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date: 2026-08-22 05:21
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title: Daily Rundown for 2026-08-22
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_Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing..._
## On Saturday, 22 August 2026
- The average temperature today is 8.6˚C,
- With highs of 10.13˚C and lows of 7.6˚C,
- It may feel like 8.6˚C with clear sky
- The wind speed is 0.45m/s and visibility is 10000m
- The pressure is 1021hPa and humidity is 94%
- The sun will rise at 05:03 and set at 19:19
### MI5 Status
- The current threat level is SEVERE
- It has been 113 days since the last change (2026-04-30)
### Today's tasks
- Water the plants
### Daily Doctrine
> Know your users.
### Fixture List
- Crystal Palace U18 v Southampton U18
- Manchester United U18 v Manchester City U18
- Birmingham City U18 v Chelsea U18
- Birmingham City v Bristol City
- Lincoln City v Portsmouth
- Millwall v Norwich City
- Doncaster Rovers v Barnsley
- Luton Town v Notts County
- Bristol Rovers v Newport County
- Salford City v Chesterfield
- Walsall v Grimsby Town
- Boston United v Altrincham
- Carlisle United v Hornchurch
- Eastleigh v Scunthorpe United
- FC Halifax Town v Tamworth
- Forest Green Rovers v Boreham Wood
- Harrogate Town v Barrow AFC
- Kidderminster Harriers v Aldershot Town
- Solihull Moors v Southend United
- Woking v AFC Fylde
- Worthing v Wealdstone
- Yeovil Town v Gateshead
- Hull City v Manchester United
- Liverpool U18 v Middlesbrough U18
- Brentford v Tottenham Hotspur
### Stocks
- VWRL.L : 137.9600067138672
- ^FTSE : 10816.599609375
- ^FTMC : 24718.80078125
### Just for fun
> What do you call a female horse? Mary.
### Top News
- Sofia travel guide: How to spend 48 hours in Bulgaria’s capital (Euronews, [17 minutes ago](http://www.euronews.com/travel/2026/08/22/sofia-travel-guide-how-to-spend-48-hours-in-bulgarias-capital))
- 'It's a nightmare': What life is like under Mount Etna's cloud of ash (Euronews, [19 minutes ago](http://www.euronews.com/2026/08/22/its-a-nightmare-what-life-is-like-under-mount-etnas-cloud-of-ash))
- Latest news bulletin August 22nd, 2026 – Morning (Euronews, [20 minutes ago](http://www.euronews.com/video/2026/08/22/latest-news-bulletin-august-22nd-2026-morning))
- Five charts explaining America’s $40 trillion debt (Euronews, [21 minutes ago](http://www.euronews.com/business/2026/08/22/five-charts-explaining-americas-40-trillion-debt))
- Will Witkoff and Kushner make their first visit to Ukraine on its Independence Day? (Euronews, [21 minutes ago](http://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/22/will-witkoff-and-kushner-make-first-visit-to-ukraine-on-countrys-independence-day))
- Canada vows to match US tariffs as trade talks collapse (FT, [29 minutes ago](https://www.ft.com/content/24f9c08e-e23f-434e-b0f4-fc1eb55a7b04?syn-25a6b1a6=1))
- The Trump economy: $40tn debt, 6.7% mortgages and $5 diesel (FT, [1 hours ago](https://www.ft.com/content/6cb399fa-9fba-4806-98a3-9572fe319622?syn-25a6b1a6=1))
- Bossing the bond market around never works (FT, [1 hours ago](https://www.ft.com/content/b9e7a620-1018-4004-a3b0-3c85d494d21d?syn-25a6b1a6=1))
- Europe’s fatal beauty (FT, [1 hours ago](https://www.ft.com/content/ff65daca-59bb-48f2-a6d1-e177a6409459?syn-25a6b1a6=1))
- Who counts in Trump’s America? (FT, [1 hours ago](https://www.ft.com/content/7c9cd212-58c6-44e1-b515-022271e4390d?syn-25a6b1a6=1))
- Qatar cuts state spending at home and abroad as war shrinks economy (FT, [1 hours ago](https://www.ft.com/content/efe10069-cbe3-4071-a091-26afa74fb4b3?syn-25a6b1a6=1))
- EU slips further behind US in race for critical minerals (FT, [1 hours ago](https://www.ft.com/content/c6220205-ee40-4b71-95c0-d53399a17cd1?syn-25a6b1a6=1))
- Cloverleaf deal is latest example of Nvidia using its war chest to patch cracks in the AI bubble (Register, [6 hours ago](https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/22/cloverleaf-deal-is-latest-example-of-nvidia-using-its-war-chest-to-patch-cracks-in-the-ai-bubble/5291369))
- RC Strasbourg, Chelsea agree Deivid Washington transfer; Omari Kellyman, Dário Essugo could follow — report (WAGNH, [8 hours ago](https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/multi-club/171223/rc-strasbourg-chelsea-agree-deivid-washington-transfer-omari-kellyman-dario-essugo-could-follow-report))
- Salesforce partners not seeing meaningful revenue from Agentforce AI platform, report says (Register, [8 hours ago](https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/08/21/salesforce-partners-not-seeing-meaningful-revenue-from-agentforce-ai-platform-report-says/5291167))
- AI companies are burning books, advocates complain to FTC (Register, [8 hours ago](https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/21/ai-companies-are-burning-books-advocates-complain-to-ftc/5291299))
