BIOS enables computers to perform certain operations as soon as they are turned on. The principal job of a computer's BIOS is to govern the early stages of the startup process, ensuring that the ...

Just when the Superfish fiasco has blown over, Lenovo is yet again being dragged into the hot seat for yet another potential security risk done for the sake of installing bloatware. The Lenovo Service ...

Extensible Firmware Interface, which could speed boot-up process for PCs, goes to a group that will promote and standardize it. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers ...

Typically, PC users do not give the low-level software on their computers a second thought. Known as the basic input-output system, or BIOS, this software plays an extremely important role in the way ...

According to an Intel release, the company will release what it calls "firmware foundation code" under the open source Common Public License (CPL) later this year. The code, along with a driver ...

Over the past quarter-century, more than a billion PCs have been produced that use Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) software from Phoenix Technologies Ltd. The BIOS provides a key interface between ...

A new combination of software and VBIOS is reportedly able to bypass anti-mining restrictions put in place by Nvidia on some of its Ampere GPUs. As you may recall, Nvidia began releasing Low Hash Rate ...