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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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Android 13 Installation And Root

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Android 13 is out officially. Here's how to manually install and root it

Turn on USB debugging 

In settings on your pixel device, go to About Phone and scroll down until you see build number and keep tapping on it to enable developer options and turn on USB debugging 

                    open this website

Plug in your phone, you might need to authorize adb access in the pop window 


We will get the boot image from here and flash it in fastboot later

Tap on allow adb access. If the tool can't find your phone make sure edge or chrome isn't blocking the popup


Look for the pen icon and tap on it to edit your preferences

Note that you won't be able to downgrade to android 12 

Let it do the work from here. Boot into android and enable developer options 

Download platform tools and the google USB driver install the driver in fastboot

Extract the factory image zip file and also the zip file inside it. Send the boot.img file to your phone and open magisk app > select and patch a file > select the boot.image

The patched boot image will be in the downloads folder. Send it to the PC

Right click on the file and tap on copy as path' 

Go to the platform tools folder and open a terminal

I'll be referring to PowerShell because it's what I use. 

.\adb devices 

Allow adb access

.\fastboot boot paste the copied path here 

This will boot magisk but not flash it.

Open the magisk app and tap install > direct install 

The phone will reboot into rooted system 




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