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Saturday, February 14, 2026
Produced by: SirRFB
AI Models Used: Claude (Anthropic) & GPT (OpenAI)
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Executive Summary
24 Top Articles |
43/44 Active Sources |
5 Categories |
Category Breakdown: 🌍Geopolitics: 5 articles 👁️Surveillance Technology & Privacy: 4 articles 🔒Cybersecurity: 5 articles 🤖Artificial Intelligence: 5 articles 📰Other: 5 articles Articles ranked by recency, relevance, and source authority | | Some sources unavailable: Dark Reading |
Russia is finding post-START arms control a harder, multipolar project
The last arms control treaty between the United States and Russia has expired, but no one really wants an end to arms control. They want it to change.
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Trump sends second aircraft carrier to Gulf amid Iran threats
President Trump ordered the Pentagon to send the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier and its strike group to the Middle East to boost U.S. forces in the region amid tensions with Iran, two U.S. offici...
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The Air Force Is in Receivership, and That's a Good Thing
Harrison & Ferrari, RCD The Pentagon just executed one of the most consequential management restructurings in recent Air Force history.
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Pentagon Pursues Improved "Hack-Proof" F-35 Computing
K. Osborn, Warrior M. The F-35's "flying computer" brain integrates sensor fusion, AI, and software updates, enabling pilots to dominate the skies with unparalleled situational awareness and...
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Pentagon Seeks to Formalize Trump's Threats on Contractor Pay
Bloomberg The Pentagon is looking to turn President Donald Trump's threats on government contractors into enforceable contract provisions and potentially Securities and Exchange Commission...
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| 👁️Surveillance Technology & Privacy | 4 |
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims
The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart glasses wearers to identify people and get information about them via Meta's AI assistant.
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Notepad++ Users, You May Have Been Hacked by China
Suspected Chinese state-backed hackers hijacked the Notepad++ update infrastructure to deliver a backdoored version of the popular free source code editor and note-taking app for Windows.
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Detecting backdoored language models at scale
We're releasing new research on detecting backdoors in open-weight language models and highlighting a practical scanner designed to detect backdoored models at scale and improve overall trust in AI sy...
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New Mobile Spyware ZeroDayRAT Targets Android and iOS
ZeroDayRAT is a new mobile spyware targeting Android and iOS, offering attackers persistent access
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A New Chapter for Bangladesh
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party claims victory in the country’s first parliamentary elections since its 2024 Generation Z-led uprising.
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Sudan: RSF violations in capture of El Fasher amount to war crimes
The Rapid Support Forces unleashed "a wave of intense violence ... shocking in its scale and brutality" during its final offensive to capture the besieged city of El Fasher last October, committing wi...
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Critical BeyondTrust RS vulnerability exploited in active attacks
Researchers warn that a critical vulnerability patched this week in BeyondTrust Remote Support is being exploited in the wild to compromise self-hosted deployments, including Bomgar remote support app...
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Apple patches zero-day flaw that could let attackers take control of devices
Apple issued security updates for all devices which include a patch for an actively exploited zero-day—tracked as CVE-2026-20700.
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Researchers unearth 30-year-old vulnerability in libpng library
Developers have resolved a legacy flaw in the widely used libpng open-source library that existed since the software was released nearly 30 years ago.
The heap buffer overflow in libpng would cause ap...
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Pentagon used Anthropic's Claude during Maduro raid
The U.S. military used Anthropic's Claude AI model during the operation to capture Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, two sources with knowledge of the situation told Axios.Now, the blowback may threaten the...
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ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her
ChatGPT sent screenwriter Micky Small down a fantastical rabbit hole. Now, she's finding her way out.
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OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone GPT-4o model
The model is known for its overly sycophantic nature and its role in several lawsuits involving users' unhealthy relationships with the chatbot.
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Cohere’s $240M year sets stage for IPO
Cohere surpassed $240 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, highlighting strong enterprise AI demand as the Canadian startup positions itself for a potential IPO amid intensifying competition f...
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Airbnb plans to bake in AI features for search, discovery and support
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said the company wants to increase its use of large language models for customer discovery, support and engineering.
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Their Secret to a Happy Marriage? A Translation App
He speaks English. She speaks Mandarin. The secret to their happy marriage: Microsoft Translator.
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Future kings meet in Saudi Arabia but Andrew-Epstein revelations loom over Prince William
Prince Williams trip to Saudi Arabia to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman came at a crucial time for the U.K. but the former Prince Andrew loomed.
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After a 2-decade ban, kites fill Lahore's skies during a Pakistani springtime festival
People gathered on rooftops to enjoy flying kites for the first time in years, celebrating the spring festival of Basant. The activity had been banned due to injuries and deaths during past celebratio...
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Under oath and unredacted: The top political stories on Epstein this week
Attorney General Pam Bondi faced pointed questions on Capitol Hill, and lawmakers continued to press the Justice Department about its decision to redact certain information.
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Dr. Oz pushes AI avatars as a fix for rural health care. Not so fast, critics say
Dr. Mehmet Oz, who heads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is advancing a $50 billion plan to modernize rural health care.
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OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
Stay Informed. Stay Ahead.
This newsletter aggregates intelligence from 44 vetted sources.
Generated: 2026-02-14 at 11:27:36 UTC
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