You may not be aware, but there's an impending deadline for Windows Secure Boot. Come June 2026, and you and your Windows PCs could be affected by this potential issue. When configured, Secure Boot verifies the system before Windows even boots, making full use of cryptographic certificates, and this is what is set to expire later this year. Devices without updated certificates lose access to new Secure Boot protections and updates, but continue booting Windows normally.

Memory technology seems to be on the verge of a significant shift. CAMM2 is emerging as the next generational leap in memory standards, poised to succeed the DIMM and SODIMM form factors that have defined PC building for decades. The new standard will bring with itself faster speeds, lower latency and better signal integrity—with demoed units reaching up to 10,000 MT/s, comfortably surpassing DDR5's 8,000 MT/s ceiling.

More than ten years after the original Steam Machine initiative, Valve is coming back for seconds with a new iteration. Those who have followed gaming news since that original launch back in 2015 will no doubt be familiar with the failure of the original platform, and it's easy to look at it and say the new Steam Machine is a recipe for disaster.

Netflix has dropped its $83 billion deal to acquire the Warner Bros. studio, HBO, and its streaming service HBO Max. In an announcement on Thursday, co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters say the streamer is "declining to match" the new bid made by Paramount:The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder value with a clear path to regulatory approval. However, we've always been disciplined, and at the price required to match Paramount Skydance's latest offer, the deal is no longer financially attractive, so we are declining to match the Paramount Skydance bid.We believe we would have been strong stewards of Warner Bros.' i …Read the full story at The Verge.

Microsoft is previewing a new AI system, Copilot Tasks, that it says is designed to take care of busywork for you in the background, the company announced on Thursday. The feature takes the load off your device using its own cloud-based computer and browser, allowing it to handle a variety of jobs ranging from scheduling appointments to generating study plans while you do something else.As noted by Microsoft, you can describe what you need to Copilot Tasks using natural language, and assign Copilot Tasks to complete jobs on a recurring, scheduled, or one-time basis. Copilot Tasks will provide a report once its work is complete.You can ca …Read the full story at The Verge.

Jack Dorsey's Block, the financial tech company that runs Square and the Cash app, is cutting its workforce by "nearly half" and axing more than 4,000 jobs. The company will shrink from more than 10,000 people to less than 6,000, Dorsey says in a post on X. And the reason why? AI."We're not making this decision because we're in trouble," Dorsey says. "Our business is strong. Gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. But something has changed. We're already seeing that the intelligence tools we're creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new …Read the full story at The Verge.

Image: WindowsLatest Lenovo's next gaming laptop could be a shapeshifting foldable called the Legion Go Fold, which can be used as a laptop or a handheld gaming PC with two different display sizes, as WindowsLatest reports. Leaked images of the device show it attached to both a keyboard and controllers, with a hinge in the middle of the POLED display, allowing it to unfold from 7.7 inches to 11.6 inches. Users can attach the controllers with the display folded or unfolded, use the display in a vertical split screen mode, or attach it to the keyboard for laptop mode, for a total of four different form factors rolled into one device. Even the controllers are con …Read the full story at The Verge.

Sometimes, Microsoft drops the ball with its Windows 11 features. In fact, some would go so far as to argue that, without third-party apps, Windows 11 would be unusable. Fortunately, while it is unfortunate that people often have to rely on fan-made apps, it's far better than those apps not existing in the first place.

Less than 24 hours before the deadline in an ultimatum issued by the Pentagon, Anthropic has refused the Department of Defense's demands for unrestricted access to its AI. It's the culmination of a dramatic exchange of public statements, social media posts, and behind-the-scenes negotiations, coming down to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's desire to renegotiate all AI labs' current contracts with the military. But Anthropic, so far, has refused to back down from its two current red lines: no mass surveillance of Americans, and no lethal autonomous weapons (or weapons with license to kill targets with no human oversight whatsoever). OpenAI …Read the full story at The Verge.

An unmanaged switch isn't going to be for everyone, but if you're looking to expand your home or office network on the cheap, then this 24-port Ethernet switch from TP-Link is going to be worth looking at, especially as it drops to a price that's hard to ignore.

Micron, the same company that killed off its consumer RAM brand Crucial a few months ago, just published a blog post entitled, "The new performance bottleneck: How more GPU memory unlocks next gen gaming and AI PCs."

When Sam Altman announced the public launch of ChatGPT, coding as we knew it shifted overnight. Suddenly, anyone could generate lines and lines of code with a simple prompt, debug errors, or spin up entire scripts without ever needing to learn how to code.