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Sunday, February 15, 2026
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AI Models Used: Claude (Anthropic) & GPT (OpenAI)
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Category Breakdown: 🌍Geopolitics: 5 articles 👁️Surveillance Technology & Privacy: 1 article 🔒Cybersecurity: 5 articles 🤖Artificial Intelligence: 5 articles 📰Other: 5 articles Articles ranked by recency, relevance, and source authority | | Some sources unavailable: Dark Reading |
No fuel, no tourists, no cash – this was the week the Cuban crisis got real
Diplomats in Havana are preparing for an alternative Trump tactic: the country being starved until people take to the streets and the US can step inAmong the verdant gardens of Havana’s diplomatic qua...
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Elbridge Colby: ‘NATO Is Actually Stronger Than Ever.’
The Pentagon’s top policymaker answers questions about the White House’s commitment to Europe’s security.
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U.S. Concludes Alibaba and BYD Have Links to Chinese Military
D. Sevastopulo, FT The companies are among a number the Pentagon believes could pose a threat to American national security
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Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
The Pentagon is considering severing its relationship with Anthropic over the AI firm's insistence on maintaining some limitations on how the military uses its models, a senior administration official...
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Trump vowed to boost Black business. Critics say he's failed so far
President Trump promised economic relief for Black businesses and workers, but so far, analysts say his second-term policies have put them under greater strain.The big picture: The combination of fede...
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Over 300 Malicious Chrome Extensions Caught Leaking or Stealing User Data
With more than 37 million combined downloads, the extensions expose users to tracking and personal information theft.
The post Over 300 Malicious Chrome Extensions Caught Leaking or Stealing User Data...
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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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EU can’t be ‘naive’ about enemies shutting down critical infrastructure, warns tech official
The European Union can no longer afford to be “naive” about adversaries’ ability to switch off critical infrastructure, the EU’s top tech official warned Friday, as she called for tougher rules and mo...
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Why identity recovery is now central to cyber resilience
Ransomware has permanently changed how security leaders think about risk. Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report found that ransomware was involved in 44% of all breaches. For small and mids...
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‘Dead’ Outlook add-in hijacked to phish 4,000 Microsoft Office Store users
A blind spot in Microsoft’s app and add-in marketplace security allowed an eagle-eyed hacker to hijack an abandoned Outlook add-in to carry out phishing attacks that compromised 4,000 users, researche...
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Apple discloses first actively exploited zero-day of 2026
The vendor said the memory-corruption defect was exploited to target specific people, but it did not describe the objectives of the attack.
The post Apple discloses first actively exploited zero-day o...
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US military used Anthropic’s AI model Claude in Venezuela raid, report says
Wall Street Journal says Claude used in operation via Anthropic’s partnership with Palantir TechnologiesClaude, the AI model developed by Anthropic, was used by the US military during its operation to...
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AI Tool Claude Helped Capture Venezuelan Dictator Maduro
M. Sinkewicz, Fox N. Claude was first AI model developer used in classified Pentagon operations, according to report
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Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI
AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own sha...
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AI burnout, billion-dollar bets, and Silicon Valley’s Epstein problem
AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own sha...
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5 key trends reshaping the SIEM market
Security information and event management (SIEM) platforms have evolved far beyond their basic log collection and correlation roots.
With cyber threats moving too fast for manual intervention, leading...
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New Zealand officials warn more flooding could hit north island as man killed after heavy rain
Worst weather forecast to hit late on Sunday, a day after floods caused power outages, road collapses and home evacuationsNew Zealand’s weather bureau has warned more flooding could hit the country’s ...
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More Than Ever, Videos Expose the Truth. And Cloud It, Too.
In Minneapolis, videos of the Alex Pretti killing undermined the federal government’s account. But an A.I. video of Brad Pitt shows the dangers ahead.
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Director vacancies at the NIH give Trump administration an opportunity to exert control
More than half of the National Institutes of Health's 27 institutes and centers are missing permanent directors, giving the Trump administration an unusual opportunity to reshape NIH.
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Robots and Draco Malfoy: How China is celebrating the Year of the Horse
BEIJING — The Lunar New Year is coming, and China is on the move
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GOP senators view Lutnick’s contacts with Epstein as political liability
Republican senators are worried that revelations around Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein could balloon into a bigger political liability for the G...
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OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
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