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Secure Boot Certificate Rollover Will Fail Without OEM Firmware Updates, Microsoft Warns
Microsoft’s Secure Boot certificate authority (CA) rollover, a multi-year cryptographic transition, will begin impacting devices as early as 2026, and its success hinges on one thing most IT teams...
Microsoft Rushes Out KB5066189 Fix for Broken Windows 11 Reset as 2026 Secure Boot Deadline Looms
Microsoft shipped an unscheduled out-of-band update on August 19, 2025, to undo a high-impact regression that crippled Windows 11's built-in recovery tools. The patch, KB5066189, resurrects the...
Windows 11 KB5063878 Update Triggers NVMe SSD Disappearances — Here’s What’s Happening
A wave of reports across enthusiast forums and hardware labs confirms that the Windows 11 August 2025 cumulative update, KB5063878, is causing certain NVMe SSDs to vanish during prolonged write...
Microsoft UEFI Update Locks Surface Snapdragon X Devices at 50% Charge with No Rollback
A recent UEFI firmware update from Microsoft has left many Snapdragon X-powered Surface Pro and Surface Laptop devices stuck at a 50% charge limit, with the user-facing toggle to disable the battery...
Google Officially Deprecates Project Campfire, Ending Native Windows Dual-Boot on Chromebooks
Google has officially shelved its ambitious Project Campfire, the internal initiative aimed at enabling select Chromebooks to natively dual-boot Microsoft Windows 10. References to the feature, known...
TPM 2.0 'Non-Negotiable'? Windows 11 24H2 Upgrade Hits Unsupported PCs Anyway
Reports are mounting that Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 feature update, version 24H2, is being offered to PCs that clearly fail the company’s own minimum hardware requirements—including devices...
Firmware Tweaks Could Save Millions of PCs from Windows 11 Upgrade Dead End
Microsoft’s Windows 10 end-of-life date of October 14, 2025, is fast approaching, and the company’s one-year Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for consumers only postpones the inevitable....
Windows 10 BSODs on Chrome OS tablet point to Google’s dual-boot ambitions
A developer commit buried in the Chromium source code has revealed that Google engineers are actively testing Windows 10 on a Chrome OS tablet codenamed Nocturne—and the experiment is hitting a...
Windows To Go Is Gone—Here's How to Keep Your OS on a Portable SSD
Microsoft officially pulled the plug on Windows To Go with version 2004, but a full Windows installation on a pocket-sized SSD is more practical today than ever. Thanks to third-party tools like...
Half Your CPU Cores Missing in Task Manager? The msconfig Trap and How to Escape It
You fire up Task Manager to check performance, and your stomach drops. Your shiny 8-core processor is showing only 4 cores. Before you assume the worst—a faulty chip or a motherboard on the...
Microsoft Probes Surface Pro 11 Charging Glitch That Halves Battery Life
A firmware update rolled out in early August 2025 for Snapdragon-powered Surface devices is causing a severe battery charging regression for a subset of Surface Pro 11 owners. The bug removes the...
VirtualBox 7.2 Brings Native ARM Virtualization for Windows 11 on Apple Silicon and Snapdragon PCs
VirtualBox has finally shed its x86-only past with the release of version 7.2, introducing native virtualization for ARM-based guests on ARM hosts—a move that opens the door to running Windows 11...