During last week's Chaos Communication Congress event in Germany, console hacking team "fail0verflow" showed off their most recent project: a PS4 Linux port. After finding exploits in the PS4's ...

Linux-Payloads kexec for PlayStation 4. The host with precompiled Linux payloads only works with GoldHEN v2.4b18.5/v2.4b18.6 BinLoader. Just open the web browser and cache the host—it will also work ...

Hacking teamfail0verflow last week demonstrated a hack of Sony’s PlayStation 4 game console that allows anyone running the modification to run the Linux OS on the appliance. The demo was part of a ...

We are often hearing about people shoehorning various OSes, games and apps onto new or old systems they clearly weren't designed for. Obvious examples are playing the classic FPS game Quake on a ...

At the 2010 Chaos Communication Congress, fail0verflow (that’s a zero, not the letter O) demonstrated their jailbreak of the PS3. At the 2013 CCC, fail0verflow demonstrated console hacking on the Wii ...

Remember when the PlayStation 3 had that “Other OS” option, which allowed owners to run Linux or FreeBSD on the console? That was a rather neat feature until Sony nuked it with the release of firmware ...

Hacking group fail0verflow has taken the biggest stride yet toward a full-scale hack of Sony’s PS4. The group, which Eurogamer reports has previously been responsible for discovering exploits on the ...

Since the launch of the Xbox Kinect, a lot of researchers have used it for robotics and computer vision projects because of its low price while showing great performance. Lately however the Xbox ...

Using a DualShock 4 controller on Ubuntu? If so, you may find the following GNOME Shell extension a handy thing to have to hand. It’s called ‘Dual Shock 4 battery percentage’ and in an unexpected and ...

This current generation of consoles, both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One, did something substantially different from their predecessors. For the first time, they sported desktop PC components ...