Daily Rundown for 2026-05-01

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…

On Friday, 01 May 2026

  • The average temperature today is 12.64˚C,
  • With highs of 13.31˚C and lows of 9.84˚C,
  • It may feel like 11.47˚C with clear sky
  • The wind speed is 1.26m/s and visibility is 10000m
  • The pressure is 1018hPa and humidity is 58%
  • The sun will rise at 04:39 and set at 19:31

MI5 Status

  • The current threat level is SEVERE
  • It has been 0 days since the last change (2026-04-30)

Today’s tasks

  • No tasks today

Daily Doctrine

Crossing the river by feeling the stones.

Fixture List

  • Leeds United v Burnley

Stocks

  • VWRL.L : 129.4199981689453
  • ^FTSE : 10378.7998046875
  • ^FTMC : 22465.19921875

Just for fun

Two tortillas have a fight in a karaoke bar. What ensued could only be described as a wrap battle.

Top News

  • New debate over Pluto: Is the dwarf set to become a planet again? (€, 1 hours ago)
  • How coffee might help your body fight the effects of ageing (€, 1 hours ago)
  • ‘I feel sorry for people who have to deal with volatile gas prices. Our heat pump protects us’ (€, 1 hours ago)
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  • From an alpine paradise to hidden creeks: Four of Europe’s national parks you can reach by train (€, 1 hours ago)
  • Europe moves to break Visa and Mastercard’s grip — but not everyone agrees (€, 1 hours ago)
  • Fujitsu confirms mainframe biz to die in 2035, in time for quantum AI supercomputers to take over (®, 1 hours ago)
  • Trump vs Kimmel: inside Disney chief Josh D’Amaro’s baptism of fire (£, 2 hours ago)
  • How bots could help revive democracy (£, 2 hours ago)
  • Zelenskyy’s push for EU membership strains ties with allies (£, 2 hours ago)
  • PwC will drop cover for weight-loss drugs from employee health plans (£, 2 hours ago)
  • Trump adrift: the president’s second term is at risk of foundering (£, 2 hours ago)
  • ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012 (®, 3 hours ago)
  • Huawei’s AI chip sales surge as Nvidia stalls in China (£, 5 hours ago)
  • The never-ending supply chain attacks worm into SAP npm packages, other dev tools (®, 6 hours ago)
  • Apple credits ‘most popular’ ever iPhone for booming sales (£, 6 hours ago)
  • Govern your bots carefully or chaos could ensue (®, 8 hours ago)
  • Firefox maker torches Google for building Prompt API into browser (®, 9 hours ago)
  • Bot her emails: most modern phishing campaigns are AI-enabled (®, 9 hours ago)
  • US Republicans break ranks to challenge Trump administration on Iran war (£, 10 hours ago)
  • Israel rushed laser system to UAE to fend off Iran’s missiles (£, 10 hours ago)
  • FBI cyber boss: China’s hacker-for-hire ecosystem ‘out of control’ (®, 10 hours ago)
  • Phone users know when to hold ’em, delay upgrades amid inflation (®, 11 hours ago)
  • Venice Biennale’s international jury resigns as Italy’s government opposes Russia’s participation (€, 11 hours ago)
  • Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica’s latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet (®, 11 hours ago)
  • UK raises terror threat level to severe after two Jewish men stabbed in north London (€, 12 hours ago)
  • Chelsea confirm preseason friendlies in Australia, Southeast Asia (♣, 12 hours ago)
  • Trump launches fresh tirade against Merz after troop withdrawal threat (€, 12 hours ago)
  • Google’s fix for critical Gemini CLI bug might break your CI/CD pipelines (®, 12 hours ago)
  • ‘We are ready to discuss digital rules with the US but cannot wipe out rules,’ EU trade chief says (€, 13 hours ago)
  • The Daily Hilario: Thursday (♣, 23 hours ago)
  • Official: Chelsea legend Millie Bright retires, takes trustee role at club (♣, 1 days ago)
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Word of the day

square the circle - idiom: To accomplish what appears to be impossible, especially in satisfying conflicting requirements.

Quote of the Day

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. - Bjarne Stroustrup, Computer Scientist

Oblique Strategies

Shut the door and listen from outside

Film Archive

  • Flubber (Rated: 3)
  • Released in 1997
  • Summary: An absent-minded professor discovers “flubber,” a rubber-like super-bouncy substance.

Countdown Numbers

  • Target: 646, using [6, 9, 10, 25, 50, 100]

  • Answer: 18 solutions.

  • Solution Solution: ( 100 - 50 - 10 ) x ( 25 - 9 ) + 6

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