An experimental build made with NTDEV’s unreleased Pico11 tool produces a Windows 11 ISO weighing 699,811,840 bytes, but ...

A new Nintendo Switch 2 exploit has been discovered, and it has led to the first cases of jailbroken Switch 2 consoles, modding, and homebrew.

ASUS has issued a firmware update for its WiFi 7 routers that fixes an exploit that gives an 'unauthenticated attacker' full ...

Antiquated disk media is rarer than ever, but floppy disks were once all the rage. These would-be floppy stand-ins, however, ...

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There's been big news in the PS2 emulation community this week with the release of Ver 2.02 of the Claude-coded PC5SX2 ...

Most modern computers no longer come with optical disc readers like CD or DVD drives, but the market for external CD/DVD drives is still going strong.

Arol is a tech journalist who currently works as a contributor at How-To Geek since 2022. He first began writing online for the short-lived portal of Spanish-language gaming forum Emudesc in 2013.

Jordan is an open source software enthusiast and full-time Linux user. He explores the world of *nix, FOSS, and other technologies at How-To Geek. Jordan's technology experience goes all the way back.

There was once a time when video game horror, long before livestreaming and digital storefronts, physically lived in your house. Lurking inside plastic jewel cases or large cardboard boxes, all ...

Everything fails eventually, but moving parts fail fastest of all– and optical drives seemingly more than others, at least in our experience. Even when they work, vintage drives often have trouble ...