A custom ROM gives the Nokia N8 a second life, fixing Symbian’s flaws and making the iconic camera phone surprisingly usable again in 2026.

Last week a group of hackers, working under the name fail0verflow, managed to hack the PS3 thanks to its poor implementation of public key cryptography. Building on that work, another hacker has ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. What you're about to read is far from a wide-ranging concern. But it does highlight one legitimate reason Sony has for going after PS3 users ...

Owners of the original PSP may recall that when the device was first released, Sony had clocked its processor to run at 266 MHz. Then, in 2007, they released a firmware update that allowed the device ...

It has been revealed this week that the Nintendo Switch custom firmware created by hacking team Team Xecuter, will brick your Nintendo Switch console if you try and hack the firmware to access its ...

Just days after the release and immediate decryption of Sony's PSP firmware v3.10, homebrew developer Dark AleX has released a new edition of his custom brand of firmware: 3.10 OE-A (Open Edition). As ...

When you buy a Windows computer there’s a good chance that if you’d prefer to run a different operating system you can install a GNU/Linux distribution. Likewise you can replace the operating system ...

Installing a custom firmware on your Wi-Fi router is like God Mode for your home network. You can see everything going on, boost your Wi-Fi signal, beef up your ...

Developer Steven Troughton-Smith seems to have discovered that running unsigned (custom) firmware—even firmware that bypasses the activation process—is super easy. Not only can you use the Konami code ...