[nitro2k01] got his hands on a Game Fighter, a clone of the original Game Boy. While there’s a ton of information about the boot ROM and operation of the original Game Boy, not much is known about ...

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 ...

Next week at the 31st Chaos Communication Congress (31C3) in Hamburg, programmer/hacker Trammell Hudson will present research on ways to infect Apple EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware using ...

There is some confusion regarding which MacBook Pros need EFI Firmware Update 1.5. Apple doesn't specify any particular models on its download description page, stating only: "After the firmware is ...

(1) A storage chip in a device that holds instructions executed on startup to load the operating system. See boot. (2) A storage chip in a diskless workstation that allows it to be booted from the ...

For the rooters and flashers out there (you know who you are) have you tried MultiROM yet? For those who don’t know rooting refers to the unlocking of the system level of your device. In basic terms, ...

i keep looking at pics of the inside and i don't see anything that looks like a rom chip.<BR>ROMs are usually easy to spot, either a rectangular DIP or a little square jobbie that fits into one of ...

Expert iPhone hackers confirm that the newest iPhone 3GS model updates the bootrom to iBoot 359.3.2, which completely blocks all the current jailbreak solutions, including PwnageTool and blackra1n.

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 ...