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Received — 21 October 2026 ⏭

ReactOS reaches major milestone with NTFS install support

✇Ars Technica - Gadgets
By: Nick Indge
19 October 2026 at 19:30

Open source Windows alternative ReactOS has reached a major milestone: The operating system can now be installed directly onto an NTFS 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.

However, users looking to hop off the Windows train shouldn't be grabbing their bags just yet. ReactOS wrote that the new driver still "lacks caching (which causes inferior performance), journaling and security support." So while the new driver is here, even the most intrepid of OS tinkerers should tread carefully. The ReactOS team warned in its announcement on X that there are still "potentially undiscovered bugs."

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ReactOS reaches major milestone with NTFS install support

✇Ars Technica - Technology
By: Nick Indge
19 October 2026 at 19:30

Open source Windows alternative ReactOS has reached a major milestone: The operating system can now be installed directly onto an NTFS 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.

However, users looking to hop off the Windows train shouldn't be grabbing their bags just yet. ReactOS wrote that the new driver still "lacks caching (which causes inferior performance), journaling and security support." So while the new driver is here, even the most intrepid of OS tinkerers should tread carefully. The ReactOS team warned in its announcement on X that there are still "potentially undiscovered bugs."

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Backporting SwiftUI APIs

✇Michael Tsai
By: Michael Tsai
30 September 2026 at 21:45

Dave DeLong:

I can improve the process of removing backwards compatibility shims by using conditional compilation to remind me when they’re no longer necessary!

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This does mean that the first time we change our deployment target, we’ll get a bunch of compilation errors. But given the nature of how Backport is implemented, this should be a relatively quick process to move past. (And of course, you’re welcome to use #warning instead of #error).

Shaps Benkau:

SwiftUIBackports mirrors Apple’s SwiftUI API names, shapes, behavior, documentation, and availability where practical. This keeps app code familiar today, and easy to migrate away from once your deployment target reaches the native API.

Backports are discovered through .backport, the Backport namespace, or backport-prefixed environment values.

Majid Jabrayilov:

Usually, we don’t see many new APIs in intermediate releases like 27.1, but this time is different. Apple introduced several new iPhone Duo-related APIs in the 27.1 release. This week, we will learn how to use all of these new APIs without bumping your project’s target version.

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Here we introduced the toolbarVerticalBehavior function on the Backport type that handles availability checks and calls the new APIs if available or returns a plain view when it is not available.

Previously:

OpenClaw 2.0

✇Michael Tsai
By: Michael Tsai
28 September 2026 at 19:51

Juli Clover:

OpenClaw for iOS can be used alongside an existing gateway as a secure node for chat, voice approvals, sharing, and device-aware automation.

The iOS app replaces iPhone and iPad workarounds that involved using Telegram or WhatsApp for on-the-go access.

Hannes Rudolph (Hacker News):

This update touches every part of OpenClaw, including installation, messaging, memory, skills, models, automations, the browser and native apps, plugins, security, and a very long tail of fixes. We started by simplifying installation and rebuilding the browser app as a first-class experience, but doing that properly meant carrying the cleanup through the rest of OpenClaw until it became OpenClaw 2.0.

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Received — 16 September 2026 ⏭

La Nasa vient de donner à une IA des données sur toute la Lune : elle sait désormais où chercher de l'eau en priorité

✇Futura
By: Thibault Caudron · Journaliste
15 September 2026 at 16:07
La Lune a été observée sous toutes les coutures depuis des décennies, mais ses données restent dispersées entre de nombreux instruments et missions. IBM et la Nasa viennent de rendre public un modèle d’intelligence artificielle conçu pour les faire dialoguer afin de mieux connaître le seul...

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