- Giorgia Meloni says ‘I thought it would be easier with Trump’ New York Times reports (Euronews, [9 hours ago](http://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/21/giorgia-meloni-says-i-thought-it-would-be-easier-with-trump-new-york-times-reports))
- Iran’s president calls to end war with US from ‘position of strength’ (FT, [10 hours ago](https://www.ft.com/content/9a094571-604d-4f1e-b5ff-c0b5dc032dc1))
- Harry returns to UK as hefty Daily Mail legal bill lands (Euronews, [11 hours ago](http://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/21/harry-returns-to-uk-as-hefty-daily-mail-legal-bill-lands))
- Marmolada, shrinking ice and weaker permafrost: 'Dolomites under strain' (Euronews, [11 hours ago](http://www.euronews.com/2026/08/21/marmolada-shrinking-ice-and-weaker-permafrost-dolomites-under-strain))
- Deadly Russian daytime attack on shopping mall in Zelenskyy's hometown (Euronews, [12 hours ago](http://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/21/at-least-six-killed-and-91-injured-in-russian-daytime-attack-on-shopping-mall-in-zelenskyy))
- Homeland security cybercops say patch TrueConf (Russia's Zoom) if you're using it (Register, [12 hours ago](https://www.theregister.com/patches/2026/08/21/homeland-security-cybercops-say-patch-trueconf-russias-zoom-if-youre-using-it/5291156))
- Musk fumbles the timetable for first Starship catch (Register, [13 hours ago](https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/08/21/musk-fumbles-the-timetable-for-first-starship-catch/5291201))
- Ukraine sanctions ‘Masha and the Bear’ cartoon over alleged Russian propaganda (Euronews, [13 hours ago](http://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/21/ukraine-sanctions-masha-and-the-bear-cartoon-over-alleged-russian-propaganda))
- Shakhtar Donetsk to play Champions League ‘home’ games at Stamford Bridge this season (WAGNH, [13 hours ago](https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/around-europe/171215/shakhtar-donetsk-to-play-champions-league-home-games-at-stamford-bridge-this-season))
- SickKids children’s hospital bandages up careers website after intruder breaks in (Register, [13 hours ago](https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/08/21/sickkids-childrens-hospital-bandages-up-careers-website-after-intruder-breaks-in/5291098))
- Hackers poison popular Rust crates to steal developers' credentials (Register, [14 hours ago](https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/21/hackers-poison-popular-rust-crates-to-steal-developers-credentials/5291075))
- Citadel offloads 80% of portfolio scooped up from Situational Awareness (FT, [14 hours ago](https://www.ft.com/content/1603577e-89d8-4cfa-884b-b83fbb8dd20e?syn-25a6b1a6=1))
- AMD grabs more CPU share while pricier PCs punish desktop demand (Register, [15 hours ago](https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/21/amd-grabs-more-cpu-share-while-pricier-pcs-punish-desktop-demand/5291053))
- 'We let you down': GitHub pledges to scale up before developers give up (Register, [16 hours ago](https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/08/21/we-let-you-down-github-pledges-to-scale-up-before-developers-give-up/5291031))
- What is Jane Street? (FT, [16 hours ago](https://www.ft.com/content/ef1d7530-a514-4b18-9a0f-8843cac02929))
- $10K phishing kit claims it can plant rogue passkeys for persistent access to pwned accounts (Register, [17 hours ago](https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/08/21/10k-phishing-kit-claims-it-can-plant-rogue-passkeys-for-persistent-access-to-pwned-accounts/5291006))
- Premier League ticket news: Arsenal away (CFC, [17 hours ago](https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/article/premier-league-ticket-news-arsenal-away-2026-27))
- Xabi Alonso happy with Chelsea’s ‘right choices’, squad balance, and Enzo Fernández, too (WAGNH, [21 hours ago](https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/premier-league/171203/xabi-alonso-happy-with-chelseas-right-choices-squad-balance-and-enzo-fernandez-too))
- The Daily Hilario: Friday (WAGNH, [22 hours ago](https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/bobby-ramblings/171198/the-daily-hilario-august-21st))
### Word of the day
> gangway - noun: A passageway, especially a narrow or temporary walkway, such as a gangplank, a jet bridge, or an aisle between rows of seats. interjection: Used to tell people to clear the way.
### Quote of the Day
> A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. - Henry Ford
### Oblique Strategies
> Honor thy error as a hidden intention
### Film Archive
- The Deaths Of Ian Stone (Rated: 6)
- Released in 2007
- Summary: A man awakes each day as a new person, only to be murdered again by horrifying pursuers
### Countdown Numbers
- Target: 567, using [1, 6, 8, 8, 75, 100]
- Answer: 6 solutions.
- Solution
Solution: ( 100 + 8 - 1 ) x 6 - 75