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TechCrunch's Lauren Forristal reviews the Ninja Crispi, Ninja's first microwave, a $449.99 unit pairing a 1,000W microwave with a 1,700W air fryer via "FusionCrisp" technology. It ships with a 5.5-quart glass cooking dish and a nonstick crisper plate, and drops the traditional rotating plate to free up interior space. The pitch is reheating leftovers with a crisp finish instead of sogginess, at a price well above a standard microwave.

Tom's Hardware reports that a gamer's ASUS TUF gaming monitor stopped a bullet that came through a wall during a Call of Duty session. The owner is quoted calling the 280Hz monitor 'the best $280 I ever spent.' The piece carries no technical measurements, no teardown, and no comment from ASUS beyond the product name.

Import AI 479 covers Realtime-Bench, a new 50-task benchmark (30 web tasks across travel, e-commerce, service and security, plus 20 game tasks across arcade, puzzle, strategy and simulation) built by researchers at UT Austin, Ohio State, UIUC, NVIDIA, Northwestern and Steadyworks to test whether models can act under real time pressure. It measures three things — tracking changing world state (RT-Perceive), shortening deliberation when a window is closing (RT-Deliberate), and timing actions correctly (RT-Act) — under three clock settings: wall clock, paused clock, and token clock. The headline result: GPT-6 Astra (high) topped the wall-clock setting at just 36% pass rate, while the same class of models reach roughly 70-80% when the clock is paused. The excerpt only details the Realtime-Bench section; the Spacewar and Genie 4 items are not expanded in the supplied text.

Northwood Space raised a $375M Series C co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and DFJ Growth, valuing the satellite-communications company at $2B. Founded in 2022, Northwood builds antennas and software for satellite-to-Earth links; it raised a $100M Series B in January 2026 (also a16z-led) alongside a roughly $50M U.S. Space Force contract to upgrade the country's satellite control network. The round also includes a financial agreement with HSBC to fund scaling, hiring and contract fulfilment.

CNBC reports that Ford, GM and Rivian are pushing 3D printing past prototyping into factory tools and selected low-volume production parts. Rivian says it has invested more than $5 million in additive manufacturing machines and is widening employee access, with Jared Beck, who heads Rivian's additive manufacturing, describing the goal as "democratizing 3D printing for the entire company." The supplied excerpt cuts off mid-sentence, so no Ford or GM figures, part counts or cost numbers are available.

A suspected second wave of attacks on internet-connected supermarket refrigerators pushed units into defrost mode, spoiling food at dozens of stores in Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg and Sweden, with Ahold Delhaize and Colruyt confirming the hacks overnight. A Belgian company operating Delhaize's systems told Reuters the attackers changed the fridge settings directly. Researchers attributed the earlier French incident — which spoiled food at hundreds of supermarkets last month — to connected refrigerators made by Danish firm Danfoss that no longer receives security updates, a risk Claroty flagged in August.

Tom's Hardware reports that Apple brought OLED and touch to the MacBook Pro "last week" (article dated 2 November 2026) — the first touchscreen MacBook, after touch shipped on the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and late-stage iPods. The piece frames it against Steve Jobs' 2010 objection that touchscreen laptops are "ergonomically terrible" because "your arm wants to fall off" and "touch surfaces want to be horizontal," and against the Touch Bar, which Apple reversed. The available excerpt is a member-exclusive feature and stops before any specs, pricing, availability, or macOS touch-API detail.

Tom's Hardware reports that Nvidia's Brev GPU cloud service suffered a security breach that may have exposed SSH keys used to access customer VMs. An investigation found unauthorized activity spanning 16 days, though there is no evidence of misuse so far. The article excerpt provides no further detail on affected accounts, patching status, or notification.

This is a TechCrunch events promotion for the Founder Summit at SoWa Power Station in Boston on November 4, 2026, presented by Fidelity Private Shares, with the hook that ticket prices increase and group discounts end that same day. The agenda features Steve Fredette (President, Co-founder, Director of Toast) and Chase Garbarino (CEO and Co-founder of HqO) discussing building scaled companies from Boston rather than a West Coast hub, plus Braindate networking. No product, pricing, technical, or policy detail is included beyond the event logistics.

Cloudflare's Zone Builder now handles about 700 DNS record changes per second, up from 250 in 2022, with some zones exceeding 20 million records. The team built a targeted build planner that chooses the smallest provably safe build and a scheduler that combines same-zone work, so zone-setting changes no longer rebuild huge zones. This cut peak memory by 85% and halved the time from a DNS change to data being written to Quicksilver.

OpenAI is merging ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs into a single experience, starting with select users for feedback before a wider rollout, according to an email sent to users. Codex stays a separate section in the desktop app, but both ChatGPT and Codex will now draw tokens from the same allowance pool — OpenAI says most users won't be affected, though some may hit resets more frequently depending on usage and model. The move follows Anthropic combining Claude's chat and Cowork functions into one screen in September.

