Daily Rundown for 2026-05-11

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…

On Monday, 11 May 2026

  • The average temperature today is 6.23˚C,
  • With highs of 7.94˚C and lows of 5.93˚C,
  • It may feel like 6.23˚C with clear sky
  • The wind speed is 0.45m/s and visibility is 10000m
  • The pressure is 1010hPa and humidity is 77%
  • The sun will rise at 04:21 and set at 19:48

MI5 Status

  • The current threat level is SEVERE
  • It has been 11 days since the last change (2026-04-30)

Today’s tasks

  • Garden Waste Day

Daily Doctrine

Be the owner.

Fixture List

  • Millwall v Hull City
  • Tottenham Hotspur v Leeds United

Stocks

  • VWRL.L : 133.02999877929688
  • ^FTSE : 10233.099609375
  • ^FTMC : 22849.400390625

Just for fun

What do you call a pirate with a wooden leg? Peggy.

Top News

  • The race to unlock ‘superhot’ geothermal energy is heating up. Here’s why it matters (€, 23 minutes ago)
  • What does the 2028-2034 EU budget finance? Ask the Euronews AI chatbot (€, 25 minutes ago)
  • Oil jumps 4% as Trump rejects Iran’s response to ceasefire proposal (€, 25 minutes ago)
  • Europe Today: Putin says Ukraine war may end soon as EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels (€, 31 minutes ago)
  • Modi calls on Indians to tighten their belts amid Gulf crisis (£, 50 minutes ago)
  • Eurovision semi-finals: What to expect, how to watch and who is among favourites to win (€, 53 minutes ago)
  • British children are growing taller due to obesity: How widespread is obesity across Europe? (€, 1 hours ago)
  • Meet Europe’s youth activists pushing back against blanket social media bans (€, 1 hours ago)
  • Latest news bulletin May 11th, 2026 – Morning (€, 1 hours ago)
  • Beyond The Beatles: Why Liverpool and England’s north west should be on your 2026 must-visit list (€, 1 hours ago)
  • Liverpool 1-1 Chelsea, Player Ratings: Not a winger (♣, 1 hours ago)
  • Which EU capitals have rents higher than minimum wages? (€, 2 hours ago)
  • China expanding its industrial dominance, warns US business group (£, 2 hours ago)
  • American agriculture is broken (£, 2 hours ago)
  • Top ECB official attacks German opposition to UniCredit’s bid for Commerzbank (£, 2 hours ago)
  • Life without US tech (£, 2 hours ago)
  • How AI mania is disguising big companies’ hit from Iran war — in charts (£, 2 hours ago)
  • Trump says Iran’s response to peace proposal is ‘unacceptable’ (£, 2 hours ago)
  • China fixes currency at 3-year high ahead of Trump-Xi meeting (£, 3 hours ago)
  • ASIA IN BRIEF: China’s agentic AI policy wants to keep humans in the loop (®, 5 hours ago)
  • Trump to press China’s Xi about Iran war at summit (£, 7 hours ago)
  • Yes, local LLMs are ready to ease the compute strain (®, 7 hours ago)
  • Chelsea FCW 2-3 (a.e.t.) Manchester City WFC, Women’s FA Cup semi-final: Post-match reaction (♣, 13 hours ago)
  • Memory godboxes could offer relief from the RAMpocalypse (®, 16 hours ago)
  • Chelsea FCW vs. Manchester City WFC, Women’s FA Cup semi-final: Confirmed lineups; how to watch (♣, 16 hours ago)
  • Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon (®, 17 hours ago)
  • HP stuffed a PC into a keyboard. We took it for a spin (®, 20 hours ago)
  • The Daily Hilario: Sunday (♣, 23 hours ago)
  • Calum McFarlane reflects on ‘positive’ Chelsea result against Liverpool that could’ve been even ‘better’ (♣, 1 days ago)
  • Chelsea FCW vs. Manchester City WFC, Women’s FA Cup semi-final: Preview, team news, how to watch (♣, 1 days ago)
  • Google tweaks Chrome AI privacy wording, insists processing stays on-device (®, 1 days ago)
  • Liverpool 1-1 Chelsea, Premier League: Post-match reaction, ratings (♣, 1 days ago)
  • macOS 27 threatens to bury Time Capsule, FOSS brings a shovel (®, 1 days ago)
  • Liverpool vs. Chelsea, Premier League: Lineups & Game Thread (♣, 1 days ago)
  • London’s BT Tower to get rooftop swimming pool (®, 1 days ago)
  • UK wants fresh fingerprints on £300M biometrics platform (®, 1 days ago)
  • The Daily Hilario: Saturday (♣, 1 days ago)

Word of the day

cat’s meow - noun: Something or someone excellent.

Quote of the Day

The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner. - Jim Highsmith, Agile Author

Oblique Strategies

Don’t be frightened to display your talents

Film Archive

  • Ten Dollar Death Trip (Rated: 3)
  • Released in 2020
  • Summary: Ten Dollar Death Trip looks at the deadly opioid crisis happening in North America.

Countdown Numbers

  • Target: 115, using [2, 3, 4, 4, 7, 50]
  • Answer: 48 solutions.

  • Solution Solution: ( 50 + 7 - 4 / 4 ) x 2 + 3

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