Daily Rundown for 2026-05-28

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…

On Thursday, 28 May 2026

  • The average temperature today is 15.93˚C,
  • With highs of 16.4˚C and lows of 15.47˚C,
  • It may feel like 15.62˚C with broken clouds
  • The wind speed is 4.47m/s and visibility is 10000m
  • The pressure is 1021hPa and humidity is 78%
  • The sun will rise at 03:58 and set at 20:12

MI5 Status

  • The current threat level is SEVERE
  • It has been 28 days since the last change (2026-04-30)

Today’s tasks

  • No tasks today

Daily Doctrine

Inspire others

Fixture List

  • No Fixtures

Stocks

  • VWRL.L : 136.83999633789062
  • ^FTSE : 10505.0
  • ^FTMC : 23385.0

Just for fun

I suffer from a terrible affliction in which I have to give everything a number. Do not worry though, my GP said, it was not count-agious.

Top News

  • Iran says it targeted a US airbase in retaliatory strikes (€, 5 minutes ago)
  • Ireland records 30C while Portugal nears 37C in May heat (€, 8 minutes ago)
  • US carries out further strikes on Iran (£, 11 minutes ago)
  • Ukraine: Russian strike injures 11 in Odesa daytime attack, children among injured (€, 19 minutes ago)
  • Machu Picchu overtourism: A bucket list ‘dream’ is turning into a ‘nightmare’ for visitors (€, 21 minutes ago)
  • Europe Today: International Energy Agency warns of biggest energy security crisis in modern history (€, 39 minutes ago)
  • Is the EU betting on a ‘one-ticket, one-journey’ plan to turn rail into low-cost flying? (€, 46 minutes ago)
  • Forget London and Paris: The top 10 European cities for rental yields in 2026 (€, 53 minutes ago)
  • Beyond memory: how Holocaust remembrance must adapt to new audiences (€, 1 hours ago)
  • No sweat: How to look cool and ready for the office during May heatwave (€, 1 hours ago)
  • Racist comments, antisemitic videos, AI deepfakes: Social media fails to remove hate speech in EU (€, 1 hours ago)
  • Most generative AI and custom model projects will be a bust: Gartner (®, 1 hours ago)
  • AI boom outweighs Iran war pain, Korean central bank chief says (£, 1 hours ago)
  • Rouble’s strength piles pressure on Russian war economy (£, 2 hours ago)
  • Chip stocks race towards biggest gains since dotcom era on AI demand (£, 2 hours ago)
  • Kirkland & Ellis to spend $500mn building its own AI technology (£, 2 hours ago)
  • Why Europe must embrace tariffs (£, 2 hours ago)
  • Ukraine is turning the tables (£, 2 hours ago)
  • America’s hegemonic glory is under threat (£, 2 hours ago)
  • Bare metal cloud servers now cheaper and more readily available than on-prem hardware, says Nutanix CEO (®, 4 hours ago)
  • Salesforce waves bye-bye to UI in ‘headless’ embrace (®, 6 hours ago)
  • Nvidia chief Jensen Huang to join board at prestigious Beijing university (£, 6 hours ago)
  • Trump says rising economic costs will not force him into Iran deal (£, 8 hours ago)
  • Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators (®, 9 hours ago)
  • FAA grounds SpaceX’s Starship after another launch mishap (®, 9 hours ago)
  • Malware dev tries to steal Claude users’ secrets, writes npm slop, leaks own GitHub private token (®, 10 hours ago)
  • Argonne flexes spare supercompute to build private AI inference service (®, 10 hours ago)
  • ICANN again intervenes to defend AFRINIC (®, 10 hours ago)
  • AI hiring algorithms reject Black, Asian job seekers at higher rates (®, 10 hours ago)
  • CrowdStrike, Google shatter Glassworm botnet (®, 12 hours ago)
  • Robert Sánchez nominated for best single-game Goalkeeper Performance of the Season in the Premier League (♣, 14 hours ago)
  • The Daily Hilario: Wednesday (♣, 23 hours ago)
  • Not even a ‘world record bid’ from Barcelona would entice Chelsea to let João Pedro leave — reports (♣, 1 days ago)
  • The Daily Hilario: Tuesday (♣, 1 days ago)

Word of the day

premonitory - adjective: Serving as a warning or sign of something to come, especially something unpleasant.

Quote of the Day

Whether you think that you can, or that you cannot, you are usually right. - Henry Ford

Oblique Strategies

Work at a different speed

Film Archive

  • Mako (Rated: 3)
  • Released in 2021
  • Summary: Eight businessmen decide to go to the location where the Elsalam ship was sunk years ago to make a documentary. There, they face a lot of dangers.

Countdown Numbers

  • Target: 934, using [7, 7, 8, 9, 9, 75]

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