vehicle systems where data is scarce by us...
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Ford Will Make a Play for a Different Battery Market
The company, long focused on cars and trucks, plans to begin manufacturing large batteries used by utilities, data centers, other businesses and homeowners.
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Laid-Off Battery Plant Workers Pin Blame on Ford, not Trump, for Lost Jobs
Ford Motor shut down a battery factory and laid off 1,600 workers after President Trump and Republicans gutted government support for electric vehicles.
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Highguard game developer lays off staff just two weeks after release
Its trailer got a prime Game Awards slot, but the online shooter has failed to find a large audience.
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Lemley, Kauf claim gold and silver in women’s moguls
Lemley, Kauf claim gold and silver in women’s moguls
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Norwegian Olympian admits to cheating on girlfriend
Norwegian Olympian admits to cheating on girlfriend
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OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
Stay Informed. Stay Ahead.
This newsletter aggregates intelligence from 44 vetted sources.
Generated: 2026-02-12 at 11:44:02 UTC
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