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The June 2026 Secure Boot Certificate Expiry: What You Need to Know

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If you dual-boot or run a Linux distribution with Secure Boot enabled, you may have heard about a major security deadline. The original Microsoft 2011 UEFI Third-Party Certificate Authority (CA) keys, which most Linux distributions rely on to sign their initial bootloaders (shim) on consumer PC hardware, expired at the end of June 2026 The expiration of a certificate doesn't invalidate already-installed, signed binaries on your system; firmware doesn't check expiration dates at boot time. However, moving forward, future Linux bootloader updates and security patches will be signed exclusively using the new Windows UEFI CA 2023 key . If your motherboard's firmware database isn't updated to trust this new 2023 key, your Linux system may eventually experience package management blocks or fail to apply critical bootloader updates. Before running updates, check if Secure Boot is active and see if your system already recognizes the 2023 certificate hierarchy. Open your termi...
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Update and root Android 13 DP2 for pixel devices

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Download the developer preview of Android 13 here

The easiest way to update pixel device's is with Android flashtool

make sure only 'force flash' and 'wipe device' is enabled in settings

After flash the firmware you can easily root it with magisk canary

Extract the firmware package 

Inside it will be another zip file, inside that copy the boot.img file and send it to the phone

Open the magisk app and tap install > patch an image 

The output will be in the downloads folder in internal storage. Copy it to PC

Left click it and tap 'copy as path'

Open a terminal in the platform tools folder 

.\adb devices 

Allow USB debugging

.\adb reboot bootloader

.\fastboot devices

You should see the phone connected if you installed the Google USB driver properly 

.\fastboot flash boot <path to magiskboot.img> 

.\fastboot reboot 



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