Is this a ghost of Christmas past come to visit? Are we looking back on past generations of consoles as hackers make PlayStations run operating systems that they shouldn't? No, not at all, it's just ...

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 ...

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 ...

A hacking group called Fail0verflow announced that they have cracked into the Sony PlayStation 4 (PS4) to install Linux and make it run a Game Boy Advance version of Pokémon. Although the PS4 is ...

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 ...

Hacker group fail0verflow recently showed off a PlayStation 4 running Linux at the Console Hacking 2015 conference, marking the first time someone has managed to install a full-blown, desktop ...