Tech news picked on 2026-11-05
Feature that moves old posts from X into a mixi2 calendar, criteria set by the development team
- This feature saves old posts from the ZIP archive downloaded from X as mixi2 posts. According to the original text, saved posts can be viewed again by date in the mixi2 calendar.
- According to the original text, posts are saved with the date they were posted on X, but they are excluded from follower timeline distribution, notifications, and consecutive posting day counts. The design aims to prevent old posts from filling timelines all at once.
- According to the original text, the archive is not loaded entirely into server memory. It is uploaded directly to S3, then opened as a file with S3 Files so that only the needed parts are read. Posts are processed in asynchronous jobs in batches of up to 1,000.
- The original text states that a mapping table between X post IDs and mixi2 post IDs is written in the same transaction to prevent duplicate saves on rerun. The policy is to keep processing the remaining posts even if an individual post fails. The part where past dates are reflected in search results is not yet complete, as the author says it is currently being addressed.
Nux launches AI sales assistant node and secures $500 million growth funding
- Nux said it has launched an AI personal assistant node that works alongside sales reps to manage deals, and it is now accepting waitlist sign-ups.
- The node keeps open deals from stalling. It remembers past call details and drafts follow-up emails, sends them once the rep approves, and alerts the rep when a decision-maker has gone quiet.
- According to Nux, 96% of the emails written by the agent are sent without edits. This is a figure Nux disclosed itself and has not been independently verified.
- The $500 million growth funding came from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund. The original article explains that the structure takes no equity. The company receives upfront payment for sales and marketing costs and repays it from customer revenue generated by that spending.
- Nux said more than 2,000 companies use it, that revenue grows about 3 times per year, and that net revenue retention is 135%. This too is a figure the company announced.
- The Switch 2 remake is introduced as a work that keeps the flow of the original N64 game while refining graphics and controls to be closer to recent games.
- The points cited as inconvenient in the original were the fixed camera and controls that did not allow jumping wherever the player wanted. In the remake, players can turn the camera themselves and jump from anywhere.
- The developers explained that Navi's nagging has been reduced, and a feature was added that summarizes the adventure so far as in-game text.
- According to the developers, the Water Temple, widely known as the hardest part of the original, has become easier thanks to improved camera and item menu controls. The sense that it became easier is written as the opinion of the reporter who interviewed them.
Google Slides can now use Gemini to edit several slides or an entire presentation at once
- Accounts with access to Gemini can enter one request in the panel next to the slides to edit several slides or the entire presentation. They can change visual styles such as fonts, backgrounds, and colors all at once, or match the style of another presentation.
- According to the source, Gemini decides on its own which slides need changes and applies the edits directly to the editable slides. The edits are applied the same way as manual edits, and the source says they can be reverted with undo or version history.
- According to the source, only English is supported at launch. The increased usage limit for generating multi-slide presentations is offered as a promotion until at least 1 December, 2026, after which per-user limits are expected to apply.
- Eligible users are Business Standard and Plus, Enterprise Standard and Plus, consumer Google AI Pro and Ultra, and education Google AI Pro add-on users. The source says administrators have no options to configure.
- Craft Anything is an open-source tool that studies websites, desktop apps, and games, then builds new projects with similar features using the technology the user requests. According to the original, it is still in an early alpha stage.
- Work proceeds in four stages: analysis, building, comparison, and refinement. A coding agent such as Claude Code handles building, and the results are compared with the original to show a list of parts that do not match.
- The default clean room mode does not read the original's code or files and uses only what is visible on screen. Deep mode also uses analysis tools that read internal code and files.
- The original README says the tool provides 320 tools through a command line interface (CLI) and as MCP tools. This figure comes from the project development team's description and has not been independently verified.
X says its new web app has greatly cut the time for a profile's first post to appear
- X says its new web app is much faster than the old one. The new app is already applied to pages served to logged-out users and to pages that search engines crawl, and logged-in users are being moved over country by country in sequence.
- According to a blog post by X senior engineer Yagiz Nizipli, when opening an X.com profile on a slow connection, the old app took more than 22 seconds before the first post appeared, while the new app takes 2.7 seconds. This is the company's claim, and the measurement conditions are not described in detail in the original.
- The new structure merges three servers that had been run separately for users, search engine crawlers, and link previews into one. Security researcher Jane Manchun Wong, after accessing the new app, described it as fast and polished, but this is a personal impression, not a measured value.
- The author cloned a voice from only one 15-second recording on a Mac and said it was made locally with the VoiceStudio app, without a cloud service. In a quiz, they played their own voice and the cloned voice side by side and asked listeners to guess which one was the real voice.
- Based on the usual speaking style, the voice pitch the author measured was 108Hz for their own voice and 99 for the clone, with 105Hz. Speaking speed in OmniVoice was almost the same as their own, while VoxCPM2 was about 10% faster. This was a small test with 1 speakers and 3 generations per condition.
- When emotion instructions were given, their own voice rose in pitch to 138Hz for 「恐る恐る」 (fearfully) and to 151Hz for 「焦って」 (in a panic), but the cloned voice stayed around 93Hz. The speed of the clone made with English instructions, 8.40, was similar to their own 焦って at 8.54, and with the 「怖がりながら恐る恐る」 instruction it actually became faster.
- Waymo said it will end the practice of calling its driverless taxis (robotaxis) through the Uber app in Austin and Atlanta from January 2028, and will offer rides through its own smartphone app, as it does in other cities.
- Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana said in a Bloomberg interview that the company chose Uber because of scale, but that riders found it hard to tell whether the car they called was a robotaxi or a human-driven car, so the experience was inconsistent.
- Her remarks confirm what the Financial Times reported earlier this year. The companies' contract was originally set to expire in May 2028. Uber said it was Waymo's idea not to add a direct robotaxi booking option to the Uber app.