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Windows Secure Boot certificates expire tomorrow. Don't ignore this deadline
PCWorld reports that Windows Secure Boot certificates expire on June 24th, affecting both Windows 10 and 11 systems receiving security updates. Users must install latest Windows updates to receive new certificates, as failure to update could cause serious boot failures. While the deadline isn't a hard cutoff, enabling Secure Boot now ensures automatic updates and enhanced protection against malware. On June 24th--that's tomorrow, as of this writing--Windows users will run into an important deadline: new Secure Boot certificates must be installed on all systems that use Secure Boot, the security feature that protects against various threats at startup. The first warning about updated certificates was issued back in January .
Windows 11 update is breaking some PCs with boot and BitLocker issues
PCWorld reports that Windows 11 update KB5094126 is causing severe boot failures, BitLocker recovery loops, and blue screens on business PCs. HP EliteBook and Dell Precision systems are particularly vulnerable due to insufficient EFI partition space for new boot components and Secure Boot certificates.
Upgrading to Windows 11 on an old PC might be easier than you think
When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. For many PCs, an upgrade of the processor and motherboard is sufficient to continue using it with Windows 11. Although support for Windows 10 will not end in October 2025 after all, Microsoft's additional grace period extends its life by only one year. This means that many users will soon not only have to say goodbye to their operating system, but also to their computer in the near future. Even if its components are powerful enough for Windows 11, it may become electronic waste: This is because Microsoft has strict requirements for the hardware on which the new operating system can run -- especially when it comes to the processor.
Upgrading to Windows 11 on an old PC could be easier than you think
Although support for Windows 10 will not end in October 2025 after all, Microsoft's additional grace period extends its life by only one year. This means that many users will soon not only have to say goodbye to their operating system, but also to their computer in the near future. Even if its components are powerful enough for Windows 11, it may become electronic waste: This is because Microsoft has strict requirements for the hardware on which the new operating system can run -- especially when it comes to the processor. Most PCs and laptops that are more than eight years old are therefore excluded from the upgrade -- even though they work without any problems under Windows 10 and would certainly do the same under Windows 11. However, you can make your computer officially fit for Windows 11 with small hardware upgrades: Whether this is worthwhile, whether it is even possible, and how much it costs depends on the specific PC or laptop.
Upgrading to Windows 11 on an old PC might be easier than you think
Although support for Windows 10 will not end in October 2025 after all, the additional grace period is only one year. This means that many users will soon not only have to say goodbye to their operating system, but also to their computer. Even if its components are powerful enough for Windows 11, it may become electronic waste: This is because Microsoft has strict requirements for the hardware on which the new operating system can run -- especially when it comes to the processor. Most PCs and laptops that are more than eight years old are therefore excluded from the upgrade -- even though they work without any problems under Windows 10 and would certainly do the same under Windows 11. However, you can make your computer officially fit for Windows 11 with small hardware upgrades: Whether this is worthwhile, whether it is even possible, and how much it costs depends on the specific PC or laptop.
Specifying and Reasoning about CPS through the Lens of the NIST CPS Framework
Nguyen, Thanh Hai, Bundas, Matthew, Son, Tran Cao, Balduccini, Marcello, Garwood, Kathleen Campbell, Griffor, Edward R.
This paper introduces a formal definition of a Cyber-Physical System (CPS) in the spirit of the CPS Framework proposed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It shows that using this definition, various problems related to concerns in a CPS can be precisely formalized and implemented using Answer Set Programming (ASP). These include problems related to the dependency or conflicts between concerns, how to mitigate an issue, and what the most suitable mitigation strategy for a given issue would be. It then shows how ASP can be used to develop an implementation that addresses the aforementioned problems. The paper concludes with a discussion of the potentials of the proposed methodologies.
Installing cuDNN and CUDA Toolkit on Ubuntu 20.04 for Machine learning tasks
It is always convoluted and challenging to install a CUDA toolkit and library that needs to interact with your NVIDIA GPU on an Ubuntu machine. However, if done right, the CUDA toolkit harnessing your NVIDIA GPU can be a great tool that can harness the power of GPU to produce fast applications. The basic requirement for following instructions in this article is a computer with Ubuntu 20.04 installed with an NVIDIA GPU. In my case, it was NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti. Further, at the time of writing this article, I installed the latest version of the CUDA toolkit which was CUDA Toolkit 11.3.