Trend Micro will be holding a press briefing on The State of the Ransomware Threat in Egypt and will give insights into the Middle East cyber underground today at the Nile Ritz Carlton in Cairo at 11:00 am. Country Manager Noura Hassan and Sales Engineer Manager Ibrahim Youssef will be available for questions. The results of our exclusive survey of Enterprise readers with Trend Micro appears at the bottom of this section.

The Trade and Industry Ministry will be launching its industrial investment map at a press conference today, Ahram Gate reports. The map will include over 4,000 projects ready for investment across various governorate in the country, Industrial Development Authority chairperson Ahmed Abdel Razek had previously said. The Investment Ministry’s investment map of some 600 projects will reportedly be ready by December and be out for bid by January.

Wired is out with the first mini-review of the iPhone X that we’ve seen. We’ve yet to digest it, but Steven Levy (who was among the very first to put his hands on the first-ever iPhone) seems pleased, writing that at a minimum, “Those who shell out the cash for this device will enjoy their screen and battery life today. But the real payoff of the iPhone X might come when we figure out what it can do tomorrow.” That payoff is in augmented reality and in the device simply melting away, he writes: “It’s a step towards fading the actual physical manifestation of technology into a mist where it’s just there —a phone that’s ‘all screen,’ one that turns on simply by seeing you, one that removes the mechanics of buttons and charging cables.” Read Levy’s The First Impression of the iPhone X here.

Clocks “fell back” an hour in the UK on Sunday night, so London is now two hours behind Cairo. Clocks will fall back one hour in most of North America this coming Sunday, meaning New York and Toronto will be seven hours behind us this coming Monday.

New expat friends: In a fit of sanity, cabinet did away with daylight savings time here a few years back after we had “sprung forward” (for spring), fallen back (for Ramadan), sprung forward again (post-Ramadan) and then fallen back a final time (for fall).

Oh, and Happy Halloween, y’all. If you’ve finished season two of Stranger Things, go check out The Duffer Brothers’ deep dive behind the scenes with cast and crew in the seven-episode Beyond Stranger Things.