Certain manufacturers seriously dislike open-source firmware for their devices, and this particular hack deals with quite extreme anti-hobbyist measures. The Meraki MR33, made by Cisco, is a nice ...

As fun as ARM and RISC-V single-board computers (SBCs) are, all too often getting the most out of the hardware requires the ...

Custom router firmware has (mostly) disappeared, mainly because Broadcom won't play nice and share its radio drivers with open-source developers. But that doesn't mean it's gone, and OpenWrt is still ...

OpenWrt has officially launched its first dedicated wireless router that promises unrivalled security protection. Developed in collaboration with Banana Pi, the OpenWrt One is specifically designed to ...

OpenWrt, the open source firmware that sprang from Linksys’ use of open source code in its iconic WRT54G router and subsequent release of its work, is 20 years old this year. To keep the project going ...

A new router designed in collaboration with the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and OpenWrt Project is touted as the first router “designed and built with your software freedom and right-to-repair ...

In a nutshell: Nearly a year after its initial announcement, OpenWrt enthusiasts can now purchase the first "official" router powered by the namesake open-source firmware. The OpenWrt One model ...

The OpenWrt project has released version 25.12.0 of its open-source router firmware. Particularly noteworthy are the numerous supported devices and the switch to a new package management system. In ...

In the open-source Linux operating system OpenWRT, the developers have closed two security vulnerabilities. Under certain circumstances, they allow the injection and execution of malicious code as ...

For almost three years, OpenWRT—the open source operating system that powers home routers and other types of embedded systems—has been vulnerable to remote code-execution attacks because updates were ...