OchtendKrant: news for Saturday 7 November 2026
King Philippe sends De Wever back to the negotiating table and expects an update on 16 November
After a week of consultations the head of state refuses the government's resignation, the five majority parties promise concessions and talks resume on Monday.
From Monday the White House staff answers to Stephen Miller, as Susie Wiles moves to Trump's political machine
4 sources · VRT NWS, AP, Al Jazeera +After its heaviest fall since April 2025 the Nasdaq claws back one percent, and Trump calls data centres gold
3 sources · Yahoo Finance, Newsweek, VRT NWSThe first touchscreen Macs are on shelves, with a smart home hub and a new Apple TV following next Friday
4 sources · MacRumors, Cult of Mac, MacworldGenk's Kongolo and striker Cuypers are new in Van Bommel's squad, while Koni De Winter walks away from Belgium
3 sources · Sporza, RTBF, L'AvenirBelgium
All of BelgiumDuchâtelet looks for savings in costly end-of-life care, the CD&V and Vooruit presidents respond with anger
On Play, the businessman suggested questioning treatments for very old people instead of scrapping the benefits enjoyed by professional footballers.
2 sources · VRT NWS, De Rijkste BelgenProcedural error sets the former partner of murdered Schaerbeek café owner Diana free without conditions
The man had spent almost two years in pre-trial detention over the death of the coffee bar owner, and prosecutors are opening two inquiries into what went wrong.
3 sources · Bruzz, DH, VRT NWSExpanding a golf course near Ypres has yielded the remains of no fewer than 141 fallen soldiers
After eighteen months of digging at the Palingbeek, one of the largest investigations ever carried out on the First World War battlefields has been completed.
2 sources · VRT NWS, L'AvenirBelgian emergency crews will soon be able to drive patients to the nearest A&E across the Dutch border
Only Maastricht UMC+ can currently receive Belgian emergency patients, and the federal health service confirms that restriction is going.
2 sources · VRT NWS, NewsmonkeyWorld
All of WorldKenyan preacher who told his followers to starve in the Shakahola forest gets two centuries behind bars
Paul Mackenzie was found guilty in October of the deaths of 190 children and one adult, and prosecutors had asked for the death penalty.
3 sources · VRT NWS, The Star, IBTimes UKCrew member dies aboard an empty Greek-managed tanker in the Gulf as Trump plays down US strikes near Qeshm
A missile probably hit the Velos Sapphire on its way to Bahrain, while Iran says more tankers are burning in the Strait of Hormuz.
3 sources · Arab News, VRT NWS, AnadoluEconomy
All of EconomyA quarter century after Sabena's collapse, receiver Van Buggenhout hopes to close the books next year
By running parts of the business for longer than usual, the receiver raised over a billion euros, although suppliers are still owed 350 million euros.
2 sources · VRT NWS, Trends-TendancesTesla's Austin plant will stop building the Cybertruck by mid-2027 and hand that capacity to robotaxis
Sales of the steel pick-up fell far short of Elon Musk's expectations, and he wants to shift the freed-up capacity to the Cybercab.
3 sources · Fox Business, VRT NWSWith energy pushing UK inflation towards 5 percent, the Bank of England lifts its key rate by a quarter point
Governor Andrew Bailey does not rule out further moves for as long as the conflict in the Middle East drags on.
2 sources · BBC, Bank of EnglandTech
All of TechAI & LLMs
Outside evaluator METR finds Anthropic improving its models at about double the earlier rate, though much of the evidence is redacted
The independent organisation attributes the speed-up mainly to AI helping with the research itself, but the public could not see the most telling data.
4 sources · METR, AP via The Business Journal, CryptoSlate +US prosecutors get a central unit for every case involving misuse of advanced AI
The Justice Department's new task force is to target foreign states, criminal networks and fraudsters, but no new offence is being created.
3 sources · Nextgov/FCW, ExecutiveGov, Tech TimesMira Murati's start-up is said to be on the verge of raising 5 billion dollars, with Accel as lead investor
That would value Thinking Machines Lab at 40 billion dollars before the new money, more than three times last year's figure.
3 sources · Tech Funding News, Dataconomy, The NeuronProgramming languages
Poisoned chat template escapes the Jinja sandbox through a memory bug in Python itself
Security firm RunSybil shows how a malicious model can run code on servers that host AI models, but no project really wants to own the problem.
3 sources · InfoWorld, CSO Online, RunSybilTesting Node.js 27 early means different rounding in Math and data that older versions can no longer read
The first alpha under the new annual cadence brings V8 15.6, OpenSSL 4.1 and a series of changes library maintainers need to prepare for now.
3 sources · Node.js-blog, NodeSourceOther tech
Infected websites steal cookies and passwords from outdated smartphones, with researchers pointing to Russian intelligence
US cyber agency CISA has now put an old iPhone bug from the attack chain on its list of actively exploited flaws.
3 sources · Sekoia, Help Net Security, The Hacker NewsAfter court orders in Norway and Brazil, Meta shelves its new business conditions indefinitely
The rules would have allowed Meta to automatically crawl the websites of business customers, prompting an outcry from publishers.
3 sources · Nieman Lab, ABC News, AI WeeklyClosing the serious hole in Paint is only possible through the Microsoft Store, which administrators can easily overlook
A fully updated Windows PC can still contain a vulnerable version of the drawing program.
3 sources · The Hacker News, SOCRadar, SQ MagazineScience
All of ScienceSeas outside the polar regions have never been as warm as in October, and Copernicus sees 2026 joining 2024 above 1.5 degrees
Last month the world was 1.75 degrees warmer than in the late nineteenth century, and Europe had its second-warmest October.
2 sources · Weeronline, NewsmonkeyWith 5,182 confirmed infections, America has logged more measles this year than in any year since 1991
At least eight people have died, almost all those infected were unvaccinated, and the country risks losing its measles elimination status.
2 sources · VRT NWS, The Daily StarVisitors' graffiti hid a gallery of Palaeolithic carvings in a Catalan cave for decades
In the Cova de la Font Major, researchers describe 280 motifs, including 55 animals, which they believe are at least 19,000 years old.
3 sources · Archaeology Magazine, La Brújula Verde, GizmodoSport
All of SportThree goals from Dennis Eckert Ayensa give Standard their first league win in two months
At Sclessin on Friday evening, Standard beat SK Beveren 3-0, leaving the visitors without a win in five matches.
3 sources · Sporza, L'Avenir, La DHThe European cyclocross championships get under way in Zeddam today, with Nys and Vanthourenhout chasing another title on Sunday
On the course of the 2006 world championships, the elite women race today, followed on Sunday by the elite men with eight Belgians on the start line.
4 sources · Wielerkrant, Focus-WTV, Wielerrevue +