Daily Rundown for 2026-10-12
Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…
On Monday, 12 October 2026
- The average temperature today is 18.02˚C,
- With highs of 18.61˚C and lows of 17.65˚C,
- It may feel like 18.23˚C with overcast clouds
- The wind speed is 6.17m/s and visibility is 10000m
- The pressure is 1010hPa and humidity is 90%
- The sun will rise at 06:27 and set at 17:22
MI5 Status
- The current threat level is SEVERE
- It has been 165 days since the last change (2026-04-30)
Today’s tasks
- Garden Waste Day
Daily Doctrine
Exploit the landscape.
Fixture List
- Coventry City v Newcastle United
Stocks
- VWRL.L : 141.60000610351562
- ^FTSE : 10631.58984375
- ^FTMC : 24282.279296875
Just for fun
The police came round the other day saying they had reports our pet dog had been chasing the local kids on roller skates, funny I said, our dog does not own any roller skates.
Top News
- Gijs de Best urges shared enforcement to curb illicit trade (Euronews, 6 minutes ago)
- Started planning summer 2027 holidays? Ryanair and easyJet announce 47 new flight routes (Euronews, 6 minutes ago)
- Agios Efstratios: the first Greek island to get all its electricity from renewables (Euronews, 7 minutes ago)
- UCLA settles Oracle ERP dispute with $3.1M in credits and $1.31M wiped off the bill (Register, 9 minutes ago)
- Ukraine passes minority rights law, paving way for breakthrough in EU accession talks (Euronews, 24 minutes ago)
- German firms outline new infrastructure and green energy plans in Baku (Euronews, 26 minutes ago)
- Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh away: Copilot edition (Register, 26 minutes ago)
- Did Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centres cause Russian bot activity to plummet? (Euronews, 36 minutes ago)
- UAE calls for stronger Gulf defence as allies back Saudi Arabia after Riyadh airport attacks (Euronews, 47 minutes ago)
- Video shows major fire ravaging 400-year-old Paris food market (Euronews, 47 minutes ago)
- London cabbies want Sadiq Khan to slam the brakes on robotaxis (Register, 54 minutes ago)
- What we know about Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming operation to remove lung nodule (Euronews, 56 minutes ago)
- What to know about Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming lung surgery (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
- Pigeon-powered internet packet goes under the hammer at Christie’s (Register, 1 hours ago)
- Diesel prices slip after Trump claims ‘energy ceasefire’ in Ukraine war (FT, 1 hours ago)
- Putin is breaching Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’, Zelenskyy says (FT, 1 hours ago)
- Imagine there’s no Shiny Hunters – AI could make human hacking crews obsolete (Register, 2 hours ago)
- When you just need to build a tiny desktop app: TinyJS (Register, 3 hours ago)
- Nobel Prize for economics awarded to Hall and Woodford (FT, 3 hours ago)
- Celebrating the brilliant pragmatism of TCP/IP, the wiring of the world (Register, 4 hours ago)
- Riyadh defiant as Houthis launch new missile strikes on Saudi Arabia (FT, 4 hours ago)
- Raspberry Pi Desktop catches up with Debian 13 after 4-year wait (Register, 4 hours ago)
- The Daily Hilario: Monday Morning Quarterback (WAGNH, 5 hours ago)
- To save paper, mainframe tech ruined a week of work (Register, 5 hours ago)
- Chelsea 5-1 AFC Bournemouth, Player Ratings: Two beauties (WAGNH, 6 hours ago)
- Trump’s midterm peril (FT, 9 hours ago)
- Wall Street’s record-breaking trading streak set to cool (FT, 9 hours ago)
- There is a smarter way to tax the rich (FT, 9 hours ago)
- ‘Worrying omens’ stalk global economy despite resilient growth (FT, 9 hours ago)
- The huge lurking leverage of AI hyperscalers (FT, 9 hours ago)
- Trump faces Republican opposition to his diesel deal with Russia’s Putin (FT, 15 hours ago)
Word of the day
venust - adjective: Beautiful, graceful, or elegant.
Quote of the Day
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
Oblique Strategies
Make a sudden, destructive, unpredictable action; incorporate
Film Archive
- Teaching Mrs Tingle (Rated: 3)
- Released in 1999
- Summary: The story of a girl who is willing to do anything to become Valedictorian, even if it means murdering the teacher that stands in her way.
Countdown Numbers
- Target: 954, using [4, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100]
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Answer: 11 solutions.
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Solution: ( 100 - ( 50 - 25 ) / 5 ) x 10 + 4Solution
