Daily Rundown for 2026-05-05

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…

On Tuesday, 05 May 2026

  • The average temperature today is 8.05˚C,
  • With highs of 9.97˚C and lows of 7.6˚C,
  • It may feel like 6.09˚C with overcast clouds
  • The wind speed is 3.12m/s and visibility is 10000m
  • The pressure is 1014hPa and humidity is 94%
  • The sun will rise at 04:31 and set at 19:38

MI5 Status

  • The current threat level is SEVERE
  • It has been 4 days since the last change (2026-04-30)

Today’s tasks

  • Recycling Waste Collection Day
  • Food Waste Collection Day

Daily Doctrine

Know your users.

Fixture List

  • Manchester City U18 v Stoke City U18
  • Arsenal v Atlético Madrid

Stocks

  • VWRL.L : 130.41000366210938
  • ^FTSE : 10363.900390625
  • ^FTMC : 22531.599609375

Just for fun

Still looking for a job, even the local bakery did not have a roll for me.

Top News

  • HSBC profits hit by fraud-related credit losses (£, 48 minutes ago)
  • Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028 (®, 1 hours ago)
  • How Germany’s Merz torpedoed his plan to contain Trump (£, 2 hours ago)
  • Welcome to the Great Hunkering Down (£, 2 hours ago)
  • Consumers face more pain as companies threaten price rises (£, 2 hours ago)
  • Deutsche Bank denies training bankers to manipulate markets (£, 2 hours ago)
  • Arnault and LVMH go from buyer to seller as luxury’s winter drags on (£, 2 hours ago)
  • Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation (®, 3 hours ago)
  • US and Iran exchange fire as Hormuz crisis reignites (£, 4 hours ago)
  • Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world ‘professionally hates us’ (®, 5 hours ago)
  • Citigroup sets new rewards structure for banking and wealth referrals (£, 8 hours ago)
  • Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple’s Mac Mini now starts at $799 (®, 8 hours ago)
  • OpenAI president defends motives in for-profit restructuring as he reveals $30bn stake (£, 8 hours ago)
  • Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human’s work (®, 8 hours ago)
  • Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache (®, 9 hours ago)
  • Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop (®, 10 hours ago)
  • Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port (®, 13 hours ago)
  • Chelsea 1-3 Nottingham Forest, Premier League: Post-match reaction, ratings (♣, 13 hours ago)
  • Inside Amazon Web Services’ plan to make networking disappear (®, 14 hours ago)
  • Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs (®, 14 hours ago)
  • Peter Thiel backs $1bn ocean data centre start-up powered by waves (£, 15 hours ago)
  • Chelsea vs. Nottingham Forest, Premier League: Confirmed lineups; how to watch (♣, 17 hours ago)
  • Chelsea fans’ preferred lineup against Nottingham Forest: Tosin or Hato or Fofana, or Acheampong (♣, 22 hours ago)
  • The Daily Hilario: Monday (♣, 23 hours ago)
  • Chelsea vs. Nottingham Forest, Premier League: Preview, team news, how to watch (♣, 1 days ago)
  • Leicester City WFC 1-3 Chelsea FCW, Women’s Super League: Post-match reaction (♣, 1 days ago)
  • Leicester City WFC vs. Chelsea FCW, Women’s Super League: Confirmed lineups; how to watch (♣, 1 days ago)
  • Leicester City WFC vs. Chelsea FCW, Women’s Super League: Preview, team news, how to watch (♣, 1 days ago)
  • The Daily Hilario: Sunday (♣, 1 days ago)

Word of the day

querimonious - adjective: Habitually complaining; querulous; full of grievances.

Quote of the Day

As a software development consultant, I have never encountered a successful software company (although my sample size is limited) in which the team and project leaders were not technically savvy. - Jim Highsmith, Agile Author

Oblique Strategies

Work at a different speed

Film Archive

  • Paycheck (Rated: 4)
  • Released in 2003
  • Summary: A technical wizard learns that his memory has been erased.

Countdown Numbers

  • Target: 349, using [2, 7, 10, 50, 75, 100]
  • Answer: 2 solutions.

  • Solution Solution: ( 100 + 7 ) x 2 + 75 + 50 + 10

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