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Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
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Friday, January 30, 2026
Produced by: Harrison Doyle
AI Models Used: Claude (Anthropic) & GPT (OpenAI)
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Executive Summary
30 Top Articles |
43/46 Active Sources |
6 Categories |
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, Graham Cluley, CSIS |
Trump threatens tariffs on goods from countries that sell oil to Cuba
White House cites Cuba’s ties to hostile powers as order ratchets up Trump’s pressure to topple its governmentDonald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday laying the groundwork to slap tariffs o...
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Trump says ‘very dangerous’ for UK to do business with China, after Starmer hails progress in Beijing
US president warns Keir Starmer over closer ties with China during British PM’s trip to secure lower tariffs and better access to Chinese marketDonald Trump has warned the UK against doing business wi...
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Trump threatens tariffs on countries giving Cuba oil
President Trump threatened to impose tariffs on countries and groups engaging in business and providing oil to Cuba on Thursday, marking an escalation in U.S. policy toward the communist country. The...
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What Is—and Isn’t—in Trump’s New National Defense Strategy
The Pentagon quietly released the major policy document.
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U.S. Weighs Military Action Against Iran
The European Union is also increasing the pressure on Tehran with new sanctions and a terrorism designation.
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The Tech Arsenal That ICE Has Deployed in Minneapolis
Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said.
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RQ-170 Sentinel Flew in Support of Operation Absolute Resolve
The WarZone RQ-170s have been flying for decades, but official confirmation of any details about their activities is very rare.
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One of the biggest manga piracy networks has been shut down
Japan's anti-piracy coalition says that one of the world's largest manga piracy networks has been shut down following a coordinated investigation between Japanese publishers and Chinese authorities. T...
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Meta Forecasts Spending of at Least $115 Billion This Year
That would be a major jump from $72 billion last year, as the tech giant aims to compete in the artificial intelligence race.
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Border czar says there could be a drawdown of federal agents in Minneapolis
Border czar Tom Homan acknowledged there have been problems with the immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis. He also said there could be a drawdown of federal agents if state and local offic...
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| 👁️Surveillance Technology & Privacy | 5 |
Human risk management: CISOs’ solution to the security awareness training paradox
Cybersecurity guru Bruce Scheier is often quoted as saying, “People are the weakest link in the security chain.” No more accurate words have ever been spoken about cybersecurity. You can spend million...
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EFF calls out major tech companies on encryption promises
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has introduced a new campaign called Encrypt It Already, focused on expanding the use of end-to-end encryption in consumer technology products and services. Th...
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Senators Push for Answers on ICE's Surveillance Shopping Spree
Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine asked the inspector general of the DHS about a host of surveillance technologies, including Flock, mobile phone spyware, and location data.
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Wearable tech adoption continues as privacy worries grow
Over 1 billion users wear devices for tracking steps, sleep, heart rate, and other personal metrics. These devices collect a continuous stream of sensitive data, often tied to detailed user profiles a...
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China-Backed 'PeckBirdy' Takes Flight for Cross-Platform Attacks
In two separate campaigns, attackers used the JScript C2 framework to target Chinese gambling websites and Asian government entities with new backdoors.
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As US forces build in Middle East, Trump and Iran are locked in a staredown
Amassing military forces and bolstered by Iran’s perceived vulnerability, President Donald Trump says “time is running out.” Replying with threats of its own, the Islamic Republic is trying to restore...
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Ivanti provides temporary patches for actively exploited EPMM zero-day (CVE-2026-1281)
Ivanti has released provisional patches that fix two critical code injection vulnerabilities in Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM), one of which (CVE-2026-1281) has been exploited in zero-day attacks and ...
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Chinese APTs Hacking Asian Orgs With High-End Malware
Advanced persistent threat (APT) groups have deployed new cyber weapons against a variety of targets, highlighting the increasing threats to the region.
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Arkose Titan Aims to make bot, scraping, and AI fraud economically unviable
Arkose Labs announced Arkose Titan, a unified platform that protects enterprises from human and AI-powered fraud, scraping and bot attacks. Unlike fragmented point solutions, Arkose Titan provides def...
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Cybersecurity can be America’s secret weapon in the AI race
Beijing is aggressively exploiting global data for strategic purposes. AI-powered cybersecurity is essential to Washington’s counter-offensive to win the global market.
The post Cybersecurity can be A...
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| 🤖Artificial Intelligence | 5 |
OpenAI in Talks to Raise as Much as $100 Billion
OpenAI’s discussions with Microsoft, Nvidia, Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds and others could value it at $750 billion or more.
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The AI Hype Index: Grok makes porn, and Claude Code nails your job
Everyone is panicking because AI is very bad; everyone is panicking because AI is very good. It’s just that you never know which one you’re going to get. Grok is a pornography machine. Claude Code can...
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Does Anthropic believe its AI is conscious, or is that just what it wants Claude to think?
We have no proof that AI models suffer, but Anthropic acts like they might for training purposes.
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'Semantic Chaining' Jailbreak Dupes Gemini Nano Banana, Grok 4
If an attacker splits a malicious prompt into discrete chunks, some large language models (LLMs) will get lost in the details and miss the true intent.
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I built marshmallow castles in Google’s new AI-world generator
Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can play around with Project Genie, which is powered by a combination of Google’s latest world model Genie 3, its image generation model Nano...
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Weather tracker: Winter storms cause death and outages across eastern north America
Millions told to stay home in US and more than a million are left without power, while Australia faces record heatwaveCold weather across a vast swathe of the eastern US has been the likely cause of a...
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He calls me sweetheart and winks at me - but he's not my boyfriend, he's AI
George is an avatar on my mobile but claims to know what makes me tick.
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He's 44. At the Olympics, he's 'the old guy you shouldn't count out'
Four years after Nick Baumgartner won a snowboarding gold medal at age 40, he says he's a better athlete than ever, even in an Olympic sport dominated by youth.
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U.S. life expectancy is going up. Think how many more news quizzes you can do!
When the news gets too heavy, the quiz is forced to turn to pop culture questions — so there are a lot this week. Let's see how you do!
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Trump thinks a weaker dollar is great for America. Is he right?
The president said this week that the value of the dollar is "great" despite a sharp tumble since last year. That may be true for certain parts of the economy — but not others.
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OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
Stay Informed. Stay Ahead.
This newsletter aggregates intelligence from 46 vetted sources.
Generated: 2026-01-30 at 11:33:06 UTC
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