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date: 2026-05-05 06:03
type: daily
title: Daily Rundown for 2026-05-05
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_Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing..._

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## 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

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### MI5 Status

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- The current threat level is <span class="highlighter">SEVERE</span>
- It has been 4 days since the last change (2026-04-30)

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### Today's tasks

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- Recycling Waste Collection Day
- Food Waste Collection Day

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### Daily Doctrine

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> Know your users.

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### Fixture List

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- Manchester City U18 v Stoke City U18
- Arsenal v Atlético Madrid
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### Stocks

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

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### Just for fun

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

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### Top News

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- HSBC profits hit by fraud-related credit losses (£, [48 minutes ago](https://www.ft.com/content/520cd091-d59e-4072-b4b2-879e2eb7b7a8))
- Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028 (®, [1 hours ago](https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/05/05/azure_reservations_end_old_vms/))
- How Germany’s Merz torpedoed his plan to contain Trump (£, [2 hours ago](https://www.ft.com/content/2dd4b92c-4764-4bc5-a3a6-1418e0ccec58))
- Welcome to the Great Hunkering Down (£, [2 hours ago](https://www.ft.com/content/77ab3a01-35b3-49d5-b297-0408e1850bc0))
- Consumers face more pain as companies threaten price rises (£, [2 hours ago](https://www.ft.com/content/f2d0d112-6e04-4f88-878e-30cb34ce1c2a))
- Deutsche Bank denies training bankers to manipulate markets (£, [2 hours ago](https://www.ft.com/content/c959dbe1-eb96-414d-adcf-5f17330a195b))
- Arnault and LVMH go from buyer to seller as luxury’s winter drags on (£, [2 hours ago](https://www.ft.com/content/bc50fc15-9779-4969-9f81-eb834941c625))
- Singapore boffins get diverse SIEMs singing in harmony with agentic rule translation (®, [3 hours ago](https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/05/05/arulecon_siem_rule_conversion/))
- US and Iran exchange fire as Hormuz crisis reignites (£, [4 hours ago](https://www.ft.com/content/2e483f6e-4ecc-4063-acac-9e2509ccda98))
- Palantir CEO: 10 percent of the world 'professionally hates us' (®, [5 hours ago](https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/05/05/palantir_q1_2026/))
- Citigroup sets new rewards structure for banking and wealth referrals (£, [8 hours ago](https://www.ft.com/content/bc930825-6d58-4794-b4a2-dc5e2439e330))
- Bad news for OpenClaw stans: Apple’s Mac Mini now starts at $799 (®, [8 hours ago](https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/mac_mini_ai_memory/))
- OpenAI president defends motives in for-profit restructuring as he reveals $30bn stake (£, [8 hours ago](https://www.ft.com/content/5c24fa13-ae43-4d5a-9b68-b6ebae227dce))
- Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work (®, [8 hours ago](https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/microsoft_reverses_ai_credit_grab/))
- Kids say they can beat age checks by drawing on a fake mustache (®, [9 hours ago](https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/uk_online_safety_act_age_checks_subvert/))
- Hobbyist xenomorphs Raspberry Pi into Alien-themed DIY laptop (®, [10 hours ago](https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/alien_weyland_yutani_themed_diy_laptop/))
- Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port (®, [13 hours ago](https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/notepad_dev_demands_unofficial_macos/))
- Chelsea 1-3 Nottingham Forest, Premier League: Post-match reaction, ratings (♣, [13 hours ago](https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/premier-league/168351/chelsea-1-3-nottingham-forest-premier-league-post-match-reaction-ratings))
- Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear (®, [14 hours ago](https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/amazon_web_services_cupertino_networking_lab/))
- Shadow IT has given way to shadow AI. Enter AI-BOMs (®, [14 hours ago](https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/ai_bom_supply_chain/))
- Peter Thiel backs $1bn ocean data centre start-up powered by waves (£, [15 hours ago](https://www.ft.com/content/711ce313-16fb-4a12-b6be-fbed547c8a39))
- Chelsea vs. Nottingham Forest, Premier League: Confirmed lineups; how to watch (♣, [17 hours ago](https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/premier-league/168345/chelsea-vs-nottingham-forest-premier-league-confirmed-lineups-how-to-watch))
- Chelsea fans’ preferred lineup against Nottingham Forest: Tosin or Hato or Fofana, or Acheampong (♣, [22 hours ago](https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/premier-league/168332/chelsea-fans-preferred-lineup-against-nottingham-forest-tosin-or-hato-or-fofana-or-acheampong))
- The Daily Hilario: Monday (♣, [23 hours ago](https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/bobby-ramblings/168323/the-daily-hilario-may-4th))
- Chelsea vs. Nottingham Forest, Premier League: Preview, team news, how to watch (♣, [1 days ago](https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/premier-league/168320/chelsea-vs-nottingham-forest-premier-league-preview-team-news-how-to-watch))
- Leicester City WFC 1-3 Chelsea FCW, Women’s Super League: Post-match reaction (♣, [1 days ago](https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/chelsea-fc-women/168314/leicester-city-wfc-1-3-chelsea-fcw-womens-super-league-post-match-reaction))
- Leicester City WFC vs. Chelsea FCW, Women’s Super League: Confirmed lineups; how to watch (♣, [1 days ago](https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/chelsea-fc-women/168306/leicester-city-wfc-vs-chelsea-fcw-womens-super-league-confirmed-lineups-how-to-watch))
- Leicester City WFC vs. Chelsea FCW, Women’s Super League: Preview, team news, how to watch (♣, [1 days ago](https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/chelsea-fc-women/168294/leicester-city-wfc-vs-chelsea-fcw-womens-super-league-preview-team-news-how-to-watch))
- The Daily Hilario: Sunday (♣, [1 days ago](https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/bobby-ramblings/168280/the-daily-hilario-may-3rd))

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### Word of the day

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

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### Quote of the Day

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> 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

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### Oblique Strategies

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> Work at a different speed

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### Film Archive

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

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

- <details><summary><code>Solution</code></summary>

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

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### 5 Random Blogroll Links

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- Salma Alam-Naylor [URL](https://whitep4nth3r.com/) [Feed](https://whitep4nth3r.com/feed.xml)
- MacStories [URL](https://www.macstories.net/) [Feed](https://www.macstories.net/feed/)
- Anil Dash [URL](https://anildash.com/) [Feed](https://www.anildash.com/feed.xml)
- Vale.Rocks [URL](https://vale.rocks/posts) [Feed](https://vale.rocks/posts/feed.xml)
- Troy Hunt [URL](https://www.troyhunt.com/) [Feed](https://www.troyhunt.com/rss/)
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