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Most people will never need to think about Secure Boot certificates. They live deep in your PC’s firmware, do their job silently, and have been doing so since 2011 without asking for much in return. But that quiet run is about to end. The original certificates expire in June 2026, and while Microsoft is pushing updates automatically to many machines, plenty of PCs are going to miss the memo entirely. Here’s how to find out if yours is one of them — and what to actually do about it. Step 1: Check whether your PC already has the updated certificates…
If you’ve ever glanced at your Android phone’s storage breakdown and done a double-take at how much space AICore is consuming, you’re not alone. It’s one of those things that’s easy to notice and hard to explain, and for a while, Google wasn’t offering much clarity on it. That’s changed now, and the explanation turns out to be more sensible than the mystery surrounding it suggested. AICore is the on-device AI backbone that powers a growing list of features on Android 14 and above — smart replies in WhatsApp, scam detection in messages, real-time transcription, grammar correction, audio summarization, and…
I say “thank you” to ChatGPT. I say “please” to Claude. I once apologized to Gemini for pasting a wall of text at it without any context. My friends think this is bizarre. I’ve defended the habit by mumbling something about good manners being good manners regardless of the audience, which, even I’ll admit, is a bit of a stretch when the audience in question is a language model running on a server farm somewhere. But a new piece of research from academics at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Vanderbilt, and MIT has made me feel significantly less unhinged about the…
LG has introduced the UltraGear 45GX950B, an updated version of last year’s 45GX950A ultrawide OLED gaming monitor. While the new model brings a few additions, particularly around AI-powered features, the core panel and specifications remain largely unchanged. Same Display, New AI Additions The UltraGear 45GX950B continues to use LG’s 3rd Gen WOLED panel, with no shift to newer Tandem OLED technology. It retains a 45-inch ultrawide form factor with a 21:9 aspect ratio, a steep 800R curvature, and a matte anti-glare coating. The monitor also keeps its 165Hz native refresh rate, with a dual-mode option supporting up to 330Hz at…
If you’ve never heard of Secure Boot certificates, that’s by design — they work quietly in the background, and for most of the past 15 years, nobody’s had to think about them. That’s about to change. The original certificates that power one of Windows’ most fundamental security features are set to expire in June 2026, and depending on which PC you’re running and which version of Windows you’re on, the fallout could range from a seamless automatic update to a security headache you’ll need to solve yourself. Your PC isn’t going to die, but it might get a lot less…
There’s a particular cruelty to Zhou’s situation that I keep coming back to. The man spent his working days talking to AI — testing it, correcting it, making it smarter — and then watched that same technology hand his employer the excuse to show him the door. His company, a Hangzhou tech firm, replaced him with the large language models he was paid to supervise, offered him a lesser role with a 40% salary cut, and terminated his contract when he refused to swallow it. A court just told them that it was illegal twice. What US companies are doing…
These three Prime Video shows have one thing in common. They are all brilliant, criminally overlooked, and none of them got the audience they deserved. A broken spy who processes trauma through folk songs. A woman who survives a car crash and can’t decide if she’s gifted or unraveling. And a small Ohio town sitting on top of a machine that quietly warps everything around it. Prime Video built something quietly remarkable with all three, and then apparently forgot to tell anyone, but they are still worth a watch. We also have guides to the best new movies to stream, the best…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has formally clarified how artificial intelligence (AI) fits into Oscar eligibility, stating that AI cannot receive awards for acting or writing. The updated rules, included in the 99th Academy Awards rulebook, reinforce that human contribution remains central to recognition in key creative categories. Human Performance and Authorship Take Priority Under the revised guidelines, only performances carried out by humans can be considered for acting awards. The rule specifies that roles must be credited in the film’s official billing and “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent.” This means that AI-generated or synthetic…
This weekend’s movie recommendation sits somewhere between the quiet and the unbearable. A grief-stricken man digs through ancient earth looking for a door that shouldn’t exist. Two brothers make one bad call that unravels everything. And a man who can’t talk about his grief ends up performing it on a stage instead. Three films, very different in tone, but all circling the same idea – what happens when the thing you’re reaching for pulls you somewhere you can’t come back from? We also have guides to the best new movies to stream, the best movies on Netflix, the best movies…
My inbox is chaos on most days. It’s filled with everything — meeting invites, marketing pitches, product PR, important updates, and a constant stream of things that all feel urgent in the moment. And when it piles up like that, it gets overwhelming fast. I’ll be honest, there are days when I avoid opening emails altogether because it feels like too much to process, and there’s always that nagging worry that I might miss something important buried in the noise. That’s exactly where Gemini has changed things for me. Having it built into my inbox feels like a safety net…