#firmware
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Coreboot 26.09 Lands With Framework Laptop 12 Support and an AI Comment Policy
The latest quarterly release of Coreboot, the open-source replacement for proprietary BIOS firmware, is out. Highlights include support for the Framework Laptop 12 and a new policy on AI-generated review comments.
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Linux 7.3 Will Guard the System Against Hung EFI Firmware Calls
EFI changes have landed in the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel: firmware runtime-service calls now get a timeout, so that a single “hung” operation can't drag the whole of user space down with it.
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Microsoft's Secure Boot Could Be Bypassed in a Couple of Clicks for Almost Its Entire Life
Researchers at ESET have found that Secure Boot, the mechanism Microsoft devised to protect firmware from infection, could be trivially bypassed for 13 of the 14 years it has existed.