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Unfixable vulnerability discovered in most recent Intel chips

Security researchers at Positive Technologies have discovered a security vulnerability affecting most Intel processors released in the past 5 years. Intel has already taken steps to mitigate against some possible attacks… but because the vulnerability is in the boot ROM (the first thing that loads when a chip is powered up), there’s no way to […]

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Nintendo Switch can run Linux (thanks to a boot ROM exploit)

There’s good news for folks who’ve looked at the Nintendo Switch game console and thought “that’s a neat tablet, but I wish it could run Linux… or Android… or anything other than the software it comes with.” A group of hackers called fail0verflow have found a boot ROM bug that allows them to load custom firmware on […]