I've got a dusty old Windows 11 system running in a virtual machine, and when I booted it up the other day I was met not with MS's usual login prompt but instead w/ a BitLocker recovery blue screen.

Then I remembered the cause (when all else fails, check your own site doh!): As we warned in January 2026, Microsoft is expiring a bunch of older Windows Secure Boot certificates in June 2026 and October 2026. Once these 2011 certificates expire, Windows devices that do not have the new certificates can no longer receive Secure Boot security fixes.

Fortunately in this case I was able to recover the Win11 system and update the certificates by pasting the supplied recovery key at aka.ms/myrecoverykey. But I suspect things can get far more complicated for organizations having to deal with this on a large number of machines.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/01/patch-tuesday-january-2026-edition/

Bitcoin has lost nearly half its value since reaching a record high above $123,000 in July 2025, CNBC writes. Funny how so many of the people hyping AI once hyped virtual currencies. Kind of makes you wonder about the odds on the massive all-in and circular bets being placed on AI.

"After years of bitcoin rewarding those who held through periods of volatility, the selloff is just the latest test of investors' mettle."

"But bitcoin's recent decline doesn't appear to reflect a fundamental change in the investment, says Daniel Sotiroff, associate director of ETF and Passive Strategies Research at Morningstar.

"I think a lot of this is crypto being crypto," he says.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/12/bitcoins-price-drop-is-forcing-investors-to-revisit-why-they-own-it.html

Yeah, that's just the way the crypto crumbles, dude.

#sadtrombone

Interesting article: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/users-cry-foul-after-amd-stripped-memory-crypto-from-its-consumer-cpus/

AMD silently removing a security feature and then refusing to communicate about it is certainly not optimal. I mean, I can definitely imagine this being a reasonable change. I was immediately thinking about the same scenario as Joe Fitzgerald who is quoted at the end of the article: this feature wasn’t meant to be enabled in the first place, so it cannot be guaranteed to work correctly. Shit happens. But they have to communicate that, because otherwise the assumption is that they disabled a perfectly working feature for users who didn’t pay premium for their hardware.

Apparently the drain for my AC unit at the beach got clogged and was dumping condensate under the floor for a while. I have been a home owner for 35 years and this is going to be my first insurance claim. And the crappy part is they the insurance company will probably not renew me as a result 💩

Well, it happened: We crammed our way into a crowded intercity train and someone was like WOW IT’S ODIN FROM MASTODON

Full moon rising behind a stork's next in the north of Morocco.

#moon #photography #stork #birdphotography