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Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
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Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Produced by: Harrison Doyle
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Executive Summary
30 Top Articles |
41/46 Active Sources |
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Category Breakdown: 🌍Geopolitics: 5 articles 🕵️Espionage: 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: Krebs on Security, Bleeping Computer, Dark Reading, CSIS, The Diplomat |
Murkowski says Noem should resign over Minneapolis shootings
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) on Tuesday became the second Republican senator to call for Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to step down over her handling of the Minneapolis shootings. In rema...
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Republicans turn on Noem, demand resignation
Anger at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem coursed throughout the Senate on Tuesday, especially among senators who voted to confirm her.Why it matters: Democrats disagreed on whether her departu...
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How Computer Warfare Is Becoming Part of the Pentagon’s Arsenal
The military tested a new approach in Venezuela and during strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
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Minister McGuinty signs an Equipment and Technology Transfer Agreement with Japan
Today, the Honourable David J. McGuinty, Minister of National Defence, met with His Excellency Kanji Yamanouchi, the Japanese Ambassador to Canada, to sign a new agreement on defence and security, dee...
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UN says Gaza crisis remains dire, children hardest hit
Despite a modest increase in humanitarian assistance, the situation in Gaza remains "dire", with children among the hardest hit by shortages of shelter, basic services and education, the United Nation...
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Amazon to Cut 16,000 Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs
The e-commerce giant has been cutting costs while pouring resources into building data centers to compete in the race to dominate artificial intelligence.
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To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog
Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes.
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Minneapolis killings cut short America's post-election apathy
The killing of Alex Pretti has destabilized the cultural settlement that took hold after the 2024 election, dragging non-political actors and institutions back into the eye of a national reckoning.Why...
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Can Venezuela’s Delcy Rodríguez become a Latin American Deng Xiaoping?
Maduro’s Sorbonne-educated successor is talking up an era of ‘reform and opening up’ modelled on China’s post-Mao boomAfter years of political and social upheaval, hunger and despair, the Great Helmsm...
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Microsoft Pledged to Save Water. In the A.I. Era, It Expects Water Use to Soar.
Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.
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| 👁️Surveillance Technology & Privacy | 5 |
Sicarii ransomware locks your data and throws away the keys
A newly observed Sicarii ransomware strain contains a critical encryption key handling defect that can leave encrypted data unrecoverable, even if a victim pays the ransom or uses a provided decryptor...
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WhatsApp rolls out new security feature to protect users from sophisticated attacks
To add an extra layer of protection to its end-to-end encryption, WhatsApp has begun rolling out a new privacy and security feature called Strict Account Settings. It is designed to help users protect...
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If you don’t control your keys, you don’t control your data
A recent Forbes investigation revealed that Microsoft has allegedly been handing over Bitlocker encryption recovery keys to law enforcement when served with warrants. Microsoft says it receives about ...
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WhatsApp releases account feature that looks to combat spyware
The new “Strict Account Settings” toggle extends WhatsApp’s privacy push beyond end-to-end encryption.
The post WhatsApp releases account feature that looks to combat spyware appeared first on CyberS...
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Supreme Court to decide how 1988 videotape privacy law applies to online video
Salazar v. Paramount hinges on video privacy law's definition of "consumer."
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Pondurance RansomSnare blocks file encryption and data exfiltration
Pondurance launched RansomSnare, a new module for its MDR service that halts ransomware attacks at the moment the malicious process attempts to encrypt files and prevents threat actors from exfiltrati...
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Fixes released for a serious Microsoft Office zero-day flaw
Microsoft is warning admins of an Office security bypass zero day vulnerability that can be triggered simply by a user opening a document. The flaw is currently being actively exploited.
“The vulnerab...
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Diese Unternehmen hat es schon erwischt
Lesen Sie, welche Unternehmen in Deutschland aktuell von Cyberangriffen betroffen sind.Roman Samborskyi | shutterstock.com
Sie denken, Ihre Sicherheitsmaßnahmen können Sie langfristig vor Cyberangriff...
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Yubico extends hardware passkey deployment options
Yubico announced a significant expansion of YubiKey as a Service, introducing new capabilities that make modern organizations more agile and cyber resilient. With new Self-Service Ordering of YubiKeys...
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AI-powered polymorphic attack lures victims to phishing webpages
AI-fueled attacks can transform an innocuous webpage into a customed phishing page. The attacks, revealed in a research from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, are clever in how they combine various obfusca...
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| 🤖Artificial Intelligence | 5 |
OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science
OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The firm has released a free LLM-powered tool for scientists called Prism, which embeds ChatGPT in a text editor fo...
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Astronomers used AI to find 1,400 ‘anomalous objects’ from Hubble archives
A pair of astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) discovered more than 800 previously undocumented "astrophysical anomalies" hiding in Hubble's archives. To do so, researchers David O'Ryan and ...
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The Download: OpenAI’s plans for science, and chatbot age verification
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside OpenAI’s big play for science —Will Douglas Heaven In ...
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Inside OpenAI’s big play for science
In the three years since ChatGPT’s explosive debut, OpenAI’s technology has upended a remarkable range of everyday activities at home, at work, in schools—anywhere people have a browser open or a phon...
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The Download: why LLMs are like aliens, and the future of head transplants
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens How large ...
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Europe’s Rearmament Paradox
The European countries most able to fill Washington’s military role are those that most want to stay at its side.
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Starmer vows to raise issues ‘that need to be raised’ with Xi amid push to free Jimmy Lai
PM may also discuss fate of Uyghurs with Chinese leader on trip aimed at improving economic relations‘Very low bar’: Starmer faces slim pickings in ChinaKeir Starmer has said he will “raise the issues...
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Palestine Action Group plans ‘national day of protest’ as Herzog visit confirmed – as it happened
This blog is now closedSussan Ley says David Littleproud rejected offer of talks this week after Coalition break-upAnalysis: Sussan Ley has two factors working in her favour as rumours of a Liberal le...
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Starmer says Reform pursuing politics of ‘toxic division’ after Matt Goodwin unveiled as byelection candidate
Prime minister says Reform seeking to ‘tear people apart’ after Gorton and Denton candidate questions whether all UK-born people are BritishKeir Starmer has accused the Reform UK candidate in the Grea...
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Amazon confirms 16,000 job cuts after accidental email
The technology giant confirmed the redundancies hours after it told staff in an email sent in error.
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OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
Stay Informed. Stay Ahead.
This newsletter aggregates intelligence from 46 vetted sources.
Generated: 2026-01-28 at 11:28:03 UTC
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