Daily Rundown for 2026-11-13

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing…

On Friday, 13 November 2026

  • The average temperature today is 7.45˚C,
  • With highs of 9.41˚C and lows of 6.51˚C,
  • It may feel like 6.69˚C with clear sky
  • The wind speed is 1.54m/s and visibility is 10000m
  • The pressure is 1018hPa and humidity is 66%
  • The sun will rise at 07:24 and set at 16:21

MI5 Status

  • The current threat level is SEVERE
  • It has been 197 days since the last change (2026-04-30)

Today’s tasks

  • No tasks today

Daily Doctrine

Crossing the river by feeling the stones.

Fixture List

  • England U21 v Portugal U21

Stocks

  • VWRL.L : 138.00999450683594
  • ^FTSE : 10867.1201171875
  • ^FTMC : 24793.560546875

Just for fun

New judges are being offered innovative pay options to help but I do not think the test-i-money will catch on.

Top News

  • From Ukraine peace to Europe’s future: How Russia is shifting the debate (Euronews, 20 minutes ago)
  • Jensen Huang’s years-long effort to get close to China (FT, 26 minutes ago)
  • Palantir adds three UK police forces to its beat with £10.1M deal (Register, 29 minutes ago)
  • Moscow tells Europe to pick an envoy if it wants a seat at the table (FT, 34 minutes ago)
  • Microsoft races to restore services after global outage (FT, 42 minutes ago)
  • Hungary’s MOL seeks EU funding as CEO warns Russian oil phase-out could trigger social unrest (Euronews, 46 minutes ago)
  • At least three killed and more than 20 injured in Russian strikes on Ukraine (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
  • ‘Take your time’: Funniest reactions to Microsoft global outage (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
  • BOFH: The best way to stop an idea spreading is a controlled burn (Register, 1 hours ago)
  • Winter 2026 travel tips: The best dates to fly and book hotels (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
  • OK who just made $200mn shorting Nvidia ahead of Jensxit? (FT, 1 hours ago)
  • European diesel prices stay high as global oil supply overtakes demand, IEA says (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
  • China to encourage investment in Turkish renewable energy with $15bn solar and wind deal (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
  • Euronews Culture’s Film of the Week: ‘Club Kid’ - Sex, drugs & sudden parenthood (Euronews, 1 hours ago)
  • Crackdown on UK medical record snooping after staff reported sneaking 300+ times this year (Register, 2 hours ago)
  • Latest news bulletin November 13th, 2026 – Midday (Euronews, 2 hours ago)
  • Ex-Nvidia CEO Huang and US Commerce Secretary Lutnick summoned to testify before Congress (Euronews, 2 hours ago)
  • US Treasuries set for worst week since Trump’s ‘liberation day’ (FT, 2 hours ago)
  • Brit police watchdog says cops’ use of facial recog risks wrongful arrests (Register, 2 hours ago)
  • Palantir’s NHS cancer app gets plenty of praise, precious few users (Register, 3 hours ago)
  • The Daily Hilario: Friday (WAGNH, 4 hours ago)
  • C++26 stumbles at finish line over Contracts dispute (Register, 5 hours ago)
  • Chelsea’s first-ever central London pop-up store opens for Christmas season (CFC, 5 hours ago)
  • Microsoft’s massive M365 outage stretches past 15 hours as its fixes keep failing (Register, 6 hours ago)
  • Value Nvidia, not Huang (FT, 6 hours ago)
  • Developer cleverly shrank 2,600 lines of C into a six-line script but still ending up losing sleep (Register, 6 hours ago)
  • Russia loses almost half a million lives in Ukraine war (FT, 8 hours ago)
  • Why tech CEOs love black leather jackets (FT, 8 hours ago)
  • The downfall of Jensen Huang (FT, 9 hours ago)
  • Singapore says US authorities, and Supermicro, hardly helped investigation of Jensen Huang’s Chinese friend (Register, 9 hours ago)
  • Morgan Rogers scores for England; defends for Cole Palmer (WAGNH, 10 hours ago)
  • Alibaba’s Qwen3.8 re-educated with a more Western worldview (Register, 11 hours ago)
  • US lawmakers pile pressure on Lutnick as Nvidia scandal widens (FT, 13 hours ago)

Word of the day

tear-throat - noun: An actor who overacts, especially through loud, exaggerated speech. adjective: Marked by loud, exaggerated delivery.

Quote of the Day

Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that does not mean it cannot be managed. - Eric Ries, Author, The Lean Startup

Oblique Strategies

Mute and continue

Film Archive

  • Mr Deeds (Rated: 3)
  • Released in 2002
  • Summary: A sweet-natured small-town guy inherits a controlling stake in a media conglomerate and begins to do business his way.

Countdown Numbers

  • Target: 595, using [3, 5, 10, 25, 75, 100]

  • Answer: 44 solutions.

  • Solution Solution: ( 100 + 75 + 25 - 5 ) x 3 + 10

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