Kraków
Six people died and about 15 were wounded Saturday afternoon when a man in a car opened fire in Kraków's Main Market Square, according to police. Four of the dead were women and two were men, and at least one was a British citizen.
Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński said the suspect held very radical and ultranationalist views. It was not immediately clear what the gunman's motive was, and police said he appeared to act alone.
Israel
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has given opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot the first opportunity to form a governing coalition after the October 27 elections. Eisenkot ran as the main rival to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but neither side won enough support to command a majority.
Israel's main parties have recommended that Eisenkot form the new government. The Associated Press describes the result as a setback for Netanyahu.
Iran
US Central Command said one of its aircraft fired at a vessel's stern and disabled the ship after it tried to violate the blockade of Iran. Separately, Iran's navy said an oil tanker caught fire after striking a naval mine in the eastern Strait of Hormuz, according to Iranian media.
Washington is setting up a task force to restrict Tehran's movement of sanctioned material across its land borders and the Caspian Sea. The move builds on the months-long naval blockade.
Artificial Intelligence
TechCrunch reported that OpenAI has raised an additional $11 billion at a $1. 25 trillion valuation, though the figure is described as reported rather than confirmed.
Separate coverage this week quoted OpenAI president Greg Brockman saying the company could be ready for an IPO in 2027. The reporting in these results does not include an OpenAI statement on the round's investors or terms.
Software
TechCrunch reported that Crusoe has sold a Wyoming data center project to Google and described the project as troubled. AI Weekly reported that Crusoe had not locked in anchor tenants for the site before the sale. The coverage reviewed does not disclose the sale price or terms.
Security researchers at pwn.ai published a technical write-up on November 5 describing an escape from Firecracker microVMs that they say yields root code execution on the host, tested against Firecracker v1.16.1 run without its jailer. Secondary coverage tracks the chain as CVE-2026-99999, and one analysis says the host-kernel flaw is what needs patching, since updating the guest does not help. Per that analysis, AWS's bulletin 2026-137-AWS says its managed EC2, Lambda and Fargate services are not affected, but self-managed KVM hosts, including Firecracker, on unpatched kernels are. The researchers state that production deployments using the jailer require a separate assessment, so the root result does not directly apply to them. PWN Research (pwn.ai blog); DEV Community analysis ↗
InfoQ reported on November 6 that GitLab 19.5 makes agentic development a governed part of its DevOps platform. The report describes the release as an update to how AI agents operate inside GitLab's development workflow. The coverage available to this desk did not include further detail on specific features or independent reaction. InfoQ ↗
Deals
CNBC reported Friday that small and mid-sized retailers are struggling with rising shipping costs during a busy holiday season. The outlet linked the increase to higher fuel prices since the U. S. and Israel attacked Iran in February, and said Amazon reported an 11% rise in its shipping expenses in the third quarter.
An expert CNBC interviewed said the year is shaping up to be a record for shipping costs, with smaller sellers bearing the most pressure because larger companies have locked-in contracts. One handmade-accessories owner said her average label cost rose from about $4. 50 last year to nearly $6, and she is considering raising shipping fees for the first time in six years, while customer demand remains strong.
