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Monthly Archive:: January 2017

Linux and Steam running on PS4 firmware 4.0

Thom Holwerda 2017-01-02 Linux 15 Comments

Marcan42 of Fail0verflow fame was at the CCC33 event this year, to explain how Fail0verflow exploited the PS4 hardware in order to run Linux on the PS4.

The presentation goes back to all the pain the hackers had to go through in order to make Linux compatible with the PS4 architecture, which Marcan42 described several times throughout the presentation as "not being a PC" as it lacks lots of the legacy architecture bits required for a computer to constitute what is known today as an IBM compatible PC.

Be sure to watch the actual presentation. It's quite informative and detailed.

Windows 10 Creators Update set to be released on April 2017

Thom Holwerda 2017-01-02 Windows 22 Comments

Last October at the Windows 10 event in New York City, Microsoft officially unveiled the Windows 10 Creators Update, codenamed "Redstone 2". At the event, Microsoft stated that the update will be released in "early 2017" but we didn't know when exactly the update will arrive.

Until now, anyway.

Per my sources, Microsoft will be releasing the Windows 10 Creators Update this April.

The more regular, smaller updates Windows gets now is such a huge step up from the monolithic releases of yore.