Daily Rundown for 2026-10-21
Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…
On Wednesday, 21 October 2026
- The average temperature today is 8.68˚C,
- With highs of 9.41˚C and lows of 8.15˚C,
- It may feel like 6.32˚C with moderate rain
- The wind speed is 4.12m/s and visibility is 4526m
- The pressure is 999hPa and humidity is 95%
- The sun will rise at 06:42 and set at 17:02
MI5 Status
- The current threat level is SEVERE
- It has been 174 days since the last change (2026-04-30)
Today’s tasks
- No tasks today
Daily Doctrine
Be humble.
Fixture List
- Aston Villa U19 v Viking FK U19
- Como v Manchester United
- Liverpool Women v Manchester United Women
- Reading v Leyton Orient
- Aston Villa v VIking FK
- Bayern Munich v Arsenal
Stocks
- VWRL.L : 138.25
- ^FTSE : 10739.0595703125
- ^FTMC : 24388.990234375
Just for fun
During this time at this eye wear manufacturing company I designed and documented a process for a new pair of glasses with little dots of gold in the frame. That is right, I wrote the spec about specs on some specs.
Top News
- Restorers work to preserve frescoes in one of Pompeii’s grandest Roman houses (Euronews, 3 minutes ago)
- The spec is the new code, so brush up on your prose, says Kaseya CTO (Register, 5 minutes ago)
- Rockets, robots and risk: Musk’s $3.6tn gamble to merge Tesla and SpaceX (FT, 15 minutes ago)
- French government 10-year bond yield tops 5% for first time since 2002 (Euronews, 16 minutes ago)
- Former Hungarian central bank chief György Matolcsy detained in financial fraud probe (Euronews, 19 minutes ago)
- More Russians are settling in the EU with each year of war in Ukraine (Euronews, 41 minutes ago)
- Hansel and Gretel in the mountains: parents abandon sons in Germany (Euronews, 41 minutes ago)
- Happiness is the next AI KPI if Oxford boffins have their way (Register, 50 minutes ago)
- France’s borrowing costs hit 5% for first time since 2002 (FT, 58 minutes ago)
- UK inflation jumps more than expected fuelling rate hike expectations (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
- ‘A house cannot be a privilege’: Thousands rally in Lisbon over housing crisis (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
- A stunning Alpine retreat will open at the foot of the Dolomites this winter (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
- Italy deploys 500 troops to Milan under new security decree following violent clashes (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
- MPs urge UK government to play venture capitalist with taxpayer-funded tech (Register, 1 hours ago)
- New Beatles attraction ‘to rival Graceland’ coming to Liverpool in 2028 (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
- The Daily Hilario: Wednesday (WAGNH, 3 hours ago)
- Australian data centre group falls 44% on profit warning (FT, 3 hours ago)
- Mike Penders becomes Chelsea’s youngest ever Premier League goalkeeper; now set to beat Petr Čech’s record (WAGNH, 5 hours ago)
- To replace Starlink, Europe will have to reawaken its animal spirits (FT, 6 hours ago)
- Britain cannot build its future by returning to the 1970s (FT, 6 hours ago)
- Netanyahu made plans to restart Iran strikes earlier this month (FT, 6 hours ago)
- Nervous ISPs replace Chrome as strange consumers of DNS resources (Register, 6 hours ago)
- China’s nightmare: becoming the next Japan (FT, 7 hours ago)
- OpenAI ‘agents’ disabled their own monitoring systems (FT, 8 hours ago)
- Indian certification authority eMudhra’s private keys compromised – one of them was the number ‘4’ (Register, 11 hours ago)
- Auto tech startup claims it traced hack attempt back to rival’s IP address (Register, 12 hours ago)
- Tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs sit idle in Meta’s Prometheus supercluster, just waiting for a failure (Register, 13 hours ago)
- UAE official emerges as late contender to lead UN (FT, 15 hours ago)
- Who are the Black Bloc? (FT, 15 hours ago)
- Palo Alto’s firewall OS has been under attack from multiple ransomware groups since June (Register, 16 hours ago)
- Swamped curl maintainers take low-level flaws public to survive vulnerability ‘avalanche’ (Register, 17 hours ago)
- OneDrive loses bunch of Copilot shortcuts in File Explorer clear-out (Register, 18 hours ago)
Word of the day
zazzy - adjective: Flashy, colorful, or stylish.
Quote of the Day
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. - Bjarne Stroustrup, Computer Scientist
Oblique Strategies
Use “unqualified” people
Film Archive
- Wrath Of The Titans (Rated: 3)
- Released in 2012
- Summary: Perseus braves the treacherous underworld to rescue his father, Zeus, captured by his son, Ares, and brother Hades who unleash the ancient Titans upon the world.
Countdown Numbers
- Target: 787, using [2, 2, 8, 10, 25, 75]
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Answer: 7 solutions.
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Solution: ( 10 x 2 + 75 ) x 8 + 25 + 2Solution
