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Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
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Friday, February 13, 2026
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26 Top Articles |
43/44 Active Sources |
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Category Breakdown: 🌍Geopolitics: 5 articles 🕵️Espionage: 1 article 👁️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: The Diplomat |
Who will police Gaza, and how?
Under President Trump's Gaza ceasefire plan, Arab countries and the European Union are supposed to train a new police force in the Gaza Strip. But U.S. plans have run into serious challenges.
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RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.
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Democrats’ tariff gambit sparks new headaches for Mike Johnson
This week’s rebuke of President Trump’s tariff regime by a small group of House Republicans is only the start of what will likely be a series of headaches over the issue for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La...
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Inside the "complicated" relationship between Donald Trump and Chuck Schumer
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is one of the only Democrats in Washington who can work with President Trump, leaning on their common New York ties, mutual allies and the residuals of their long-...
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With trust in US wavering, NATO allies meet in Brussels and Munich to forge new ties
At meetings this week, NATO officials and European allies grapple with the Trump-driven reality that they must now take charge of their own defense.
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Kim close to naming teenage daughter as future North Korean leader, South believes
South Korea’s spy agency monitoring whether girl, believed to be 13, will appear at political conference this monthSouth Korea’s spy agency has told lawmakers it believes the teenage daughter of Kim J...
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| 👁️Surveillance Technology & Privacy | 5 |
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release.
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Iran Turns to Digital Surveillance Tools to Track Down Protesters
As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet to target attendees of the protests.
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Why key management becomes the weakest link in a post-quantum and AI-driven security world
When people talk about cryptography, they usually talk about algorithms. RSA versus ECC. Classical versus post quantum. Encryption strength measured in bits and curves.
In practice, none of that matte...
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California fines Disney $2.75 million for data privacy violations
Disney has agreed to pay a $2.75 million to the state of California over allegations that it broke the state’s landmark privacy law by making it exceedingly difficult for consumers to opt out of havin...
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3D Printer Surveillance
New York is contemplating a bill that adds surveillance to 3D printers:
New York’s 20262027 executive budget bill (S.9005 / A.10005) includes language that should alarm every maker, educator, and sma...
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Japan seizes Chinese fishing boat inside its economic zone amid Beijing rift
Japan says vessel failed to comply with order to stop, with incident coming weeks after row with China over TaiwanAuthorities in Japan have seized a Chinese fishing boat and arrested its captain in a ...
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Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez: Maduro still ‘legitimate president’
Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez said Thursday that Nicolás Maduro is still the “legitimate president” following his capture and arrest by the Trump administration. “Yes, I can tell you t...
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Hackers probe, exploit newly patched BeyondTrust RCE flaw (CVE-2026-1731)
Attackers are exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-1731) in internet-facing BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access instances. “Attackers are abusing get_port...
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Hackers turn bossware against the bosses
A threat actor is abusing an employee monitoring application and a remote monitoring and management platform in an attempt to deploy ransomware and steal cryptocurrency.
According to researchers at Hu...
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Phishing campaign chains old Office flaw with fileless XWorm RAT to evade detection
Fortinet researchers have disclosed a new phishing campaign delivering the commercially available XWorm malware, chaining a years-old Microsoft Office vulnerability with fileless execution to escape d...
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| 🤖Artificial Intelligence | 5 |
AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry
It comes in the same week an OpenAI researcher resigned amid concerns about its decision to start testing ChatGPT ads.
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Anthropic Donates $20 Million to Super PAC Operation to Counter OpenAI
Anthropic and OpenAI now have their own well-funded political groups that will square off in the midterm elections over artificial intelligence safety and regulation.
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Anthropic Is Valued at $380 Billion in New Funding Round
The artificial intelligence start-up raised another $30 billion, and its valuation more than doubled since its last funding round in September.
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Axios Finish Line: Embrace your insecurity
Axios CEO Jim VandeHei is here with advice on how to use your insecurities to motivate you.
For a video version of this column (and to see what Jim looked like as a 20-year-old punk), click here.
I w...
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Google fears massive attempt to clone Gemini AI through model extraction
Google detected and blocked a campaign involving more than 100,000 prompts that it claimed were designed to copy the proprietary reasoning capabilities of its Gemini AI model, according to a quarterly...
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Watch highlights from day 6 of the Winter Games
Watch highlights from day 6 of the Winter Games
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Team USA men's hockey beats Latvia during opening game
Team USA men's hockey beats Latvia during opening game
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Britain's High Court says government illegally banned Pro-Palestinian group
In its ruling, the court said an earlier decision to ban the Pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was "disproportionate."
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On their way! 4 people on NASA Crew-12 mission launch to International Space Station
The four people are set to dock with the I.S.S. on Saturday, returning the orbital lab to its full complement of seven. NASA's last mission, Crew-11, left a month early due to an ill crew member.
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Can you medal in quiz? Go for the gold!
Plus: more Olympics, the Super Bowl and some monks.
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OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
Stay Informed. Stay Ahead.
This newsletter aggregates intelligence from 44 vetted sources.
Generated: 2026-02-13 at 11:35:59 UTC
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