Rembayung, the restaurant tied to Khairul Aming, has moved table reservations off the Umai reservation/CRM platform and onto Grab's Dine Out feature, which also adds a take-away booking option. Under Umai, slots opened at 9:00 PM daily except Fridays with a 2-day or 2-week advance window, a 2-to-8 diner range, ~1h45m sessions and an RM10-per-person deposit; on Grab Dine Out, dine-in bookings run 11 AM to 9 PM, take-away slots run 12:45 PM to 6:45 PM, and the minimum party size rises to 3 with children counted as one person. The stated driver is scalpers grabbing tables, which Khairul Aming declined to fix by collecting IC numbers over privacy and safety concerns.

Simon Willison reran the U.S. Census Bureau’s Business Trends and Outlook Survey AI-adoption chart using data published October 22, 2026. The survey wording changed on November 17, 2025 from AI used “in producing goods or services” to AI used in “any of its business functions”; for firms with 250+ employees, “yes” responses went from about 12% in September 2025 to about 30% by February 2026 and about 40% by October 2026. He also notes the Bureau has run into Executive Order 14434, the “Super Intelligence” order.

Tom's Hardware reports an experimental Qwen 3 5 4B LLM with a 32-bit RISC-V CPU compiled directly into its weights. The built-in CPU can run processor arithmetic operations, C code, and DOOM, using the model's weights as RAM. The excerpt provides no benchmarks, repository, or release details.

CIMB's Octo app now lets users pay at Alipay+ merchants via DuitNow QR in five new markets — China, Hong Kong, South Korea, the Philippines and Laos — adding to existing coverage in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand, with no separate Alipay+ app or account needed. The link runs through PayNet's DuitNow QR connectivity with Ant International's Alipay+, which CIMB says spans 150 million merchants across 220+ markets and 50+ payment partners. CIMB reports over 500,000 cross-border DuitNow QR transactions on Octo as of September 2026, up more than 150% year-on-year.

A web-archiving worker describes losing teapuppies.com, a fansite online since 2004 and largely unchanged since 2005, after it disappeared and the domain began serving online gambling ads. The post argues individuals should archive favourite or depended-on sites themselves using standard WARC-format tools, and shows an entire archived website embedded in the blog post with a downloadable archive option.

Figma growth PM Ezra Mechaber describes turning his personal Claude Code setup into "PM OS", a shared repo of 31 skills that 60–70 Figma PMs now use — including a Slack-taming skill he runs six times a day and a bug-bash agent built on Codex. He also demos AutoXP, an agent that runs growth experiments end-to-end with a single human checkpoint, and says it found a large win on its first experiment. The episode is a walkthrough of skills, hooks, private sub-repos, and a FigJam MCP integration, plus a real-time writing assistant built with Jev.

Around 90 teams of engineers sent robots up China's Mount Tai on a 3.9 km course with over 600 m of ascent (described as more than 3,000 steps), with each entry tasked either with finishing the route as fast as possible or delivering fragile goods — fresh eggs and watermelons — to the summit. The report is a short news item and does not name winners, times, robot designs, payload success rates, or the event's organisers.

A 200-acre Google data center project in Minnesota won council approval after protests delayed the vote twice. Google scaled the project down and withdrew a request for an $80 million tax break. The article text available is largely page navigation, so details on capacity, timeline, and the specific resident objections are not included.

Brent and WTI crude both fell more than 4% in early trade on Monday, November 2, 2026, after negotiators renewed diplomatic efforts to ease tensions with Iran, with a draft proposal circulating following Sunday talks in Doha, according to Reuters. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the administration would prefer a diplomatic resolution. The week also carries Magnificent Seven earnings, the midterms, and Friday payrolls data.

Tom's Hardware is flagging a limited-time deal: a 512GB Samsung P9 microSD card for $99, $50 off, pitched as tripling a Nintendo Switch 2's storage. The piece is a purchase-guide/deal post with no benchmarks, no technical testing data in the excerpt, and no bearing on software, AI, or cloud work.

A hacking group claims to have exfiltrated 23TB of data from Russia's Federal State Statistics Service, allegedly including Ukraine war casualty figures; the agency itself has only confirmed that its servers were hit by 'coordinated cyberattacks.' The Tom's Hardware item is headline-level: the retrievable text is site navigation and subscription boilerplate, with no attack vector, timeline, tooling, or technical detail. Neither the 23TB figure nor the casualty-data claim is corroborated in the text.

Anthropic has confirmed new limits in Claude Code intended to prevent game cloning, and users report that Opus 5.5 is also actively blocking reverse engineering tasks, per Tom's Hardware. The supplied excerpt is almost entirely site navigation and contains no policy wording, version numbers, dates, or examples of which requests are refused.

Tuju's Android app version 2.0.4, released 30 October 2026, now launches Google Maps when users tap navigation instead of providing in-app turn-by-turn directions, ahead of a promised 6 November fix. The change follows 22 October criticism of Tuju's vague routing and missing navigation features; iOS remains on version 1.5.5 from November 2025. LLM says Tuju was intended as a highway companion with toll exits, rest stops, live cameras and emergency contacts, not a Waze replacement.

Tom's Hardware published a short item headlined around Elon Musk mocking OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over an apparent claim that PCs having RAM is "terrible," with Musk quoted in the headline saying "The people deserve to have their RAM too!" The page body available here is almost entirely site navigation, membership prompts, and newsletter boilerplate — no quoted exchange, no date for the original remarks, no technical specifics, and no numbers on RAM prices or allocations.