Daily Rundown for 2026-08-03
Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…
On Monday, 03 August 2026
- The average temperature today is 26.47˚C,
- With highs of 27.14˚C and lows of 25.54˚C,
- It may feel like 26.47˚C with broken clouds
- The wind speed is 1.79m/s and visibility is 10000m
- The pressure is 1010hPa and humidity is 45%
- The sun will rise at 04:33 and set at 19:55
MI5 Status
- The current threat level is SEVERE
- It has been 95 days since the last change (2026-04-30)
Today’s tasks
- Garden Waste Day
Daily Doctrine
Set exceptional standards.
Fixture List
- York City v Crawley Town
Stocks
- VWRL.L : 136.3300018310547
- ^FTSE : 10862.3203125
- ^FTMC : 24211.859375
Just for fun
I am going to start looking for jobs with yoghurt companies as I hear they have a great culture.
Top News
- ‘You literally can’t’: AI startup Orchid sparks backlash over its ‘second brain’ assistant (Euronews, 2 minutes ago)
- Latest news bulletin August 3rd, 2026 – Midday (Euronews, 21 minutes ago)
- Major oil companies reap profits as US-Iran fighting drives energy prices higher (Euronews, 21 minutes ago)
- Video shows damage after Naples earthquake injures 26 (Euronews, 57 minutes ago)
- Donald Trump angers music fans after sharing AI-generated image of himself as Elvis Presley (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
- As Larry Ellison bets the farm, Oracle says it loves AI-written code, just not in OpenJDK (Register, 1 hours ago)
- Europe’s digital economy: How Europe can avoid a digital train crash (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
- Wales first country to withdraw support for Infantino’s re-election bid as FIFA chief (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
- AI demand keeps consumer prices high in ‘RAMaggedon’ chip crunch (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
- Alibaba’s new Qwen AI claims to match unsupervised working skills touted by Claude (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
- Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it (Register, 1 hours ago)
- AstraZeneca holds talks with Bristol Myers Squibb over $400bn tie-up (FT, 1 hours ago)
- Todd Blanche confirms scrapping of $1.8bn ‘slush fund’ ahead of confirmation vote (FT, 2 hours ago)
- Wildfires destroy hundreds of homes near Spokane, Washington (Euronews, 2 hours ago)
- Japan vows further yen intervention with US if needed (FT, 2 hours ago)
- The Daily Hilario: Monday (WAGNH, 3 hours ago)
- AI is ‘both the weapon and the target’ in latest wave of cyberattacks (Register, 3 hours ago)
- IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day (Register, 3 hours ago)
- Team America: Yen police (FT, 4 hours ago)
- Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11 (Register, 5 hours ago)
- Whatever happened to prudence? (FT, 6 hours ago)
- A digital iron curtain is threatening the global economy (FT, 6 hours ago)
- Wall Street learns to love blockchain (FT, 6 hours ago)
- Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister (Register, 8 hours ago)
- Chelsea Women travelling squad for New Zealand and Australia pre-season tour (CFC, 10 hours ago)
- Uefa threatens legal action over Infantino’s failed Fifa commercialisation (FT, 12 hours ago)
- Official: Chelsea sign Valentín Barco from RC Strasbourg (WAGNH, 14 hours ago)
- Morocco counts its dead and missing after mass swim to Ceuta (FT, 18 hours ago)
Word of the day
crotchet - noun: 1. An eccentric opinion, preference, or habit. 2. In music, a quarter note. 3. A small hook or hooklike device or structure.
Quote of the Day
The ScrumMaster’s role is to support team rather than individual behaviour. - Zuzana Sochova
Oblique Strategies
thing on the list
Film Archive
- Vendetta (Rated: 3)
- Released in 2013
- Summary: Special ops interrogation officer Jimmy Vickers tracks down a gang who slaughtered his parents. With police closing in & his old unit on his trail, he has to to evade capture long enough to complete his gruesome crusade.
Countdown Numbers
- Target: 984, using [2, 8, 9, 50, 75, 100]
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Answer: 12 solutions.
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Solution: ( 100 + 75 - 50 - 2 ) x 8Solution
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