Kylian Mbappé has retained the World Cup Golden Boot after Lionel Messi failed to score in Sunday's final against Spain. The France and Real Madrid striker scored twice against England in a 6-4 defeat ...

Mbappe scored 10 goals at the 2026 World Cup, two more than his nearest rival Messi (Buda Mendes/Getty Images) Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect Spain’s 1-0 win over Argentina in ...

An industry-wide standard Microsoft invented to protect Windows, and later Linux, devices from firmware infections has been trivial to bypass for 13 of its 14 years of existence. The discovery was ...

Most people don’t spend time thinking about Secure Boot. (Not even the staff at PCWorld.) But this Windows security feature provides a vital protection against dangerous malware—one some PCs have just ...

Microsoft just pushed the Secure Boot 2023 certificate update to all eligible Windows 11 and Windows 10 computers, just in time given that old certificates were due to expire today. It’s a good thing, ...

The clock is ticking for Windows and Linux users to update cryptographic keys that protect their systems against firmware-based UEFI infections, a pernicious form of malware that loads before ...

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.

Your PC contains a number of caches, a collection of frequently-accessed data files, usually temporary, to help speed up future requests. Basically, it improves ...