Daily Rundown for 2026-11-02

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…

On Monday, 02 November 2026

  • The average temperature today is 11.36˚C,
  • With highs of 12.06˚C and lows of 10.85˚C,
  • It may feel like 10.41˚C with scattered clouds
  • The wind speed is 6.69m/s and visibility is 10000m
  • The pressure is 1037hPa and humidity is 71%
  • The sun will rise at 07:04 and set at 16:39

MI5 Status

  • The current threat level is SEVERE
  • It has been 186 days since the last change (2026-04-30)

Today’s tasks

  • No tasks today

Daily Doctrine

Bias towards action.

Fixture List

  • Newcastle United v Everton

Stocks

  • VWRL.L : 136.1699981689453
  • ^FTSE : 10710.900390625
  • ^FTMC : 24597.359375

Just for fun

Why are all fast cars Chinese? When they drive past they all say Nǐ hǎo.

Top News

  • UK and Germany to jointly develop military AI in 2027 (Euronews, 4 minutes ago)
  • US midterm elections 2026: What are they and when will we know the results? (Euronews, 7 minutes ago)
  • Brussels still ‘traumatised’ by Brexit, EU foreign policy chief warns (Euronews, 19 minutes ago)
  • 28 years and 50,000 kilometres: British adventurer Karl Bushby arrives home after epic trek (Euronews, 31 minutes ago)
  • Taliban voices ‘serious concern’ over US plans to deport Afghans via Pakistan (Euronews, 35 minutes ago)
  • Skeleton puppets and zombies fill New York’s Halloween parade (Euronews, 35 minutes ago)
  • How Putin has split the west (FT, 39 minutes ago)
  • Marvell to buy data centre component maker Lumentum in $115bn AI bet (FT, 48 minutes ago)
  • Ukraine needs help this winter, says UN goodwill ambassador and actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
  • Global AI sell-off eases after Nasdaq’s worst month in over a year (FT, 1 hours ago)
  • Portugal house prices hit new record as October sees 7.5% annual rise (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
  • Schools closed and roads flooded as new wave of severe weather hits Greek islands (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
  • Netanyahu presses Trump for renewed strikes against Iran (FT, 1 hours ago)
  • Iran says it can reopen Hormuz in two days if US meets conditions (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
  • Vintage fun: Prodding AI agents using retro hardware just because you can (Register, 2 hours ago)
  • Microsoft’s moolah mountain is more massive than ever. It just doesn’t want the people who built it (Register, 3 hours ago)
  • Britain’s driverless dream hits a roundabout of awkward questions (Register, 3 hours ago)
  • From Expertise to Intelligence: NISCO Deploys World’s First Swarm-Intelligence Steel Model at Scale (Register, 4 hours ago)
  • Chelsea 2-0 Manchester United, Player Ratings: Wherefore thou art Roméo (WAGNH, 5 hours ago)
  • The Daily Hilario: Monday (WAGNH, 5 hours ago)
  • Manager threatened to fire a colleague, then gave them a critical task – which they flubbed (Register, 5 hours ago)
  • Chap who coded Google’s Pac-Man clone reveals how the game freaked out Firefox (Register, 7 hours ago)
  • Petrol prices set to hit record high under Trump on eve of US elections (FT, 8 hours ago)
  • The meaning of the midterms (FT, 8 hours ago)
  • Life in Tehran under Trump’s blockade (FT, 8 hours ago)
  • The race to keep AI under control (FT, 8 hours ago)
  • Why rich Ireland still feels poor (FT, 8 hours ago)
  • India floats AI plan under which ‘The model travels to the data, rather than the data travelling to the model’ (Register, 8 hours ago)
  • Trump makes final pitch to restive voters in midterms campaign (FT, 11 hours ago)
  • Google says Asian advertisers spending less due to Europe’s customs changes (Register, 12 hours ago)
  • Linus Torvalds says Linux kernel is out of ‘stabilization phase’ and using ‘much healthier model’ for AI contributions (Register, 14 hours ago)
  • Charlton Athletic WFC 0-6 Chelsea FCW, Women’s Super League: Post-match reaction (WAGNH, 21 hours ago)
  • Charlton Athletic WFC vs. Chelsea FCW, Women’s Super League: Confirmed lineups; how to watch (WAGNH, 23 hours ago)

Word of the day

pseudologue - noun: A habitual liar.

Quote of the Day

Stable Velocity. Sustainable Pace. - Mike Cottmeyer, Agile Author and Coach

Oblique Strategies

Put in earplugs

Film Archive

  • Target Number One (Rated: 3)
  • Released in 2023
  • Summary: In order to strengthen his connections on the street, a young man has to participate in a violent robbery. But, after surviving the war between street gangs, he becomes the main target of law enforcement and a ruthless mobster.

Countdown Numbers

  • Target: 685, using [1, 1, 2, 9, 75, 100]

  • Answer: 4 solutions.

  • Solution Solution: ( 75 + 2 - 1 ) x 9 + 1

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