OchtendKrant: news for Thursday 5 November 2026
Rousseau and Bouchez both say they want a deal, but neither gives any ground
On the second day of talks with King Philippe, Vooruit stressed a fair sharing of the burden and MR stuck to curbing public spending; N-VA goes to the palace today.
Energy lifts euro area price growth to 4 percent, with Belgium well above at 5.2 percent
4 sources · Business AM, Newsmonkey, Reuters +Commission sets out a path to EU membership for Montenegro, Albania, Moldova and Ukraine as Georgia remains a candidate only on paper
3 sources · Europese Commissie, New Union Post, EuronewsAssociated Press becomes the first publisher with a paid agreement at Anthropic
2 sources · Adweek, RuntimeWireSommer keeps PSV at bay as Forbs gives Club Brugge a third straight European win
4 sources · Sporza, Voetbalkrant, NOSBelgium
All of BelgiumHuman chain around Brussels courthouse as the Chamber votes on home entry bill today
Thousands of people linked arms around the Brussels Palace of Justice on Wednesday, and protests took place in more than fifty towns against plans to let authorities enter homes to look for people without residence rights.
3 sources · VRT NWS, L'Avenir, BX1Price of the nuclear fleet still divides Engie and the state as deadline slips to December
The federal government and Engie missed their 4 November target and now give themselves until 12 December, with at most one more month, to agree the outline of the takeover.
3 sources · VRT NWS, RTBF, La LibrePart breaks off a works train and strikes two trains in Flemish Brabant, no one injured
An incident between Liedekerke and Ternat shattered windows on a passenger train with seventy people on board; the Jette to Denderleeuw line was closed for the rest of Wednesday.
3 sources · VRT NWS, Bruzz, BX1Ostend skipper fears for small trawlers after Greenpeace drops granite boulders on North Sea floor
Greenpeace lowered stones weighing up to two tonnes into a protected area off the English coast last weekend to block bottom trawling; fishermen and the British authorities have responded critically.
2 sources · VRT NWS, Visserij.nlWorld
All of WorldPolish prime minister proposes talks with the president as the disputed constitutional court meets without its chief justice
Donald Tusk and Karol Nawrocki are looking for a way out of the battle over the Constitutional Tribunal, but the rhetoric stays sharp and the new judges press on.
4 sources · TVN24, Wirtualna Polska, Notes from Poland +Members of a Serbian elite unit detained over abuse of protesters in a government garage
Ten days after the SNS lost the election, the first major arrests follow over violence during two years of anti-corruption protests.
3 sources · Reuters, AP, EuronewsFrench unions down tools together today against the austerity budget, with school pupils and yellow vests joining in
The Lecornu government faces a national day of action over wages and purchasing power, with little budgetary room and six months before the presidential election.
5 sources · franceinfo, The Local, Aju PressEconomy
All of EconomyAfter long hesitation Belgium taps part of its emergency diesel stocks, but pump prices will barely fall
The country is contributing 260,000 barrels to the International Energy Agency's joint action, but the law requires the fuel to be sold at market price.
3 sources · RTBF, Business AM, prix-carburant.euThe Netherlands wants Klaas Knot to lead the ECB, with Spain's Hernández de Cos seen as his main rival
The race to succeed Christine Lagarde, who leaves in February, is getting under way: euro countries must submit their candidates by Friday.
3 sources · Business AM, RTÉ, Financieel ManagementEuropean Parliament environment committee leaves room for new combustion-engine cars beyond 2035
A compromise between Christian Democrats, Socialists and Liberals lowers the CO2 target for new cars to 87.5 percent, with extra credit for green steel.
3 sources · Eunews, Newsmonkey, ReutersTech
All of TechAI & LLMs
Chatbot answers built on news content may clash with European press rights, Advocate General finds in Google case
Training on news articles is allowed according to Advocate General Maciej Szpunar, but retrieving articles and reusing them recognisably in a chatbot answer may break the rules.
2 sources · Reuters, DataconomyA single OpenAI experiment uncovers 948 exploitable holes in the Linux kernel
The experiment cost about 1.2 million dollars in compute according to OpenAI, but the figures have not been independently checked and most fixes have yet to land in the kernel.
2 sources · SecurityOnline, Startup FortuneApple
Files shared publicly through iCloud face Apple screening from iOS 27.3
From iOS 27.3 and macOS 27.3, Apple will check photos and files shared with the anyone-with-the-link option; the company does not say what counts as harmful.
3 sources · 9to5Mac, MacRumors, iPhone in CanadaApple gives staff less room to spend money on AI services each day
According to Bloomberg, Apple lowered the daily limit for some engineers from 300 to 200 dollars and it may fall further to 100 dollars, or 25 dollars outside the technical teams.
3 sources · Reuters, TechCrunch, StocktwitsProgramming languages
Pando is meant to keep OpenAI's central code repository standing under the flood of agent work
The new system, Pando, keeps the standard Git protocol intact but lets each branch work independently and cuts push wait times by about 80 percent.
2 sources · GIGAZINE, QodoPopular jailbreak bundle for Codex plants lasting adverts in the coding agent's instructions
Check Point Research describes a new form of adware that does not live in a program but in plain language inside the AI agent's configuration.
2 sources · The Hacker News, MalloryOther tech
Copy function in Xen contains two critical bugs that give guest systems access to each other's memory
The Xen project is fixing the bugs in the copy function between virtual machines and credits Anthropic, which found them with Claude.
2 sources · The Hacker News, XCP-ngTakeover of Canadian chipmaker Taalas will cost AMD up to 2.9 billion dollars, quarterly report shows
Almost half of the amount depends on conditions AMD does not explain; the company expects to complete the deal by the end of this year.
2 sources · Securities.io, BetaKitScience
All of ScienceTwo vaccines designed for the Bundibugyo strain will join the Ebola trial in Congo, with Antwerp partners
The World Health Organization is adding an Oxford vaccine and a Moderna mRNA vaccine to the ongoing study, the first time vaccines against this Ebola strain will be tested during an outbreak.
3 sources · WHO, Anews, VRT NWSRonse stream still tens of times above PFAS limit as VUB finds fourteen compounds in the soil
New water and soil samples by VUB and Climaxi show that pollution with so-called forever chemicals has barely fallen, and that newer variants are turning up as well.
2 sources · VRT NWS, AVSSwift observatory burns up over Sumatra, ending a 22-year hunt for cosmic explosions
The NASA satellite, designed to last two years, disappeared into the atmosphere on Wednesday after a commercial robot failed to push it into a higher orbit.
3 sources · AccuWeather, NASA, VRT NWSSport
All of SportDe Bruyne has a goal ruled out as Napoli crash 4-1 in Porto, and Liverpool suffer a first defeat
Napoli remain on 3 points after four matchdays, while Real Madrid and Manchester City struck late on Wednesday.
4 sources · Sporza, Football Italia, beIN Sports +Four Belgian clubs in Europe tonight, with an Anderlecht coach reluctant to discuss his future
Anderlecht host Salzburg and Union travel to Celta Vigo in the Europa League, while Gent and STVV play in the Conference League.
6 sources · Sporza, Sports Mole, Minuto Noventa +