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Open source Windows alternative ReactOS has reached a major milestone: The operating system can now be installed directly onto an NT Files System drive partition. As reported by Phoronix, the move to NTFS clears a long-standing hurdle for the project and brings it one step closer to finally reaching beta. Prior to this latest announcement, ReactOS required users to keep a FAT32 partition for installations. A proprietary Microsoft-developed filesystem, NTFS can trace its roots back through the Windows NT family lineage starting in 1993 with Windows NT 3.1. The variant introduced with Windows XP in 2001 remains the standard used by most Windows systems today. With ReactOS’s stated goal of reaching binary compatibility with Windows Server 2003, being confined to FAT32 partitions was a practical barrier to clear on the way to reproducing the Windows environment.

‘We are running as fast as we possibly can, while maintaining that we don’t create shortcuts for ourselves in order to rush things to market, to make sure the service is safe, secure, the environment is clean, and we will bring it back online,’ ConnectWise CTO David Raissipour tells CRN. ConnectWise’s David Raissipour says his company is doing everything possible to help thousands of ConnectWise partners affected by the recent attack on its Cloud Backup product, with no suspicious activity witnessed in more than 24 hours.

Google claims its newest AI model, Gemini 4 Argon, just beat Minecraft — no human help required. In a research paper posted Oct. 15, Google DeepMind researchers said a team of four Gemini 4 Argon agents defeated the Ender Dragon, the game’s final boss. The agents started in a freshly generated survival world on Easy difficulty and were given a single goal: kill the dragon. It took them 27 hours and 14 minutes. Along the way, the AI players died 605 times, mostly to monsters. The researchers say this is the first time AI agents have beaten Minecraft from start to finish using only standard tools, with no game-specific help built by humans. Researchers watched the run on a live dashboard and could have stepped in at any point, but they say they never needed to.

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Security researcher Quentin Kaiser has disclosed a vulnerability affecting Broadcom-based routers that can allow an unauthenticated attacker within Wi-Fi range to execute code on affected devices. His demonstrations included extracting a wireless password from an Orange Belgium gateway and obtaining a command shell on a Proximus router. Published on October 16, the research highlights a potentially significant exposure across networking equipment that incorporates Broadcom’s proprietary wireless software. Kaiser said the Belgian gateways he identified remained unpatched as of October 15. His original disclosure also records Broadcom’s response that a patch was available, making the distinction between an upstream remedy and protection on deployed equipment central to the case.