Daily Rundown for 2026-05-15

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…

On Friday, 15 May 2026

• The average temperature today is 4.88˚C,
• With highs of 5.54˚C and lows of 4.18˚C,
• It may feel like 4.88˚C with overcast clouds
• The wind speed is 0.89m/s and visibility is 10000m
• The pressure is 1008hPa and humidity is 93%
• The sun will rise at 04:15 and set at 19:54

MI5 Status

• The current threat level is SEVERE
• It has been 15 days since the last change (2026-04-30)

Today’s tasks

• No tasks today

Daily Doctrine

Challenge assumptions.

Fixture List

• Salford City v Grimsby Town
• Notts County v Chesterfield
• Aston Villa v Liverpool

Stocks

• VWRL.L : 135.8000030517578
• ^FTSE : 10372.900390625
• ^FTMC : 22828.099609375

Just for fun

I have recently resigned from my job and have applied for a new job but yet to hear anything. It was at a chiropractor about a weak back.

Top News

• China and US ‘feel very similar about Iran’, Trump says (£, 19 minutes ago)
• Europe Today: Latvia in turmoil after PM resigns over drone incursion — what now? (€, 25 minutes ago)
• AWS racks M3 Ultra Macs that boast specs you can’t currently buy (®, 43 minutes ago)
• Cannes Film Festival: Alexandra Matthaiou on the Directors’ Fortnight (€, 57 minutes ago)
• Israel and Lebanon meet for third round of direct talks in Washington (€, 1 hours ago)
• From London to Athens: Europe’s best cities for easy day trips revealed (€, 1 hours ago)
• Are you sleeping too little or too much for healthy ageing? (€, 1 hours ago)
• Latest news bulletin May 15th, 2026 – Morning (€, 1 hours ago)
• Iran eyes fees on Hormuz internet cables as new lever against the West (€, 1 hours ago)
• Germany, Spain, France and Portugal miss out on top 10 most climate-resilient capitals – full list (€, 1 hours ago)
• Exclusive: Inside Gaza’s hunger crisis as aid falters and funding dries up (€, 1 hours ago)
• Average wages across Europe: Countries with the highest and lowest salaries (€, 1 hours ago)
• Big Tech groups launch global borrowing spree to fund AI expansion (£, 2 hours ago)
• SpaceX IPO set to lock in Musk’s control with Mars-linked pay deal (£, 2 hours ago)
• Why Warsh wants the Fed to keep quiet (£, 2 hours ago)
• The oil futures curve is not a crystal ball (£, 2 hours ago)
• McKinsey set to cut partner cash in post-AI pay revamp (£, 2 hours ago)
• Official: Sam Kerr to leave Chelsea FCW at end of the season (♣, 2 hours ago)
• Boeing shares slide as Trump’s China summit deals disappoint (£, 2 hours ago)
• Possible Samsung strike puts even more pressure on memory pricing (®, 3 hours ago)
• Anthropic agrees terms of $30bn funding deal at $900bn valuation (£, 5 hours ago)
• CIA director makes trip to Cuba to demand ‘fundamental changes’ (£, 6 hours ago)
• Trump’s allies pin hopes on Xi to defuse Strait of Hormuz crisis (£, 7 hours ago)
• Cerebras risked it all on dinner plate-sized AI accelerators a decade ago. Today it’s worth $66 billion (®, 7 hours ago)
• Nobody believes the ‘criminals and scumbags’ who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data (®, 7 hours ago)
• Sick and wrong: Ontario auditors find doctors’ AI note takers routinely blow basic facts (®, 9 hours ago)
• Anthropic tosses agents into the API billing pool (®, 10 hours ago)
• Grad-to-be turns graduation cap into Rust-powered light show (®, 12 hours ago)
• Xabi Alonso ‘seeking assurances’ from Chelsea about head coaching role — reports (♣, 12 hours ago)
• KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own (®, 14 hours ago)
• Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis after one drove itself into a flood (®, 15 hours ago)
• UK begins antitrust inquiry into Microsoft’s business software ecosystem (®, 16 hours ago)
• The Daily Hilario: Thursday (♣, 23 hours ago)
• Enzo Fernández approaching FA Cup final with a lot of ‘enthusiasm’ and ‘desire’ for trophy (♣, 1 days ago)
• The Daily Hilario: Wednesday (♣, 1 days ago)

Word of the day

parson’s week - noun: A period of 13 days, especially as a holiday.

Quote of the Day

We define an agile tester this way: a professional tester who embraces change, collaborates well with both technical and business people, and understands the concept of using tests to document requirements and drive development. - Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, Agile Trainers and Authors

Oblique Strategies

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Film Archive

• Detroit Rock City (Rated: 3)
• Released in 1999
• Summary: In 1978, four rebellious teenagers try to scam their way into a KISS concert.

Countdown Numbers

• Target: 878, using [2, 4, 6, 6, 25, 75]

• Answer: 6 solutions.

• Solution

  Solution: ( 75 x 6 x 4 + 6 ) / 2 - 25

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