Update your Samsung 980 Pro SSD firmware right now
Your computer’s storage is something you don’t often think about. It’s in there, somewhere, nebulously holding on to more bits of data than your brain could handle in a dozen lifetimes. And […]
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Kingston SSD firmware hides a Coldplay Easter egg
Solid-state storage is a pretty straightforward affair, not really lending itself to levity or fun. So can you blame someone deep in the software division of Kingston for expressing their taste in […]
Asus: AM5 motherboard warranties cover beta firmware, memory OC
Those fantastic new Ryzen 7000X3D chips and their accompanying AM5 motherboards have had some teething troubles with burning hardware, as Gamers Nexus covered in a series of scathing investigations. Not enough to […]
An HP firmware update is bricking printers and there’s no fix yet
HP’s problematic firmware has become downright deadly for some of its printers. An update released in early May has been bricking select HP OfficeJet printers—and the fix still isn’t available yet, leaving […]
Bad firmware updates are teaching PC users the wrong habits
Trust is everything. I’m not an IT expert, but I have spent decades fielding questions and tending to devices belonging to friends and family. They know I’m going to look out for […]
Gigabyte shipped hundreds of motherboard models with firmware backdoor
Component supplier Gigabyte has some pressing questions to answer. The first and most pressing is, “Why did you put an updater backdoor into your own motherboard firmware without telling anyone?” The second […]
