OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
Stay Informed. Stay Ahead.
Saturday, January 31, 2026
Produced by: Harrison Doyle
AI Models Used: Claude (Anthropic) & GPT (OpenAI)
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Executive Summary
28 Top Articles |
42/46 Active Sources |
6 Categories |
Category Breakdown: 🌍Geopolitics: 5 articles 🕵️Espionage: 5 articles 👁️Surveillance Technology & Privacy: 3 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, CSIS, MIT Technology Review |
Israeli strikes kill 23 Palestinians as Gaza ceasefire inches forward
Hospitals in Gaza said Israeli strikes killed at least 23 Palestinians Saturday, one of the highest tolls since the October ceasefire aimed at stopping the fighting.
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Trump in WSJ op-ed: ‘My tariffs have brought America back’
President Trump praised his sweeping tariffs on foreign countries in an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal Friday, arguing that they “brought America back.” “When I imposed historic tariffs on...
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The Day Russia’s War Collided With History
By lasting longer than World War II, the invasion of Ukraine has shattered the Kremlin’s most sacred myth.
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Mexico president says Trump tariffs on Cuba’s oil suppliers could trigger humanitarian crisis
Island country only has oil enough to last 15-20 days, and 12-hour blackouts have become commonplaceMexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has warned that Donald Trump’s move to slap new tariffs on co...
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China has lifted sanctions from six serving British MPs and peers, Starmer says
Starmer confirms immediate removal, but it is unclear if sanctions remain on former MP, academic and barristerChina has lifted the sanctions it imposed on serving British MPs and peers in a significan...
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DHS keeps making false claims about people. It's part of a broader pattern
Trump administration officials have falsely linked Alex Pretti and Renee Macklin Good to domestic terrorism. It's part of a larger pattern by the Department of Homeland Security.
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Don Lemon after release: ‘I will not stop now, I will not stop ever’
Former CNN host Don Lemon, released a day after federal officers arrested him in Los Angeles, defended his career in journalism on Friday, saying he will never stop reporting. U.S. District Judge Patr...
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Lady Gaga: Heart aches for families ‘mercilessly targeted by ICE’
Lady Gaga said Thursday her heart aches for families in the U.S. “mercilessly targeted” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) amid President Trump’s immigration crackdown and growing tensions w...
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More than 200 killed in coltan mine collapse in eastern DRC, officials say
Rubaya mine produces about 15% of the world’s coltan, which is processed into tantalum, used in mobile phonesMore than 200 people were killed this week in a collapse at the Rubaya coltan mine in easte...
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South Africa expels top Israeli diplomat over ‘insulting attacks’ on president
Ariel Seidman declared persona non grata and given 72 hours to leave country after remarks on social mediaSouth Africa and Israel have engaged in a tit-for-tat expulsion of senior diplomats, after Sou...
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Smashing Security podcast #452: The dark web’s worst assassins, and Pegasus in the dock
In episode 452, a London-based YouTuber wins a landmark court case against Saudi Arabia after his phone was hacked with Pegasus spyware — exposing how a single, seemingly harmless text message can tur...
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Reports of GDPR violations have risen sharply
According to a recent report by law firm DLA Piper, organizations are increasingly being reported for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
According to the study, the average n...
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France Fines National Employment Agency €5m Over 2024 Data Breach
The French data protection regulator said that France Travail’s response to a 2024 data breach violated GDPR
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Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species Discovered
A new species of squid. pretends to be a plant:
Scientists have filmed a never-before-seen species of deep-sea squid burying itself upside down in the seafloor—a behavior never documented in cephalopo...
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Ivanti patches two actively exploited critical vulnerabilities in EPMM
IT software company Ivanti released patches for its Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) product to fix two new remote code execution vulnerabilities already under attack in the wild.
“We are aware of a ver...
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Coupang CEO questioned by police investigating obstruction of probe into data breach
Seoul Metropolitan Police, as part of their investigation into the data breach at online retail giant Coupang, brought in acting CEO Harold Rogers.
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Fortinet’s latest zero-day vulnerability carries frustrating familiarities for customers
Attackers have exploited the critical defect to reconfigure firewall settings and create unauthorized accounts with privileged access to multiple versions of the vendor’s security products.
The post F...
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New Apple feature will block cell networks from capturing precise location data
The new feature will not prevent location sharing with emergency responders and does not limit the location data users choose to share with apps, the company said.
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| 🤖Artificial Intelligence | 5 |
AIs Are Getting Better at Finding and Exploiting Security Vulnerabilities
From an Anthropic blog post:
In a recent evaluation of AI models’ cyber capabilities, current Claude models can now succeed at multistage attacks on networks with dozens of hosts using only standard, ...
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Anthropic brings agentic plug-ins to Cowork
The company says you can use plug-ins to "tell Claude how you like work done, which tools and data to pull from, how to handle critical workflows, and what slash commands to expose so your team gets m...
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PLA Assessments on the Centrality of Space Power in Ukraine
Executive Summary: Editor’s note: This is the final installment in a four-part series on the lessons that the People’s Republic of China has learned from observing Russia’s war in Ukraine. The first t...
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FCC aims to ensure "only living and lawful Americans" get Lifeline benefits
Alleging fraud in California, Carr proposes making enrollment stricter nationwide.
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2026: The Year Agentic AI Becomes the Attack-Surface Poster Child
Dark Reading asked readers whether agentic AI attacks, advanced deepfake threats, board recognition of cyber as a top priority, or password-less technology adoption would be most likely to become a tr...
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Starmer hopes his China trip will begin the thaw after recent ice age
PM flies out after courting world’s second biggest economy aware of difficult balance of risks and potential rewardsThe last British prime minister to visit China was Theresa May in 2018. Before the v...
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This Minneapolis family has been in hiding for weeks, fearful of being deported
MINNEAPOLIS — A south Minneapolis mother cried as she watched her daughter get ready for high school graduation.
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A man lunges at a prominent Democrat, and bragging rights for the state home to the most Olympians: The news quiz
A Sydney Sweeney stunt gets pushback, a man gets grilled for allegedly trying to free Luigi Mangione, and a measles outbreak worsens.
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With decades-long restrictions lifted, a Pakistani brewery has started exporting beer
Drinking is illegal for Pakistan's Muslim majority, but Murree Brewery's beer has long been available to non-Muslims and foreigners there. Now it's being exported to the U.K., Japan and Portugal. Is t...
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Want to get stronger? Start with these 6 muscle-building exercises
If you're curious about starting a resistance training routine and not sure to begin, start with these expert-recommended movements.
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OSINT INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING
Daily Strategic Intelligence Report
Stay Informed. Stay Ahead.
This newsletter aggregates intelligence from 46 vetted sources.
Generated: 2026-01-31 at 11:25:17 UTC
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