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In June 2025, Microsoft announced that, in June 2026, it would begin deprecating Secure Boot certificates of Windows systems from 2011, which were superseded by their 2023 counterparts.

When Microsoft patched a vulnerability last summer that allowed threat actors to use Windows’ shortcut (.lnk) files in ...

A fake 7-Zip website is distributing a trojanized installer of the popular archiving tool that turns the user's computer into ...

By putting conflicting metadata in LNK files, a researcher found four new ways to spoof targets, hide arguments, and run unintended programs in Windows Explorer.

This process is called a clean install, which is ironic as there's nothing particularly clean about it: Microsoft has enshittified Windows Setup.

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Tests and announcements have been made, and now the Let's Encrypt project is making 6-day and IP certificates available to everyone. On the Let’s Encrypt website, the project announces that interested ...

EV charging infrastructure is growing, but you have to pay for it. We asked experts how to charge for free. EV drivers are also losing another avenue of free charging with the conversion of Volta's ...

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