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Title: Developer Abandons 'PS5 Linux' Project After Sony Patches AI-
Discovered Exploit

Link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/09/19/222...

"In April this year, we saw Andy Nguyen turning the PS5 into a Linux-powered
gaming PC," writes the blog It's FOSS. It ran Steam games and emulators using
the PS5's on-board hardware. But this week Andy announced he's "stopping all
my work on PS5 Linux" and "stepping away from the PS5 scene." stopping work
on porting the project to the PS5 Pro, which would've shipped sometime in
2027. Andy Nguyen: After pouring my heart and months of my life into it,
including plans to finish PS5 Pro support and release in 2027, it's all down
the sink. The scene used to be a group of highly talented researchers, but
now it is just a bunch of noobs using LLMs and writing hacks they don't even
understand. Slop kiddies found the only hypervisor bug left, which I had also
found a while ago, and decided to report to Sony. I asked them to at least
wait for GTA 6 to come out so that people would have the opportunity to
legally purchase the game and also enjoy Linux. They agreed to wait, but not
a day passed and they decided to waste it instead. Or, as It's FOSS tells it:
Running Linux on a PlayStation console is possible because the PS5 Linux
project was able to find a way past the hypervisor using exploits Sony had
already patched, covering firmware 3.00 through 7.61. .. [The bug's
discoverer writes it was] found with what he calls his "trusty ai clanker
machine" and no help from anyone else. He had even agreed to Andy's request
to not disclose the findings. Unexpectedly, a third person, still unnamed,
found the same bug using AI a few hours later. Anticipating that there would
be more people finding the same bug, [he] decided to post the flaw on
HackerOne. The project's GitHub page and all the related repositories are
still there. Nothing has been archived as of today, and if you wanted to, you
could start contributing to the PS5 Linux project by taking over any pending
work or cooking up new improvements... The PS5 Pro support Andy was building
never reached the repository, so you would have to start from scratch...
While Andy's departure is a blow to the plan for supporting newer PS5
firmware and the PS5 Pro, other contributors have shown that they can deliver
work on the loader without him, and I am hopeful more will follow.

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