OchtendKrant: news for Tuesday 10 November 2026
De Wever cancels his Dublin trip and sees Prévot today in the third round of his budget meetings
After Clarinval with Bouchez and Vandenbroucke with his chief of staff, it is the turn of Les Engagés, with CD&V following on Wednesday.
Witkoff and Kushner bring Kyiv and Moscow back to one table in the Emirates, with Europe talking from the sidelines
4 sources · Euronews, Meduza, Business AM +Argenx brings a Californian peptide specialist fully in-house as it targets medicines in pill form
3 sources · Business AM, Reuters, Endpoints NewsAnthropic opens Fable 5.2 to all users at a lower price, while the less restricted Mythos version stays with vetted partners
3 sources · TechCrunch, The Next Web, MacRumorsRed Devils report to Tubize for their final two Nations League games, with Cuypers arriving after a long trip from Mexico
5 sources · Sporza, Voetbalkrant, DH +Belgium
All of BelgiumChemical firm Vynova convenes its works council today and unions are bracing for the worst
After almost a year of court protection and two weeks of standstill, around 600 workers in Tessenderlo-Ham fear for their jobs.
2 sources · VRT NWS, Made inFirst CLÉ test in French-speaking primary schools: fluent reading, but vocabulary and comprehension lag
Nearly 50,000 pupils sat the new non-certifying test in September, with an average maths score of 61 percent.
2 sources · La Libre, DHBruges court gives recognised refugee twelve years over a nail bomb defused in Iraq two decades ago
A fingerprint on adhesive tape led investigators to a Koksijde resident, who maintains his innocence and is appealing.
2 sources · VRT NWS, Lokaal NieuwsGierle residents within 500 metres advised to avoid well water for now after raised PFAS readings
Lille municipality is sending more than 800 letters this week, and the precautionary measures are not compulsory.
2 sources · Gemeente Lille, DHWorld
All of WorldEuropean ministers look to Rubio for clarity in Paris as he sees no quick breakthrough with Iran
G7 foreign ministers are spending two days on Ukraine, Iran and the International Criminal Court, with Kyiv joining today.
3 sources · AP, Reuters, 8am MediaFalse posts about migrants during France's unrest: the EU points to a Russian network, Paris also to MAGA and Israeli accounts
According to internal assessments, foreign actors exploited the October riots online, but there is no evidence that they stoked the protests themselves.
3 sources · Reuters, Kyiv Post, i24NEWSCrane collapses into a furnace at Turkish steel group Habas, killing seventeen workers
Thirteen people were also injured in the blast in Aliağa, prosecutors have detained six people and unions point to earlier accidents.
3 sources · Euronews, AFP, 1news.azEconomy
All of EconomyChinese exports grow by more than a third in October on the back of global hunger for AI hardware
After ten months the trade surplus has already passed the thousand billion dollar mark, a month earlier than last year.
2 sources · AFP, ReutersCheaper oil hands Wall Street its best session in seven months, with Nvidia the one big name left behind
The S&P 500 gains 2.3 percent after Brent falls almost 6 percent, as investors take heart from signs that new strikes on Iran are unlikely.
2 sources · AP, StockTitanProperty sector fears buyers of polluted land will soon have to pay for the clean-up themselves
The property developers' association warns of a hefty surcharge on new homes, while Minister Brouns's office says there is no plan to burden buyers further.
3 sources · Business AM, Bouw & Wonen, Redactie24Tech
All of TechAI & LLMs
At ten cents per million input tokens, Meta wants to capture the routine work of AI agents
Muse Ember is the smallest model Meta has released so far and is meant mainly to handle repetitive jobs such as extracting data and calling tools at low cost.
2 sources · Digital Trends, Interesting EngineeringAfter the Democrats' election win, Trump is willing to talk about rules for AI, as long as China does not pull ahead
In a television interview the US president called the risks of AI manageable, without saying which limits he has in mind.
3 sources · Reuters, CFO Dive, Startup FortuneApple
Logic Pro users who run out of AI allowance can now buy extra use from Apple for 49.99 dollars
It is the first time Apple has charged separately for Apple Intelligence, for now only for Creator Studio subscribers and not in Belgium.
3 sources · 9to5Mac, Engadget, Make Tech EasierApple's HomeView smart display reaches stores on Friday, but Belgian customers will have to do without it for now
The fourth-generation Apple TV 4K also ships from 13 November, while Apple will not sell the display in the European Union as long as Siri AI is missing there.
3 sources · MacRumors, Make Tech Easier, GlitchwireProgramming languages
A bug in the Python interpreter lets a tampered language model break out of the Jinja sandbox
RunSybil researchers ran code on a model-serving machine through a forged chat template, but the Python security team does not see a CPython vulnerability.
3 sources · CSO Online, InfoWorld, FOSS LinuxJava moves up to third place in the TIOBE ranking as Dart joins the top twenty for the first time
The November standings of the most popular programming languages also show Go narrowly pushing Rust out of the top ten, while Python stays comfortably in the lead.
3 sources · TIOBE, byteiota, TechRepublicOther tech
Researchers find the workspace of an attacker who let an AI agent do the break-in work at a European telecoms operator for weeks
According to Malbear Labs, the Chinese-speaking operator behind it only gave short instructions, while the agent, built on DeepSeek Flash, found new routes by itself whenever it was blocked.
3 sources · Infosecurity Magazine, GBHackers, Malbear LabsGoogle rounds out its eighth generation of AI chips with a sealed-off version for sensitive data and a doubled chip for very long inputs
With the TPU 8tx and the TPU 8i Max, Google is targeting governments and tightly regulated companies, as well as agents that have to process huge amounts of text or video.
3 sources · Analytics India Magazine, Nasi Lemak Tech, GoogleScience
All of ScienceCancer Registry sees melanoma in men keep rising to the level of women, while survival climbs to 96 percent
The risk of the most aggressive skin cancer has more than doubled in twenty years, but three in four cases are caught early.
3 sources · VRT NWS, La Libre, De SpecialistGhent mouse study: two mild Covid infections leave traces in the brain's memory centre
Researchers at Ghent University and VIB see fewer connections between nerve cells and more amyloid plaques, but stress the results are preliminary.
2 sources · VRT NWS, The Brussels TimesUnprecedented early disruption high above the North Pole, though a cold Belgian winter is far from settled
The polar vortex is weakening weeks earlier than usual, but whether the Arctic cold heads for Europe or North America is uncertain.
2 sources · VRT NWS, Weer.nlSport
All of SportAnderlecht listed one Belgian-trained player too few in Bruges and could lose their point
Club Brugge have asked the football federation to open a case, and the disciplinary council for professional football must rule on Sunday's 1-1.
4 sources · Sporza, Voetbalkrant, RTBFFormer assistant Lenie Onzia takes charge of the Red Flames with a return to League A in her sights
The ex-international succeeds Elisabet Gunnarsdottir and will be supported by Austria's Irene Fuhrmann and Kevin Bogemans.
3 sources · Sporza, RTBF, DH