I'm seeing a lot of PC players concerned over Battlefield 6's Secure Boot requirement, so I put together this step-by-step ...

Here's how to enable Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 in case you're running into issues while playing Call of Duty Black Ops 7.

Black Ops 7 is set to launch on November 14, 2025, and this guide will ensure that your PC is ready to run Activision's ...

Microsoft is automatically turning on OneDrive Backup in new Windows 11 installations. Your files aren't stolen -- they've just been moved to a new folder and synced to the cloud. This article ...

Microsoft has found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 security update and customer reports of failure and data corruption issues affecting solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs) ...

Correlation without causation was the caveat we applied last week to reports that the KB5063878 update for Windows 11 was nuking SSDs and HDDs. Now SSD controller maker Phison has reported back on an ...

Cloudy Tactics: In another effort to steer Windows customers toward Azure, Microsoft is offering a new tool that converts virtual machines between two formats. The goal is to help organizations stay ...

Digital hoarders, unite! I have a game on my PC that I haven’t played in months, and it’s taking up more than 100 GB of disk space. There, I said it. This is a scenario most of us find ourselves in at ...

AI is everywhere now, with topics like GPT-5 and Grok’s recent open-source announcement dominating headlines. One of the primary (and most valid) criticisms of the technology is how energy hungry it ...

After installing Windows 11 update KB5063878, some people say their SSDs are disappearing from the OS or causing crashes. It took a few days, but Microsoft has confirmed that it's investigating ...

Microsoft's new GPT-5-powered Smart mode, which OpenAI describes as the "best model to date", is automatically rolling out for free to Copilot users. We've tested it here at HotHardware and observed ...

EA announced that Battlefield 6 from DICE will not launch unless Secure Boot is enabled: the Javelin anti-cheat system verifies that Windows is running in a trusted environment. This requirement makes ...