If Your Laptop Checks Any Of These Boxes, It Could Be Obsolete In 2026

You might think your laptop is old but reliable, only to find that it suddenly became obsolete in 2026. Here's what you need ...
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Microsoft brings faster, smarter BitLocker to Windows 11

Microsoft is enhancing its full disk encryption tool, BitLocker, in Windows 11 with hardware acceleration, promising up to 5x faster performance in early tests.

Windows 11 needs some serious work - but there’s a fantastic alternative I bet Microsoft won’t even consider

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Scientific Research Publishing

Secure Offline: A Hardware-Bound Cryptographic Framework for Software License Validation in Internet Constrained Educational Environments ()

The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...