firmware

  • What To Do If Google’s Firmware Update Bricked Your Home Speaker

    According to numerous reports, a recent firmware update—automatic, of course—has killed a number of Google Home and Google Home Mini speakers. There’s no way to tell whether yours could be affected until the firmware update drops (and it should have already, given these reports have been hitting since September or so).


  • How To Update Your BIOS To Protect Against Vulnerabilities

    How To Update Your BIOS To Protect Against Vulnerabilities

    Is it me, or are we seeing a lot more disclosures for big, scary vulnerabilities that affect your system’s core components? Just a week or so ago, Microsoft and Google announced more issues – Rogue System Register Read and Speculative Store Bypass – which are fancy-sounding variants of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities that have…