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Windows 10 users who think “it still boots, so I’m fine” are being handed a quietly serious maintenance problem: Microsoft is replacing the Secure Boot certificates that have underpinned Windows’ pre‑boot trust model since 2011, and machines that don’t receive the new certificates will continue...

Alejandro Armas — known on GitHub as mycroftsnm — has released a compact collection of five boot-time UEFI games that force a simple choice every time you start a PC: win, and the machine continues to boot; lose, and it shuts down. The project, published as the UEFIGame repository, bundles a mix...

Columbia Weather Systems’ MicroServer devices have been flagged in a recent advisory as containing multiple firmware weaknesses that, if chained, could allow an attacker to redirect SSH sessions to a malicious host, seize administrative control of the web portal, and gain limited interactive...

The four practical fixes below will get a sluggish SSD moving again on Windows or macOS — without instantly buying a new drive — and explain the why, the how, and the caveats you need to avoid making things worse. Background: why an SSD can feel slow even when it’s “fast” Solid-state drives...

A newly published issue in the EDK2 UEFI stack — tracked as CVE-2025-2295 — allows a malicious iSCSI target to craft a specially formed R2T (Ready To Transfer) PDU that can trigger an integer‑overflow condition and cause a BIOS/firmware implementation to read and return out‑of‑bounds memory...

LG’s decision to let owners remove the Microsoft Copilot shortcut from affected webOS smart TVs is a swift, public-facing correction to a rollout that exposed longtime tensions between device ownership, firmware updates, and the push to bake generative AI into everyday appliances. Background LG...

LG’s sudden push of Microsoft Copilot onto millions of webOS televisions — delivered as a system-level tile that many owners could not remove — has ignited a global backlash that reaches far beyond remote controls and home screens. Background and overview LG and Microsoft first signaled a broad...

LG’s decision to push a Microsoft Copilot shortcut onto customers’ home screens via a webOS update — and then backtrack after an online outcry — exposes a fast-growing tension in the smart-TV market: manufacturers racing to ship AI features while users demand predictable control over their...

LG’s recent webOS push that planted Microsoft Copilot on many owners’ televisions — initially as a pinned, apparently “non‑removable” tile — has become a live case study in how post‑sale updates, platform design, and AI rollout practices collide with user expectations about device ownership...

LG’s latest webOS update quietly pinned a Microsoft Copilot shortcut to the home screens of many owners’ televisions — and the backlash has exposed a deeper, systemic problem with how smart-TV makers deploy generative AI into living rooms without offering clear choice, control, or transparency...

LG's quick about-face over a controversial Copilot tile suddenly appearing on many webOS televisions is the clearest sign yet that consumers still expect a say in what runs on devices they've already paid for — and that forcing AI onto screens without clear user control is a public-relations and...

LG smart TVs have started receiving a webOS update that pins Microsoft’s Copilot to the home screen — and for many owners the shortcut arrived as effectively non‑removable, touching off one of the clearest consumer backlash moments of the “AI everywhere” era. Background / Overview LG and...

CISA’s latest consolidated bulletin parcels out nine Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories that expose a familiar — and escalating — set of risks: remotely exploitable firmware and protocol flaws, weak authentication and hard-coded credentials, and insecure management interfaces that...

When Secure Boot is supposed to be the safety net that stops unsigned code from running before the operating system, a small logic shortcut in the firmware can erase that protection — and that is precisely what the newly published CVE-2025-2296 describes: an EDK2/OvmfPkg flaw that can let a...

LG pushed Microsoft’s Copilot onto a swath of webOS televisions via a recent over‑the‑air firmware update — and for many owners the new Copilot tile behaves like a system‑level feature that can be hidden but not uninstalled, touching off an unusually loud backlash about device ownership...

LG smart‑TV owners are reporting that a recent webOS firmware update pushed Microsoft’s Copilot onto their home screens as a persistent tile — and in many cases the Copilot tile cannot be uninstalled through the TV’s normal app-management UI, only hidden or disabled, leaving owners with limited...

LG pushed Microsoft’s Copilot onto a broad set of webOS smart TVs via a recent over‑the‑air update — and for many owners the Copilot tile behaves like a system‑level component that can be hidden but not uninstalled through the normal app manager, provoking an unusually loud backlash about...

LG owners woke up to a routine webOS update this month and found Microsoft’s Copilot pinned to their home screens — an assistant they didn’t ask for and, in many reported cases, cannot delete. Background / Overview LG and Microsoft publicly signalled plans to bring Copilot to living-room screens...

LG owners woke up to a routine over‑the‑air update and found Microsoft’s Copilot waiting on their home screens — not as an optional download, but as a persistent, often unremovable system tile that many users say can only be hidden, not deleted. The surprise installation has triggered a broad...

LG smart‑TV owners woke up this week to a new Copilot tile on their home screens — installed by a routine webOS firmware push and, in many reported cases, not removable through the normal app manager — sparking a debate about forced preinstallation, privacy, and what ownership of a “smart”...