LWN's review of the Nokia N800 (published in March) was rather strongly criticized by one commenter who felt that the "partly open" nature of the device had been skipped over. The commenter also ...

Hardware security is vulnerability protection that comes in the form of a physical device rather than software installed on a computer system's hardware. Hardware security can pertain to a device used ...

There are numerous examples of hardware which has latent features waiting to be unlocked by software. Most recently, we saw a Casio calculator which has the same features as its bigger sibling hidden ...

Cybersecurity is usually viewed as something to be addressed via software. In recent years though we've seen a hardware element start to creep in -- Windows 11's requirement for TPM capability for ...

“Don’t Be Evil” was the mantra of Google from years before even Gmail was created. While certainly less vague than their replacement slogan “Do the Right Thing”, there has been a lot of criticism ...

Open-source hardware (or open hardware) refers to hardware that is developed in a manner similar to open-source software. There's a widely accepted definition of open-source hardware, but it is ...