Daily Rundown for 2026-06-11

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…

On Thursday, 11 June 2026

  • The average temperature today is 11.8˚C,
  • With highs of 12.51˚C and lows of 10.47˚C,
  • It may feel like 11.44˚C with light rain
  • The wind speed is 1.34m/s and visibility is 8882m
  • The pressure is 1019hPa and humidity is 92%
  • The sun will rise at 03:49 and set at 20:26

MI5 Status

  • The current threat level is SEVERE
  • It has been 42 days since the last change (2026-04-30)

Today’s tasks

  • No tasks today

Daily Doctrine

Bias towards action.

Fixture List

  • No Fixtures

Stocks

  • VWRL.L : 133.72000122070312
  • ^FTSE : 10254.8095703125
  • ^FTMC : 22951.33984375

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

  • Clashes erupt as police use water cannon near Belfast (Euronews, 7 minutes ago)
  • Spain: Pope Leo XIV blesses new Sagrada Familia tower, now world’s tallest church (Euronews, 8 minutes ago)
  • The EU’s Digital Markets Act: Fines, delayed features and unclear benefits (Euronews, 17 minutes ago)
  • Thousands protest demanding Albania’s PM Rama resigns (Euronews, 18 minutes ago)
  • ‘I love the inflation,’ Trump says as prices jump again (Euronews, 20 minutes ago)
  • US and Iran exchange fresh wave of strikes (FT, 24 minutes ago)
  • Europe Today: EU Sports Commissioner on Euronews as biggest-ever World Cup kicks off (Euronews, 52 minutes ago)
  • Why Europe’s labour needs clash with its migration policy (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
  • From Japan With Love: London exhibition explores how NIGO reshaped fashion, music and hype culture (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
  • Sam Rak-Sakyi among four Chelsea youngsters on released list (WAGNH, 1 hours ago)
  • France adds 157,000 hectares of protected forest as nature preserves face pressure elsewhere (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
  • From welder to wealthy: SpaceX IPO could make thousands of employees millionaires (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
  • Kathy Ruemmler helps search for her own replacement as Goldman’s top lawyer (FT, 2 hours ago)
  • Can Europe build a new fighter jet after Germany scraps joint venture? (FT, 2 hours ago)
  • Emirates to offer insurance to tempt passengers back to Dubai (FT, 2 hours ago)
  • China cancels high-level meetings with EU (FT, 2 hours ago)
  • EU countries weigh ‘tearing apart’ bloc’s diplomatic service (FT, 2 hours ago)
  • Iran war tightens ‘super-squeeze’ in metals markets (FT, 2 hours ago)
  • How SpaceX could pull millions of savers into Musk’s orbit (FT, 2 hours ago)
  • We will need a new tax code for the wealth AI creates (FT, 2 hours ago)
  • Chinese agents caught rebuilding botnets and stirring the pot on AI datacenter debate (Register, 6 hours ago)
  • Memory and personalization make AI more likely to tell you what you want to hear (Register, 7 hours ago)
  • Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR (Register, 9 hours ago)
  • It blocked us at ‘hello!’ Anthropic Fable 5 refusing innocuous prompts (Register, 10 hours ago)
  • Angry bug hunter with Microsoft beef drops new Windows 0-day (Register, 12 hours ago)
  • GM gets datacenter fever, decides to build grid-scale sodium-ion batteries (Register, 13 hours ago)
  • Datacenter growth may run into a power wall by 2030 (Register, 14 hours ago)
  • macOS 27 beta boots Asahi Linux off Apple Silicon (Register, 15 hours ago)
  • Vercel escapes contempt rap after admitting it botched FBI warrant response (Register, 16 hours ago)
  • Linux Lite 8.0 sheds Chrome, slims down, and finds its name fits better than ever (Register, 16 hours ago)
  • The Daily Hilario: Wednesday (WAGNH, 23 hours ago)

Word of the day

anadem - noun: A wreath or garland for the head.

Quote of the Day

Scrum is like your mother-in-law, it points out ALL your faults - Ken Schwaber

Oblique Strategies

Change instrument roles

Film Archive

  • The Lincoln Lawyer (Rated: 8)
  • Released in 2011
  • Summary: Defence lawyer Mick Haller lands a case defending a wealthy realtor’s son who is accused of raping a prostitute. Believing his client to be innocent, Haller soon finds evidence that proves otherwise.

Countdown Numbers

  • Target: 762, using [1, 5, 6, 8, 8, 25]

  • Answer: 3 solutions.

  • Solution Solution: ( 25 x 8 - 8 ) x ( 5 - 1 ) - 6

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