Daily Rundown for 2026-09-25
Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…
On Friday, 25 September 2026
- The average temperature today is 19.36˚C,
- With highs of 20.01˚C and lows of 18.75˚C,
- It may feel like 19.13˚C with overcast clouds
- The wind speed is 1.54m/s and visibility is 10000m
- The pressure is 1018hPa and humidity is 68%
- The sun will rise at 05:58 and set at 18:01
MI5 Status
- The current threat level is SEVERE
- It has been 148 days since the last change (2026-04-30)
Today’s tasks
- Farmers Market in town
Daily Doctrine
Do better with less.
Fixture List
- England U21 v Kazakhstan U21
Stocks
- VWRL.L : 141.35000610351562
- ^FTSE : 10719.3603515625
- ^FTMC : 24308.44921875
Just for fun
Why did the crab cross the road? It just followed the sidewalk.
Top News
- The drones Russia could use to strike Europe from its Mediterranean ghost fleet (Euronews, 6 minutes ago)
- Latest news bulletin September 25th, 2026 – Midday (Euronews, 10 minutes ago)
- Fourteen Kazakh soldiers found dead in Caspian Sea after naval training (Euronews, 14 minutes ago)
- Rising fuel costs squeeze rural businesses in France (Euronews, 26 minutes ago)
- Pompeii marks European Heritage Days with gladiators and 1st-century Roman traditions (Euronews, 31 minutes ago)
- Austria: Yodelling tradition goes underground in Graz (Euronews, 43 minutes ago)
- Judge uses electronic tag on Pokémon card tracker. It’s super effective! (Register, 55 minutes ago)
- Trump makes ‘final decision’ to grant Ukraine Patriot licence, Zelenskyy says (Euronews, 56 minutes ago)
- European bond yields ease after sell-off as US mortgage rates hit a high in Trump’s term (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
- ArcelorMittal to shutter Ukraine plant after Russian strikes kill workers (FT, 1 hours ago)
- Could the EU AI Act deter ‘housefishing’ in European real estate? (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
- Your files are in four places and nobody knows which one is right (Register, 1 hours ago)
- Finland and Sweden scramble Quick Reaction Alert jets to intercept Russian aircraft (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
- UK wants more homes heated by waste heat from datacenters (Register, 1 hours ago)
- Huawei Cloud Rolls Out Enterprise AI Products Across the Board, Building an Open Agentic Cloud (Register, 2 hours ago)
- The Daily Hilario: Friday (WAGNH, 2 hours ago)
- Project leader thought his team understood the plan, ended up fixing their ‘interpretation’ of it (Register, 3 hours ago)
- Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a ‘planetary barometer’ (Register, 5 hours ago)
- EU urges UK to raise tariffs on Chinese cars to avoid ‘made in Europe’ barriers (FT, 6 hours ago)
- No product, no problem: investors place big bets on AI neolabs (FT, 6 hours ago)
- How can we tackle AI’s financial risks? (FT, 6 hours ago)
- The cheap new AI model taking aim at OpenAI and Anthropic (FT, 6 hours ago)
- Wall Street boutiques balk at Saudi Arabia’s HQ rules (FT, 6 hours ago)
- Can quantum turn ‘magic’ into money? (FT, 6 hours ago)
- Mike Penders to miss Belgium game with quadriceps injury (WAGNH, 6 hours ago)
- 2026 just became the year of FreeBSD on the (Amazonian cloud) desktop (Register, 7 hours ago)
- Pomp prevails over substance as Trump hosts Xi (FT, 7 hours ago)
- Iran offers US new seven-day ceasefire proposal (FT, 7 hours ago)
- Google Gemini can present cartoon or lifelike avatars to lip-sync generative chatter (Register, 10 hours ago)
- Crook used three open source agents to break into a Fortune 500 hospitality company, a major US airline and 25+ other orgs (Register, 10 hours ago)
- Google’s TPUs to catch some rays in orbit next week (Register, 11 hours ago)
- Alyssa Thompson on ‘fighting it out’ and starting strong in the Women’s Champions League (CFC, 21 hours ago)
- Match gallery: Blues get the job done in the Women’s Champions League (CFC, 23 hours ago)
Word of the day
obtuse - adjective: 1. Slow or unwilling to understand. 2. Dull or indistinct, as a sound, pain, or sensation. 3. Blunt; not sharp or pointed. 4. Of an angle: measuring more than 90° and less than 180°.
Quote of the Day
In XP, we do not divide and conquer. We conquer and divide. First we make something that works, then we bust that up and solve the little parts. - Kent Beck, XP Trainer and Author
Oblique Strategies
Humanize something free of error
Film Archive
- American Underdog (Rated: 5)
- Released in 2021
- Summary: The story of NFL MVP and Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner, who went from stocking shelves at a supermarket to becoming an American Football star.
Countdown Numbers
- Target: 520, using [2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 25]
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Answer: 86 solutions.
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Solution: ( 10 + 8 + 3 ) x 25 - 5Solution
